George Williams College (Chicago) George Williams College (Chicago) George Williams College was a college located in the northwestern corner of Hyde Park, Chicago. The college was an expansion of a summer camp founded by the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) on the shores of Geneva Lake, Wisconsin in 1886. The college remained in Hyde Park from its founding in 1890 until 1965, when it moved to Downers Grove, Illinois. Subsequently, the Hyde Park campus was demolished in 1989. George Williams College can trace its origin to a summer camp founded on the shores of Geneva Lake, Wisconsin by YMCA leaders I. E. Brown, William
George Williams (rugby union) and Marlborough. George Williams (rugby union) George Albert Williams (1856–27 April 1925) was a New Zealand rugby union player who toured with the 1888–89 New Zealand Native football team to the British Isles, Ireland and Australia. Nicknamed "Bully", Williams was one of five non-Māori players in the Natives' side. Williams was born in Auckland in 1956, and did not start playing rugby until the age of 24. He was a member of the Wellington club Poneke, and was selected for Wellington province from the club in 1886, 1887 and 1888. In early 1888, Joe Warbrick, a member of the 1884