Spartans F.C. - Factbites

Spartans F.C. - Factbites
Where results make sense
About us | Why use us? | Reviews | PR | Contact us

Topic: Spartans F.C.

Note: these results are not from the primary (high quality) database.

In the News (Mon 28 Dec 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	New Page 1
		Portsmouth is know as the home of the longest continual piece of artwork in the U.S. (the floodwall, at least last time I checked), the home of the Shawnee State Bears, the birthplace of Roy Rogers and Branch Rickey, and also as the former home of the, then Portsmouth Spartans, Detroit Lions.
		Portsmouth is a small town located on the Ohio River and as the factories in the U.S. started going out of business, so went the people of Portsmouth.
		This is the main street of Portsmouth, which makes you feel as if you are there, when standing in front of it.
	oak.cats.ohiou.edu /~jw404197/Hometown.htm

	ONSLOW WRECKING CREW
		The Spartans clinched a wildcard spot and played to one game from the championship in 2002.
		Team Highlights: The Spartans were one of two expansion franchises added to IONFFL prior to the 2002 season.
		Portsmouth was a logical choice for expansion with the already constructed Velva-Sheen Field in Portsmouth and the rabid football fans in southeastern Ohio.
	home.fuse.net /jlburke/spartanshistory.htm

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Portsmouth
		Portsmouth (Ohio), city, seat of Scioto County, southern Ohio, at the confluence of the Ohio and Scioto rivers; incorporated as a city 1851.
		Portsmouth (England), city and unitary authority, southern England, occupying Portsea Island and located on the Solent, the channel separating the...
		Portsmouth (New Hampshire), city, Rockingham County, southeastern New Hampshire, a seaport on the Atlantic Ocean and on the Piscataqua River,...
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Portsmouth.html

	HickokSports.com - History - The 1932 NFL Championship Game
		They had an 10-1-1 record while their closest pursuers, the Chicago Bears and Portsmouth Spartans, had only nine victories between them.
		If the Packers won that game, the Spartans would be the new champions.
		Portsmouth's season was over, but the Packers had one game left, against the Bears in Chicago.
	www.hickoksports.com /history/histbit1.shtml

	Notre Dame Titans - Spartan Municipal Stadium
		Portsmouth (now the Detroit Lions) held the first-ever night game in franchise history.
		Spartan stadium has seen it's share of historic events.
		A true Portsmouth landmark, Spartan Stadium was built by the WPA and was one of the first NFL football stadiums built specifically for football and arguably, the first ever night game under the lights was held at Spartan Municipal Stadium.
	www.55fox.com /stadium.html

	Portsmouth Spartans Beat Jackets, 16 to 0
		Portsmouth, O, Oct. 16- (U.P.) - The fifth consecutive victory of the season was registered Wednesday night by the Portsmouth Spartans as they fought their way to a 16 to 0 decision over the Philadelphia Yellow Jackets in a National Football League engagement.
		Article taken from The Elyria Chronicle Telegram, October 16, 1931
		All the scoring was done in the second half.
	www.minford.k12.oh.us /mhs/history/PortsmouthHistory/Athletics/Spartans/Oct161931.htm

	Scioto County, Ohio The Mural Project
		The Spartans were victorious in that games by a score of 19-0.
		The game became known as the "iron man game" because the Spartan coach, Potsy Clark, refused to use a substitute in restitution for Green Bay being named champions of the NFL in 1931 after they refused to play Portsmouth in a championship game.
		The Spartan franchise moved to Detroit in 1934 and became the Detroit Lions.
	www.sciotocountyohio.com /mural18.htm

	Portsmouth Spartans NFL Debut - Article From Tribune 9-12-30
		Portsmouth, O. Sept 12, The Portsmouth Spartans will pry the lid off the football season here Sunday when they clash with the Newark, N.J., team, another new entrant into the National Football League, on the Universal Stadium Field.
		Portsmouth Spartans Make Debut In National Football League Sunday
		The Spartan line is made up of ends, Joheph, Ohio State; Mayer, Catholic University; Jennings, Haskell Indians; Braidwood, Chattanooga University; Christonsen, Michigan State; Fenner, former Dayton Triangle player.
	www.irontonfootball.com /tanks/Spartandebut.htm

	Detroit Lions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		As the Portsmouth Spartans, the franchise played in an unscheduled NFL championship game against the
		The Bears won the game, 9-0, and the resulting interest led to the establishment of Eastern and Western conferences and a regular championship game beginning in 1933.
		Poor revenues led to the team's move from Portsmouth, Ohio to Detroit in 1934.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Detroit_Lions

	WMR Girls Win Playoff Game; Groveton Boys Advance
		BELMONT, N.H. -- The Spartans boarded the bus for Belmont with the afterglow of a first ever playoff win still burning, but the third time around with the Red Raiders was not the charm.
		One her second goal, Brodeur kicked it right at the goalie, but it was botched and a follow-up shot put the ball in the net for a 3-1 Spartans hold.
		Top-seeded Belmont kept the Spartans from scoring for the third time this season.
	www.caledonian-record.com /pages/sports/story/244c13132

	1932 Championship
		The top two teams in 1932, the Chicago Bears and the Portsmouth Spartans, had identical percentages and so a tie-breaking game was arranged between the two teams, which had tied twice in the regular season.
		The practice of awarding the league championship to the team with the highest winning percentage was ended with the first championship game in pro football.
		This drew a protest from Portsmouth, as they claimed that Nagurski was not 5 yards behind the line of scrimmage, then a requirement for forward passes.
	www.cogsci.indiana.edu /bears/1932.html

	HickokSports.com - Biography - Dutch Clark
		The Spartans had a problem paying his salary, $140 a game, so he left pro football in 1933 to coach all sports at Colorado School of Mines.
		He scored all of Portsmouth's points in a 19-0 win over the Brooklyn Dodgers as a rookie and he led the league in scoring with 39 points in 1932.
		He signed with the Portsmouth Spartans of the NFL in 1931 and remained with them for two seasons.
	www.hickoksports.com /biograph/clarkdut.shtml

	The Dayton Triangles: Portsmouth was Involved in Green Bay's 1st Dynasty
		Green Bay allegedly backed out of a date in Portsmouth the year before and had beaten the Spartans in Green Bay back in October, 15-10.
		But the memories of pro football there have old-timers boasting about the Portsmouth Spartans winning NFL games in New York, Chicago, Boston and St. Louis and being almost unbeatable at home.
		The win set up a championship showdown between Portsmouth and the Chicago Bears, which resulted in the game being played indoors in the Chicago Stadium two weeks later.
	www.daytontriangles.org /portsmouth.htm

	Notre Dame Development, Portsmouth, OH
		In examining the Notre Dame Titans football season, a parallel can be drawn to the ancient Spartans at the battle of Thermopylae.
		In that battle of antiquity, 300 Spartans held a mountain pass against an enemy of 2 million men for a week.
		The Spartans were ordered to hold for as long as possible.
	www.nddev.com /news18.html

	LionsFans.com: LH: The Birth of the Detroit Lions [1 of 3]
		However, while many teams would find it impossible to go into a championship game without their best player, the Portsmouth Spartans were not just any team.
		Clark, who in 1963 would become a charter member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, was a triple-threat dynamo for Portsmouth, and his absence was a blow to the Spartans.
		At the insistence of Portsmouth head coach George "Potsy" Clark (no relation to Dutch), Dutch Clark and Glenn Presnell had shared the Spartan tailback, play-calling, and kicking duties for the previous two seasons.
	lions.theinsiders.com /2/185089.html

	Cleveland Browns - Fans - Spartans remembered, OHS will dedicate Spartan Municipal Stadium this weekend
		On hand for the occasion will be 98-year-old Glenn Presnell, who played for the semi-pro Ironton Tanks, before moving on to play for the Spartans and, eventually, the Lions.
		On Sept. 24, the Spartans played what some claim was the first NFL night game against the Brooklyn Dodgers - the short-lived NFL franchise, not the baseball team.
		In an unofficial championship game later that year, brutal weather forced the Spartans and Chicago Bears to play indoors at Chicago Stadium.
	www.clevelandbrowns.com /news_room/backers/arts/2292.0.html

	Glenn Presnell...PortsCity Football History Pg. 1
		Richards, who had purchased the Portsmouth Spartans in March before moving the team to Detroit, convinced George Halas, owner-coach of the Bears, to play Thanksgiving morning.
		With a slight chuckle, Presnell said, "I suppose that was something I wouldn't like to remember." A crowd of 26,000 saw the game at the University of Detroit stadium in the Lions' first season after moving from Portsmouth, Ohio.
		The Lions were 10-1 after winning their first 10 games, the first seven by shutout.
	www.angelfire.com /biz2/PortsCityBrownsBkrs/PortsCity_Football_History1.html

	The Tanks After 1930
		Five former Tanks moved to Portsmouth in 1931, including Tim Hastings, tackle, and Elmer Wager, center, who both played two seasons with the Spartans and then retired from pro football.
		He was named second team All Pro in 1931, the year the Spartans finished second in the NFL, only one game behind the champion Green Bay Packers.
		The Ironton Tanks disbanded after the 1930 season, but the Portsmouth Spartans stayed in the NFL through 1933.
	www.irontonfootball.com /tanks/after1930.htm

	SPEEDTV.com
		The Packers, last link to the NFL of the 1920s (remember the Canton Bulldogs and Portsmouth Spartans?), however, are community-owned and maintain a dependable and profitable relationship with the league.
		Darlington, Rockingham and Watkins Glen are owned by ISC, and hence are always in play depending on corporate viewpoint.
		There is an argument that NASCAR needs a Green Bay, a link to its past.
	msn.foxsports.com /story/3153174

	Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Obituaries / Glenn Presnell, 99; was football great
		Presnell joined the Portsmouth Spartans of the National Football League, which became the Detroit Lions.
		IRONTON, Ohio -- Glenn Presnell, who starred for the Detroit Lions in the 1930s and later spent 28 years as a college head coach and athletic director, died Monday at age 99.
		Presnell enjoyed his finest NFL seasons, leading the Lions to the 1935 league championship.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2004/09/17/glenn_presnell_99_was_football_great

	The Portsmouth Spartans
		Spartans to open with Newark Club - September 13, 1930
		Portsmouth Spartans Beat Jackets, 16 to 0 - October 16, 1931
		Portsmouth's Team All Set - September 12, 1930
	www.minford.k12.oh.us /mhs/history/PortsmouthHistory/Athletics/Spartans/list.htm

	Film honors football great from Ironton
		But the more he learned about the Ironton Tanks and the Portsmouth Spartans and Glenn Presnell, a University of Nebraska All-American who played on both teams before starting several seasons for the Detroit Lions, the more Barnett became engrossed in the early days of the National Football League.
		"One of our goals is to get him in the pro football Hall of Fame," said Bob Vaughn, an Ironton resident and a member of the Portsmouth Spartans Historical Society.
		The Spartans then became the Detroit Lions, and Presnell played for that team for three more years.
	www.hdonline.com /2004/July/21/LNlist2.htm

	Scenic Byway Portsmouth Murals
		More than 2,000 feet of floodwall space is dedicated to the colorful depiction of the Portsmouth area's history by internationally known muralist Robert Dafford.
	www.ohiobyways.com /scenic_byway_portsmouth_murals.htm

	Sparta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Spartans believed that encouraging the older, accomplished men of the city to have relations with adolescents was conducive to their education.
		At the age of twenty, the Spartan began his military service and his membership in one of the dining messes or clubs (in Greek 'syssition' or 'phyidition'), composed of about fifteen members each, of which every citizen was required to be a member and where all meals were taken.
		However, Spartan pederasty, in contrast to the prevalent form of the practice, was of a chaste nature despite being inspired by erotic desire.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Spartans (3219 words)

	Spartans� quest: Go hard, finish strong (HamptonRoads.com/Pilot Online)
		Spartans� quest: Go hard, finish strong (HamptonRoads.com/Pilot Online)
		Had the Spartans �finished strong� it would have been the difference between placing in the middle of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference and finishing in the top four.
		The Spartans will be led by Hicks, a 6-foot-4 guard, who was named to the preseason all-conference team.
	home.hamptonroads.com /stories/story.cfm?story=62408&ran=205456 (3219 words)

	Newhouse A1
		That week a winter storm blew through Chicago, dumping 18 inches of snow on Wrigley Field, where the Chicago Bears and Portsmouth (Ohio) Spartans were to play in the first National Football League game pairing the two best teams at the end of the season.
		The teams combined for five pass completions, partially because the Spartans' star quarterback, Dutch Clark, had to leave the team to coach a basketball game in Colorado that weekend.
		But in 1932 Portsmouth and Chicago finished with the same won-loss record, and league officials were determined to have a playoff game.
	www.newhouse.com /archive/story2b020102.html (3219 words)

	Notre Dame Development, Portsmouth, OH
		We will also be honoring Portsmouth Spartans - Detroit Lions great Glenn Presnell halfback # 60 who held the record for the longest field goal of 54 yards...
		Glenn Presnell, who was an All American at The University of Nebraska, went on to play Semi-Pro for The Ironton Tanks, when they disbanded Glenn went to Portsmouth to play for The Spartans who eventually became The Detroit Lions.
		Universal Stadium was the site of the first NFL night game, September 24, 1930 - Portsmouth Spartans 12 - Brooklyn Dodgers 0.
	www.nddev.com /spartan.html (3219 words)

	Pro Football in Portsmouth
		Portsmouth was billed at the time as the smallest city to receive an NFL franchise (though in reality there was a smaller city which had one).
		The Portsmouth Spartans were the first NFL team to play all of the other league teams and the first to play a night game (against the Brooklyn Dodgers).
		In 1934, the Spartan franchise was sold to Detroit and became the Detroit Lions.
	www.mikesalsbury.com /photos/floodwall/24-football.shtml (3219 words)

	Portsmouth Herald Local Sports: UNH shut down by Michigan State
		The Spartans upped the score to 2-0 when Fretter scored at 13:51 of the second period on a breakaway, getting the puck from Drew Miller for the score.
		Michigan State�s Colton Fretter scored the his team�s second power-play goal of the night to extend the Spartans� lead to 5-0 with 15:03 remaining in the game.
		Freshman goaltender Kevin Regan registered a career-high 45 saves for UNH, including 18 stops in the first frame and 17 in the third period.
	www.seacoastonline.com /news/10182004/sports/43639.htm (3219 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Topic: Spartans F.C.

Ads by Google

Related Topics

In the News (Mon 28 Dec 09)