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In 1922, Notre Dame coach Knute Rockne was asked where the Notre Dame shift originated. "Where everything else in football came from -- Yale," he said.
Though he'll be forever remembered in football, Camp was a man of diverse talents. He wrote 20 books, some fiction, some on history and some on sports. His first book was, "The Book of Foot-Ball" in 1910.
Players believed being a member of the Camp All- America team was a high honor. Red Grange, the Galloping Ghost,told Courant columnist Owen Canfield before the Walter Camp Football Foundation dinner in 1982: "I probably wouldn't have made this trip [at age 78 from Florida] if it weren't that [Camp] was one of my great ...
Camp died March 14, 1925 -- fittingly at a conference of the college football rules committee in New York.
A few miles east of the Walter Camp Memorial Arch is the Grove Street Cemetery on the Yale campus. Roger Sherman is buried there. He is the only person to sign the four basic documents of the Republic: the Articles of Association, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution. Eli ...
So is Walter Chauncey Camp.
A polished granite monument in front of his tombstone, donated by the Walter Camp Foundation in 1992, cites his accomplishments.
What is not inscribed, but is acknowledged, is what John Heisman, for whom the Heisman Trophy is named, once said: "What Washington was to his country, Camp was to American football -- the friend, the founder and the father."
A senior Taliban officer is spurning calls for negotiation from Afghanistan's government, calling President Hamid Karzai a U.S. "puppet" amid rumblings that peace talks could be in the offing.
"We reject an offer for negotiation by the Afghan's puppet and slave President Hamid Karzai," Mullah Brother told Reuters by satellite telephone Friday from an undisclosed location.
Karzai, delivering a message to commemorate the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr on Tuesday, had called for Saudi Arabian head of state King Abdullah to help moderate peace talks between insurgents and the government.
But Karzai had no right to negotiate, said Brother.
"He only says and does what he is told by America," he said.
His comments appear to contradict remarks he made in March, when he suggested the Taliban could co-operate with the Afghan government and called for a negotiated ending to the fighting.
Brother served as a top military commander while the Taliban were in power in Afghanistan in the late 1990s and is now one of the movement's senior leaders.
During his interview Friday, he repeated his pledge to continue fighting until all 70,000 NATO and U.S. troops stationed in Afghanistan leave.
In his message earlier this week, Karzai said his government was trying to push militants to lay down their arms.
He would protect any Taliban or other militant leaders from U.S. and NATO troops if they came back to Afghanistan for peace talks, he said.
He also called for fugitive Taliban leader Mullah Omar to return to Afghanistan to engage in talks.
Omar, who went into hiding seven years ago, also released a message Tuesday that called Afghanistan security forces thieves, smugglers and criminals not worthy of people's trust and calling on foreign troops to leave the country.
There are about 2,500 Canadian troops serving in Afghanistan, mostly in the southern province of Kandahar. Prime Minister Stephen Harper pledged earlier this month to withdraw most of its combat forces from Afghanistan by 2011.
The Haps, a student band led by Peter McPoland, is headlining the festival. The Woodlands High School senior Peter McPoland sits with his guitar Thursday, Jan. 10, 2019 at his home in Spring. McPoland has several singles on Spotify.
Next weekend, students at The Woodlands High School are banding together for a common cause at the Sound by the Shore music festival scheduled for April 14 at Rob Fleming Park from 2 to 7 p.m. They’re not the first to do so, though.
When some of Terri Whiteman’s students at The Woodlands High School approached her in 2015 about putting on a music festival, she wasn’t sure if it would work.
Her students’ persistence birthed the first Sound by the Shore, an event not just about music but also about raising money for the daughter of one of The Woodland High School teachers who had a paralyzing disease.
They ended up raising $5,000 for that student to receive a special treatment that allowed her to walk again instead of using a wheelchair. The year after, the students came back to Whiteman to do it all over again — this time to raise money for Yes to Youth Montgomery County Youth Services.
“That was the year we had a really tough school year. We lost three kids and one teacher to suicide,” Whiteman said. Again, the students organized the festival and raised almost $9,000 for the nonprofit that provides free youth crisis counseling and youth shelter programs.
This year, a group of juniors and seniors at the campus expressed a desire to bring the festival back — and they’ve already been impacted by the planning aspect of the festival.
For student Tag Kamykowski, who’s part of the leadership team, this is an opportunity to make a difference in his community.
“We feel like mental issues have been increasing in the past few years, especially in youth because of how much pressure is put on kids and teenagers. It’s a huge problem, and we want to help fix it,” Kamykowski said.
Ana Maria Rodriguez, a student also on the leadership team, said it’s important that they can do this as students.
“As high-schoolers, it’s hard to make a difference in the community…but with Sound by the Shore it’s kids being able to make a difference in their own communities. We’re learning about the world around us and it’s scary, but we can help out,” Rodriguez said.
They’re not doing it all on their own: the leadership team has reached out to each club at the school to get them involved as well. Various groups are organizing festival activities such as face-painting, games and petting zoos. They’ve also reached out to the business community to secure sponsorships.
Another student on the leadership team, Annie Bremer, said she’s amazed at how professional everything has turned out.
“It’s really impressive to see how everything is going, and how just a little idea can turn into a huge event to help other people,” Bremer said.
Whiteman shared that the many different facets and pockets of students involved is what gives her what she called “chillbumps”.
“Our school is huge, so we rarely get to see everyone connecting. When you look at the whole picture, I feel so privileged because I get to meet these wonderful people who are going to be in charge of our world in a couple of years,” Whiteman said.
As far as the music goes, there are 10 bands lined up to play throughout the day. The Haps, a student band led by Peter McPoland, is headlining the festival. McPoland is directing the music side of the event.
“So many people have artistic talents, and they want to be able to use them, and this gives every single person an opportunity to do what they want to do,” McPoland said.
The team doesn’t have an exact fundraising goal; they just want to be able to raise as much money possible to help out their peers who utilize the services at Yes to Youth. At the nonprofit, Marketing and Communications manager Katie Shroff said it’s an amazing opportunity for both her group and the students.
“We are a youth organization that helps students their age, so having them come and take a stand and help us help their peers is an amazing thing to happen in our community, and it’s a great thing to stand behind,” Shroff said.
Tickets for the event are $5 and can be purchased the day of the festival.
PORT CLINTON - A ribbon-cutting ceremony celebrating the new office location of the Salvation Army at 1834 Perry St. in Port Clinton was held on June 14.
Representatives from the Port Clinton Area Chamber of Commerce, Main Street Port Clinton, and many friends congratulated them and wished Director Maureen Saponari and her staff best wishes.
The Salvation Army in Port Clinton supports holiday assistance for families struggling to give children Christmas presents, summer camp for needy children, adult rehabilitation, and other programs that support the community.
MARBLEHEAD - The Marblehead Peninsula Chamber of Commerce held a ribbon-cutting and grand opening for the Marblehead Soap Company, 110 W. Main St..
The Marblehead Soap Company has handcrafted organic soaps and products, artwork and crafts from around Ohio, local honey, essential oils, baked goods, candles, canned items, massage services, gift items galore, aromatherapy, and organic products for their four-legged family.
They were originally located in Downtown Port Clinton as Back In Thyme.
The company has relocated to Marblehead and is now the Marblehead Soap Company. For more information, contact Patti Wandover at 419-702-7488 or visit them online at marbleheadsoap.co.
LEBANON - The former Otterbein Senior Lifestyle Choices announced today the launch of a new ministry-wide brand identity. The new branding includes a new name, Otterbein SeniorLife, and a new modern logo.
In addition, an updated ministry-wide website was also introduced, otterbein.org.
The new logo and website represent all Otterbein ministries and locations, including Otterbein Franklin — a LifePlan Community that affiliated with Otterbein in October, 2017.
The organization will now be known as Otterbein SeniorLife, and will be represented with the new logo.
Otterbein had two goals in mind in creating the new name and logo. The first was to refresh and modernize the ministry name and logo to a more contemporary design in line with growth and innovations happening in the organization. The second was to eliminate the color coding, previously used to represent the differences...
Otterbein chose to represent the faith-based organization with a prominent cross as the intersecting point of the traditional infinity symbol. The infinity symbol illustrates the limitless choices available in our lives, and the unlimited potential for continual growth and quality of care and service to the seniors and...
The new identity builds upon Otterbein’s 106-year old, faith-based, not-for-profit ministry, while also representing new growth, innovation and focus on the future. Otterbein SeniorLife lives its mission continually seeking to enhance the quality of life and holistic growth of older persons.
SANDUSKY - Sports Destination Management, the leading publication with the largest circulation of sports event planners and tournament directors in the sports tourism market, has announced the winners of its 2018 Reader’s Choice Awards.
This year’s winners, voted on by a jury of their peers, represent the go-to destinations and companies in the sports tourism industry for event owners and rights holders.
Ohio’s Lake Erie Shores & Islands,s known as America’s Sports & Family Fun Capital, is a leading regional sports destination in the Midwest, especially loved by event organizers and players for its variety of amenities.
April 23, 2019, 12:37 p.m.
Excitement about controller meets pessimism about access.
Depaul students were excited about the ability to give players exclusive information and abilities through the Wii U tablet.
Walking west on Chicago’s newly fashionable Randolph Street, just across the Chicago River from the Loop, the landscape began to change. About five blocks back I had passed Stephanie Izard’s Girl and the Goat restaurant, but with the last Starbucks in sight rapidly fading behind me, there were only old, unmarked wareho...
About 150 Club Nintendo members had received a golden ticket for each night of this four-day junket, but I was more interested in talking to the invited students from DePaul University’s Game Dev program. These were undergraduates and graduate students who had made the decision to come to a four-year, liberal arts scho...
This wasn’t just a regular demo session for them. It was Nintendo’s chance to sell a set of up-and-coming developers on its vision for the hardware. The students' reaction was a mix of giddy optimism about the system's potential and cynical skepticism about certain aspects of Wii U development.
But were these students as interested in developing for the Wii U as they were in playing it?
Even among console options, Basso didn’t see Nintendo’s new console as a very realistic option for a new independent developer like him. “If I wanted to develop a console game, I’d probably target the PS3 first. I’ve heard Sony is very easy to deal with. If I didn’t care about sales and the game wasn’t that ambitious, ...
DePaul senior Joe Stramaglia also lamented Nintendo’s lack of outreach to the education community. “Unfortunately, while one can certainly learn the programming knowledge of a language to be able to work with Nintendo systems, the actual software development kits and hardware are unavailable to us at DePaul—as well as ...
These kinds of access concerns overwhelmed the eureka moments I was expecting to hear from these young creatives, the "light bulb" inspirations for interesting ways that the system’s controller could unlock new game designs. Some students I talked to hinted at such thoughts, but none were willing to come out and share ...
The biggest general design idea inspired by the Wii U was a single, repeated note that is also a focal point of Nintendo’s marketing for the system so far: asymmetric gameplay. The ability to use the tablet controller to receive exclusive information over nearby players holding Wii remotes, and to use the touchscreen f...
But most of the students acknowledged that this kind of asymmetry is not in and of itself a new mechanic; certainly not new in the way that motion control was in the past. That helped contribute to the overwhelming feeling, among the students I interviewed, that the Wii U was going to be a good enough system, but nowhe...
Suffice it to say that Nintendo wasn’t making any of their university guests feel particularly warm and fuzzy about the burgeoning development community for its new system. These feelings may change if and when development access starts to filter down to the student community, and if and when truly revolutionary uses f...
This is one reason why so many developers are moving to Android and iOS despite the difficulty of getting visibility, though, in truth, if you do have a superior product there, you WILL get visibility. But, as someone said, 90% of everything is junk. That goes for all of the platforms.
But to get a development kit for Android and iOS is cheap (nothing, really) and easy. If Nintendo, with it's falling sales, and ambivalent interest towards the new console by users, is going to expect some momentum for the future, they are going to need to make it much easier for people to get their development kits.
As it is, console gaming is in trouble, not only have console sales dropped by more than half, on average between the big three platforms, over the past year, but game sales are way down as well. It just seems to me that console manufacturers, not just Nintendo, are going to need more outreach to new developers coming ...
When the temperature is touching 30 degrees and the sun is beaming down what could be more refreshing than a cool drink? Throw in a World Cup and 2018 has been the kind of summer drinks manufacturers dream about.
"In Ireland, good early summer weather has helped Bulmers return to moderate volume growth in the year-to-date. During the last year we invested an additional €3m behind Bulmers…. [this] helped the brand retain share in the off-trade and packaged on-trade channels. Heightened launch activity across beer and cider in Ir...
The good weather certainly seems to have injected some fizz into what had previously been a flat C&C share price. From a peak of €4.76 in June 2014 it had fallen to just €2.60 by March of this year - a drop of 45pc.
Since then, rejuvenated by the good weather, the C&C share price has risen strongly and was trading at €3.50 last week, a 34pc rise on its March trough.
Of course, the good weather hasn't been the only thing putting a spring into C&C's step. Apart from the aforementioned investment in its Irish Bulmers brand, there was last April's acquisition of Matthew Clark Bibendum, the UK's largest independent drinks distributor. It has 23,000 mainly on-trade accounts including pu...
The only fly in the ointment was the introduction of minimum unit pricing of alcohol in Scotland at the beginning of May, which is likely to reduce off-trade volumes by up to 10pc. However, even this setback is likely to be at least partially offset by the good weather.
This means that, after a 6pc decline in volumes in the year to February 2018, C&C is set to return to volume growth in the current year with total cider volumes (all brands not just Bulmers) in the Republic of Ireland up 2.7pc in the period from March to May, according to market research firm Nielsen.
Another firm also likely to benefit from the good weather is fuel forecourt retailer Applegreen, which operates 155 fuel stations in the Republic and a further 77 in the UK. When the weather is good people tend to drive more and, as well as topping up their tanks, also stock up on other items such as coffee, soft drink...
For Applegreen, which had been buffeted by headwinds of the poor March weather and rising fuel commodity prices earlier this year, the extended run of good weather which we have enjoyed since mid-May is good news. However, any weather-induced benefit to the share price seems to be behind us.
The Applegreen share price, which started the year at €5.44 had hit €6.60 by mid-May, an increase of more than 20pc. However, it has since given up about half of those gains with the share price trading at €6.00 late last week.
Hotel operators have also traditionally benefited from good as weather as the sunshine prompts more people to take breaks. However, according to Pat McCann the boss of Ireland's largest hotel operator Dalata, it's not quite that straightforward. "The weather has not had too much of an effect, either positive or negativ...
While urban-based hotels have experienced little direct benefit, hotels and guesthouses in the traditional tourist areas are experiencing an increase in business due to the fine weather.
Two companies which should have benefited strongly from the fine weather are Irish Continental Group (ICG) and Ryanair as the unaccustomed sunshine encourages more of us to travel. Unfortunately for Irish Continental, which operates Irish Ferries, after a good first four months with revenues up 1.4pc, it has turned int...
The first sign of stormy waters ahead came on April 21 when Irish Ferries announced that, due to the delay of the delivery of its new WB Yeats superferry until mid-July, it was cancelling 2,500 passenger bookings. Then on June 12 things went from bad to worse with the announcement of the delivery of the WB Yeats had be...
Irish Ferries' annus horribilis continued with the announcement on June 26 that its Ulysses ferry, which operates on the key Dublin-Holyhead route, had developed "technical difficulties" and would be out of action for about a week. Unfortunately, after entering dry dock it quickly became clear that these "technical dif...
With the unforeseen "technical difficulties" occurring at the height of the tourist season, Irish Ferries was unable to secure an alternative vessel. The company's observation that this was "the first major disruption on the Ulysses since her deployment on the Dublin Holyhead service in 2001" will have come as scant co...
Investors have also been unimpressed by events at Irish Continental. The share price, which peaked at €6.00 in mid-March was trading at €5.05 last week, a fall of more than 15pc.
Ryanair grew passenger numbers by 7pc to 12.6 million in June. This followed a 6pc rise to 12.5 million in May and a 9pc increase to 12.3 million in April. Ryanair has long since outgrown its Irish routes, with just 11pc of its 2017 revenues originating in Ireland meaning that the impact of the fine weather is likely t...
Perhaps not surprisingly the Ryanair share price has barely tread water, up 3pc to €15.51 since the start of the year.
While drinks companies, forecourt retailers, ferry operators and airlines are all at least potential beneficiaries from a period of warm, dry weather, food and agribusiness companies tend to take a warier view of climatic extremes.
Glanbia, through its 40pc-owned associate Glanbia Ireland, is Ireland's largest dairy processor. Coming on top of a harsh spring, when many of them were forced to spend large sums of money on expensive feed for their cattle, Glanbia's supplier-shareholders have seen their milk price cut in both April and May.
As these supplier-shareholders still control at least 31.5pc, in practice probably considerably more when individual farmer shareholdings are taken into account, of Glanbia PLC as well as 60pc of Dairy Ireland, Glanbia has to move gingerly when cutting milk prices. Almost inevitably this means that the milk price is a ...
With its supplier-shareholders already under financial pressure following the unseasonably cold spring, Glanbia Ireland has announced that it will increase its June base milk price by up to 2 cent a litre with Glanbia Co-Op chipping in another 1 cent a litre "drought-related support payment".
An extra three cent a litre will come as good news to the hard-pressed farmers but not so good for Glanbia shareholders who will end up meeting at least some of the cost. After performing poorly in the final quarter of 2017 and the first quarter of 2018, with the share price falling by 12pc as the poor spring took its ...
While a 3pc share price fall is of little significance by itself, the reversal of the April and May milk price cuts, and their likely cost, is likely to weigh on the Glanbia share price until more normal climatic conditions return.

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