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A sport is a physical activity or skill carried out under a publicly agreed set of rules, and with a recreational purpose: for competition, for self-enjoyment, to attain excellence, for the development of skill, or some combination of these. The difference of purpose is what characterises sport, combined with the notion of individual (or team) skill or prowess.
Nathan Pennypacker Stauffer was an early American football coach in the United States. He was one of the first head coaches at a small school to be paid for his work.
Stauffer was the first head football coach for the Dickinson College Red Devils in Carlisle, Pennsylvania and he held that position for four seasons, from 1896 until 1899. His coaching record at Dickinson was 22 wins, 11 losses, and 2 ties. As of completion of the 2007 season, this ranks him sixth at Dickinson in terms of total wins and fourth at Dickinson in terms of winning percentage.
After Dickinson, Stauffer became the head coach at Widener University in Chester, Pennsylvania for the 1900 and 1901 seasons. His record at Widener was a successful 7-3 season his first year, and a disappointing 3-5 season in 1901.
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Richard Ansdell was an English painter who specialized in oil paintings of animal and sporting subjects. In this 1881 painting "The Lucky Dogs", he depicts dogs playing cards.
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- ...that Tony Dungy (pictured) led the Pittsburgh Steelers in interceptions in their 1978 Super Bowl Championship season?
- ...that DONKEY.BAS was a computer game cowritten by Bill Gates and included with early versions of the PC-DOS operating system for the original IBM PC, in which the player must avoid hitting donkeys?
- ...that in the history of Major League Baseball, twelve batters have hit two grand slams in the same game?
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