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Jul 26, 2012 · Ohio Wesleyan leaves the Ohio Athletic Conference and the Centennial Athletic Conference to join Allegheny, Case Reserve, Denison, Kenyon, Oberlin and Wooster in founding the North Coast Athletic Conference, with play to begin in the 1984-85 academic year.
Jul 26, 2012 · The History of Ohio Wesleyan Athletics, 1920-39. 1921. George Gauthier, the "Little Giant," takes over as head football coach and athletics director at the request of Branch Rickey. 1922. Ohio Wesleyan provides the opposition for the first game in Ohio Stadium.
Jul 26, 2012 · The History of Ohio Wesleyan Athletics, 1870-1919. Ohio Wesleyan students organize their first football team. The faculty objects, and football is discontinued as an intercollegiate sport for 15 years. Fairbanks Gymnasium is built, giving Ohio Wesleyan its first forum for physical education and athletics.
The history of Ohio Wesleyan University began with discussions of a college in Ohio in 1821 when the Ohio Methodist Conference in connection with the Kentucky Conference had established Augusta, the first Methodist institution of higher learning in the United States.
However, the greatest accomplishment of his entire track career – some would say in the history of sports - came in the spring of 1935. On May 25, 1935, at a Big Ten meet in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Owens tied one world record and set three more - in a span of just 45 minutes.
Athletics. Ohio Wesleyan University has 24 varsity sports. OWU is a competitive member of the NCAA Division III and the North Coast Athletic Conference. 36.4% of student body are varsity athletes. 5 National Team Titles. 9 NCAC All-Sports Titles. 161 Conference Championships
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In 1922, Ohio Wesleyan teams were known as the Red and Black or the Methodists. (They weren’t playing the Buckeyes, either. Ohio State didn’t officially adopt that nickname until 1950.) The Chic Harley era had just ended at Ohio State when the school started constructing the new stadium in 1921.
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