Ohio State University

The Ohio State University (legal name), also known as Ohio State or OSU{{fn|1}}, is currently the largest public university in the United States and ranked by US News as the best public university in Ohio and the twenty-first best public university in the nation. Ohio State's students attend either the main campus in Columbus, Ohio, or regional campuses located in Lima, Mansfield, Marion, Gibraltar Island (Stone Lab), Newark, and Wooster. The university was founded in 1870 as a land-grant university. Ohio State should not be confused with Ohio University, a separate institution located in Athens, Ohio.

Sports, clubs, and traditions

Ohio State's intercollegiate sports teams are called the "Buckeyes" (after the state tree, the Buckeye), and participate in the NCAA's Division I-A in all sports and the Big Ten Conference in most sports. (The men's hockey program competes in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association, and its women's hockey program competes in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association). The school colors are Scarlet and Gray.

Related Topics:
Buckeye - NCAA - Big Ten Conference - Hockey - Central Collegiate Hockey Association - Western Collegiate Hockey Association

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The Buckeye football team, which plays at Ohio Stadium (a.k.a. the Horseshoe or simply The 'Shoe), won the 2002 college football national championship at the 2003 Fiesta Bowl. It was the fifth national championship for the football team, which also topped the nation in 1942, 1954, 1957, and 1968. The most famous football coach in Ohio State's history was the colorful and legendary Woody Hayes (1913-1987), who passionately taught players and students that a person succeeds in life through "hard work."

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Football - Ohio Stadium - 2002 - College football - 2003 - Fiesta Bowl - 1942 - 1954 - 1957 - 1968 - Woody Hayes

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The Buckeye football team also boasts 5 Heisman trophy winners including the only two-time winner Archie Griffin (in 1974 and 1975), Les Horvath (1944), Vic Janowicz (1950), Howard Cassady (1955), and Eddie George (1995). Other outstanding sports figures that were students at Ohio State include Jesse Owens (track and field), John Havlicek (basketball), and Jack Nicklaus (golf).

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Heisman trophy - Archie Griffin - Les Horvath - Vic Janowicz - Howard Cassady - Eddie George - Jesse Owens - John Havlicek - Jack Nicklaus

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Ohio State is known for its intense athletic rivalry (particularly in football) with the University of Michigan, to which OSU has an overall winning record of 38-57-6. The OSU/UM game is considered by Sports Illustrated and others to be the greatest rivalry in all of football, college or pro, and is called by ESPN the greatest

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University of Michigan - ESPN

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rivalry in sports http://espn.go.com/endofcentury/s/other/bestrivalries.html.

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The Makio is Ohio State's annual/yearbook. The Makio ran into financial problems during the early 1970s, and the organization went bankrupt and stopped publication during the late 1970s. The book was revived from 1985 to 1994, and has been revived again since 2000.

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The Ohio State University Marching Band (or TBDBITL, "The Best Damn Band in the Land") is also a tradition at Ohio State. The marching band is the largest all brass band in the world. All songs are customized to fit the unorthodox instrumentation. The band is famous for Script Ohio. During Script Ohio, the band is led through the curves of the word, literally spelling it out before your eyes, while playing the famous march Le Regiment de Sambre et Meuse.

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OSU's "Buckeye Bullet" electric car broke the world record for the fastest speed by an electric vehicle on October 3, 2004 with a speed of 271.737 mph (437.3 km/h) at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. The vehicle also holds the US record for fastest electric vehicle with a speed of 314.958 mph (506.9 km/h), and peak timed mile speed of 321.834 mph (517.9 km/h). The vehicle was designed, built and managed by a team of engineering students at the university's "Center for Automotive Research-Intelligent Transportation" (CAR-IT).

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Buckeye Bullet - October 3 - 2004 - Mph - Km/h - Bonneville Salt Flats - Utah

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In 1926, the student body overwhelmingly elected Maudine Ormsby Homecoming Queen. That Maudine Ormsby was not a student at the Ohio State University was a bigger problem than the fact that she was a dairy cow. Still, she took her throne at the homecoming football game that year but passed on the homecoming dance.

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The school is often referred to as Ohio State University. The proper name, when used as a noun, is The Ohio State University.

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Ohio State-affiliated Media

OSU operates a public television station, WOSU-TV 34 / WOSU-DT 38, as well as two public radio stations, WOSU-AM (NPR/Bluegrass) and WOSU-FM (Classical) in Columbus, both with the call letters WOSU. In 2003, the television station began broadcasting in HDTV. There is also an student-run radio station with an internet audio signal (no broadcast signals are available in Columbus) called The Underground and a student run cable channel, airing primarily on the campus cable system operated by UNITS (the university's telecommunications department), known as Buckeye TV. The school newspaper is called The Lantern, and has operated as a laboratory newspaper in the School of Communication (formerly School of Journalism) for over 150 years.

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WOSU - HDTV - Buckeye TV

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