In 1893, at the age of thirty-three, Bates, an English professor at Wellesley College, had taken a train trip to Colorado Springs, Colorado, to teach a short summer school session at Colorado College.

Although previous big-name pitchers, including Bill Swift, Bret Saberhagen, and Darryl Kile, had struggled in Colorado, following the 2000 season O ' Dowd made two very splashy signings in the free-agent market, signing Denny Neagle to a five-year contract worth $ 51 million, followed five days later by signing Mike Hampton to an eight-year, $ 121 million contract.

The Colorado Rockies have had Hi Corbett Field as their spring training home for many years.

He was probably the first president to release information about his health and medical records while in office, On September 24, 1955, while vacationing in Colorado, he had a serious heart attack that required six weeks ' hospitalization, during which time Nixon, Dulles and Sherman Adams assumed administrative duties and provided communication with the President.

With Colorado beating Detroit in the third round in 1996, in the second round of both 1999 and 2000, and the Red Wings beating the Avs in the third round in 1997, the battles between these two teams had become one of the fiercest in the league.

In 1972, Professor William Calder of the University of Colorado, speaking at a commemoration of Schliemann's birthday, claimed that he had uncovered several possible problems in Schliemann's work.

He also had a sister, Julie J. Boucher, the Associate Director of the Library Research Service at the Colorado State Library ( who died in a mountain-climbing accident on October 12, 1996 ).< ref >

They had eight children together, the descendants of whom remain in the Arkansas Valley of Colorado.

The program recognized the difficulty that students had in obtaining child care while attending tutoring sessions, and joined with the University of Colorado to provide reading buddies to the children of students.

graduate from Colorado who had written his thesis on exception handling facilities in algorithmic languages.

While Colorado politicians raked in the profits and themselves became large landowners, peasant squatters who had farmed the land for generations were forced to vacate and, in many cases, to emigrate.

The Colorado Party's peasant py nandí irregulars (" barefoot ones " in Guaraní ), who had a well-deserved reputation for ferocity, often tortured and executed their prisoners.

Second, the many purges of the Colorado Party had removed all opposition factions.

The exhaustion of most opposition forces enabled Stroessner to crush the Paraguayan Communist Party ( Partido Communista Paraguayo-PCP ) by mercilessly persecuting its members and their spouses and to isolate the exiled Colorado epifanistas ( followers of Epifanio Méndez Fleitas ) and democráticos, who had reorganized themselves as the Popular Colorado Movement ( Movimiento Popular Colorado-Mopoco ).

When the prisoners were interrogated, it became clear that the information possessed by the guerrillas, who had planned to assassinate Stroessner, could have come only from a high Colorado official.

In 1865, the Triple Alliance was formed by the emperor of Brazil, the president of Argentina, and the Colorado general Venancio Flores, the Uruguayan head of government whom they both had helped to gain power.

As no single party had a majority in the General Assembly, the National Party joined with Sanguinetti's Colorado Party in a coalition government.

The Wildlife Conservation Society reported in June 2009 that a wolverine researchers had been tracking for almost three months had crossed into northern Colorado.

* November 29 – American Indian Wars – Sand Creek Massacre: Colorado volunteers led by Colonel John Chivington massacre at least 400 Cheyenne and Arapahoe noncombatants at Sand Creek, Colorado ( where they had been given permission to camp ).

Missouri's advantages included that it had the only railroad to actually reach the Missouri River on its western border ( H & SJ ), was more centrally located for lines coming up from Texas and could offer a route servicing Denver, Colorado, the biggest city in the Great American Desert.

The Wings posted the league's best record in the 2001-02 regular season and defeated Colorado in seven games in the Western Conference Finals after beating the Vancouver Canucks and St. Louis Blues in rounds one and two.

The Colorado Mammoth had the honor of hosting fan number one million, an honor that commissioner Jim Jennings believed to be rightfully theirs, given the impact they had on the league's attendance that year.

Because of the league's seeding at the time, where the conference winners earn the top seeds, the two weakest Western Conference teams, San Jose Earthquakes and Colorado Rapids were seeded against the Eastern Conference champion, New York Red Bulls and runner-up Columbus Crew, respectively.

He played in all 82 games and succeeded Andrew Brunette as the league's ironman when the latter player was forced out of the Colorado Avalanche lineup with injury.

Turning professional in 1982 – 83, Vernon spent most of the season with the CHL's Colorado Flames where he was named to the league's second all-star team after posting a 30 – 13 – 2 record in 46 games.

Bartlett began his career with his hometown Cape Town Spurs and then moved to Major League Soccer and the Colorado Rapids in the league's inaugural season in 1996.

CCL has introduced a pilot program called " tennis ball cricket ", intended to attract teams from throughout Colorado to increase the league's size to 500 players.

Colorado coach Mike Dailey earned his second championship ring while Georgia's first-year head coach Doug Plank, the league's 2005 Coach of the Year, came up short in his fourth consecutive ArenaBowl, having lost the previous three as the defensive coordinator for the Arizona Rattlers.

The state's lowest point is along the Colorado River, south of Laughlin.

The base level and course of the Colorado River ( or its ancestral equivalent ) changed 5. 3 million years ago when the Gulf of California opened and lowered the river's base level ( its lowest point ).

The lowest point in the state of Nevada is located on the Colorado River just south of Laughlin in Clark County, where it flows out of Nevada and into California and Arizona.

The lowest point in the state of Arizona is located on the Colorado River in San Luis in Yuma County, where it flows out of Arizona and into Sonora in Mexico.

The point where the Arikaree River flows out of Yuma County and into Cheyenne County, Kansas is the lowest point in the State of Colorado at 1, 010 meters ( 3, 315 feet ) elevation.

Colorado College also has one of the nation's lowest acceptance rates, at 24 percent, with a very high yield at 48 percent.

The lake occupies the lowest elevations of the Salton Sink in the Colorado Desert of Imperial and Riverside counties in Southern California.

The majority of the Colorado Desert lies at a relatively low elevation, below, with the lowest point of the desert floor at below sea level at the Salton Sea.

For instance, Colorado ranks 48th in the nation for higher education funding ( per personal income level ), which is the lowest in 40 years, representing a drop from 34th in 1992.

Located in Wallace County, it is less than half a mile ( 0. 8 km ) from the Colorado state border and close to the lowest point in Colorado.

It passes the unincorporated community of Rand, then ascends into the mountains and crosses the continental divide at Willow Creek Pass ( elevation 9621 ft ), one of the lowest crossings of the continental divide in Colorado.

The point where the Arikaree River flows out of Yuma County, Colorado, and into Cheyenne County, Kansas, is the lowest point in the State of Colorado at elevation.

* 400 career goals — October 12, 2003, against the Colorado Avalanche

He is also the all-time leader for goals, assists, points and games played by a Latvian in the NHL and holds several Colorado Avalanche and San Jose Sharks franchise records.

In helping Colorado return to the playoffs, he completed the year to place third on the team with 23 goals despite playing in a career low 56 games.

He scored 34 goals in Calgary, and combined with the 6 scored in Colorado, finished with his fifth 40-goal campaign in six years.

His 46 points ( 13 goals and 33 assists ) over 76 games finished second among league rookies behind Milan Hejduk of the Colorado Avalanche.

On three occasions, he scored more goals during the playoffs than he did during the regular season ( 1985 – 86 with Montreal, 1994 – 95 with New Jersey, and 1996-97 with Colorado ).

McLean was chosen to start in the opening series against the top-seeded Colorado Avalanche, but was pulled in favour of Hirsch during Game 1 after allowing three goals on 12 shots.

However, in the third round against the Colorado Avalanche soft goals plagued him again ( including one scored after an attempt to scoop the puck into his glove with his stick ) and again in some fan circles bore the brunt of the blame for the Blues ' third round 4-1 ouster.

He added 2 goals and 4 points over 6 games as the Sharks were eliminated in the first round by the Colorado Avalanche.

He had a total of 11 game-winning goals in 4 straight playoff seasons in Colorado.

During the postseason, Ruiz scored two goals in the second leg match against the Colorado Rapids but FC Dallas were eliminated on penalty kicks.

He scored four goals in Houston's first-ever game April 2 against Colorado, the seventh player in MLS history to score four goals in a single game.

On May 26, 2010 Wolyniec recorded another two goals in a 3-0 victory over Colorado Rapids leading the club to the Round of 16 of the 2010 Lamar Hunt U. S. Open Cup.

Despite picking up 8 wins in a competitive season, the Cougars still finished their year in 4th place behind Orange County, Southern California and Fresno ; the highlights were a quartet of impressive wins-6-2 over Colorado Springs Blizzard, 5-0 over California Gold, 4-0 over Nevada Wonders and 4-3 over Fresno Fuego-all of which were enlivened by goals from Matthew Affleck, Christopher Lamb and B. J. Pugmire.

After scoring four goals for the Crew, he was on the move again after the season, being dealt to the Colorado Rapids for Ritchie Kotschau.

Petke, who rarely scored goals, scored in the MetroStars win over Colorado, and unveiled a t-shirt that said August 16: Crime of the Century on the front and Revenge is Coming on the back.

He spent four seasons with the Sharks before being traded to the Colorado Avalanche where he spent three seasons, contributing 13 goals and 19 assists before being traded to the Atlanta Thrashers in 1999.

Cunningham finished the 2005 season with twelve league goals for Colorado.

In 2007, Moor led the team with 28 starts and scored two goals including a game-winning header against the Colorado Rapids on August 4, 2007 in a 1 – 0 victory.

He joined MLS for the first time in 1997, after spending 1996 with the Colorado Foxes, leading the A-League in goals with 17.

Harris played three seasons with the Colorado Rapids, scoring 13 goals in 1998.

Bravo spent the next five years with Colorado, and would retire with a club record 39 league goals ( he added five in the playoffs ).

He scored 379 goals, and won 4 Stanley Cups in 1986 ( Montreal ), 1995 ( New Jersey ), 1996 ( Colorado ) & 2000 ( New Jersey ).