In his history of the game, historian David Nelson concluded that the first forward passes were thrown on Christmas Day 1905 in a match between two small colleges in Kansas: " Although Cochems was the premier passing coach during the first year of the rule, the first forward passes were thrown at the end of the 1905 season in a game between Fairmount and Washburn colleges in Kansas.

The Fairmount area was settled in the 1830s mostly by Quakers from North Carolina.

The town was laid out in 1850 and named for Fairmount Park in Philadelphia ; it was formally incorporated in 1870.

After a large deposit of natural gas was found in 1887, Fairmount became part of the Indiana Gas Boom and a center of the glass industry for the rest of the 19th century.

After his death in 1955 James Dean was brought back to Fairmount and buried in Park Cemetery.

A new high school was built for this district, and Fairmount High School became a middle school.

When a new junior high school was opened in 1986, the Fairmount High School building was closed for good.

* James Dean, famed actor, was raised in Fairmount.

* Jim Davis, famed cartoonist of the comic strip Garfield, was raised in Fairmount.

Ward was born in Fairmount in 1905.

In later years, he served on the Fairmount Park Commission and, during World War II, was appointed by President Roosevelt as National Director of Physical Fitness.

The Fairmount was a block from Municipal Auditorium which had hosted Final Four games in 1940, 1941 and 1942.

* Fairmount Park, one of the largest city parks in the United States ( at one time it was the largest ), located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

It was held in Fairmount Park, along the Schuylkill River.

He originally named the town Salina, but this was changed because of an existing Illinois town named Saline ; Francis Dougherty, an early settler, is said to have selected the name Fairmount.

Coal mining was attempted east of Fairmount, but this proved to be impractical because of water.

South Orange was organized on January 26, 1861 ; Fairmount ( later to become part of West Orange ) on March 11, 1862 ; East Orange on March 4, 1863 ; and West Orange ( including Fairmount ) on March 14, 1863.

The Fairmount area was originally part of the New York State Salt Reservation, but was annexed to the Town of Camillus in 1834.

In 2007, Fairmount was 27th on Newsweek's ' Best Places to Raise Your Kids ' list.

Farther west was Fairmount, which developed earlier than most of Westvale, where the land was held off the market.

:: Note: A very detailed early history of Manayunk is contained in " Early History of the Falls of Schuylkill, Manayunk, Schuylkill and Lehigh Navigation Companies, Fairmount Waterworks, Etc.

The modern era of the NCAA began in July 1952 when its executive director, Kansas City, Missouri native Walter Byers, moved the organization's headquarters from the LaSalle Hotel in Chicago ( where its offices were shared by the headquarters of the Big Ten Conference ) to the Fairmount Building at 101 West 11th Street in Downtown Kansas City.

* Town of Fairmount, incorporated 1902, annexed by the City of Richmond in 1914.

A large crowd of fans paid tribute to him, passing by his coffin in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park.

The shopping center is surrounded by other commercial and retail businesses along San Pablo Avenue and Fairmount Avenue respectively, including fast food and an ACE Hardware store.

Formed in 1857 from part of North Manheim Township, it was founded by and named for John Chapman Cresson, a Philadelphia civil engineer and manager of the Schuylkill Navigation Company, President of the Mine Hill and Schuylkill Haven Railroad and chief engineer of Fairmount Park, Philadelphia.

In collaboration with Edward Clark Potter he modelled the George Washington statue, presented to France by the Daughters of the American Revolution ; the General Grant statue in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, and the General Joseph Hooker statue in Boston.

Wichita State University began as Fairmount College, a private Congregational school, in 1886 by the Rev.

* on the west by the Wissahickon Gorge ( part of Fairmount Park ) ( beyond which lie Upper Roxborough and Andorra );

* on the southeast by the Cresheim Valley ( part of Fairmount Park ) ( beyond which lies Mount Airy ).

*** Hardcover reissue 1983 by Fairmount Books Ltd Remainders ( 30 September 1983 ); ISBN 0-00-217005-1

" Plan for the Fairmount Parkway " ( 1917 ), by Jacques Gréber.

It is bordered to the southwest, along the Schuylkill River, by the neighborhood of Manayunk, along the northeast by the Wissahickon Creek section of Fairmount Park, and to the southeast by the neighborhood of East Falls.

* Art by William Groombridge, Fairmount and Schuylkill River, 1800

It consists of 63 parks, with, all overseen by the Philadelphia Department of Parks and Recreation, successor to the Fairmount Park Commission in 2010.

Today, the system includes the Centennial Arboretum, Philadelphia's Horticulture Center, Fairmount Water Works, Memorial Hall, home to the Please Touch Museum, the Belmont Plateau, Japanese House and Garden, Bartram's Garden ( America ’ s oldest living botanical garden ), Philadelphia Museum of Art, Boathouse Row, Azalea Garden, recreation centers, reservoirs, and countless statues ( as well as other pieces of art ) as determined by the park.

Mount Pleasant, built in what was then the countryside outside of the city by a privateer, is now an off-premise gallery of the Philadelphia Museum of Art in Fairmount Park.

The Schuylkill Permanent Bridge ( Market Street Bridge ) in Philadelphia was adorned with his sculptures of Agriculture and Commerce ( 1812, whereabouts unknown ), William Strickland's Philadelphia Custom House featured another figure named Commerce ( 1819, whereabouts unknown ), and his sculptures of Wisdom and Justice ( by 1824, Fairmount Park Commission ) decorated a triumphal arch erected in front of Independence Hall for the 1824 visit of the Marquis de Lafayette.

Rather than having come from a colonial settlement, the name " Tremont " was invented by a postmaster in the 1800s, derived from the three (" tre ") neighborhoods of Mount Eden, Mount Hope, and Fairmount in the west-central Bronx.

In the original skip-stop configuration, in addition to the A and B stops shown on the map above, 2nd and 34th Street were " A " stations, and Fairmount ( replaced by Spring Garden ) was a " B " station ; the A and B designations at these stations were changed to " All-Stop " because of increased patronage in the 1990s.

As I-95 was built through Center City Philadelphia in the late 1970s, part of the Frankford El was relocated to I-95's median, and the Fairmount station was replaced by Spring Garden, on May 16, 1977.