In 1877, he won an open scholarship to St John's College, Oxford, where he studied classics.

At age 14 Sapir won a Pulitzer scholarship to the prestigious Horace Mann high school, but he chose not to attend the school which he found too posh, going instead to Peter Stuyvesant High School, and saving the scholarship money for his college education.

Having spent a productive year there, Shepard won a scholarship to the Royal Academy Schools

Initially he trained for a career in music and became so proficient on the tuba that he won a musical scholarship to the New York Military Academy.

There he won a play-writing scholarship, which furthered his interest in directing theater, though this wasn't approved by his father, who wanted him to study engineering.

The following year, Wells won a scholarship to the Normal School of Science ( later the Royal College of Science in South Kensington, now part of Imperial College London ) in London, studying biology under Thomas Henry Huxley.

Holt won a scholarship to Queen's College at the University of Melbourne and began his law degree in 1927.

He won a scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1943.

At 16, in 1975, Bacon won a full scholarship to and attended the Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Arts at Bucknell University, a state-funded five-week arts program where he studied Theatre under Dr.

He won a scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read history and economics.

He won a football scholarship to Prairie View A & M University, where he majored in mathematics, but was expelled after his first year.

Then he won a scholarship to Stowe School, quartered in an 18th century manor house.

He won a scholarship to study mathematics at St John's College, Cambridge in 1915, and in 1916 gained a first in part I of the Mathematical Tripos.

He subsequently won a scholarship to study at the Yale School of Architecture in the United States of America.

Robeson won a scholarship to Rutgers University, where he was a football All-American and class valedictorian.

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Hoffmann graduated in 1955 from New York City's Stuyvesant High School, where he won a Westinghouse science scholarship.

By age five, she had begun composing instrumental pieces on piano and, while living in Rockville, Maryland, she won a full scholarship to the Preparatory Division of the Peabody Conservatory of Music.

He graduated in 1913 and succeeded in getting a scholarship to MIT which had earlier been won by his father.

He won a scholarship to study at Merton College, Oxford on a four year course, which he started in 1968 and he graduated in 1972 with first-class honours degree in biochemistry.

Moore's musical talent won him an organ scholarship to Magdalen College, Oxford.

At 19 he won an entrance scholarship to Balliol College, Oxford.

From there he won a scholarship to Magdalen College School in Oxford, where he was a solo treble in the college choir.

Karpov won a gold medal for academic excellence in high school, and entered Moscow State University in 1968 to study mathematics.

The Sun Devils have played in the Fiesta Bowl five times, and in 1987 the ASU football team won the Rose Bowl, defeating the University of Michigan 22 – 15.

Upon graduation, he won a Rhodes Scholarship to University College, Oxford where he studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics, though because he had switched programs and had left early for Yale University, he did not receive a degree there.

The youngest son of William Edward Parkinson ( 1871 – 1927 ), an art master at North East County School and from 1913 principal of York School of Arts and Crafts, and his wife, Rose Emily Mary Curnow ( born 1877 ), the young Parkinson attended St. Peter's School, York, where in 1929 he won an Exhibition to study history at Emmanuel College at the University of Cambridge.

At age 24, Fermi took a professorship at the University of Rome ( one of the first three in theoretical physics in Italy ) which he won in a competition whose selection committee was chaired by Professor Orso Mario Corbino, director of the Institute of Physics.

While at the university, he was the student manager of both the baseball and football teams and was a part of the inaugural Big Game versus rival University of California ( Stanford won ).

Wabash College won the Men's Division III NCAA Championship in 1982 and their 1905 24-0 team was considered World Champions ; DePauw University and Manchester College were Div III National Finalists.

They won the Regional Championship by 1 point in a thrilling triple-overtime game, defeating Quincy University.

In November 2010, Polgár won the four-player rapid tournament which was held to celebrate the National University of Mexico's 100th anniversary.

Raymond Edler, an American university student studying at Sophia University in Tokyo, took up kickboxing and won the AJKC middleweight title in 1972 ; he was the first non-Thai to be officially ranked in the sport of Thai boxing, when in 1972 Rajadamnern ranked him no.

Millsaps was also home to the famous game-ending play in the 2007 Trinity vs. Millsaps football game, in which Trinity University defeated Millsaps by a score of 28-24 after the miraculous play that later won the Pontiac Game-Changing Performance of the Year award, which had never before been bestowed upon a play outside of the NCAA's Bowl Subdivision.

Mrs. Robert Swanson of West Miami won lifetime passes to Dolphin games when her nickname entry successfully predicted the winner and score of the 1965 football game between Notre Dame and the University of Miami, a scoreless tie.

The actual research that won the prize was done almost 30 years before, while Paul Lauterbur was at Stony Brook University in New York.

At Yale, he participated in the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition and was on the team representing Yale University ( along with Murray Gerstenhaber and Henry O. Pollak ) that won the second prize in 1947.

After he was discharged, in 1956 Foster won a place at the University of Manchester School of Architecture and City Planning.

In 2003, the Owls won their first national championship in baseball, which was the first for the university in any team sport, beating Southwest Missouri State in the opening game and then the University of Texas and Stanford University twice each en route to the title.

He then attended the University of Texas, compiling a 25 – 7 record in two All-American seasons, and was on the mound when the Longhorns won the 1983 College World Series.

Gwynn, who won five Golden Glove Awards during his career, joined the Padres in 1982 after starring in baseball and basketball at San Diego State University.