Lancaster was accepted into New York University with an athletic scholarship but subsequently dropped out.

The earliest rubber-soled athletic shoes date back to 1876 in the United Kingdom, when the New Liverpool Rubber Company made plimsolls, or sandshoes, designed for the sport of croquet.

* The Carrier Dome, a multi-sport, domed athletic facility in Syracuse, New York, named for the Carrier Corporation

The Mid-American Conference ( MAC ) is a National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA ) Division I college athletic conference with a membership base in the Great Lakes region that stretches from Western New York to Illinois.

The Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference ( MAAC, ) is a NCAA Division I college athletic conference consisting of ten schools coming from various parts of the northeastern United States: Connecticut, Maryland, New Jersey and New York.

The Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference ( RMAC ) is a college athletic conference which operates in the western United States, mostly in Colorado with some members in Nebraska and New Mexico.

The New York Times claimed that Princess Peach had “ grit as well as grace ” and that her “ peachiness did nothing to upset the apple cart of expectation: she may have been athletic, smart and strong, but she was also adorable ”.

He currently works with the city of New York's athletic department.

Growing up in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Stairs showed athletic ability at an early age, playing Beaver League baseball a year before his age eligibility and excelling in hockey.

Tri-Central's other notable information / achievements are: High Ability / honors instruction at all grade levels, 2012 Tri-Central High School seniors received in excess of $ 750, 000 in awards and scholar-ships, senior trip to Washington D. C. and New York City, musical productions by the school's elite choir, and instrumental performances by the schools state recognized gold rating marching band, and concert band, 8 AP classes with many students scoring 3 and above on AP exams — 10 % more than last year — ranked 13th in the state, state recognition for percentage of students enrolled in AP classes — only 35 schools recognized, state recognized academic team, Dual Credit courses as well as access to many on-line courses, 11 school-wide computer labs and 4 student computers in each elementary classroom, elementary athletic opportunities in youth soccer, cheerleading, football, basketball, and wrestling, Elementary music, art, computer technology and physical education classes each week, Accelerated reading K-12 and operation Drop Everything And Read in the secondary, and this reading program is year-round for the middle and high school.

File: New Providence NJ athletic fields with fence to keep deer out. jpg | The football field.

Easton Area High School is known for its long-standing athletic rivalry with Phillipsburg High School in neighboring Phillipsburg, New Jersey.

Some scenes were shot at the Brooklyn College athletic field, and the Pratt Institute library in Brooklyn, New York, without the administration's knowledge or approval.

The fight was recognized as a world Featherweight title bout, but only by the New York state athletic commission.

Nearly all of the 35 administrative, academic, student services, and residence halls, many built in a red-brick Georgian style, are located on three quadrangles and a new pedestrian thoroughfare in a area, while a large adjoining area along the New River holds a variety of the university's athletic facilities.

Beginning at the Roosevelt family's vacation home on Campobello Island, New Brunswick, Canada ( on the border with Maine ), in the summer of 1921, Franklin is depicted in early scenes as vigorously athletic, enjoying games with his children and sailing his boat.

* Cape-Atlantic League, a high school athletic conference in New Jersey, United States

Real tennis courts were built in Hobart, Australia ( 1875 ) and in the United States, starting in 1876 in Boston, and in New York in 1890, and later at athletic clubs in several other cities.

The New York Times described him as " Tall, athletic, young, blond ", and having " a tan and the build of someone who spends his time on the rugby field, not holed up reading G-8 communiqués.

New Hartford's athletic teams have a fierce rivalry with the neighboring Whitesboro teams.

The New England Football Conference ( NEFC ) is an athletic conference which competes in football in the NCAA's Division III.

The New England Small College Athletic Conference ( NESCAC ) is an NCAA Division III athletic conference, consisting of eleven highly selective liberal arts colleges and universities located in New England and New York.

Prof. C. H. Dodd, 76, a Congregational minister and a leading authority on the New Testament, is general director of the project and chairman of the New Testament panel.

Mr. Richard Preston, executive director of the New Hampshire State Planning and Development Commission, in his remarks to the Governors Conference on Industrial Development at Providence on October 8, 1960, warned against the fallacy of attempting to attract industry solely to reduce the tax rate or to underwrite municipal services such as schools when he said: `` If this is the fundamental reason for a community's interest or if this is the basic approach, success if any will be difficult to obtain ''.

Richard Preston, executive director of the New Hampshire State Planning and Development Commission, and Edwin C. Kepler of General Electric Company.

This has been the aim of the director of the shooting development program, the New York staff of the Sportsmen's Service Bureau, and the SAAMI shooting preserve field consultants since the start of the program in 1954.

The first program was sponsored by Abraham & Strauss, Hempstead, New York, under the direction of Special Events director Jennings Dennis.

Each of the five principal posts was to have a director, responsible to a director-general at New Orleans.

* 1954 – Jane Campion, New Zealand director

According to FBI director Robert Mueller and the 9 / 11 Commission, Omari entered the United States through a Dubai flight on June 29, 2001, with Salem al-Hazmi, landing in New York.

In 1930, Rogers served as director of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children in Rochester, New York.

He was hired by the Peerless Studio at Fort Lee, New Jersey, and became an assistant to the French-born director Maurice Tourneur.

* 1966 – Andrew Adamson, New Zealand film director, producer and screenwriter

* List of director generals of New Netherland

Brinnin, who was director of the Poetry Centre, did not travel to New York but remained in Boston to write.

Wallach took classes in acting at the Dramatic Workshop of the New School in New York with the influential German director Erwin Piscator.

In 2007 American director Quentin Tarantino said " New Italian cinema is just depressing.

* 1956 – Vincent Ward, New Zealand director and screenwriter

In recent years English director writer, Richard Mazda, has re-introduced New York audiences to the Grand Guignol.

In August 2008, the appointment of Leung Chin-man as deputy managing director and executive director of New World China Land, subsidiary of New World Development, was greeted with uproar amidst widespread public suspicion that job offer was a quid pro quo for the favours he allegedly granted to NWD.

His mother, Maud Humphrey, was a commercial illustrator, who received her art training in New York and France, including study with James McNeill Whistler, and who later became artistic director of the fashion magazine The Delineator.

Broke and working as a musician in New York City after returning from Paris in 1976, Jarmusch applied on a whim to the prestigious Graduate Film School of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts ( then under the direction of Hollywood director László Benedek ).