Vanderbilt University's intercollegiate athletics teams are nicknamed the " Commodores ", a reference to Cornelius Vanderbilt's self-appointed title ( he was the master of a large shipping fleet ).

* Melanie Balcomb, head coach of the Vanderbilt Commodores Women's Basketball team.

* Watson Brown, older brother of Texas Longhorns head coach Mack Brown, former head football coach of the Rice Owls, Vanderbilt Commodores, and UAB Blazers ; current head coach of the Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles.

Vegas gold is one of the official athletic colors for the Pittsburgh Panthers, the South Florida Bulls, the UAB Blazers, the Pittsburgh Penguins ( formerly yellow ), and the Vanderbilt Commodores.

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Boston College also fell victim to an upset in the Music City Bowl in 2008, when the Vanderbilt Commodores (+ 4 ), making their first bowl appearance since 1982, defeated the 24th-ranked Eagles 16-14.

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During the baseball off-season, Munson convinced local Nashville radio station WSM ( AM ) to broadcast Vanderbilt Commodores men's basketball games with himself as the announcer.

The basketball broadcasts were immediately successful, and WSM added Vanderbilt Commodores football games to its schedule as well with Munson as the broadcaster.

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* Larry Munson was a sportscaster for the Nashville Vols, Vanderbilt Commodores men's basketball and Vanderbilt Commodores football in the 1950s and 1960s, as well as working for WSM-TV.

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Examples include a humbling 24-point loss to a then 4 – 5 Alabama team in 2001, and a loss to Vanderbilt — the first time Auburn lost to the Commodores in over five decades — and Arkansas in 2008.

* Roy Skinner ( 1930 – 2010 ), former head coach of the Vanderbilt Commodores men's basketball team.

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The stadium's first game was a meeting between the Alabama Crimson Tide and the Vanderbilt Commodores on October 2, 1948 which ended in a 14 – 14 tie.

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There is no official headquarters of church although many of its biggest administrative offices are in Nashville, Tennessee and are physically located near Vanderbilt University ( which has historic Methodist ties but is no longer associated with the church ).

Washington Duke at Duke University, Ezra Cornell at Cornell University, Johns Hopkins at Johns Hopkins University, Leland Stanford at Stanford University, and Cornelius Vanderbilt at Vanderbilt University are several notable examples of Andrew Carnegie's gospel of wealth mentality and Carnegie Mellon University is one such result.

The closest colleges to Vanderbilt are

There are many colorful stories of how the cats first came to France, including pairs of cats being a reward for helping defend a temple, or being smuggled out of Burma by a Vanderbilt.

When, as a teenager, Consuelo objected to the clothing her mother had selected for her, Alva Vanderbilt told her that " I do the thinking, you do as you are told.

Several research centers and institutes are affiliated with the university, including the Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies, Freedom Forum First Amendment Center, Dyer Observatory, and Vanderbilt University Medical Center, the only Level I trauma center in Middle Tennessee.

Three U. S. Poets Laureate are Vanderbilt alums: Allen Tate ( B. A.

Because Nashville Municipal Auditorium and Vanderbilt's Memorial Gym, the only other sizable indoor venues in Nashville, are unsuitable for arena football ( Municipal Auditorium's floor was too small to contain the field of play as its ice hockey rink had always been of less-than-regulation size and Vanderbilt had a " dry " policy for on-campus athletic events ), Adams explored the idea of building his own mid-size arena ( roughly 10, 000 seats ) to host the Kats and compete with the a | Gaylord Entertainment Center for concerts and smaller sporting events.

A plot was kept for the Vanderbilt family in the Moravian Cemetery and several of them are buried there in the family mausoleum including the family founder.

Many of the Vanderbilt houses are now National Historic Landmarks.

In the late 19th century, it became the home to members of the prominent Vanderbilt family, many of whom are buried here in the Moravian Cemetery.

Similarly, Professor Brian T. Fitzpatrick of Vanderbilt University has argued that politics are undoubtedly a part of judicial selection in Missouri Plan states, writing, “ In short, I am skeptical that merit selection removes politics from judicial selection.

Memorial Gymnasium at Vanderbilt University and Hinkle Fieldhouse in Indianapolis are two other existing arenas with a raised floor.

The name evokes the Vanderbilt family's Biltmore Estate, whose buildings and gardens within are privately owned historical landmarks and tourist attractions in Asheville, North Carolina, United States.

* Mrs. Vanderbilt ’ s Bedroom-Designed as a perfect oval, Alice Vanderbilt ’ s room accommodates multiple doors, though they are cut into the wall to leave an undisturbed picture of geometric perfection, that connect the bedrooms.

They are buried together in the Vanderbilt family mausoleum in the Moravian Cemetery in New Dorp on Staten Island, New York.

( In a flashback his mother reminds him that — in contrast to such vulgar upstarts as the Astors, " whose family, I believe, still lets rooms ," and the " vulgar tugboat captain " Vanderbilt -- " You are a Nately, and the Natelys have never done anything for their money.

The excavations are sposored by Vanderbilt University and the National Geographic Society, the Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, the Ahau Foundation, ARB, Interco Tire, PIAA and Warn Industries.

Most notably designed by inspiration of the Rotunda and Lawn are the expansive green spaces headed by Rotunda-like buildings built at Duke University in 1892, Johns Hopkins University in 1902, Rice University in 1910, Peabody College of Vanderbilt University in 1915, the Green at the University of Delaware in 1916, Killian Court at MIT in 1916 and the " Grand Auditorium " of Tsinghua University in Beijing built in 1917.

His illustrations for the Vanderbilt cookbook are simple line drawings in pen and ink, emotionally spare, and contrast starkly with the otherwise sumptuous cookbook setting.

The UMES women also won their second 2011 NCAA Bowling Championship in Taylor, Michigan against Vanderbilt University, also winning the series 4-2 ( in a best of 7 match ).

In 2007 the women's bowling team came in 2nd at the NCAA National Championship ( Orlando, Florida ) who fell to Vanderbilt University in a 4 – 3 series.

' On March 23, 2007 in East Rutherford, New Jersey, Thompson's Hoyas defeated Vanderbilt, 66 – 65, on the strength of Jeff Green's game-winning shot and advanced to the NCAA Elite Eight for the first time since 1996.

He guided Vanderbilt University to its first-ever NCAA tournament berth in 1999.