Despite a slow start ( a 1 – 10 record in his first year ), he made gradual improvement, but could never quite break the. 500 mark, leading the Green Wave to a 4 – 7 in 1986 and, in 1987, to a 6 – 6 record and a trip to the Independence Bowl, Tulane's fifth bowl game in over 40 years.

Tulane's primary campus is located in Uptown New Orleans on St. Charles Avenue, directly opposite of Audubon Park, and extends north to South Claiborne Avenue through Freret and Willow Street.

) Bass, M. D., 1899, pioneer researcher on malaria, hookworm, and dental caries ; Dean, Tulane School of Medicine, 1922-40 ( Tulane's Golden Years ).

His former mansion on Audubon Place is now the residence of Tulane's president.

Tulane Stadium was built on Tulane University's campus ( before 1871, Tulane's campus was Paul Foucher's Plantation, where Foucher's father-in-law, Etienne de Bore, had first granulated sugar from cane syrup ).

The Newcomb campus is home to Tulane's performing and fine arts venues.

Most administrative and athletic support facilities are located in the Wilson Athletic Center in the center of Tulane's athletic campus.

According to an interview at the Tulane's Hogan Jazz Archive with Oliver's widow Stella Oliver, in 1919 a fight broke out at a dance where Oliver was playing, and the police arrested him, his band, and the fighters.

However, after Tulane's restructuring that saw the elimination of nearly all engineering disciplines, the board requested Clark and Filo allow the funds to be used for other programs.

Paul Barbarin's year of birth is often given as 1901, but his brother Louis Barbarin ( born 1902 ) said he was quite sure that Paul was several years older than he was, and Paul Barbarin simply refused to answer the year of his birth in an interview at Tulane's Jazz Archives.

University College was established in 1942 as Tulane's division of continuing education.

Tulane's School of Tropical Medicine also remains the only one of its kind in the country.

A fund-raising campaign called " Promise & Distinction " raised $ 730. 6 million as of October 3, 2008, increasing the university's total endowment to more than $ 1. 1 billion ; by March 2009, Yvette Jones, Tulane's Chief Operating Officer, told Tulane's Staff Advisory Council that the endowment " has lost close to 37 %", affected by the late-2000s recession.

* Satellite campuses of the School of Continuing Studies, Tulane's open admissions school of continuing studies, located in downtown New Orleans, in Elmwood, Louisiana, in Biloxi, Mississippi, and in Madison, Mississippi.

According to the 2005 Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index, Tulane's French program was ranked 6th in the country.

* US News & World Reports 2013 edition ranked Tulane's undergraduate program 51st overall among 270 " national universities.

* 75 % of Tulane's student body comes from more than away.

The Jambalaya, Tulane's yearbook, published annually since 1897, published its last edition ( Volume 99 ) in 1995, because of funding and management problems.

Tulane's intercollegiate sports include football, baseball, men's and women's basketball, women's volleyball, men's and women's track and cross country, women's swimming and diving, women's tennis, women's golf, women's bowling, and women's sand volleyball.

Tulane's graduation rate for its student-athletes consistently ranks among the top of Division I athletics programs.

Unfortunately, the plaster replicas of the architecture were destroyed following the fair, but some of the plaster casts of Uxmal's monuments are still kept at Tulane's Middle American Research Institute.

In an interview for Tulane's Jazz Archives, he described his family ancestry as " cayudle ", a Creole French term for a mutt or mongrel.

* Tulane's Medical Library, The Rudolph Matas Health Sciences Library, is named after the renowned Professor of Surgery at Tulane University Rudolph Matas, despite the journal Science stating of Matas that " his colleagues have felt for many years that by consulting him they could extract more information from his encyclopedic mind than they could obtain from a visit to a library.

Mazeroski, whose homer beat the Yankees in the final series game, will receive the Babe Ruth Award as the outstanding player in the 1960 world series.

Within a week after the injury, suffered in St. Louis's victory in the final game of the Kentucky tournament, Nordmann was sitting on the Bill's bench doing what he could to help Benington.

After playing a splendid first nine holes in 34 -- two strokes under par -- on this fifth and final day of the tournament ( Sunday's fourth round had been washed out by a violent rainstorm when it was only half completed ), Player's game rapidly fell to pieces.

The Falcons defeated the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 20 – 10 in the final game of the season to improve their record to 9 – 7.

Despite having lost the test series to South Africa by game three, the Lions won the final test.

The final turned out to be one of Charlton's quieter days ; he and a young Franz Beckenbauer effectively marked each other out of the game.

Charlton played in all three, though was substituted for Alan Ball in the final game of the group against Czechoslovakia.

In the first end of the game the A players lead off with 2 bowls each, then the B players play 4 bowls each, before the A players complete the end with their final 2 bowls.

Lara played his final international game on 21 April 2007 in a dead rubber World Cup game against England.

A game is officiated by a referee, the authority to enforce the rules, and whose decisions are final.

:::" One inning more to play " in standard baseball jargon means that the home team has one set of at-bats remaining: the poem is set just before the start of Mudville's final turn ( of a regulation game ), in the bottom of the ninth inning ( Mudville was the home team and the home team bats last in an inning ).

Charles provided the voice-over commentary for the UK version of the Japanese game show Takeshi's Castle, shown on Challenge and Ftn ( 2002 – 2004 ), in which contestants attempted to pass a series of near-impossible physical challenges, to reach the final showdown at the castle and win cash prizes.

* Corvus, the final boss from the video game Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies

Entering the final game of the 1958 season, Cleveland needed to either win or tie against the New York Giants to clinch the Eastern Conference title and the right to host the championship game.

Feller, who had pitched a no-hitter to open the season and won 27 games, lost the final game of the season to unknown pitcher Floyd Giebell of the Detroit Tigers.

Despite the fact that the Cubs had won 89 games, this fallout was decidedly unlovable, as the Cubs traded superstar Sammy Sosa after he had left the season's final game early and then lied about it publicly.

In the 2007 World Series, the Rockies faced the Boston Red Sox, and were swept in four games ; the first game was 13 – 1, the second game was 2 – 1, the third game was 10 – 5, and the fourth and final game was 4 – 3.

They reached the Division One playoff final and battled against Sunderland in a thrilling game which ended with a 4 – 4 draw after extra time.

Having partnered previously with Gygax on Don't Give Up the Ship !, Arneson introduced Gygax to his Blackmoor game and the two then collaborated on developing " The Fantasy Game ", the role-playing game ( RPG ) that became Dungeons & Dragons, with the final writing and preparation of the text being done by Gygax.