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unusual facts about Hampden–Sydney College


Bob Thalman

He served as the head football coach at Hampden–Sydney College from 1956 to 1959 and at the Virginia Military Institute from 1971 to 1984, winning Southern Conference championships in 1974 and 1977, compiling a career college football record of 80–103–4.


2012 Scottish Cup Final

Because both teams were from Edinburgh, many of the city councillors requested that the final be held in Edinburgh at Murrayfield Stadium, instead of the traditional venue of Hampden, in Glasgow.

Air Scout

The first powered aircraft to be owned by UK Scouts was an Airco DH.6 presented to 3rd Hampden (Middlesex) Scouts in 1921.

Alford, Massachusetts

On the state level, Alford is represented in the Massachusetts House of Representatives by the Fourth Berkshire district, which covers southern Berkshire County, as well as the westernmost towns in Hampden County.

Andre Cushing III

Cushing is a Republican State Senator from Maine's 33rd Senate District, representing Carmel, Charleston,Corinna, Corinth, Dexter, Dixmont, Etna, Exeter, Garland, Glenburn, Hampden, Kenduskeag, Levant, Newburgh, Newport, Plymouth, and Stetson Maine and his residence in Hampden.

Barnes Air National Guard Base

Barnes Air National Guard Base is located on the northern side of Westfield in an area known as Hampden Plains.

Brian Duprey

Brian Duprey (born February 12, 1967) is a 5 term Maine State Representative from Hampden.

Bruce Ross

Ross lives with his wife Astrid, a physician and English language haiku poet, in Hampden, Maine.

Camperdown Country Park

After the death of the 4th Earl of Camperdown in 1933, the earldom became extinct, and Camperdown was inherited by a cousin, Georgiana, widow of the 7th Earl of Buckinghamshire.

Chi Beta Phi

However, during the school year 1920-21, an expansion program was inaugurated and three chapters were installed (College of William and Mary, Hampden-Sydney College, and Emory University).

Chris Howard

Christopher B. Howard (born c. 1969), President of Hampden-Sydney College; American football Draddy Trophy winner

Clifton Hampden

The Barley Mow just on the far side of Clifton Hampden Bridge is in Long Wittenham parish.

Ebenezer Vickery

He was educated at W. T. Cape's Sydney College, and left school at age 16 to become apprenticed to T. Bowden, ironmonger.

Edward Griffith Colpoys

Griffith's operations were successful and in September 1814 he led an amphibious operation up the Penobscot River, seizing several towns and forcing the United States Navy to scuttle the frigate USS Adams at Hampden rather than see her captured by Griffith's forces.

Egremont, Massachusetts

On the state level, Egremont is represented in the Massachusetts House of Representatives by the Fourth Berkshire district, which covers southern Berkshire County, as well as the westernmost towns in Hampden County.

George Wigram Allen

He was educated under William Cape and at Sydney College, where he showed ability in classics and mathematics.

Great and Little Hampden

Great Hampden is the ancestral home of the Hobart-Hampden family, the most famous of whom was the English Civil War hero John Hampden.

Hampden

John Hampden (circa 1595–1643), English politician and Roundhead in the English Civil War

Hampden Bank

As of 2011, Hampden Bank has ten office locations in Springfield, Agawam, Longmeadow, West Springfield, Wilbraham, at Tower Square in Metro Center Springfield, and in Indian Orchard.

Originally chartered to serve railroad employees - one of Hampden Bank's first locations, built in 1918, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places - and is located two blocks south of Springfield Union Station.

Hampden Bridge

Hampden Bridge is the name of two historic bridges in New South Wales, Australia named after Lord Hampden who was Governor of New South Wales from 1895 to 1899.

Hampden County, Massachusetts

The City of Chicopee, bordering Springfield to the north, is home to Westover Air Reserve Base and Westover Metropolitan Airport, Hampden County's largest airport.

Hampden House

Also in the grounds is the parish church, containing many memorials to the Hampden family including a monument to John Hampden, the celebrated patriot, who died of wounds received at the Battle of Chalgrove during the English Civil War in 1643 fighting for the Parliamentarians.

Henry Brand, 1st Viscount Hampden

He descended, almost directly, from Colonel John Hampden, the patriot; his forebear Sir John Trevor III (1624-72) of Plas Teg, son of Sir John Trevor II of Plas Teg and Trevalun, by Anne daughter of Sir Edmund Hampden of Wendover, had married John Hampden's daughter Ruth, who was his first cousin.

Ivan Hampden, Jr.

Hampden was recognized for his participation as Arranger/Musican/Programmer on two Grammy Award-winning recordings at the 2004 Grammy Awards: Best R&B Album "Dance With My Father" performed by Luther Vandross, and Best R&B Performance By A Duo or Group with Vocals "The Closer I Get to You" performed by Beyoncé and Luther Vandross.

James Robb

J. Hampden Robb (James Hampden Robb, 1846–1911), New York politician

John Cutt

Hampden Cutts married Mary Pepperrell Sparhawk Jarvis, daughter of William Jarvis of Weathersfield, Vermont, and the man who introduced merino sheep to America.

Kennedy Building

Kennedy-Worthington Blocks, Springfield, Massachusetts, listed on the NRHP in Hampden County

Monterey, Massachusetts

On the state level, Monterey is represented in the Massachusetts House of Representatives by the Fourth Berkshire district, which covers southern Berkshire County, as well as the westernmost towns in Hampden County.

Mount Hampden

Mount Hampden was named by the hunter and explorer Frederick Courtney Selous after John Hampden the Puritan leader during the Cromwellian Wars in Britain.

Mount Washington, Massachusetts

On the state level, Mount Washington is represented in the Massachusetts House of Representatives by the Fourth Berkshire district, which covers southern Berkshire County, as well as the westernmost towns in Hampden County.

New Marlborough, Massachusetts

On the state level, New Marlborough is represented in the Massachusetts House of Representatives by the Fourth Berkshire district, which covers southern Berkshire County, as well as the westernmost towns in Hampden County.

No. 49 Squadron RAF

They were a famous Hampden squadron; with the only Victoria Cross awarded Rod Learoyd amongst the ones who served on the type.

No. 61 Squadron RAF

This was followed on 7/8 March 1940 by the first bombing mission, when one Hampden, during a security patrol of Sylt-Borkum-Norderney, bombed an enemy destroyer which opened fire on it.

Otis, Massachusetts

On the state level, Otis is represented in the Massachusetts House of Representatives by the Fourth Berkshire district, which covers southern Berkshire County, as well as the westernmost towns in Hampden County.

Robert Kee

His Hampden was shot down by flak one night while on a mine-laying operation off the coast of German-occupied Holland.

Robert Lewis Dabney

Dabney studied at Hampden-Sydney College and the University of Virginia (M.A., 1842), and graduated from Union Theological Seminary in 1846.

Samuel Rowbotham

A bet involving the prominent naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace in the famous Bedford Level experiment led to several lawsuits for fraud and libel and Hampden's imprisonment.

Sidney Hobart-Hampden-Mercer-Henderson, 7th Earl of Buckinghamshire

Sidney Carr Hobart-Hampden-Mercer-Henderson, 7th Earl of Buckinghamshire OBE DL (14 March 1860 – 15 January 1930), styled Lord Hobart from 1875 to 1885, was a British Liberal politician.

Stephen Crainey

On 31 March, 1–2 to Romania at Hampden Park and 0–1 to Denmark on 28 April at Parken Stadium, Copenhagen.

The Side

Their song The Countys Going To Hampden, which was written for Ross County F.C., was played during the Scottish Cup final 2010 in Hampden Park - the single also achieved a no.23 position in the UK Indie Breakers Chart.

Thomas Inskip, 1st Viscount Caldecote

The Right Reverend James Inskip was his elder half-brother and Sir John Hampden, Lord Mayor of Bristol, his younger brother.

Valerie Barsom

She represented the 13th Hampden District, encompassing portions of Springfield, Wilbraham and East Longmeadow.

Viscount Caldecote

Lord Caldecote's elder half-brother the Right Reverend James Inskip was a clergyman while his younger brother Sir John Hampden Inskip (1879–1960) was Lord Mayor of Bristol in 1931.

Walter Leake

A native Virginian, he was born in 1762 in Albemarle County, Virginia, the son of Captain Mask Leake and nephew of Rev. Samuel Leake (Princeton University graduate and a member of the first Board of Trustees of Hampden-Sydney College), an ancestor of Senator John McCain of Arizona.

West Stockbridge, Massachusetts

On the state level, West Stockbridge is represented in the Massachusetts House of Representatives by the Fourth Berkshire district, which covers southern Berkshire County, as well as the westernmost towns in Hampden County.

William D. Green

Green was raised in Hampden, Massachusetts and did odd jobs managing horses, assisting electricians, and in construction.


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