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[edit] nccaaHe attended Iowa University where he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi. He dropped out to joing the Army in World War II but was discharged because of an eye problem. He then became a reporter for United Press International.
In 1950 when the NCAA leadership asked the Convention to expel Boston College, The Citadel, Villanova, Virginia Tech, University of Maryland and University of Virginia (called the "Seven Sinners") for flagrantly violating the Code however the Convention of schools refused. The media proclaimed the end of the NCAA. During this period Kenneth L. "Tug" Wilson, commissioner of the Big Ten, oversaw the day to day activities with the assistance of Walter Byers who worked out of the Sherman Hotel in Chicago. NCAA officials noting an institution independent of any institution or conference. According to reports, Byers was offered the job of assistant commissioner of the Big Ten or executive director of a newly created NCAA office.[1] Byers was to pick the $11,000 a year job in an office that was to be relocated in his hometown in Kansas City, Missouri. The office opened on July 1, 1952, in a three-store suite "above a bar" in the Fairfax Building in Downtown Kansas City at 11th and Baltimore. The office, which had no air conditioning, was infamous sucking in the fumes from city buses. Byers immediately began clamping down on rules violations, first hitting the University of Kentucky while at the same time negotiating while at the same time negotiating better broadcast deals and working to expand the association at the expense of its rivals National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics and Amateur Athletic Union[2] After retiring from the NCAA he moved to the Emmett, Kansas ranch he had inherited from his father.
Fort San Carlos is the name commonly applied to the Spanish fortifications of St. Louis, Missouri during the American Revolutionary War and early 19th century. The Battle of St. Louis, the only battle west of the Mississippi River and western most battle in the war, is often referred to as the Battle of Fort San Carlos. The Spanish originally named a planned fort at the mouth of Missouri River just north of the St. Louis Fort San Carlos. The Missouri River fort which amounted to a small seasonal blockhouse which was intended to prevent the British (who occupied the Illinois Country directly across from St. Louis) from coming up the river is now referred to as Fort Don---- to differentiate it from what at the time was the unnamed fortifications of St. Louis. The Carlos name comes from the Spanish Emperor name Carlos III although the name specifically refers to the Christian name of the emperor Saint Carlos who among his other attributes was being a Cardinal. The fortifications are actually near the modern day Busch Stadium home of the St. Louis Cardinals). St. Louis had no fortifications when it was first constructed as a trading post on a bluff above the Mississippi River in 1764 by Pierre Laclede. When Laclede laid out the city and named it for the Christian name of St. Louis in honor of Louis XV of France it was widely thought that St. Louis was safely within the heart of the Louisiana (New France) empire. However in the Treaty of Paris (1763) the King of France had surrendered the lands west of the Mississippi to Spain and the lands east of the Mississippi to Great Britain turning St. Louis into the frontlines of the frontier with rival Great Britain. One of the first acts of the Spanish was to build forts on either side of the Missouri River at its confluence with the Mississippi just north of St. Louis. St. Louis itself remained with little protection and the Spanish only station 16 soldiers in the town. During the American Revolution, Spain sided with France and fortifications were built. The Spanish Lt. Governor Fernando de Leyba created a mile long fortification consisting of four towers and an earthworks breastwork (fortification) on the outer perimeter. The tallest of the four towers was at Walnut and Broadway. The town (which had a population of about 900) had no walls separating it from the Mississippi. On May 26, 1780, Sioux, Sac, Fox and Winnebago tribesmen at the instigation of the British attacked St/ Louis from the north for two hours killin 21 and capturing 71 villagers. However canon fire from the fortification scared off the attackers. At the same time George Rogers Clark fended off a near simultaneous attack at Cahokia on the Illinois side. de Leyba died a month after the attack. His successor Francisco Cruzat enhanced the fortification with the addition of a 9 foot high and 6 inch stockade with four gates. It was completed in 1781. It rotted and was torn down in 1785. The conclusion of the American Revolution gave the United States control of the east Illinois side of the river and a new rivalry developed between Spain and the United States. In 1788 under Lt. Gov. Manuel Perez the tower became a full fledged fort with stone with walls 13 to 15 feet tall and canons, with a guard room and powder magazine. In 1792 it was surrounded with a square stockade 192 feet on a side, with small bastions at each of the four corners and a shallow ditch outside the walls. A stone barracks was built for the small garrison of 30 Spanish soldiers, measuring 25 x 50 feet. Other buildings were also erected within the enclosure - a kitchen which measured 14 x 14 feet, a vaulted stone dungeon 11 x 14, a powder magazine 12 x 14, and a well. Another stone tower was built on the north end of the town at Third Street and Franklin). In 1798 fortications included:
By 1798 these fortifications and buildings had been strengthened, and four new stone towers were completed, two on the hill (one at Third and Olive Streets, the other at third and Washington) and two with a cedar log blockhouse along the Petite Riviere south of town. (One tower was at modern Fifth and Gratiot streets and the other at about Second and LaSalle streets. The blockhouse, built in the American style, was near modern Fourth and Chouteau streets). About 30 Spanish soldiers were stationed in St. Louis and participated in the Day of Three Flags ceremony in 1804 signalling the turnover of St. Louis first to the French and then to the Americans in the Louisiana Territory purchase. The United States built Fort Bellefontaine on the Missouri in 1805. The tower of Fort San Carlos became a jail, the barracks a courthouse, the bastions a garden. The tower named Fort San Carlos was torn down in 1818. [edit] ReferencesWilliam Primm http://digital.library.okstate.edu/chronicles/v011/v011p0786.html
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