Men's Basketball
Ohio State's men's basketball team has played in nine NCAA Final Fours, winning the championship in 1960, when they were led by Basketball Hall of Famers Jerry Lucas and John Havlicek. Twenty-three times a Buckeye has been named first team All American including five two-time All Americans and one three-time All American. Between 1960 and 1964 Ohio State won five consecutive Big Ten championships, an achievement that has yet to be matched.
Golf
Ohio State's two golf courses, the Scarlet and the Gray, were completed in 1938. The Scarlet was designed by architect Alister MacKenzie, who designed the Masters course at Augusta National. However, his original design was not implemented fully, and the greens were the only part of the course that truly resembled his designs. Golf magazines annually rate the Scarlet Course as one of the top collegiate courses in the nation. The Scarlet recently underwent a $4.2 million renovation under the supervision of Jack Nicklaus. Ohio State has won the NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championships in 1945 and 1979. Five times, Buckeye men have won the NCAA golf individual championship: John Lorms in 1945, Tom Nieporte in 1951, Rick Jones in 1956, Jack Nicklaus in 1961 and Clark Burroughs in 1985.
Synchronized swimming
Ohio State has been the dominant program in the first 30 years of national collegiate synchronized swimming competition. In the team event, Ohio State won 24 collegiate championships between 1977, the first year of the collegiate national championships, and 2004. Head coach Mary Jo Ruggieri led the team to 17 titles between 1977 and 1995, and Linda Lichter-Witter added seven more since 1996. Ohio State also has taken 61 individual titles in that span, including 11 by Karen and Sarah Josephson.[6]
Swimming & Diving
11 titles in a 20 year span, from 1943 to 1962.
Olympians
Ohio State has produced over one hundred Olympic athletes, most notably Jesse Owens who won four Olympic gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics and is often considered the greatest Olympian in history. In all, 45 Ohio State athletes have combined for a total of 72 Olympic medals which includes 32 gold, 25 silver and 15 bronze medals. Were Ohio State to be considered as a separate nation, it would rank 31st for all time medalists and 26th for all time gold medalists.[7]
Trivia
The Ohio State school colors of scarlet and gray were chosen by a committee of three students (Curtis C. Howard, Harwood R. Pool, and Alice Townshend) prior to the school's first graduation ceremony in 1878. The committee's original recommendation was to be orange and black. The committee soon discovered that Princeton already used the colors, however, and changed their recommendation.[8] For this reason some references claim that Ohio State's original school colors were orange and black. This claim is not quite accurate, in that the committee never filed the original report with that recommendation.
Pageantry
Team Colors: Scarlet and Gray
Fight Songs: Across the Field, Buckeye Battle Cry (Hang on Sloopy also popular)
Nicknames: Buckeyes, “The Bucks”
Mascot: Brutus Buckeye
* Marching Band: The Ohio State University Marching Band, known as TBDBITL, or The Best Damn Band In The Land. Famous for "Script Ohio" and the "Ramp Entrance".
** The dotting of the "i" in "Script Ohio" by a sousaphone (tuba) player who high-kicks out and does a giant bow to the crowd was voted the #1 greatest sports tradition ever, in Athlon Sports, ESPN, and Sports Illustrated.
Notable alumni
Main article: List of Ohio State University people
Ohio State currently has almost 400,000 living alumni located around the world. Ohio State alumni include Nobel Prize, Pulitzer Prize and Medal of Honor recipients, as well as Fortune 500 CEOs and members of the Forbes 400 list of the world's wealthiest individuals. Numerous graduates have gone on to become Governors, Senators and members of Congress. Ohio State alumni have appeared on the cover of TIME twelve times, with the artwork of alumnus Roy Lichtenstein featured on an additional two TIME covers.
Ohio State alumni are enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, the NFL Hall of Fame and the Basketball Hall of Fame. Its athletes have won a combined seventy-two Olympic medals and twice received the Sullivan Award as the nation's top amateur athlete. Jack Nicklaus, has often been called "the greatest golfer in history" while Jesse Owens, has often been called "the greatest Olympian in history." Twice, Ohio State alumni have graced the cover of Sports Illustrated as its Sportsman of the Year.
This list of largest United States higher education institutions by enrollment includes only individual four-year campuses, not four-year universities. Universities can have multiple campuses with a single administration. Enrollment numbers listed are the sum of undergraduate and graduate students at a single campus.
Top 10 as of Fall 2006
- 51,818: Ohio State University - Columbus, OH [1]
- 51,234: Arizona State University - Tempe, AZ
- 50,785: University of Florida - Gainesville, FL [2]
- 50,402: University of Minnesota Twin Cities - Minneapolis / St Paul, MN
- 49,738: University of Texas at Austin - Austin, TX
- 46,719: University of Central Florida - Orlando, FL
- 45,487: Texas A&M University - College Station, TX
- 45,166: Michigan State University - East Lansing, MI
- 44,038: University of South Florida - Tampa, FL
- 42,914: Pennsylvania State University-University Park - University Park, PA [3]
Faculty and research
Physics Research Building
Ohio State’s faculty currently includes a Nobel Prize winning physicist, as well as twenty members of the National Academy of Sciences or National Academy of Engineering, three members of the Institute of Medicine,[17] and 127 elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[18]
In the last quarter century, thirty-two Ohio State faculty members have been awarded the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship, which is more than all other public and private Ohio universities combined.[19] Since the 2000/2001 award year, thirty-nine Ohio State faculty members have been named as Fulbright Fellows, the highest of any Ohio university.[20]
Famous People Associated with Columbus, by field:
[edit] Actors
- Majel Barrett (1932 - ), television (Star Trek, Star Trek: The Next Generation)
- Warner Baxter (1889 - 1951), film (In Old Arizona)
- Beverly D'Angelo (1951 - ), film (National Lampoon's Vacation series)
- Dody Goodman (1915 - ), television (Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman)
- Maggie Grace (1983 - ), television (Lost)
- Elsie Janus, stage
- A.J. Langer (1974 - ), television (My So-Called Life)
- Tom Poston (1921 - ), television (Newhart)
- Josh Radnor (1974 - ), television, stage (How I Met Your Mother; The Graduate)
- Gigi Rice (1965 - ), television (The John Larroquette Show)
- Matthew Rush (1972 - ), film (adult films)
[edit] Athletes
- Mark Coleman (1964 - ), professional fighter from the UFC and Pride mixed-martial-arts organizations
- James "Buster" Douglas (1960 - ), heavyweight boxing champion after defeating Mike Tyson
- Morgan Hamm (1982 - ), Olympic Medal Winner 2004 (attending the Ohio State University)
- Paul Hamm (1982 - ), Olympic Gold Medal Winner 2004 (attending the Ohio State University)
- Woody Hayes (1913 - 1987), Ohio State University football coach for twenty-eight years
- Jack Nicklaus (1940 - ), winner of a record eighteen golf majors
- Bobby Rahal (1953 - ), race-car driver, winner of the Indianapolis 500
- Michael Redd (1979 - ), former Ohio State University basketball player currently playing for the Milwaukee Bucks
- Butch Reynolds (1964 - ), Olympic Silver Medal Winner 1988
- Blaine Wilson (1974 - ), Olympic Gold Medal Gymnast
See also:
- Members of the Columbus Blue Jackets
- Current members and former members of the Columbus Clippers
- Members of the Columbus Crew
[edit] Entrepreneurs
- Henry Beecher Dierdorff (1851 - 1935), mining engineer and inventor
- Samuel Hartman, doctor and snake oil purveyor
- John H. McConnell, founder of Worthington Industries
- Hannah Neil, founder of the Columbus Female Benevolent Society
- Dave Thomas, founder of Wendy's restaurant chain
- Max and Erma Visocnik, founders of Max & Erma's restaurant chain
- Leslie Wexner (1937 - ), chairman and CEO of Limited Brands
- John F. Wolfe, publisher of the Columbus Dispatch
- Jerry Rossman Co founder of Damon's Grill.
[edit] Journalists
- Bob Orr (1953 - ), television reporter and anchor at WBNS-TV, the Columbus CBS affiliate, 1978-85 and 1988-93
- Cabot Rea (? – ), television reporter and anchor for the Columbus NBC affiliate WCMH since 1985
- Dana Tyler (1958 - ), television reporter and anchor at WBNS-TV, the Columbus CBS affiliate until 1990
[edit] Military personnel
- Curtis LeMay (1906 - 1990), World War II and Cold War U.S. Air Force general
- Eddie Rickenbacker (1890 - 1973), World War I fighter pilot, "Ace of Aces"
[edit] Miss America
- Mary Campbell, Miss America 1922-23
- Susan Perkins, Miss America 1978
- Laurie Lea Schaefer, Miss America 1972
[edit] Musicians
- Jerome Dillon (1969 - ) (formerly of Nine Inch Nails), drummer/musician
- Bow Wow (1987 - ) (formerly known as "Lil' Bow Wow"), rapper
- Jay DeMarcus (1971 - ), bassist in the country group Rascal Flatts