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Bearcat Stadium is the football stadium of the Northwest Missouri State University Bearcats in Maryville, Missouri and is the oldest continuous site... for any NCAA Division II school. It has a capacity of 6,500 and had lights and FieldTurf installed in the summer of 2007. It is part of the Ryland Milner Complex which includes Bearcat Arena in the Uel W. Lamkin Activity Center which is where the college basketball team plays, Martindale Gymnasium , and the Robert P. Foster Aquatic Center. The field is surrounded by the Herschel Neil Track . The playing field itself is called Tjeerdsma Field in honor of the school's winning football coach Mel Tjeerdsma. The stadium originally opened in 1917 as Memorial Stadium, which replaced a field on the north side of the Administration Building of the college which had started operations in 1906. In 1961 it was named Rickenbrode Stadium for long-time university business manager and athletic booster William Rickenbrode.
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Lynne Overman was an American actor. Born in Maryville, Missouri, he began his career in theatre before becoming a film actor in the 1930s and early... 1940s. In films he often played a sidekick.
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Missouri is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States, bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska. Missouri is the 21st most extensive and the 18th most populous of the 50 United States. Missouri comprises 114 counties and the independent city of St. Louis. The four largest urban areas are St. Louis, Kansas City, Springfield, and Columbia. Missouri's capital is Jefferson City. The land... that is now Missouri was acquired from France as part of the Louisiana Purchase and became known as the Missouri Territory. Part of the Territory was admitted into the union as the 24th state on August 10, 1821. Missouri generally mirrors the demographic, economic and political makeup of America and has long been considered a political bellwether state. With the exceptions of the Presidential elections of 1956 and 2008, Missouri's results have accurately predicted the next President of the United States in every election since 1904. It has both Midwestern and Southern cultural influences, reflecting its history as a border state.
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