Team:
Louisville Cardinals
Stadium: Papa John’s Cardinal
Stadium
Conference: Conference USA
Sport: College Football
Background: The University of Louisville
(mascot: the Cardinal) is a public, state-supported
university located in Louisville, Kentucky. It consists
of a liberal arts college, the J. B. Speed School of
Engineering, a law school, a medical school, and several
others. Most facilities are located on the 274-acre
Belknap Campus three miles from downtown Louisville.
Enrollment in Fall 2003 was 21,464.
The current president of the University is Dr. James
R. Ramsey.
On April 3, 1798, eight men declared their intention
to establish the Jefferson Seminary in Louisville, and
called upon their fellow citizens to join them in pledging
funds for land, buildings, and teachers. Occurring a
few weeks after the Kentucky legislature had chartered
this academy and several others in the new state, this
event marked the beginning of an advanced level of education
for the young people of a frontier settlement barely
two decades old. Near the end of the eighteenth century
these early Louisvillians took the first steps on a
journey that would link them with succeeding generations
to the modern University of Louisville at the beginning
of the twenty-first century.