Team:
San Jose State Spartans
Stadium: Spartan Stadium
Conference: WAC
Sport: College Football
Background: San José State University,
commonly shortened to San Jose State and SJSU, is the oldest
university in what became the California State University
system. The urban campus has an enrollment of about 30,000
students, and claims to have more graduates working in Silicon
Valley than any other college or university.
Campus:
The main 154 acre (620,000 m²) campus of San
José St. is a rectangle in downtown San Jose, California,
bordered by San Fernando Street (north), Fourth Street (west),
San Salvador Street (south), and Tenth Street (east).
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Students:
The campus has approximately 30,000 students. It
is one of the most ethnically diverse in the state, with large
Asian (particularly Filipino and Vietnamese) and Latino enrollments.
Noted faculty members:
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Mark Fruin - expert on Japanese business |
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Larry Gerston - political commentator, expert on California
politics and co-author of Recall: California's Political
Earthquake |
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Rudy Rucker - computer science professor and science
fiction author |
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Randall Stross - author of eBoys, Microsoft Secrets
and Steve Jobs and the NeXT Big Thing |
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Yosh Uchida - head coach, SJSU Judo Team, 1968 US
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History:
Bell commissioned for the California Normal School
in 1862San Jose State was founded in 1857 as Minns' Evening
Normal School, as a city funded normal school in San Francisco,
California, and is the oldest public institution of higher
learning on the west coast. In 1862, the California legislature
took possession of the school, renaming it the California
State Normal School. The school moved to San Jose in 1871,
becoming San Jose Normal School, and was given Washington
Square Park at Fourth and San Carlos Streets to locate their
campus, where it remains.
Sports:
The university has participated in athletics since
it fielded a baseball team in 1890. SJSU sports teams are
known as the Spartans, and compete in the Western Athletic
Conference in NCAA Division I (I-A for football). The school
has achieved an international reputation in judo, having
won 38 national championships in the sport (as of 2003).
Noted alumni:
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The College of Engineering Building
Tariq Abdul-Wahad - NBA player (played at SJSU as
Olivier Saint-Jean)
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Bernd Behr - artist |
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Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks -- musicians best
known for Fleetwood Mac |
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Ben Nighthorse Campbell - U.S. Senator from Colorado |
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Christopher Darden - prosecutor of O. J. Simpson |
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Jeff Garcia - American football player |
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Mike Honda - U.S. Representative from California |
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Jessica McClintock - fashion designer |
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Gordon Moore - cofounder of Intel (who spent 2 years
at SJSC and then graduated from Cal) |
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Gaylord Nelson - U.S. Senator and Governor of Wisconsin |
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Kurtwood Smith - actor |
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Tommie Smith - 1968 Olympic gold medalist and record
holder in track, best known for his "Black Power"
salute on the medal stand |
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The Smothers Brothers, Tom and Dick Smothers, comedians |
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Amy Tan - novelist |
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Peter Ueberroth - head of 1984 Summer Olympics, Time
1984 Man of the Year and commissioner (1984-1989) of
Major League Baseball |
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Dick Vermeil - American football coach |
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Bill Walsh - American football coach |
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David Willman - reporter, winner of the 2001 Pulitzer
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