America's School

Oberlin College, located in Ohio, about 35 miles from Cleveland, was founded in 1833:
--Oberlin was the first college in the United States to regularly admit African-American students, beginning with four such students in 1835.
--Oberlin is the oldest continuously operating coeducational college in the United States, having first admitted women in 1837. Three women graduated from Oberlin in 1841, becoming the first women in America to receive bachelor of arts degrees.
--Oberlin was the first college degree to grant a degree to an African-American woman, in 1862. -- Oberlin was a key stop along the Underground Railroad that helped escaped slaves flee to freedom from the pre-Civil War South.
-Oberlin's college football team, was coached by John Heisman in 1892, that's the Heisman after whom the Heisman Trophy is named.
--Oberlin is the only leading liberal arts college in the U.S. that also includes a leading music conservatory.
--Oberlin also has one of the leading college libraries in the U.S. as well as one of the leading college art museums in the country.
--Oberlin pioneered the concept of coeducational dormitories, with Life Magazine putting Oberlin students on the cover of its November 20, 1970 issue first identifying the new co-ed dorm phenomenon.
--In the 1970s, Oberlin was a national center for radical approaches to sports and athletics, with Jack Scott and Tommie Smith (who famously protested American policies from the medal stand at the 1968 Olympics) leading the way.

Oberlin has produced four major league baseball players:
--Cy Voorhees, who pitched 61 innings for the Phillies and Senators in 1902, 3 wins, 4 losses in his career, with one shutout and an overall ERA of 3.94.
--Bill Garfield, who pitched in the NL in 1889 (for the Pittsburgh Alleghenys) and 1890 (for the Cleveland Spiders). He pitched 99 innings altogether but his win-loss record was only 1-9 and his ERA was 5.73.
--Clay Fauver, who pitched in one single game in the majors, but made it a complete game victory, giving up 4 runs but none of them earned. He pitched his one game for the Louisville Colonels in 1899.
--Moses Fleetwood "Fleet" Walker, who was a catcher and played in 42 games in 1884 for Toledo in the American Association (which at the time was a major league). Walker is the best-remembered of a handful of African-American players who found jobs in the majors before the color line hardened.