Bear Down

Bear Down (HMHPE)

Location: Florence, AZ 85132 Pinal County
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Country: United States of America
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N 33° 3.327', W 111° 22.755'

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Near this site on the evening of October 3, 1926, John "Button" Salmon, student body president and quarterback of the University of Arizona football team, was critically injured in a car accident while returning from a weekend in Phoenix with two classmates.

The day before his death on October 18, he was visited in the hospital in Tucson by head coach J.F. "Pop" McKale, who asked him if he had a message for the team, Salmon told McKale: "Tell them?tell the team to bear down."

Following his funeral and internment in Evergreen Cemetery in Tucson on October 20, the team traveled to Las Cruses, N.M., for a game against New Mexico A&M. In the locker room prior to the game, McKale told the team about Salmon's dying words. The Wildcats then went out and won a hard-fought 7-0 victory.

Within a short time, Salmon's exhortation to "bear down" became a rallying cry for Wildcat teams and University of Arizona students and alumni everywhere. It remains to this day as one of the nation's most enduring college athletics traditions.
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HM NumberHMHPE
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Year Placed2001
Placed ByArizona Department of Transportation
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Date Added Thursday, October 2nd, 2014 at 4:34pm PDT -07:00
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Locationbig map
UTM (WGS84 Datum)12S E 464594 N 3657498
Decimal Degrees33.05545000, -111.37925000
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 33° 3.327', W 111° 22.755'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds33° 3' 19.62" N, 111° 22' 45.30" W
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Area Code(s)520
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 101-123 E Hunt Hwy, Florence AZ 85132, US
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