Famous folks, fascinating firsts and fun-filled facts from the University

· The two-liter plastic soda bottle was designed by Nathaniel Wyeth, Class of 1963. · Murphy Brown star Candice Bergen was Penn's homecoming queen in 1964. · College Hall is rumored to have been the inspiration for The Addams Family mansion, designed by University alumnus Charles Addams. · After being fatally wounded by assassins, Presidents Abraham Lincoln and James Garfield were treated by doctors who graduated from the University. And although Penn sports teams have clearly dominated the Ivies in the past few years, consider these previous accomplishments: · Penn was one of the two teams to play in the first commercially televised football game. · The Penn Relays are the world's largest track meet. · The University's Palestra has hosted more basketball games, more visiting teams and more NCAA tournament games than any other athletic facility in the country. · Franklin Field is the oldest two-tiered collegiate stadium still in use today, and is also home to the country's first stadium scoreboard. · The first African-American to win an Olympic gold medal was John Taylor, a Penn grad. · Penn's football team was the first to use numbers on its jerseys. · The two most prestigious collegiate athletic awards -- the Heisman and Outland trophies -- are named after former University athletes John Heisman and John Outland. · Penn alum Charles Diven, Class of 1936, is credited with inventing the basketball jump shot. Some Penn Firsts: · First university in the nation · First U.S. medical school · First business school in the country · First computer -- ENIAC · First student union · First teaching hospital · First psychology clinic Famous Penn Alumni: · Benjamin West, painter, 1775 · William Henry Harrison, U.S. President, 1791 · Ezra Pound, poet, 1903 · Sadie Mossell Alexander, Philadelphia attorney, 1918. · Raymond Alexander, Philadelphia attorney, 1920 · William Paley, former CBS owner, 1922 · I.F. Stone, journalist, 1927 · William Brennan, former U.S. Supreme Court justice, 1928 · Walter Annenberg, newspaper magnate and former U.S. ambassador to Great Britain, 1931 · Harold Prince, Broadway producer, 1948 · Martin Luther King, Jr., civil rights leader, 1949-1950 · Saul Steinberg, financier, 1959 · Donald Trump, real estate mogul, 1968 · John Roberts, Woodstock Festival co-founder/producer, 1966 Famous Penn near-Alumni (i.e. they dropped out): · Maury Povich, talk show host · Alan Rachins, L.A. Law actor Penn Nobel Prize Winners: · Otto Meyerhoff, medicine, 1923 · Robert Hofstadter, physics, 1961 · Ragnar Granit, medicine, 1967 · Halden Hartline, medicine, 1967 · Simon Kuznets, economics, 1971 · Christian B. Anfinsen, chemistry, 1972 · Gerald Edelman, medicine, 1972 · J. Robert Schrieffer, physics, 1972 · Baruch S. Blumberg, medicine, 1976 · Lawrence R. Klein, economics, 1980 · Michael Brown, medicine, 1985