From Houston Hall to Franklin Field, U. home to many firsts

The Daily Pennsylvanian · The 2-liter plastic soda bottle was designed by Nathaniel Wyeth, Class of 1963. · School of Engineering and Applied Science grads have helped develop items like the radio camera, the infrared remote control for television, the liquid crystal display used in digital watches and the lunar land rover. · Murphy Brown star Candice Bergen was Penn's Homecoming Queen in 1964. · College Hall is rumored to have been the inspiration for the mansion in The Addams Family, created by University alumnus Charles Addams. · After being mortally wounded by assassins, Presidents Abraham Lincoln and James Garfield were treated by doctors who graduated from the Penn Medical School. And although Penn sports teams have clearly dominated the Ivies in the past few years, consider these previous accomplishments: · Penn played in the first commercially televised football game. · The Penn Relays are the world's largest track meet. · The 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 college stadium still in use today, and is home to the country's first stadium scoreboard. · The first African-American to win an Olympic gold medal was John Taylor, a Penn graduate. · 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 Penn athletes John Heisman and John Outland. · Penn alumnus 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 Some other famous Penn alumni: · Benjamin West, painter, 1775 · William Henry Harrison, U.S. President, 1791 · Ezra Pound, poet, 1903 · Sadie Mosses Alexander, Philadelphia attorney, 1918 · Raymond Alexander, Philadelphia attorney, 1920 · William Paley, former CBS owner, 1922 · Rabbi Israel Goldstein, founder Brandeis University, 1914 · Maury Povich, talk show host, 1962 · L.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 · Alan Rachins, L.A. Law actor, 1964 · Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights leader, 1949-1950 · Martin Cruz Smith, author of Gorky Park, 1964 · Saul Steinberg, financier, 1959 · Arlen Specter, U.S. senator form Pennsylvania, 1951 · Donald Trump, real estate mogul, 1968 · John Roberts, Woodstock Festival co-founder and producer, 1966 · Ken Olin, thirtysomething actor, 1976 · Lawrence Tisch, CBS network chief executive officer, 1943 · Philadelphia Mayor Ed Rendell, 1965 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 Anfimsen, Chemistry, 1972 · Gerald Edelman, Medicine, 1972 · Robert Schreiffer, Physics, 1972 · Baruch Blumberg, Medicine, 1976 · Lawrence Klein, Economics, 1980 · Michael Brown, Medicine, 1985