Yankton College

Yankton College

Infobox_nrhp | name =Yankton College Historic District
nrhp_type = hd


caption =
location= Yankton, South Dakota
lat_degrees = 42
lat_minutes = 52
lat_seconds = 49
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 97
long_minutes = 23
long_seconds = 22
long_direction = W
locmapin = South Dakota
area =
built =1894
architect= Elmslie,George
architecture= Romanesque
added = March 22, 1982
governing_body = Private
refnum=82003949cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2008-04-15|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]

Yankton College was a small liberal arts college in Yankton, South Dakota, affiliated with the Congregational Christian Churches (later the United Church of Christ).

Founded in 1881, it was the first institution of higher learning in the Dakota Territory. The man primarily responsible for the college's establishment was Joseph Ward, a local pastor and educator who is one of the two South Dakotans represented in Statuary Hall.

It is probably best known today as the college which NFL football player Lyle Alzado attended. The college's athletic teams were known as the Greyhounds. The football stadium (Crane Youngworth Field) is now used as the home field for the Yankton High School football teams.

Yankton College closed in December 1984, and its campus became the site of a federal prison, which opened four years later.

The University of South Dakota - Springfield, a public university in the same state also originally established in 1881, also closed in 1984, and its campus became the site of a state prison.

Notable Alumni

*Riley Gardner

References

External links

* [http://www.yanktoncollege.org/ Yankton College]
* [http://www.yankton.net/stories/091599/bus_college.html Historical article]


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