Maryland was a founding member of the Southern Conference in 1921, a founding member of the Atlantic Coast Conference in 1952, and is now a member of the Big Ten Conference. The nickname was coined in 1932 by Dr. Harry C. Curley Byrd, then the school's football coach and later the school's president.
Yes, hide glue is made from boiling hides and connective tissue. Hoof glue from hooves. Fish glue from fish skin and bones.
One of the two most common forms of meat glue used in the U.S. is Activa, a white powder form of a natural coagulant-like enzyme called transglutaminase. The other is Fibrimex, which is made of enzymes extracted from pig or beef blood by a process developed in the Netherlands.