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The Springfield College football team opened up the 2008 season with a 55-27 win at Fitchburg State on Thursday evening behind the stellar play of several new faces on campus. Every offensive touchdown was scored by either a freshman or a sophomore. ...Read More >>
St. John Fisher College, which shared last year’s conference title and advanced to the regional finals of the 2007 NCAA Division III Football Championship, is the choice to share this year’s title with Ithaca College in the 2008 Empire 8 Football Preseason Coaches Poll. The conference champion earns an automatic berth to the NCAA Division III Championship, which Hartwick College earned last season after sharing the Empire 8 title with the Cardinals. ...Read More >>
The Empire 8 has announced its recent decision by the Presidents Council to allow qualifying New York State public institutions and public institutions contiguous to New York State to apply for membership as an affiliate in football. ...Read More >>
Utica College Athletic Director Jim Spartano Friday named Blaise Faggiano head football coach. Faggiano spent the past nine seasons as defensive coordinator and recruiting coordinator at St. John Fisher College in Rochester, NY. ...Read More >
Hartwick College’s Jason Boltus (Baldwinsville, N.Y./CW Baker) has been named as the recipient of the 15th Annual Melberger Award, it was announced Monday afternoon. ...Read More >
Hartwick College’s Jason Boltus has been named as one of four national finalists for the 15th Gagliardi Trophy, it was announced earlier Thursday. Boltus, the Empire 8 Offensive Player of the Year, moved into the “final four” by being named the East Region representative. ...Read More >
thaca College football coach Mike Welch will be honored by the All-American Football Foundation as one of the organization’s winners of the Johnny Vaught Head Coach award. ...Read More >
Empire 8 Offensive Player of the Year Jason Boltus of Hartwick College and all-conference quarterback Paul Keeley of Alfred University were each named finalists for the Gagliardi Trophy.
St. John Fisher College scored 38 unanswered points and cruised to a 38-7 win over Curry College at Fisher’s Growney Stadium on Saturday in the regional semifinals of the NCAA Division III Football Championship. ...Read More >
Conference co-champions Hartwick College and St. John Fisher College are joined by Ithaca College in the NCAA Division III Football Championship. All three teams will play in the Mount Union bracket. ...Read More >>
Hartwick College (72) and Utica College (70) scored a combined 142 points Saturday in an NCAA Division III football contest and have now etched themselves into the record books as the most prolific scoring effort by two teams in a single game since the NCAA began keeping official records in 1937. Across the board, the combined total broke all previous records at any level of NCAA collegiate football.
Hartwick College defeated Utica College 72-70 in four overtimes to secure a share of the Empire 8 football title with St. John Fisher College, which upended Alfred University 39-18 earlier in the day. The Hawks gain the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Division III Championship by virtue of their win over the Cardinals, the only St. John Fisher loss this season.
Senior Bill Struzzi (McQuaid Jesuit/Canandaigua), a member of Ithaca’s football team, will receive the Award of Valor from the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) at this weekend’s ECAC Convention. ...Read More >>
On September 12, Norwich University announced it will be leaving the Empire 8 in football for the 2009 season to join the newly formed North Atlantic Football Conference. ...Read More >> |
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