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Football Headlines
Four Members of the Football Team Named to 2008 All-Empire 8 Team
11/20/2008
Springfield, Mass. – November 20, 2008 – Four Springfield College football players have received All-Empire 8 recognition for their outstanding performances throughout the 2008 season. Named First Team All-Empire 8 were senior center Andrew Jackson (Pennsville, N.J.) on offense, and senior inside linebacker Tom Caporale (Closter, N.J.) on defense. Receiving honorable mention accolades were a pair of Pride defenders as defensive end Cody Flanigan (Auburn, N.Y.) and junior defensive back Jarred Burrell (Warwick, R.I.) were honored. Read More.
Football Runs Past Norwich, 28-16, In Season Finale
NORTHFIELD, Vt. – November 15, 2008 - Junior fullback Baldwin Cunningham rushed for 192 yards and two touchdowns, and freshman quarterback Josh Carter accounted for 133 yards of total offense and two scores to lead Springfield to a 28-16 victory over Norwich in an Empire 8 football game Saturday afternoon at a rainy Sabine Field. Springfield thus finished on an upbeat note, winning its final two contests of the 2008 season. Read More.
Moore Picks Up Empire 8 Defensive Player of the Week Honors
Springfield, Mass. - November 10, 2008 - After another standout game on defense for the football team on Saturday afternoon, Brenden Moore has been selected as the Empire 8 Defensive Player of the Week. Read More.
Football Erupts for 45 Points As It Downs Hartwick, 45-31, on Senior Day
Springfield, Mass. -- November 8, 2008 -- Quarterback Josh Carter ran for 159 yards and two touchdowns to lead the Springfield College football team to 45-31 victory over Hartwick College on Senior Day this afternoon at Springfield's rainy Amos Alonzo Stagg Field. The win was Springfield's first in Empire 8 Conference play this season. Read More.
More Headlines
- Football Drops 37-8 Decision At Ithaca
- Fourth-Quarter Comeback Falls Short as Football Drops 38-35 Decision to St. John Fisher
- Moore Garners Weekly Honors From Empire 8 and ECAC
- Football Delights Homecoming Crowd With 43-23 Win Over Mount Ida
- Husson Runs Past Football, 39-21
About The Team
With more than 500 career victories (505 to be exact) now safely tucked under its belt, Springfield College will open its 2008 season on Thursday, September 4th, with a road game at Fitchburg State College in Fitchburg, Mass. at 7 p.m. That contest will be the first of two straight night games for the Pride. On Saturday, September 13, Springfield will host Union at Stagg Field at 7 pm. That home game will be the first of five games at home. The others will include Alfred on Sept. 27, Utica on Oct. 4, new-foe Mount Ida on Oct. 18, and Empire 8 defending champion Hartwick on Nov. 8. Besides the opener at Fitchburg State, other road contests include Husson on Oct. 11, St. John Fisher on Oct. 25, Ithaca on Nov. 1, and Norwich on Nov. 15.The Oct. 4 game will be a Family & Friends Day.
The Oct. 18 contest will be Homecoming Day.
Head Coach Mike DeLong (’74) two seasons ago won four Coach of the Year awards for leading his team to a 10-2 overall record, an Empire 8 co-title, and an NCAA post-season tournament berth. He will start the ’08 season as the winningest active Division III coach in New England with 150 victories in 26 years as a head coach. Twenty-four of those years have come right here at Springfield where he has recorded 138 victories, including a sparkling 44-19 mark the past six years. In five of the past 10 years (‘98, ’00, ’02, ’03, '06), Springfield teams have gone on to compete in the NCAA Division III Tournament. In ’95 and ’04, Springfield teams also won ECAC post-season tournament contests.
Pride individuals received many post-season honors in 2006. highlighted by Chris Sharpe's winning the Melberger Award, emblematic of the National Player of the Year in Division III. The QB established 12 school records and six NCAA Division III national marks on '06. Sharpe also received a bevy of further awards, including the Gold Helmet Award for the season from the New England Football Writers Association, the Joseph P. Zabilski Award from the Gridiron Club of Greater Boston, the ECAC Division III Northwest Offensive Co-Player of the Year, and the Empire 8 Offensive Player of the Year.
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Head Coach Mike DeLong
Michael C. “Mike” DeLong ’74 enters his 27th season as a head football coach in the fall of 2008. He enters his 25th year at Springfield College alone. For the past 24 years (1984 through 2007, inclusive), he has been the head coach at Springfield, his alma mater. Mike had also been the head coach at Maine Maritime in Castine, Maine in 1979 and 1980. Read more.