Amos Alonzo Stagg Field
field was resurfaced with
FieldTurf during the summer
of 2007.
Football Headlines
Springfield College To Join The Liberty League As Associate Member in Football
02/05/2010
Schenectady, N.Y. - February 5, 2010 – Springfield College will join the Liberty League as an associate member in the sport of football beginning with the 2012 football season. The announcement was made today by Jim McLaughlin, Liberty League President and Director of Intercollegiate Athletics at Union College in Schenectady, N.Y. Read More.
Springfield College Will Have a Presence in Fourth Straight Super Bowl
Springfield, Mass. -- January 26, 2010 -- Jon Torine '95, the head strength and conditioning coach of the Indianapolis Colts, has guaranteed that Springfield College will own a presence in the Super Bowl for the fourth straight year. It will be Torine's second Super Bowl appearance. He also represented the Colts three years ago in the same capacity. Read MoreSurace G'92 and Backus '93, G'98 Join Forces at Princeton
Springfield, Mass. -- January 12, 2010 -- Springfield College alums Bob Surace and Jared Backus have recently teamed up to coach football at Princeton University. Surace, an SC graduate student, Class of '92, and former assistant football coach at Springfield College, was named the 22nd head football coach at Princeton on December 24. Backus, an SC undergrad Class of '93, was then named Princeton's defensive coordinator by Surace on January 9. Read MoreBurrell Named Third Team d3football.com All-American as a Return Man
Minneapolis, Minn. - December 22, 2009 - Senior Jarred Burrell has been named a d3football.com All-American as a kick return specialist after a tremendous season for the Springfield College football team. He was named to the Third Team. Read MoreMore Headlines
- Flanigan and Burrell Named ECAC Division III Northwest All-Stars
- Burrell Earns d3football.com First Team All-East Region Honors
- 2010 Captains Named at Football Awards Banquet
- Carter Leads Football To 42-13 Win Over Plymouth State in ECAC Northeast Championship Bowl, Springfield's 1000th Game
- Burrell and Carlson Named New England Football Writers Division II/III All-Stars
About The Team
With more than 500 career victories (509 to be exact) safely tucked under its belt, Springfield College will open its 2009 season on Saturday, September 5th, with a home game versus Fitchburg State College of Fitchburg, Mass. at 7 p.m. in Amos Alonzo Stagg Field. That will be the first of four home dates as SC plays a nine-game slate in 2009. The other home games will include Husson on Oct. 10, and will conclude with two straight home games versus Ithaca on Oct. 31 and versus St. John Fisher on Nov. 7.
There are two main differences between the 2008 and 2009 seasons besides swapping home and away sites. First, SC has added King's (Pa.) to the schedule, and will play that squad on the road on Sept. 12. Secondly, the Norwich contest which normally concluded the regular-season has gone by the wayside. (Norwich has departed the Empire 8 conference). That game has not been replaced.
The Oct. 10 game versus Husson will be a Family & Friends Day.
The Nov. 7 contest versus St. John Fisher will be Homecoming Day.
Head Coach Mike DeLong (’74) three 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 ’09 season as the winningest active Division III coach in New England with 154 victories in 27 years as a head coach. Twenty-five of those years have come right here at Springfield where he has recorded 142 victories, including a sparkling 48-25 mark the past six years. In five of the past 11 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.
In 2006, Springfield's Chris Sharpe was recognized on the national level as he was awarded 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.
Team Links
- 2010 Schedule
- 2009 Roster
- 2009 Statistics
- 2009 Coaching Staff
- 2009 JV Schedule
- 2009 Recruiting Guide
- Photo Gallery
- Alumni Questionnaire
- Empire 8 Football
- D3football.com
- Team Archive
Head Coach Mike DeLong
Michael C. “Mike” DeLong ’74 enters his 28th season as a head football coach in the fall of 2009. He enters his 26th year at Springfield College alone. For the past 25 years (1984 through 2008, 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.