Four Division III football conferences are joining the ever-growing number of leagues sponsoring postgame bowls, as the Ohio Athletic Conference, Presidents' Athletic Conference, North Coast Athletic Conference and Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference will square off this November in Canton.
At last! A 41-7 thumping of visiting Defiance College vaulted the Capital University football team to its first win in 1,027 days. November 10, 2018 marked the last time the Purple and White rang the Victory Bell at the corner of Pleasant Ridge and East Mound Street and soaked in the glory of victory.
An Amherst alum coaching at Williams? Hampden-Sydney hiring a Randolph-Macon grad? That hardly seems possible. But at Capital, let's just say coach Brian Foos will know the Otterbein rivalry really well.
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The fourth quarter provided more theatrics than a Broadway musical, but the tune of Pride of the Purple rang out at Memorial Stadium when the Crusaders defeated archival Otterbein, 23-19.
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From Indiana on into Ohio, as the road show made a second stop on Saturday to check out Capital's intrasquad scrimmage. The Crusaders don't mind being in the shadow of Ohio State, but know they have plenty of measuring sticks in their conference.
After three years of tilting at windmills such as St. Thomas and St. John's, Chad Rogosheske will take on an even tougher task: coaching in the same conference as Mount Union.
Craig Candeto, a former standout collegiate quarterback, Navy fighter pilot and assistant coach, has been selected to be the next head football coach at Capital.
Baldwin Wallace is self-reporting financial aid irregularities to the NCAA and will not be eligible for any postseason in 2012-13, including the Division III football playoffs.
With 11 consecutive seasons at five wins or more and 10 of the last 11 years with a record above .500 in the rugged Ohio Athletic Conference, the Capital University football team has been one of the most successful programs in both the conference and region for the past decade.
It took two games and an extra afternoon to boot, but Wittenberg became the first non-Division I program to reach 700 all-time wins Sunday afternoon with a 45-28 victory against Capital.
In the visiting locker room at Mount Union last fall, the Capital Crusaders knew they would be losing one of the most prolific passers in the history of NCAA Division III football. However, they thought one of Rocky Pentello’s favorite targets would be in uniform when the team traveled to Springfield for the 2007 opener with the Wittenberg Tigers.
Linfield and UW-Whitewater are meeting for the first time ever and Bridgewater hasn’t played Wesley in more than a decade, but the playoff round of eight isn’t all about unfamiliarity. Capital led Mount Union in the fourth quarter of their Oct. 1 Ohio Athletic Conference matchup before the Purple Raiders pulled away.
It wasn’t tide-turning. It didn’t put Division III football on its ear. But the margin of Capital’s 49-16 win against Wittenberg was surprising, to say the least.
OAC, PAC, NCAC, HCAC going bowling
January 09, 2024Four Division III football conferences are joining the ever-growing number of leagues sponsoring postgame bowls, as the Ohio Athletic Conference, Presidents' Athletic Conference, North Coast Athletic Conference and Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference will square off this November in Canton.
