Carleton is one of the nation's top-ranked schools -- for academics, at least. In football, it's been a different story, but under Tom Journell the Knights have become more consistently competitive. Joe Sager has more in a D3football.com feature.
NORTHFIELD, Minn. – The Carleton College football team committed four turnovers—three of them in St. Olaf territory—and saw a 14-7 lead turn into a 33-21 defeat at the hands of its cross-town rival.
In some ways it was a throwback to the power outage during Super Bowl XLVII as a third-quarter sprinkler delay may have benefitted the Carleton College football team in the Knights' 44-23 victory over visiting Lawrence University.
Down 31-23 with 5:15 left to play in the fourth quarter, the Carleton College football team engineered a triumphant comeback on Saturday afternoon as senior Brandt Davis kicked a 30-yard field goal as time expired to lift the Knights to a 34-31 victory over Hamline University.
Carleton College head football coach Bob Pagel announced the addition of Dick Tressel to the Knights’ staff for the 2012 season. Tressel, who will serve as offensive coordinator at Carleton, spent 11 years at Ohio State University, including the last eight as the Buckeyes’ running backs coach.
As the sun rose over Carleton's campus on Friday, Laird Stadium was dry. But as the hours progressed, the rising water of the Cannon River spun the tables on the 7,500-seat stadium.
In 1996, senior Kurt Ramler led a high powered St. John's football team as its savvy gun-slinging quarterback, to an MIAC championship. Twelve years later, Ramler welcomes the Johnnies to his new home field at Carleton College in Northfield, Minn., where he'll put a school's conference championship dreams on the shoulders of his own senior quarterback, Shane Henfling.
What do Buena Vista, Carleton, Loras and Augsburg all have in common? They are all sitting atop their respective conferences after finishing under .500 last season.
When Kurt Ramler became Carleton head coach in February, he says it wasn't just an attempt to get back to Minnesota, or the MIAC, a conference he dominated as St. John's quarterback in the mid-'90s. It also wasn't just to get out of a losing situation at Heidelberg or take the first head coaching job that came along.
Every year, you can count on a few things when the gales of November (to steal a phrase from Gordon Lightfoot) approach the Midwest. The temperatures get colder. The fallen leaves crunch under your feet on your way to class. The first snowflakes of the season approach, and you swear that you saw the first Christmas ads on TV before Halloween.
At season's halfway point, Carleton walking the walk
October 12, 2022Carleton is one of the nation's top-ranked schools -- for academics, at least. In football, it's been a different story, but under Tom Journell the Knights have become more consistently competitive. Joe Sager has more in a D3football.com feature.
