Longtime assistant Jameson Croall will take over at Merchant Marine for longtime head coach Mike Toop, who announced his retirement earlier in November.
Division III's finalist for the Campbell Trophy, given to one player across all of college football, is Joshua King, of the 7-0 U.S. Merchant Marine Academy.
The U.S. Merchant Marine Academy is rolling and off to a 6-0 start, and that's due in no small part to a ground game that is leading NCAA Division III. Joe Sager has more in a D3football.com feature.
The USMMA football team kept on rolling on Saturday with another big conference victory, this time defeating two-time reigning NEWMAC Champs MIT by the final score of 56-34 at Brooks Stadium. The win keeps the Mariners undefeated at 6-0 on the season (3-0 NEWMAC), while the Engineers fall to 2-3 (0-2 NEWMAC) in defeat.
The NEWMAC lost Maine Maritime from its conference for football when the school eliminated its football program, but the conference will return to one-fourth seafaring in the fall of 2023 when SUNY-Maritime takes that spot.
With the fall portion of the 2020-21 Division III football season complete, our honor roll looks back at the top individual performances from October and November in a special edition of the D3football.com Team of the Week.
Merchant Marine had two 100-yard rushers and added a highlight-level fourth quarter touchdown as the Mariners won the Secretaries Cup for the 16th time in 21 outings, defeating archrival Coast Guard 24-14.
On this day in 2016, one of Division III's top rivalries saw a rally on the run, as Merchant Marine scored 17 fourth-quarter points to upend Coast Guard and win the Secretaries' Cup.
Ithaca pushed back against Hobart to remain somewhere in playoff contention, while Baldwin Wallace outlasted Ohio Northern to set up a showdown with John Carroll next week for a possible at-large bid. Merchant Marine and Thomas More remained in contention for the Pool B bid.
The U.S. Merchant Marine Academy football team began the 2017 season off on the right foot with a 56-35 victory over visiting Misericordia University in front of a great crowd at Brooks Stadium during Parents Weekend. The 56 points were the highest point-total for the Mariners in the tenure of Head Coach Mike Toop ’77 – besting last year’s mark of 55 on Homecoming against Rochester – and was also tied for the program’s fifth-most points in a game in Academy history.
Merchant Marine has played a bunch of close games, but after going 3-6 last season, the Mariners have found a little bit of late-game heroics and could make a big splash this weekend against a conference rival.
Several teams, including 2015 playoff squads, will have to dig their way out of an 0-2 start to the 2016 season. Other teams needed big comebacks to avoid a similar fate. More in Saturday's national roundup.
The U.S. Merchant Marine Academy won the Secretaries' Cup for the second consecutive season on Saturday, downing archrival Coast Guard, 31-27, in the 2016 season opener at the Bears' Cadet Memorial Field.
Catholic University, whose move to the Old Dominion Athletic Conference in 1999 was the first move by a conference seeking an automatic bid in football, will move to another one in 2017 when the NEWMAC opens shop.
The NEWMAC, which sponsors a wide range of Division III sports, is bringing its football teams home, which is likely to set off a new set of falling dominoes in Division III's East Region.
The Mariners' football team 'adopted' a young cancer patient a few years ago, and although young Mikey Weinstein is no longer in the New York area, his fight still inspires the team and the team still brings Mikey joy.
This past week, two Division III maritime schools met in New York City on 9/11, and Coast Guard and the Merchant Marine Academy met in their annual rivalry.
Injuries can be overcome and opponents can be game-planned for. But Mike Toop and his coaching staff had no course of action for a government shutdown.
Matthew McDaniels (Malverne, NY) made his first collegiate start at quarterback a memorable one, accounting for four touchdowns and over 300 yards of offense as the USMMA football team defeated Susquehanna, 35-28 Saturday afternoon at Brooks Stadium.
Alex Coviello (Cape Coral, FL) was named Merchant Marine's MVP of the Hoffman Cup as the Mariners topped St. Lawrence, 33-12, Saturday afternoon at Brooks Stadium.
Keith McMillan is done ranking rivalries. And from his description of the Secretaries' Cup, between Division III's two national service academies, it's easy to see why. It's Around the Nation.
Usually we don't get a chance to see Mount Union in person before November at the earliest. But we knew this past weekend had a chance to be different.
Croall to follow Toop at Merchant Marine
November 24, 2021Longtime assistant Jameson Croall will take over at Merchant Marine for longtime head coach Mike Toop, who announced his retirement earlier in November.
