Division III football took a big hit over the past 18 months, dropping to 239 programs, but No. 240 is on the way, and hails from the Middle Atlantic Conference.
WPI, Carnegie Mellon, Mass-Dartmouth and others all improved to 4-0, while Trinity (Texas) bounced back from a pair of losses to Top 10 teams and Misericordia won in quadruple overtime in Saturday's Division III football action.
Wartburg brought an end to Central's unbeaten run and threw the ARC title chase into a four-way tie, while Misericordia scored twice in the final 61 seconds to win and Grinnell's Ryan Slager set the record for career tackles in D-III history in Week 8 action. Meanwhile, Eureka and Kalamazoo continued their undefeated ways.
Earlham tied the Division III record with its 50th consecutive loss. Salisbury held off Montclair State in a battle of unranked-but-undefeated NJAC teams while Central won a nailbiter over Simpson in the ARC. Centre, too, stayed in its SAA title hunt.
Misericordia had never won more than one game in a season. In the program's seventh year, the Cougars finally strung together their first winning streak. What changes did Mark Ross make in the offseason and how have they led to unprecedented success?
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Misericordia had won just five games coming into this afternoon, but got to celebrate a huge victory vs. Widener. Meanwhile, Muhlenberg negated a huge Susquehanna rally and one team was the goat for the fifth year in a row. More in the Week 3 roundup.
Sam Gillison made a diving catch in the back of the end zone for a two-point conversion with :04 to play as the Misericordia University football team defeated Widener, 36-35, Saturday afternoon at Mangelsdorf Field.
Aaron Mershman, who took over the head coaching position at Defiance in July of 2017, left it for an assistant coaching job in July 2018. He will be the offensive line coach at Misericordia.
Alvernia University, a Division III school in Reading, Pa., has announced it is joining the ranks of Division III football-sponsoring programs starting in the fall of 2018. Barring other changes, that would bring the number of schools sponsoring Division III football that year to 251.
Eastern to add football
September 15, 2021Division III football took a big hit over the past 18 months, dropping to 239 programs, but No. 240 is on the way, and hails from the Middle Atlantic Conference.
