One of Division III's original conferences and its newest football conference will get together for a two-game bowl series each of the first four seasons that the Landmark sponsors football.
Lycoming and Wilkes are on the verge of switching conferences and joining the Landmark Conference, D3sports.com has learned, which makes six conference schools sponsoring football, all which is now needed to take an automatic bid.
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.
After its first winless season since 1981, Wilkes turns to Jon Drach, Hobart's offensive coordinator, to get the Colonels back in contention as Wilkes' new head coach.
Case Western Reserve rallied to remain in playoff contention, while Wesley knocked off its archrival, Hobart handed St. Lawrence its first loss and Wilkes rallied past Stevenson in Week 10's Division III Top 25 action.
Mike Donnelly's coaching tree continues to develop new branches. There are now six D-III head coaches who learned under the tutelage of the Muhlenberg legend. More in Around the Mid-Atlantic.
When the coach has a 200-mph speed limit sign on the wall in his office, it shouldn't be a surprise when they set records on offense. This is the new way the game is played at Wilkes.
Misericordia will bring the number of MAC schools sponsoring football to 10 and push Division III over the 240 mark in 2012 when its first team takes the field.
Delaware Valley has been picked to finish first in its pursuit of a third consecutive Middle Atlantic Conference championship in the 2010 preseason coaches poll.
Like many mechanisms in our lives, when they're working flawlessly, you barely even notice they exist. But a breakdown in the machine doesn't just ripple nearby -- it crashes the system. In this way, sports parallels life -- and life on offense revolves around the men in the trenches.
The Colonels held Lycoming to 14 yards rushing on 28 attempts and just a total of 120 yards on the afternoon as Wilkes managed their largest margin of victory in the 37-7 win.
Drach named head coach at Union
December 29, 2023Jon Drach, who has been head coach at Wilkes since 2018, is moving just a little bit north and will be Union's third coach in three years.
