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Five named Gagliardi finalists
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Carnegie Mellon's Robert Coury Becomes Sixth Player in Division III to Earn Three Straight AFCA All-America Honors
December 03, 2024Graduate student linebacker Robert Coury of the Carnegie Mellon University football team was named to the 2024 American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) Division III Coaches' All-America second team, marking the third straight season he has been honored as he claimed first-team honors in 2023 and 2024.
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#13 Carnegie Mellon Holds Off Centre 24-15 To Advance in NCAA Tournament
November 30, 2024The Carnegie Mellon University football team, ranked 13th nationally, hosted the Colonels of Centre College in a second round NCAA Division III playoff matchup on Saturday at Gesling Stadium. A game full of snow flurries and staunch run defenses culminated in a gritty 24-15 victory as the Tartans kept their postseason alive.
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#13 Carnegie Mellon Captures 10th PAC Title With a 37-30 Win Over Case Western Reserve in the 38th Academic Bowl
November 16, 2024The Carnegie Mellon University football team, ranked 13th nationally, headed to Cleveland, Ohio on Saturday to play Case Western Reserve University and left with a share of its 10th Presidents' Athletic Conference Championship in program history. A late surge from Case Western Reserve was held off by the Tartans with a last-minute touchdown to win 37-30 in the 38th Academic Bowl.
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#16 Carnegie Melllon Has Successful Senior Day in 63-10 Win Over Allegheny
November 09, 2024The Carnegie Mellon University football team, ranked 16th nationally, hosted the Gators of Allegheny College for a President’s Athletic Conference (PAC) match-up Saturday on Richard M. Lackner Field at Gesling Stadium. The Tartans celebrated Senior Day, recognizing the team’s veterans for their accomplishments and contributions to the program. A complete team effort in the first half put the Tartans out far ahead and gave them momentum for a 63-10 victory.
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#17 Carnegie Mellon Celebrates Homecoming With 45-20 Win Over Westminster
November 02, 2024The Carnegie Mellon University Tartans, ranked 17th nationally, hosted the Westminster College Titans for a homecoming President’s Athletics Tartans (PAC) heavy-weight bout Saturday, at Richard M Lackner Field, The Tartans got out front early and never looked back, winning 45-20 to stay firmly in the PAC title race.
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Carnegie Mellon's Robert Coury Named William V. Campbell Finalist
October 23, 2024Selected as the best and brightest from the college gridiron, from a nationwide pool of 203 semifinalists among all NCAA divisions and the NAIA, The National Football Foundation (NFF) & College Hall of Fame announced today that Carnegie Mellon's graduate student inside linebacker Robert Coury is one of 16 finalists for the 2024 William V. Campbell Trophy, presented by Fidelity Investments. The award recognizes an individual as the absolute best football scholar-athlete in the nation for his combined academic success, football performance and exemplary leadership. Coury is joined by Luke Lehnen of North Central and Brayden Long of Slippery Rock as the only non-Division I honorees.
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Ben Mills Becomes Carnegie Mellon’s All-Time Passing Touchdown Leader as #15 Tartans Defeat Waynesburg 42-0
October 05, 2024The Carnegie Mellon University football team, ranked 15th nationally, hosted the Waynesburg University Yellowjackets for the 12th Annual Cindy Lackner Memorial Game on Saturday under the lights at Gesling Stadium. The Tartans’ stout defense paired with a host of offensive weapons to shut out Waynesburg 42-0 in the Presidents’ Athletics Conference (PAC) contest.
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Strong Second Half and Special Teams Play Lifts #15 Carnegie Mellon to a 30-27 OT Win at Washington & Jefferson
September 28, 2024The Carnegie Mellon University football team, ranked 15th nationally, traveled to Washington, Pennsylvania, to play the Presidents of Washington & Jefferson College Saturday afternoon. The Tartans erased a 19-point halftime deficit to leave Cameron Stadium with a 30-27 overtime victory.
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#17 Carnegie Mellon Wins Big in 66-0 Shutout Against Bethany
September 21, 2024The Carnegie Mellon University football team, ranked 17th nationally, hosted the Bethany Bison Saturday. The Tartans cruised to another home victory, defeating the Bison by a score of 66-0 to stay perfect on the season.
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#20 Carnegie Mellon Takes Down Golden Tornadoes 41-7 In Home Opener
September 14, 2024The 20th-ranked Carnegie Mellon University football team won their home opener Saturday, at Gesling Stadium in a gritty battle against the Geneva Golden Tornadoes by a score of 41-7. Over the weekend, the Tartan community celebrated the success and impact of former head coach Rich Lackner with the inaugural naming of Richard M. Lackner Field at Gesling Stadium.
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Carnegie Mellon to play in Centennial in '25
September 09, 2024The Presidents' Athletic Conference is forced to scrap its planned conference title game for 2025 as Carnegie Mellon will align itself with Johns Hopkins, Muhlenberg, Ursinus, Franklin & Marshall, Dickinson, Gettysburg and McDaniel.
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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.
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Coury: Relentless pursuit of the football
October 25, 2023Robert Coury, who plays linebacker with his twin brother Tommy, is part of a defense that thrives on experience playing together and perhaps a little twin telepathy. Joe Sager has more in a Defense Week feature.
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#24 Carnegie Mellon Football Takedown Allegheny 19-3
September 30, 2023
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PAC already in playoff mode
September 20, 2023The Presidents' Athletic Conference is playing nothing but conference games the next two years, and that means that games with conference title implications start early. Joe Sager checks in with the top contenders in a D3football.com feature.
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#19 Carnegie Mellon Runs Past DePauw, 45-14, in NCAA First Round
November 19, 2022The Carnegie Mellon University football team hosted DePauw University on Saturday in the opening round of the 2022 Division III NCAA Football Championship. The Tartans defeated the Tigers 45-14 to move onto the second round.
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#19 Carnegie Mellon Wins 36th Annual Academic Bowl Over Case Western Reserve, 20-7
November 12, 2022The Carnegie Mellon University football team traveled to Cleveland, Ohio on Saturday night to play in the 36th Annual Academic Bowl against longtime rival Case Western Reserve University. The Tartans left Cleveland with a 20-7 victory in the Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC) showdown to complete their undefeated regular season.
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Streaking Tartans doing it with defense
October 27, 2022Carnegie Mellon has four defensive touchdowns, two shutouts and has held three other teams below 10 points. That's just part of how the Tartans are off to an 8-0 start. Brian Lester has more.
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Friday: CMU pulls away; Nichols rallies past Westfield
September 02, 2022It was a long fourth quarter for Whitworth in its first game in the Eastern Time Zone, while Nichols rallied from a 20-3 deficit, Salisbury rolled after a slow start, Springfield regained a rivalry trophy and more.
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Larsen named football coach at Carnegie Mellon
February 03, 2022Following an extensive national search, Carnegie Mellon has named Ryan Larsen as its new head football coach. A 13-year coaching veteran, Larsen comes to Carnegie Mellon from Columbia, where he served as quarterbacks coach and passing game coordinator for the past three years.
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Carnegie Mellon out of playoffs
November 19, 2021The Tartans, who were scheduled to play North Central, have withdrawn from the 2021 postseason because of positive COVID tests.
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Carnegie Mellon PAC Co-Champions after Defeating Case Western Reserve University, 24-6 in 35th Annual Academic Bowl
November 13, 2021The Carnegie Mellon University football team claimed a share of the Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC) Championship with a 24-6 victory over rival Case Western Reserve University in the 35th Annual Academic Bowl on Saturday. The Tartans share the title with Westminster, but claim the conference's automatic berth to the NCAA Division III playoffs by way of the head-to-head result on October 9 when the Tartans won 34-10. It marks the first PAC Championship for the Tartans since 1989 and the first trip to the NCAAs since 2006.
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Carnegie Mellon trying to send Lackner out with a title
November 10, 2021Saturday’s game is not part of a Hollywood script, but it sure seems like it for Carnegie Mellon. The Tartans are playing at home against their biggest rival with a conference championship and a trip to the NCAA playoffs on the line. And, it happens to be longtime head coach Rich Lackner's final regular season game. Joe Sager has more.
