U.S. Merchant Marine Academy football headlines
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Croall to follow Toop at Merchant MarineNovember 24, 2021Longtime assistant Jameson Croall will take over at Merchant Marine for longtime head coach Mike Toop, who announced his retirement earlier in November.
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King named finalist for Campbell TrophyOctober 27, 2021Division 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.
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Merchant Marines are No. 1 if by landOctober 21, 2021The 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.
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Merchant Marine Moves To 6-0 With 56-34 Home Win Over MITOctober 16, 2021The 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.
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Maritime to NEWMAC in 2023June 23, 2021The 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.
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Honoring the fall's top performersNovember 16, 2020With 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.
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Mariners' big leap seals Cup winNovember 14, 2020Merchant 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.
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Rivals set to meet in 2020September 22, 2020The U.S. Merchant Marine Academy and the U.S. Coast Guard Academy are getting in gear for a November meet-up with the Secretaries' Cup on the line.
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Thursday throwback: Comeback for the CupSeptember 09, 2020On 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.
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Roundup: Ithaca, BW keep hopes aliveNovember 03, 2018Ithaca 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.
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Service to the nation takes center stage at service academiesNovember 14, 2017With Veterans Day coinciding with game day in college football, the service academies were a special place to see teams play on Saturday.
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Merchant Marine Opens Season With 56-35 Victory Over MisericordiaSeptember 02, 2017The 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.
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Mariners navigating unexpected pathOctober 20, 2016Merchant 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.
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Roundup: Climbing out of a holeSeptember 10, 2016Several 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.
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Football Defeats Coast Guard To Retain Secretaries’ CupSeptember 10, 2016The 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.
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New England conferences team up for bowl seriesAugust 30, 2016The ECFC, MASCAC, NEFC and NEWMAC will be pulling out of the ECAC's postseason bowls and creating their own postseason game this season.
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Catholic jumping to NEWMACSeptember 29, 2015Catholic 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.
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Best road trips of 2015: Week 3August 10, 2015We still have a three-game weekend in store, and depending on where you started in Week 1, you might find a repeated team here.
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New shuffle begins as NEWMAC adds footballApril 08, 2015The 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.
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Distance no deterrent to Mighty Mikey, Merchant MarineOctober 16, 2014The 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.
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A show of force, by land and seaSeptember 16, 2014This 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.
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Glad to be backOctober 31, 2013Injuries 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.
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Merchant Marine loses another gameOctober 08, 2013Not wanting to lose a Homecoming game, the University of Rochester has found another opponent for Saturday as the government shutdown continues.
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Shutdown knocks out Merchant Marine gameOctober 03, 2013Although the Division I service academies got a reprieve from the Defense Department, the Merchant Marine Academy did not.
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No. 7 Hobart Upends Merchant Marine, 24-8September 28, 2013The USMMA football team came out on the wrong end of a 24-8 decision Saturday afternoon against Hobart in the team’s Liberty League opener.
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Merchant Marine Erases 21-Point Deficit to Defeat Susquehanna, 35-28September 07, 2013Matthew 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.
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Merchant Marine’s Alex Coviello Ends Career Fittingly; Leads Team Stars & Stripes in MexicoDecember 20, 2012What Coviello would soon discover is that his trip would be one of the most unforgettable experiences of his football career.
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Merchant Marine Claims Hoffman Cup with 33-12 Victory; Secures Program’s Best Season in 10 YearsNovember 10, 2012Alex 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.
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Carry the flagSeptember 16, 2010Keith 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.
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ATN Podcast: First lookSeptember 13, 2010Usually 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.