Wilkes football headlines
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Drach named head coach at UnionDecember 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.
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ODAC, Landmark hook up for Chesapeake ClassicSeptember 15, 2022One 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.
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Landmark to add two for football AQFebruary 09, 2022Lycoming 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.
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Eastern to add footballSeptember 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.
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Wilkes brings in Hobart assistantFebruary 10, 2018After 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.
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Brown out at Wilkes after winless seasonNovember 16, 2017Trey Brown's fourth year at Wilkes resulted in an 0-10 record and his departure from the program.
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Top 25: Wesley in control; St. Lawrence, Stevenson slipNovember 05, 2016Case 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.
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A tree grows in AllentownSeptember 14, 2016Mike 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.
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Best road trips of 2015: Week 2August 10, 2015Week 2 brings us an opportunity to go big or go home. We're going big.
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Pedal to the metalOctober 01, 2014When 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.
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Sheptock steps down at WilkesDecember 19, 2013After 18 seasons, 107 wins, Frank Sheptock leaves the Wilkes head coaching job to become an athletic administrator.
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Wilkes-Barre flooding causes two games to be cancelledSeptember 09, 2011Due to flooding and a mandatory evacuation in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Saturday’s Bethany-King's and Wilkes-Waynesburg games have been called off.
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NJAC to take up MAC's challengeNovember 11, 2010In 2012 and 2013, after the MAC-PAC challenge conclusion, the MAC will turn to the east.
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D-III has company as Miseri adds footballOctober 18, 2010Misericordia 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.
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Delaware Valley picked first in MACAugust 02, 2010Delaware Valley has been picked to finish first in its pursuit of a third consecutive Middle Atlantic Conference championship in the 2010 preseason coaches poll.
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Queueing up the AQsOctober 22, 2008Has there ever been a better time for the automatic qualifier system?
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Winning and losing in the trenchesOctober 14, 2008Like 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.
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Wilkes rolls Lycoming; Easier road aheadOctober 10, 2006The 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.
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Can't be everywhere? Let's trySeptember 19, 2006Week 3 in the region was headlined by two crucial games of varying degrees of consequence.