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The College of Emporia Football Team was a college football team at the College of Emporia in Emporia, Kansas. The team competed from 1893 until the college closed in 1972[1] and was known for its high quality play for the size of the school as well as its early adoption of modern football methods.

The team was one of the earliest schools to regularly call the forward pass[2] and the option pass[3] under head coach Bill Hargiss and quarterback Arthur Schabinger. The school was using the forward pass as a regular play three years before Knute Rockne and Notre Dame Football.[4]

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The 2010 Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference football season competes in the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference (KCAC) in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) for the 2010 football season. The season begins on August 28, 2010 at 7:00 pm when the Ottawa University Braves challenge state-rival Baker University in the College Fanz First Down Classic game.[5]

Confernece rules require each team to play all other teams within the conference and then one other regular season non-conference game for a total of 10 games (beginning in 2011, the conference will allow schools to play 11 games).[6]

Ottawa was declared the 2009 KCAC Champions with an undefeated regular season record. The 2010 season begins with three teams nationally ranked in the NAIA: Ottawa (8th), McPherson (12th), and Friends (15th).[7]

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Michael Norman Gardner (born March 9, 1967, in Roeland Park, Kansas[8]) is currently the coach at Tabor College in Hillsboro, Kansas. Having left Tabor for Malone in 2006, Gardner was chosen to replace Mike Gottsch after Tabor's winless 2009 season.[9]

Mike played college football for NAIA school Baker University in Baldwin City, Kansas from 1986 to 1990, where he held a school record 53 yard field goal that was broken in 2007[10]. He was an All-American each of his last three years at Baker[11]

Gardner served as the Defensive Coordinator at Tabor from 2001 to 2003 and helped guide the Bluejays to their first-ever NAIA national playoff appearance in 2003 and a #15 NAIA national ranking. He was named the AFCA NAIA Assistant Coach of the Year and the AFLAC Assistant Coach of the Year for the 2003 season. His 2003 defense ranked 11th in the final NAIA statistics while his 2002 team ranked an impressive second overall. In 2005, Gardner was named Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference "Co-Coach" of the year along with Saint Mary coach Lance Hinson.[12]


As a player, Gardner was a three-time NAIA All-American and a four-time All-Conference selection while at Baker University (KS) and he played for a national championship in 1986. He has been involved in 10 national playoff games as a player and eight as a coach and his 2005 Tabor squad won its first-round playoff contest.

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Harold "Bud" Elliott (1931 - November 1, 2005) was the head football coach for Eastern New Mexico University for 11 seasons and is the winningest head coach in the history of ENMU Greyhound football.[13] In 2005, he was succeeded Mark Ribaudo as Eastern New Mexico University's Head Football Coach.[14] He coached football at high school and collegiate levels for over 40 years.[15]

Elliottt achieved an overall NAIA record of 64-26-6 and a NCAA record of 205-179-9 (.533). He became the 46th head coach in NCAA college football history to reach 200 wins. At the time of his retirement, he ranked third in victories among active NCAA Division II coaches.[16] His total combined collegiate coaching record is 269-205-15.

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Vince DiFrancesca (1922 – May 21, 2007) was a college football player and coach in the United States. His total career coaching record was 106 wins, 71 losses, and 7 ties.

DiFrancesca was the eighth head college football coach for the Western Illinois University Leathernecks located in Macomb, Illinois and he held that position for five seasons, from 1949 until 1953. His career coaching record at Western Illinois was 38 wins, 7 losses, and 1 ties. As of completion of the 2007 season, this ranks him seventh at Western Illinois in total wins and first at Western Illinois in winning percentage.[17] Under DiFrancesca's leadership, Western's team was ranked among the best offensive and defensive teams in the nation for five years.[18]

DiFrancesco was also the head coach at Iowa State University from 1954 to 1958.[19] he was the 21st head coach for the Cyclones in Ames, Iowa. His coaching record at Iowa state was 6 wins, 21 losses, and 1 ties. As of completion of the 2007 season, this ranks him 19th at Iowa state in total wins and 28th at Iowa state in winning percentage.[20]

His final head coaching job was as the 22nd head college football coach for the Carroll College (Wisconsin) Pioneers located in Waukesha, Wisconsin and he held that position for thirteen seasons, from 1959 until 1971. His record at Carroll College was a more successful 62 wins, 43 losses, and 5 ties. As of completion of the 2006 season, this ranks him second at Carroll College in total wins and tenth at Carroll College in winning percentage.[19]

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Willis S. "Billy" Bates was an American football and basketball coach in the United States. He served as the head football coach at Auburn University (1903), Fairmount College, now known as Wichita State University, (1905–1908), and Southwestern College in Kansas (1914–1925), compiling a career record of 84–52–12. He also coached basketball at Fairmount (1905–1908) and Southwestern (1914–1926), tallying a career mark of 179–79.

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Portrait of John H. Outland from The World of New York, September 26, 1898

John H. Outland (March 7, 1871 – March 24, 1947) was an American football player and coach. He played football at Penn College in Oskaloosa, Iowa, the University of Kansas, and the University of Pennsylvania. He was twice named an All-American while playing for the Penn Quakers, in 1897 as a tackle and in 1898 as a halfback. After playing, Outland coached at Franklin & Marshall College in 1900, the University of Kansas in 1901, and Washburn University from 1904 to 1905, compiling a career college football record of 21–15–2. He is the namesake of the Outland Trophy, an annual award established in 1946 and given to best interior lineman in college football. Outland was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a player in 2001.

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Alexander Brown Mackie was college professor, business college founder, and an American football coach and sports figure in the United States.

Alexander Brown Mackie was the co-founder of Brown Mackie College in Salina, Kansas. He and Perry E. Brown founded the school as a business college, taking what was a part of the Kansas Wesleyan school of business.[21] The school operates today with campuses in many locations across the United States.

Mackie was named the ninth head college football coach for the Kansas Wesleyan University Coyotes located in Salina, Kansas and he held that position for 17 seasons, from 1921 until 1937. His coaching record at Kansas Wesleyan was 73 wins, 40 losses, and 13 ties. As of the conclusion of the 2009 season, this ranks him 2 at Kansas Wesleyan in total wins and second at the school in winning percentage (0.63095). [22]

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Jerry Kill (born August 24, 1961 in Cheney, Kansas) was head football coach at the University of Minnesota, taking the position for the 2011 season and holding it until 2015. He has continued in coaching, including becoming the interim head coach for the 2021 TCU Horned Frogs.[23]

Kill earned a Bachelor's Degree in Education with a minor in Biology from Southwestern College in 1982 where he played under coaches Phil Hower and Dennis Franchione. He was raised in a "Working class family" and became the first member of his family to graduate from college. Kill has been recognized with the Eddie Robinson Award (2004)[24], Big Ten Coach of the Year (2014)[25], and the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame (2016)[26]

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Dr. Ted Kessinger (born January 15, 1941 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota) is a former American football coach. He served as the head football coach at Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kansas from 1976 to 2003, compiling a record of 219–57–1. Kessenger was the head coach of the first American football team to play in Sweden.[27] He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 2010.[28]

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Homer Woodson "Bill" Hargiss (September 1, 1887–October 15, 1978) was an American college football, basketball, and track coach. He was an early innovator in football and was known to be one of the first coaches to use the forward pass and the huddle.

Hargiss's first coaching job came as the head coach of the College of Emporia (C of E) in Emporia, Kansas. The school had a well-developed rivalry with Kansas State Normal School, where Hargiss played quarterback the previous year, and would later coach.[29]

At C of E, Hargiss developed plays using talented quarterback Arthur Schabinger that most had never seen before, namely the forward pass and the option pass.

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Jake Trotter is a sports columnist and author. He currently writes for ESPN and tends to focus on the University of Oklahoma Sooners athletic programs and the Big 12 Conference. He is considered an expert on these topics by many publications and news sources including the Dallas Morning News,[30] WIBW-TV in Topeka, Kansas,[31] WVOC 560 The Team AM Sports Radio in Columbia, South Carolina,[32] KFOR-TV in Oklahoma City,[33] and The Cincinnati Enquirer.[34]

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The "Fighting Indians" of Haskell, 1914

The Haskell Fighting Indians football team represented the Haskell Institute (Later known as Haskell Indian Nations University.) in the sport of college football.[35] They fielded their first football team in 1896.[36] From the 1900s to the 1930s, Haskell’s football program was referred to as the “Powerhouse of the West,” playing teams from Harvard, Yale, Brown, Missouri, Nebraska, Texas, Texas A&M, Oklahoma, Oklahoma A&M, Wisconsin and Minnesota.[37] But in 1931, a new superintendent (R. D. Baldwin) made the decision to shift the college football team to high school status following the 1931 season. With fewer teams available to play, Haskell dropped football after the 1938 season.[36] Football at Haskell would not be resumed again until 1990.[citation needed]

Due to funding shortfalls, Haskell suspended football for the 2015 season.[38]

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American football
American football was a demonstration sport at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. On the evening of August 8, 1932, seniors from three Western universities (Cal, Stanford, and USC) were matched against those from the East Coast's "Big Three" (Harvard, Yale, and Princeton). In front of 60,000 spectators at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, the West team won by a score of 7–6. All-American Gaius "Gus" Shaver from USC was the captain of the West team and the game's leading rusher with 145 yards on 16 attempts. The football game at the 1932 Summer Olympics, combined with a similar demonstration game at 1933 World's Fair, led to the College All-Star Game which was an important factor in the growth of professional football in the United States. (Full article...)



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J. Arthur Baird
James Arthur Baird (November 2, 1877 – July 26, 1964) was an American football and baseball player, track athlete, coach of football, basketball, and baseball, college athletics administrator, lawyer, and Hancock County, Illinois, judge. (Full article...)



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Elizabeth "Liz" Heaston
Willamette Bearcats – No. 39[39]
PositionPlacekicker
ClassGraduate
MajorBiology
Personal information
Born:1977 (age 46–47)
Richland (WA)
Height5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)
Weight120 lb (54 kg)
Career history
College
High schoolRichland
Career highlights and awards
  • First woman to play and score in college football
Elizabeth Heaston Thompson (born 1977) is an American athlete who is the first woman ever to score in a college football game. She accomplished this feat on October 18, 1997 as a placekicker for the Willamette Bearcats football team of Willamette University, which then competed in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) for small colleges. She also played women's soccer for Willamette as a defender. Heaston's accomplishment was widely noted by the media and the sports community. (Full article...)



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"Harvard Beats Yale, 29–29"
1234 Total
Yale 71507 29
Harvard 06716 29
DateNovember 23, 1968
Season1968
StadiumHarvard Stadium
LocationBoston, Massachusetts
Attendance40,280
United States TV coverage
AnnouncersDon Gillis

The 1968 Yale vs. Harvard football game was a college football game between the Yale Bulldogs and the Harvard Crimson, played on November 23, 1968. The game ended in a 29–29 tie after Harvard made what is considered a miraculous last-moment comeback, scoring 16 points in the final 42 seconds to tie the game against a highly touted Yale squad. The significance of the moral victory for Harvard inspired the next day's The Harvard Crimson student newspaper to print the famous headline "Harvard Beats Yale, 29–29". In 2010, ESPN ranked it No. 9 in its list of the top ten college football ties of all time.

Yale came into the game with a 16-game winning streak and its quarterback, Brian Dowling, had only lost one game when he was in the starting lineup since the sixth grade. Both schools entered the game with perfect 8–0 records. It was the first time both schools met when undefeated and untied since the 1909 season.

The tie left both teams 8–0–1 for the season. The famous headline was later used as the title for Harvard Beats Yale 29–29, a 2008 documentary about the game directed by Kevin Rafferty. Actor Tommy Lee Jones, who played on the offensive line for Harvard in the game, was interviewed for the documentary.

This game stands as the final tie in the Harvard–Yale series, as subsequent rule changes have eliminated ties from college football. (Full article...)



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Coach Mel Tjeerdsma
Mel Tjeerdsma (/ˈɜːrmə/ CHURCH-mə; born May 24, 1946) is a retired American football coach and athletic director at Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville, Missouri. He served as the head coach at Austin College in Sherman, Texas from 1984 to 1993 and at Northwest Missouri State University from 1994 until his retirement after the 2010 season. In his 27 years as a head coach, Tjeerdsma compiled a career college football record of 242–82–4. He led the Northwest Missouri State Bearcats to three NCAA Division II Football Championship titles (1998, 1999, and 2009) and four additional NCAA Division II titles games (2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008). (Full article...)



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  2. ^ Homer Hargiss History Definitive use of forward pass
  3. ^ Oberheide.org Hargiss's Option Play
  4. ^ Emporia Gazette, "The Emporia Gazette Give Credit to C. of E." by E. T. Lowther
  5. ^ College Fanz 4th Annual First Down Classic
  6. ^ The Wichita Eagle "KCAC takes big step forward" By Tony Adame, June 19, 2010
  7. ^ KCAC Sports "2010 NAIA Football Coaches' Top 25 Spring Poll" April 21, 2010
  8. ^ Victory Sports Network "Gardner; Back to Tabor" by Jason Dannelly, December 1, 2009
  9. ^ USA Today "Malone football coach quits to return to Tabor" December 12, 2009
  10. ^ http://signal.baldwincity.com/section/sports/story/6744
  11. ^ American Football Monthly - Rodeo Circuit - February 2004
  12. ^ KCAC Sports "2005 Football All-Conference Selections" November 21, 2005
  13. ^ Class Notes—Harold "Bud" Elliot
  14. ^ Mr. Mark Ribaudo
  15. ^ 'Hounds attempt to change attitude
  16. ^ Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association
  17. ^ Western Illinois Coaching Records
  18. ^ Alumni Association: Community: Western Illinois University
  19. ^ a b http://athletics.cc.edu/geninfo/pdf/Football_Individual_Records_Coaching_Records.pdf
  20. ^ Iowa State Coaching Records
  21. ^ Brown Mackie College history
  22. ^ College Football Data Warehouse Kansas Wesleyan Coyotes coaching records
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  25. ^ Christensen, Joe (December 2, 2014). "Kill named Big Ten Coach of Year". StarTribune.com. Retrieved May 17, 2016.
  26. ^ "The Late Steve Anson To Be Inducted Into The Kansas Sports Hall Of Fame". WIBW News Now. June 8, 2016. Retrieved June 8, 2016.
  27. ^ The Victoria Advocate "Sweden's First Shot at Football a Success Despite 72-7 Defeat" by Stephaan Nastrom, Jun 20, 1985
  28. ^ ESPN.com "College Football" May 11, 2010
  29. ^ Hargiss and football at the College of Emporia
  30. ^ Scrafield, Stefan (October 20, 2014). "National reaction: Swoopes beginning to turn corner, live up to hype". Sports Day DFW. Retrieved November 2, 2014.
  31. ^ Leban, Jake (October 8, 2014). "Kaw Valley Bank Big 12 Report with ESPN's Jake Trotter". WIBW-TV. Retrieved November 2, 2014.
  32. ^ "Jake Trotter from ESPN". The Team 560 AM. August 2, 2014. Retrieved November 2, 2014.
  33. ^ Woolum, Bailey (December 7, 2013). "Quake? no problem for a field goal kicker". KFOR News Channel 4. Retrieved November 2, 2014.
  34. ^ Hurm, Nick (January 19, 2012). "The Afternoon Line, 1/19 (Jake Trotter edition)". The Cincinnati Enquirer. Retrieved November 2, 2014.
  35. ^ http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/JSH/JSH2001/JSH2803/JSH2803f.pdf
  36. ^ a b Shaping College Football: The Transformation of an American Sport, 1919-1930 - Raymond Schmidt - Google Books. Books.google.com. 2007-06-30. Retrieved 2012-10-19.
  37. ^ "Haskell Indian Nations University Commemorates 125th Anniversary, Recognizes Painful History - Higher Education". Diverseeducation.com. 2009-06-01. Retrieved 2012-10-19.
  38. ^ http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2015/may/21/haskell-suspends-football-program-2015-season/
  39. ^ Trimble, Jamie (August 20, 2007). "Alumni Spotlight: Liz Heaston '99 Gets Kicks in more than One Sport". Willamette University Athletics. Retrieved April 21, 2011.