Now
there are four: Wabash College (“Little Giants”), Crawfordsville, Ind.; Morehouse
College (“Maroon Tigers”), Atlanta; St. John’s University (“Johnnies“), Collegeville, Minn., and Hampden-Sydney
College (“Tigers”), Hampden-Sydney, Va.
In
the second round of the 2013 NCAAD3 football playoffs, Hampden-Sydney travels
approximately 2,250 air miles -- assuming between Roanoke,
Va., and Portland, Ore. airports -- to play Linfield, Northwest Conference
champ, on Maxwell Field. Kickoff is noon Saturday, Nov. 30.
What’s
the history of Linfield football versus teams from all-male colleges?
A cursory
look in the Linfield football record book indicates this is only the second all-male
college the Wildcats will have faced.
Linfield
has played St. John’s thrice and lost all: 33-0 in 1965, Augusta, Ga., NAIA
championship game; 21-14 in 2002, Maxwell Field and 31-25 in 2003, Collegeville. The latter
two games were NCAAD3 quarterfinals.
Part
of the 17-member Old Dominion Athletic Conference, Hampden-Syndey is ODAC
football champ. Other ODAC members are Bridgewater,
Eastern Mennonite, Emory & Henry, Guilford, Hollins, Lynchburg, Randolph,
Randolph–Macon, Roanoke, Shenandoah, Sweet Briar, Virginia Wesleyan and
Washington and Lee. Catholic, Greensboro and Notre Dame of Maryland are
associate members.
Links:
--Roanoke Times sports
--Hampden-Sydney athletics-football
--D3football.com photos from 11/23/2011 PLU at Linfield football game
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