Category: Delaware State Hornets
Braxton gets final look at legacy in DSU spring game
Hornets bid farewell to offensive line coach, hired by Cheyney.
DOVER -- Jeff Braxton made one last trip to Delaware State for football's sake on Saturday, but left the Hornets' Red-White spring game with a heart weighted by excitement and sadness.… more »
Former Delaware State Lineman Bears Down To Protect His Job
The former Delaware State lineman knows the NFL draft could yield his replacement on the Philadelphia Eagles.
PHILADELPHIA -- It's 6:50 a.m. on a Monday. Dusk recently gave way to morning light. Traffic is just beginning to clog the Schuylkill Expres… more »
No MEAC-SWAC Game on Delaware State Schedule
DOVER -- Delaware State's official football schedule is remarkable not for which teams the Hornets play in 2008, but the one it won't.
DSU, fresh off its first appearance in the NCAA Division I-AA playoffs, has a second consecutive away game with I-A… more »
Delaware State Adds Two Transfers
Lewis, Wright leave Va. Tech to join Hornets.
Football coach Al Lavan confirmed Wednesday evening that two former Virginia Tech football players plan to enroll at Delaware State University in the fall, running back Elan Lewis and linebacker Matt Wrig… more »
DSU's Moore hitting stride
The new Hornet wide receiver is learning fast after just one season at his new position.
DOVER -- Nothing Laronne Moore does suggests rookie. At 6-foot tall, Moore has that sinewy, streamlined leanness of a veteran wide receiver. He can reach out to… more »
Lavan Wary as Hornets Look to Build on 2007
As spring practice starts, challenges await for the Hornets.
DOVER -- Al Lavan has maintained an important principle during his more than 35 years of coaching football: Forget your accolades.
That's not easy, particularly when a team comes off a s… more »
HBCUs struggling to survive
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- As a record-setting superstar quarterback at Grambling State, Doug Williams enjoyed all the glory and fame that goes with being a shark swimming in a kiddie pool.
As a head coach at his alma mater, Williams lived in the underbell… more »
Small School NFL Scouting Combine Invitees
Every year around this time of year thousands of college football players from around the country are waiting anxiously for the NFL Scouting Combine list to be published. For most of the top division 1 players, the list is uneventful, already assured of… more »
SC Recruits Choose FCS Schools
South Carolina Recruits talk about the reasons for their FCS decisions - including an offensive lineman committed to Delaware State coming off a run at the start championship.
FLORENCE — Fresh off a Class 3A state championship run, offensive line… more »
Elko signs with Delaware State; Johnson-Farrell opts for Rhode Island
Arundel High's record-setting quarterback and his favorite target both accepted football scholarship offers last week.
Quarterback Nick Elko, the Capital-Gazette Newspapers' Player of the Year, committed to Delaware State of the Mid-Eastern Athletic… more »
Diversity on Their Fields
The Washington Post weighs in on a new trend: some historically black colleges & universities are recruiting more white players for football.
Joey Christine spent two years waiting for a scholarship offer. An All-Met offensive lineman at Sherando… more »
AAFL Draft Features 47 FCS Alumni
The All-American Football League, a for-profit, professional football league, held their inaugural draft on Saturday, January 26th. In that draft were 47 alumni of schools who played Football Championship Subdivision football (formerly known as I-AA fo… more »
Jones, Wallace connect for TD for Northeast in American Heritage Bowl
FULLERTON, Calif. (AP) -- Chris Wallace threw a 70-yard touchdown pass to Arkansas-Pine Bluff teammate Jason Jones and the Northeast beat the Southwest 24-7 in the American Heritage Bowl on Saturday night.
Jones also had a 24-yard reception and was h… more »
Bowling Green QB Transfers to Delaware State
Glaud leaves Bowling Green to join MEAC champs, and more news of Hornet signings.
DOVER -- In November, there was little doubt about who was the starting quarterback at Delaware State. It was three-year starter Vashon Winton, a Chicago native who wou… more »