Category: Duquesne Dukes
CSN: Gridiron Classic Comes to Close, Pioneer Continues Pursuit of AQ
ST. LOUIS - After a four year relationship between the Pioneer Football League and Northeast Conference, the Gridiron Classic will cease to exist according to information provided to College Sporting News writer Jason Plotkin.
- 191 words - Pioneer Football League, San Diego Toreros, Northeast Conference, Monmouth Hawks, Marist Red Foxes, Albany Great Danes, Central Connecticut State Blue Devils, Wagner Seahawks, Duquesne Dukes, Robert Morris Colonials, Saint Francis (PA) Red Flash, Sacred Heart Pioneers, Dayton Flyers, Morehead State Eagles, Davidson Wildcats, Jacksonville Dolphins, Drake Bulldogs, Butler Bulldogs, Valparaiso Crusaders, Campbell Camels, Gridiron Classic The Sporting News Tabs Wagner First In Preseason Poll
Staten Island, NY – The Wagner College football team has been picked to win the Northeast Conference by The Sporting News Preseason Football Magazine. In addition, quarterback Nick Doscher has been tabbed by the magazine as the league’s top offensive player.
- 280 words - Northeast Conference, Monmouth Hawks, Albany Great Danes, Central Connecticut State Blue Devils, Wagner Seahawks, Duquesne Dukes, Robert Morris Colonials, Saint Francis (PA) Red Flash, Sacred Heart Pioneers Hough not finished with football
The summer sun never fully sets in Finland, where Greg Hough went to keep playing football.
Not ready to quit the game but not quite NFL material when he graduated from Duquesne in December 2008, Hough, once a star fullback for the Dukes and at Pine-Richland High School, discovered a vibrant American football community overseas that helped rekindle his passion for the game.
Years after the NFL Europe ceased in 2007, hundreds of American football teams still exist across the continent, some of which have been around since the 1970s. They’re the equivalent of American semi-pro clubs, and they pay American players, or “imports,” to play for their teams and help grow the sport in their countries, where “football” alone means soccer.
Interviews From Monmouth-Duquesne Football Game (9/19/09)
Monmouth-Duquesne Football Highlights (9/19/09)
Albany Favored in the NEC, All-Conference Team Named
UAlbany stands as the unanimous favorite to capture the 2009 Northeast Conference football crown, which would be its third straight. The Great Danes received eight first-place votes to finish atop an annual survey of league’s head coaches for a fourth consecutive season. Monmouth, the 2008 NEC runner-up, garnered the lone remaining first-place nod to finish second in the preseason poll, the results of which were announced during a media teleconference Tuesday morning. The Conference also unveiled its Preseason All-NEC Team during the media session, which served as a prelude to the NEC’s 14th season on the gridiron.
- 2485 words - Northeast Conference, Monmouth Hawks, Albany Great Danes, Central Connecticut State Blue Devils, Wagner Seahawks, Duquesne Dukes, Robert Morris Colonials, Saint Francis (PA) Red Flash, Sacred Heart Pioneers Northeast Conference Announces 2009 Television Slate
Set to commence its 14th football season, the Northeast Conference (NEC) today announced plans to televise four games in 2009.
- 437 words - Northeast Conference, Monmouth Hawks, Albany Great Danes, Central Connecticut State Blue Devils, Wagner Seahawks, Duquesne Dukes, Robert Morris Colonials, Saint Francis (PA) Red Flash, Sacred Heart Pioneers Rombach Sharp During Duquesne Scrimmage
It was former Duquesne starter Kevin Rombach — not last year’s starter, Connor Dixon, the injury-plagued former Michigan State quarterback from South Park High School — who took the majority of the snaps in spring football practices for the Dukes.
And it was Rombach, a first-team all-Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Football League selection in 2007 before being replaced by Dixon for the 2008 season, who threw three long touchdown passes in Duquesne’s annual Red-Blue spring scrimmage on Saturday at Rooney Field.
Rombach, Spragg Lead Duquesne Offense In Spring Scrimmage
Duo connects on a pair of long distance first-half touchdowns as the first team offense puts up 30 points
Senior quarterback Kevin Rombach (Harrisburg, Pa./Central Dauphin) completed 8-of-14 passes for 231 yards and three first-half touchdowns - including scoring strikes of 43 and 61 yards to sophomore Isaac Spragg (Westfield, Va./Valley Forge Military Academy) - to pace the offense in Duquesne’s annual Spring game played before 300 fans at sun-drenched Rooney Field.
Players Making Last-Minute Decisions Wise (FCS) Ones
Freedom High senior Eddie Mateo was down to the final days and his mind was about made up to sign a National Letter of Intent to attend NCAA Division II Bloomsburg University.
All it took was just his signature on dotted lines during Wednesday’s Signing Day.
Mateo, an Associated Press and Morning Call All-Area first-team running back, definitely signed, but the 5-foot-10, 190-pound powerhouse committed to Stony Brook of the Football Championship Subdivision’s Big South Conference. He’s headed there on a full scholarship.
Robert Morris Runs Past Duquesne
MOON TWP. — Two years ago, Myles Russ was a tiny scatback from Florida, running away from defenses and piling up yardage as the South Florida Sun-Sentinel’s 6A Player of the Year. His small stature kept the major schools away, so he found his way to Robert Morris and split time with Raphael Johnson as a freshman.
But even he couldn’t have envisioned this.
Russ set a school record with 37 carries — for 246 yards and two touchdowns — as Robert Morris knocked off Duquesne 34-27 in a Northeast Conference game played in front of 3,942 at Joe Walton Stadium.
Duquesne-Robert Morris Highlights
Turnovers Plague Duquesne in Defeat Against Albany, 33-23
Most of the crowd of 1,682 at cozy Rooney Field had dispersed when Connor Dixon emerged from a locker room with an ice pack on his surgically repaired right shoulder and an unpredictable smile on his face.
Dixon, the first-year Duquesne University quarterback who led South Park to the 2005 PIAA Class AA football championship before signing with Michigan State, wasn’t thrilled with the Dukes’ 33-23 Northeast Conference loss to Albany (N.Y.).
Nor was he discouraged.
Red Flash Gear Up for Duquesne Aerial Attack
LORETTO — The Red Flash anticipate an aerial barrage today in Pittsburgh.
As the St. Francis football team attempts to bounce back after a heart-breaking loss last week, the Red Flash realize that Duquesne has a potent offense.
The Dukes (0-1), who lost 48-42 at Bucknell in their opener two weeks ago, are led by senior Connor Dixon, who transferred from Michigan State. Dixon threw for 429 yards and a Duquense-record six touchdowns in his opening effort for the Dukes.
Bucknell Withstands Furious Duquesne Rally
LEWISBURG – Bucknell quarterback Marcello Trigg is a big fan of at least one of the changes new Bucknell offensive coordinator Harold Nicolas made to the Bison’s spread option, lining him up in the shotgun rather than under center.
“It’s a whole lot easier to read the defense five yards behind the line of scrimmage,” Trigg said. “It’s much easier to see what the defense is bringing or what they might be bringing (on a blitz).”
Duquesne Faces Stern Test against Bucknell
Duquesne, in its first season as an associate football-playing member of the Northeast Conference, opens its schedule today at Bucknell, seeking a stop to a five-game losing streak to the Bison on their home field.
“I think our kids feel real good about the game,” said Duquesne coach Jerry Schmitt, who is 1-2 in openers with the Dukes, including a 28-19 setback in 2007 at Rooney Field that, nonetheless, saw Duquesne score on each of its first three drives and on four of the first five.
Pittsburgh Area NEC Teams Must Earn Respect On Field
It appears that Duquesne will have to earn its respect on the football field this fall in its inaugural season in the Northeast Conference.
Despite winning or sharing 11 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference championships in the past 14 seasons, the Dukes were picked to finish fifth in the eight-team NEC in a preseason vote of the league coaches. Robert Morris was sixth and Saint Francis, Pa., eighth. Defending champion Albany was chosen to repeat.
NEC Football Getting Bigger and Better
NEW BRITAIN - As the Northeast Conference’s first football preseason Media Day went on Tuesday, there was one thing everyone could agree on. Every coach touted his own players, and each team’s case for why it will have a good season was presented. Much of it was “coachspeak", the art by which every coach spins things to make his team look as good as it can. The part about how good the Northeast Conference is going to be was not.
Automatic NCAA Bid Perks Up NEC Coaches
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – Movin’ on up was the dominant theme yesterday when the Northeast Conference coaches spoke during a preseason teleconference.
Whether asked or not, all the coaches made reference to the league’s impending automatic bid to the Football Championship Subdivision (formerly I-AA) postseason championship tourney and to the possibility of the NEC champion getting a bid this season and next if its members post a cumulative above-.500 record against teams whose conference champions receive automatic bids.
NEC Tabs Duquesne as Fifth-Place Team
Duquesne’s relentless dominance of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Football League earned it 10 titles in 14 years. But when the league’s membership dwindled to four it folded, and the Dukes joined the Northeast Conference as an associate member.
On Tuesday, Duquesne was chosen to finish fifth in a preseason poll of coaches for the NEC’s eight championship-eligible teams.
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