In 1998, the Duquesne football team became the beneficiary of Pitt transfer quarterback Tony Zimmerman, the former Penn-Trafford High School star, who would set 14 school records with the Dukes. Ten years later, former Michigan State and South Park q… more »

Quarterback Connor Dixon, who led South Park to the 2005 PIAA Class AA football championship before signing with Michigan State, has transferred to Duquesne and will be eligible to play this coming season. Dixon, who confirmed his decision Wednesday… more »

Duquesne University football coach Jerry Schmitt can see it on campus when the bulldozers and cement mixers are working at Rooney Field. When he watches his players lifting weights. When he reads his mail. He can feel it, too. "There are a lot of… more »

According to Monmouth University football coach Kevin Callahan, NCAA approval of playoff expansion for the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) has been a long time coming. It was approved Thursday. "This playoff expansion and access to the… more »

NEC football champion receives bid in 2010. The University at Albany football team will have an easier path to the NCAA playoffs. Starting in 2010, the Northeast Conference champion will receive an automatic bid to the Football Championship Subd… more »

NCAA proposal would give NEC league champ "conditional" playoff bid. The University at Albany football team won the Northeast Conference championship last season but got shut out of the NCAA playoffs. The Great Danes are hoping a proposed change o… more »

Monmouth University's football team may soon have a path to the national playoffs. Under a proposal to be voted on Thursday by the NCAA Board of Directors, the Northeast Conference champion, which includes Monmouth University, will have a "conditiona… more »

Duquesne enters a new era of football in the fall in a new league with scholarship players for the first time and a renovated home field, but coach Jerry Schmitt doesn't expect the Dukes to look much different than the teams that dominated the Metro Atl… more »

Duquesne, which is preparing to play in its first season in the Northeast Conference, is among the most winning programs in NCAA Division I FCS Mid-Major. The Dukes, longtime members of the defunct Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Football League, hav… more »

Two athletes who just had their jerseys retired are going to play at the next level at Duquesne and Iona. Walking through the halls at Dunmore High School, Pat Hart passed the jerseys of great athletes who defined the tradition of athletics at the sc… more »

Scholarship money, NEC lure 23 recruits. Duquesne football coach Jerry Schmitt found new recruiting doors opened because the Dukes are offering athletic scholarships for the first time in the modern era and are heading to the Northeast Conference aft… more »

Larry McCoy relied on strength, speed and smarts whenever he carried the ball for the George Wythe High School football team. Those same traits helped him earn a college scholarship. The senior running back signed with Duquesne University on Friday i… more »

Pittsburgh – Duquesne record-setting wide receiver Bruce Hocker (Upper Marlboro, Md./Eleanor Roosevelt), fresh off an appearance in the 2008 Hula Bowl in Honolulu, Hawaii on Jan. 12, has accepted an invitation to play for the United States team in the T… more »

Let the debate begin. Is Greg Gattuso the greatest coach in Duquesne Football history? It says here that he is. The bottom line: Coaching wins are not all that "relative." Yes, Gattuso won most of his football games at Duquesne against an NCAA Divi… more »

WR Bruce Hocker is the first Duke to ever be invited to the Hula Bowl. Hocker to Hula Senior receiver to play in Hula Bowl on Saturday, Jan. 12 Jan. 4, 2008 (Photo & story courtesy of Duquesne Athletics) PITTSBURGH - Duquesne record-settin… more »