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Posted by Ric 5/31/00
Thanks to everyone that has emailed with the nice comments about the site! It is very much appreciated! I will be updating the Links page as soon as I get the chance, including adding a really nice College Football Stat site. Look for it soon. We will also get the Playoff Recaps done soon! And I have so many great pictures from Bill Gough, I'm thinking of adding a picture page... they just keep getting better and better, and the ones he sent of the Mount Union - Augustana playoff game are truly wonderful! Look for them added soon in some way!
Posted by Ric 5/28/00
Happy Memorial Day everyone! I hope this holiday weekend is a safe and enjoyable one for you and your loved ones.
I've posted our 2000 Mount Union Season Preview. It's in the Headlines section in the purple menu. If it doesn't get you ready for football, I don't know what will! Once, again, thanks to Bill Gough for the wonderful pictures.
Posted by Ric 5/27/00
Larry Faith has taken a look back at the 1950 Mount Union season, one in which the Purple Raiders defeated both Akron and Kent State. It's titled 1950 Remembered and is in the Memories section.
I've also made some additions to the right menu, including adding Adam Marino's photo.
Posted by Ric 5/25/00
This one is real special! The picture to the left is of Mount Union Stadium on it's first birthday in 1914! Click on the small image to see a larger picture. Thanks very much to Dick Ross for this photo!
There are a number of new links in the Division III Football section in the left menu. You can now get your playoff recaps in Playoff History, see all the schools that have been in the playoffs in School Participation, read what went on in Division III before the national championships started Prior to 1973, along with your Stagg Bowl History and list of players of the year in the Gagliardi Trophy section.
Posted by Ric 5/24/00
Here's another Mount Union
football game program from a long time ago in the Memories section. This
one goes back 53 years to the 1947 season and is from a game verses this years opening
opponent, Allegheny College. You can see a larger picture by
clicking on the image at the right.
Posted by Ric 5/23/00
I've posted another story in the Memories section in the left menu, this one a recap of a special day in Mount Union history... October 16, 1999. The story is titled Sweetest Day, and was written by Dick Ross. Thanks again also to Bill Gough for capturing the day in pictures.
Posted by Ric 5/22/00
Congratulations to two football players that are excelling in other athletics at Mount Union. Chuck Moore, from Mogadore, and Mike Miller, of Cuyahoga Falls, were two of seven Purple Raider baseball players to earn All-OAC status this spring!
I've received a number of good suggestions for the site, including adding a guest page so past players, alumni and others can post their email addresses for others to use as a tool to get back in touch, a section with directions to the road games for the Raiders this season and possibly doing features on different football players. We'll be working on these things and more in the near future!
Thanks to Bill Gough for the two new pictures of RB Chuck Moore and LB Jesse Pearson in the right menu!
Posted by Ric 5/21/00
Three people have joined the site today...
Larry Faith has been following Mount Union football since the 1950s, and will provide interesting look-backs into Purple Raider football history. His first story is titled Raider Reflections and can be found in the Memories section in the left menu.
Dick Ross has also agreed to post his very interesting game recaps here. For those of you that have been lucky enough to get his past stories, you know how entertaining his style of writing is to read! Dick is a 1966 graduate of Mount Union.
Another Mount Grad, Bill Gough, from the class of '71, will also be adding gameday pictures to help bring the site to life!
Thanks to everyone for the help!
Here is a picture of the game program from the only meeting on the gridiron between Mount Union College and Ohio State University, played in 1930. You can see a larger picture of the program by clicking on the image to the right. This item sold at ebay today for $202.50. It sold 70-years ago on gameday for .25 cents. Thanks to Dick Ross for sending me the picture.
Posted by Ric 5/20/00
I've finished the Results by Year section in the left menu. You can now go there to see the scores of all the games in Mount Union football history separated into decades.
Two seasons jumped out at me as I was putting these pages together...
The first was 1940, when the Raiders went 0-8-1 and scored only seven points all season... Yikes!
The other was 1905. The Raiders were 0-6 and had been outscored 254-0 as they approached the final two games of the season, a home and home series with Hiram. It seems some things never change, and beating up on Hiram took place at the start of the century, even in that kind of year! Not only did Mount score it's first points of the season, it swept the two-game series 10-5 and 22-0 to finish the year 2-6. Wonder if Hiram had a "honorary" offensive coordinator for the first series back then :)
Posted by Ric 5/18/00
Two quarterbacks and another tall defensive back have announced their intentions to play football at Mount Union this fall. Jamie Robert Allmon, a defensive back, and Brett Marshall, a quarterback/kicker, are from Massillon Washington High School, while quarterback/outside linebacker Paul Swingle is from Gahanna High School.
We have also learned that George Momirovic, a 6-5, 320, offensive lineman from East Canton, has announced his plans to become a Purple Raider. Momirovic comes with a pretty impressive resume, which includes first-team All-Stark County honors this past season. Thanks to John and Mark for the heads-up on that one!
Looks like ex-Alliance native and one-time Purple Raider linebacker, Mark Black, now on the coaching staff in Massillon, is having a positive impact on where those kids want to play college ball, as we now know of at least three Tigers coming to Mount this year!
You can see our entire football recruiting list here.
Posted by Ric 5/17/00
It's been a great day here at MtUnionFootball.com, thanks for all the great emails! It is very much appreciated. I'm working on finishing all the "Results by Year" for the Purple Raiders, and then we'll dive into recapping all the playoff years...
If only Woolf hadn't slipped on the ice in '85, and if Kring could have played in the final in '86, and if they would have called it a touchdown in '90 (Like they should have!), and if there was one less turnover in the freezing cold in '92, and we came up one point shy in '94, and OT in '99... how many Stagg Bowls may Mount Union have been to? Read all about it here soon!
Posted by Ric 5/16/00
Welcome to our new home! Thanks for stopping by. We've added a new section at the bottom of the left menu titled Division III Football. We list all the Stagg Bowl winners and also the past Gagliardi Trophy winners, two of which are our very own Jim Ballard and Bill Borchert. We will also dig in depth into the history of the Division III Playoffs soon, and we will be adding an intro page in the next day or so.
Posted by Ric 5/15/00
Purple Raiders running back Chuck Moore had a productive spring playing center field and hitting .366 for the Mount Union baseball team. He also tied for the team lead in homers with six and batted in 38 runs, leading the Raiders to a 23-15-1 mark. The junior carries a 3.681 GPA and earned 2000 GTE second team College Division IV Baseball Team honors. Congratulations Chuck!
Posted by Ric 5/14/00
The Purple Raiders have landed another tall defensive back... Jason Jarvis, a 6-1, 191, DB from Massillon Washington High School has announced his decision to attend Mount Union College and play football for the Raiders this fall. Jarvis, a Northeast Inland District honorable-mention selection and All-Stark County football pick as a senior for the Tigers in 1999, is the second DB taller than 6'0 to commit to MUC, joining Robert Jones, a 6-1, 165, DB from Jefferson High School. You can see the entire list of recruits we have here.
There are more links now working in the left menu. If you click on Raider Records, you'll be able to find out all you want to know about the best performances ever by the Purple and White. I've also included playoff records and all the Stagg Bowl records held by Mount Union. And also, you can now read, or re-read, as the case may be, about the Purple Raiders four Stagg Bowl titles as I've posted a story and the game stats for each of the four wins in the National Championships section in the left menu.
Posted by Ric 5/12/00
I have great news for this site today! We are not quite a week old and today we secured plans for an official domain for this site. This means early next week you'll be able to reach us at our new home... www.MtUnionFootball.com !
All the very nice emails I have received has led to this. Thank-you very much! Ross at Alliance Link has provided a lot of help with his endeavor and is providing the new server home for this site. Thank-you Ross! I've received a number of very good suggestions for the site, and if you have any, please let me know by sending an email ! Thank-you!
Posted by Ric 5/11/00
It was a dreary overcast day Wednesday in Alliance, really felt like football weather, but, unfortunately Mount Union Stadium was empty when I stopped by to take this picture. We're still more than four months from the home opener. Who ever said time flies? In the meantime, I've finished the Head Coaches section so you can now take a look at the all-time records produced by every coach to ever walk the sidelines for the Purple Raiders. One by one, I'm getting all these links finished!
Posted by Ric 5/10/00
I've added a number of things to the site today. There's a new section in the left menu titled Headlines where I've included stories on Mount's 2000 schedule and the list of recruits we know about. I've also added the link to the Opponents History page, so you can now see the all-time results the Raiders have had verse it's opponents.
Posted by Ric 5/9/00
I've got all the tinkering done in terms of what I want this main page and all the link pages to look like. I hope you like the new look on all the link pages... this new format will allow for easier reading of information I believe. I've also added a picture of Jim Ballard at the bottom of the right menu. We've seen such great quarterbacking the last six-years with Borchert and Smeck it's easy to forget just how damn good he was! I have also uploaded the About Us page, a sort of "why I did this site" venting. :)
Posted by Ric 5/8/00
I've added a little bit more info in the left menu. You can now click on the final 1999 OAC Standings link to see the final standings along with all the scores from last season. I have also added some information to the 2000 Schedule link. You can now see how Mount Union has done in it's history verse this seasons opponents and also see how the Purple Raiders have faired in just the Larry Kehres era. That isn't pretty for opposing teams! Also, thanks for all the nice comments I've received via email. Your kind words are appreciated!
Posted by Ric 5/7/00
I now have a couple of the links working in the left menu. You can take a look at Mount's 2000 Schedule, check out the Links page, and my email is now working if you'd like to give me a shout on ways to improve the site! Let me know, should the music stay or go? I'm working on getting the fight song the MUC band plays, but if the music makes download times too long, I'll lose it.
Posted by Ric 5/6/00
Hi and welcome to my site! It is in the very early stages so please be patient, there is a lot of work to do! Soon you will be able to access a link to all the information in the left menu to view that info. I will also add a links section and my email soon for your feedback. Thank-you for stopping by.
Posted by Ric 5/5/00
Here's a short list of incoming
freshman expected to play football in the fall for Mount Union: Robert Bradley, a 6-5, 345, offensive tackle
from Massaponax High School in Fredericksburg, VA.
Robert Jones, a 6-1, 165, first-team all-county selection as both a wide receiver and defensive back from Jefferson High School.
Brian Reisert, a 6-1, 195, quarterback who was a two-time team MVP at Cincinnati Moeller.
Shaun Spisak, a 5-11, 205, linebacker and team captain from Nordonia High School. Was first-team All-Western Reserve
Robert VanDyke, a 6-0, 210, All-Jefferson County first-team selection as a defensive lineman from Edison High School.
Dustin Wilson, a 6-4, 310, four year starter, team captain and first-team all-conference pick as an offensive tackle/defensive end from Warren (PA) High School.