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August 2001 News
Posted by Ric 8/30/01
The 2001 season is upon us. The Mount Union tri-captains this fall are Ed Malone, Chuck Moore and Jason Perkins. Best of luck to the coaching staff and entire football team.
Posted by Ric 8/27/01
The Mount Union College Sports Information Director's office has posted its official preview of the football season opener vs. Allegheny. You can read it here.
Posted by Ric 8/26/01
Mount Union opens the 2001 season this Saturday against Allegheny. You can find out more about the Gators by reading its season preview here. Allegheny was picked to finish second in the North Coast Athletic Conference by both the NCAC head coaches and the media covering the conference.
Posted by Ric 8/25/01
One week till the 2001 opener and it's time to get your thoughts in our MTU
Opinion Poll. The new question is a simple one: "Purple
Raiders vs. Gators in the opener... your thoughts?"
Our last poll tells us most of you think John Carroll will be Mount Union's biggest challenger in the OAC this season. The Blue Streaks received 57% of the vote, followed by the Wilmington Quakers (16%), the Ohio Northern Polar Bears (13%), the Baldwin-Wallace Yellow Jackets (6%) and the Otterbein Cardinals (5%). No one else received more than one percent of the vote.
Posted by Ric 8/24/01
We've posted the 2001 Mount Union football team roster, complete with freshman. 176
names in all. Remember, this roster is subject to change. You can get to it here.
Posted by Ric 8/22/01
The Mount Union College Sports Information Director's office has posted a bio on all the returning lettermen on this year's Purple Raider football team. You can read what they have to say here.
Posted by Ric 8/20/01
Thus far most people voting in our August MTU Opinion Poll think it will
be John Carroll that will give Mount Union its biggest conference challenge this season.
We'll leave this poll up the rest of the week and then change it this weekend to
something pertaining to the season opener vs. Allegheny.
Posted by Ric 8/17/01
The counting has been done, everything has been tallied, and the final results are in.
The addition to the covered stands at Mount Union Stadium is pretty much finished
and the final word is... 5,658 seats. That's the new official seating capacity at
Mount Union Stadium. And of course we all know you can probably double that number
with standing room around the fences. The new and improved stadium will get its
first use tomorrow night during the Pigskin Preview. The intersquad scrimmage begins
at the stadium at 7:00 p.m.
Posted by Ric 8/16/01
Mount Union has scheduled a home and home football series with Wisconsin Whitewater to
open each of the next two seasons. The Purple Raiders will travel to Whitewater in
2002, with the Warhawks visiting Alliance in 2003. You can see the next four
tentative MTU football schedules in our Future Schedules section here.
Posted by Ric 8/15/01
Sports Illustrated has tabbed Mount Union as the team to beat in 2001. The
magazine picks the Purple Raiders as the number one team in Division III football in its
annual college football preview issue. Rounding out the top ten accourding to SI
are Hardin-Simmons second, followed by Washington & Jefferson, Pacific Lutheran,
Western Maryland, Trinity (TX), St. John's (MN), Widener, Bridgewater (VA) and Rowan.
Posted by Ric 8/14/01
Don Hanson's National Weekly Football Gazette has posted its Preseason All-American teams. Mount Union Purple Raiders included are running back Chuck Moore, first team offense; center Ed Malone, second team offense; cornerback Chris Kern, second team defense; linebacker Jason Perkins, third team defense; place-kicker Rodney Chenos, third team special teams; and quarterback Rob Adamson, fourth team offense. You can check out their entire All-American team here.
Posted by Ric 8/13/01
I got back into town late last night after spending last week away on a family vacation.
As you probably know by now, the OAC Football Media Day was held last Tuesday, and
as expected Mount Union was voted as most likely to repeat as football conference
champions in both the coaches and media polls. You can see the results here.
Posted by Ric 8/5/01
The annual Mount Union College Pigskin Preview will be Saturday, August 18th, with a picnic at 5:30 p.m. and an intersquad scrimmage at 7:00 p.m. All season ticket holders, football and cheerleader parents, Century Raiders and all interested fans are invited to attend. Head Coach Larry Kehres and several players will make a few remarks before the scrimmage in the stadium.
The Purple Raiders will also scrimmage Washington & Jefferson on Thursday, August 23rd at 7:00 p.m. in Washington (PA). If you are thinking of attending this scrimmage it is advised that you call Mount Union College that day to make sure there have not been any changes.
Posted by Ric 8/4/01
Mount Union College will be taking new orders from the general public for football season tickets or individual home game tickets beginning Monday, August 6th, during regular business hours.
The phone number to call if you want to purchase tickets is 330-821-6759. Season tickets are priced at $30.00 for covered stands reserve and press box reserve, and $25.00 for general reserve, for five Purple Raider home games. Individual game ticket prices are $6.00 for covered stands reserve and press box reserve, and $5.00 for general reserve.
Posted by Ric 8/3/01
D3football.com has posted its Preseason Top 25. They have selected Mount Union as the number one team in the nation, followed by Hardin-Simmons, Pacific Lutheran, Linfield, Bethel, Bridgewater (VA), Western Maryland, John Carroll, Trinity (TX) and St. John's (MN), rounding out the top ten. Ohio Northern also made the list at number 22. You can check out what they have to say here.
Posted by Ric 8/2/01
Despite what was reported in February, I have learned today that the playoff format to
determine semi-final host sites in NCAA Division III football will not change this year.
The higher seeded team will host the semi-final matchup regardless of whether that school
hosted any previous semi-final matchups. The number one factor that will determine
the host team is a seeding system based on what the teams did on the football field.
It was previously reported that a region would not be able to host a
semi-final contest more than two years in a row.
I have added the 2001 Coaching Staff page to the site today. You can see it here. I have also updated all the Purple Raider football records through the 2000 season. You can see get to those here.
Posted by Ric 8/1/01
Our July MTU Opinion Poll was a landslide. Almost half the
votes, 45 percent, favored last year's last-second Stagg Bowl win over St. John's as being
the favorite, followed by the 1998 victory over Rowan (21%) and the 1996 victory over
Rowan (20%). Mount Union's first Stagg Bowl win in 1993 grabbed 11 percent of the
vote, followed by the 1996 win over Lycoming (3%).
As we are now exactly one month away from the season opener, our August question asks, "Which Ohio Athletic Conference team presents the biggest challange for Mount Union in 2001?" You can vote now.