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1977 Widener Pride Football Team
The 1977 Widener Pioneers football team represented Widener University as a member of the Middle Atlantic Conference (MAC) during the 1977 NCAA Division III football season. The team won the 1977 NCAA Division III national championship. Season overview In their ninth season under head coach Bill Manlove, the Pride compiled an 11–1 record and won the NCAA Division III championship. The team lost to in the second game of the season – Widener's first home defeat since 1970. The Fordham loss was followed by a 10-game winning streak. In the NCAA Division III playoffs, the Pioneers shut out (17–0) on the road. In the semifinals, the Pioneers defeated as Chip Zawoiski carried a record 31 times for 171 rushing yards. In the Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl, Widener faced . The Pioneers won, 39–36, in a game that featured five lead changes. Widener ultimately pulled ahead with two fourth-quarter touchdowns on passes of 25 and 70 yards from Mark Walter to Walker Carter. The team playe ...
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Middle Atlantic Conferences
The Middle Atlantic Conferences (MAC) is an umbrella organization of three college athletic conference, athletic conferences that competes in the National Collegiate Athletic Association, NCAA's NCAA Division III, Division III. The 18 member colleges are in the Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic United States. The organization is divided into two main conferences: the MAC Commonwealth Conference, MAC Commonwealth and the MAC Freedom Conference, MAC Freedom. A third conference, named the Middle Atlantic Conference (singular), draws members from both the Commonwealth and Freedom conferences and sponsors College athletics in the United States, sports that only a certain set of members participate in, such as track & field and cross country. History In 1912, the Middle Atlantic States Collegiate Athletics Association (MASCAA) was founded primarily as a track association and had its first event, a track meet, at Lafayette College in May 1913. In 1922, it was reorganized as the ...
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Widener Pride Football Seasons
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Doylestown is a borough and the county seat of Bucks County in Pennsylvania, United States. It is located northwest of Trenton, north of Center City, Philadelphia, southeast of Allentown, and southwest of New York City. As of the 2020 census, the borough population was 8,300. History Like most of the region, the area of Doylestown was inhabited by the Lenape people until the arrival of the Europeans. Doylestown's origins date to March 1745 when William Doyle obtained a license to build a tavern on what is now the northwest corner of Dyers Road and Coryell's Ferry Road (now Main and State Streets). Known for years as "William Doyle's Tavern," its strategic location, at the intersection of the road (now U.S. Route 202 in Pennsylvania, U.S. Route 202) linking Swede's Ford (Norristown, Pennsylvania, Norristown) and Coryell's Ferry (New Hope, Pennsylvania, New Hope) and the road (now Pennsylvania Route 611, PA Route 611) linking Philadelphia and Easton, Pennsylvania, Ea ...
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William B. Manlove Jr. (born February 5, 1933) is a former American football coach. He served as the head football coach at Widener University from 1969 to 1991, at Delaware Valley College from 1992 to 1995, and at La Salle University from 1997 to 2001, compiling a career college football coaching record of 212–111–1. Manlove led Widener to two NCAA Division III Football Championships, in 1977 and 1981. He served as president of the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) in 1991. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2011. Early life Manlove was born in Barrington, New Jersey, and graduated from Haddon Heights High School in 1951. After serving in the United States Army, he received a Bachelor of Science in education in 1958 and a master's degree in 1960 from Temple University. Coaching career Manlove was an assistant coach at Gloucester City Junior-Senior High School in Gloucester City, New Jersey from 1957 to 1959 and was head coach from 19 ...
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Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl
The NCAA Division III Football Championship began in 1973. The Division III playoffs begin with 32 teams selected to participate in the Division III playoffs. The Division III championship game, known as the Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl or Stagg Bowl (named after Amos Alonzo Stagg), will be held at Navy–Marine Corps Memorial Stadium on the grounds of the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland in 2022, with sites selected through 2025. The championship game was previously held at Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium in Canton, Ohio (2021), Woodforest Bank Stadium in Shenandoah, Texas (2018–2019), Salem Football Stadium in Salem, Virginia (1993–2017), at Hawkins Stadium in Bradenton, Florida (1990–1992), Garrett-Harrison Stadium in Phenix City, Alabama (1973–1982, 1985–1989), and at Galbreath Field at the College Football Hall of Fame, when the Hall was located in Kings Island, Ohio (1983–1984). West and East Regional Championships (1969–1972) In 1969, the ...
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