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2018 Emporia State Hornets Football Team
The 2018 Emporia State Hornets football team represented Emporia State University in the 2018 NCAA Division II football season. The Hornets played their home games on Jones Field at Francis G. Welch Stadium in Emporia, Kansas, as they have done since 1937. 2018 was the 121st season in school history. The Hornets are led by head coach Garin Higgins, who is in his 17th season overall, and 12th season at Emporia State as head coach. Emporia State has been a member of the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association (MIAA) since 1991. Preseason The Hornets enter the 2018 season after finishing with a 6–5 overall and in conference play last season under Higgins. On July 31, 2018 at the MIAA Football Media Day, the Hornets were chosen to finish fifth in both the Coaches Poll and Media Polls. Personnel Coaching staff Along with Higgins, there are 9 assistants. Roster Schedule Game notes, regular season Northeastern State Pittsburg State Nebraska–Kearney ...
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Garin Higgins
Garin Higgins (born October 11, 1968) is an American football college coach and former player. Higgins is the head football coach at Emporia State University in Emporia, Kansas, a position he has held since the 2007 season. Higgins previously served as the head football coach at Northwestern Oklahoma State University from 2000 to 2004. His Northwestern Oklahoma State Rangers football, Northwestern Oklahoma State Rangers finished as runners-up in the NAIA Football National Championship in 2000 and 2003. Higgins worked as co-offensive coordinator at Minnesota State University, Mankato and offensive coordinator at Northeastern State University in 2006. Early life Higgins was born in Blackwell, Oklahoma, on October 11, 1968, where he was an all-state quarterback for the Blackwell High School football team. After graduating high school in 1987, Higgins attended Emporia State University, where he was the quarterback for the football team. While at Emporia State, Higgins helped lead t ...
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Bearcat Stadium
Bearcat Stadium (formerly Memorial Stadium and Rickenbrode Stadium) is the football stadium of the Northwest Missouri State University Bearcats in Maryville, Missouri and is the oldest continuous site for any NCAA Division II school. It has a capacity of 6,500 and had lights and FieldTurf installed in the summer of 2007. It is part of the Ryland Milner Complex which includes Bearcat Arena in the Uel W. Lamkin Activity Center (formerly "Lamkin Gym"), which is where the college basketball team plays, Martindale Gymnasium (the original school gymnasium), and the Robert P. Foster Aquatic Center. The field is surrounded by the Herschel Neil Track (named for a university student and rival of Jesse Owens who held several NCAA track records in the 1930s). The playing field itself is called Tjeerdsma Field in honor of the school's winning football coach Mel Tjeerdsma. History The stadium originally opened in 1917 as Memorial Stadium, replacing a field on the north side of the Administ ...
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2018 Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association Football Season
The Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association (MIAA) is a college athletic conference affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division II level, headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri. Its fourteen member institutions, located in Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and Oklahoma, include twelve public and two private schools. The MIAA is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization incorporated in Missouri. Originally named the Missouri Intercollegiate Athletic Association, the conference was established in 1912 with 14 members, two of which are still current members. Six members (Central Methodist, Central Wesleyan, Culver–Stockton, Missouri Valley, Missouri Wesleyan, Tarkio College, Westminster, and William Jewell) were later removed from the conference in 1924 when it decided to only include the public schools. A majority of the charter members that left in 1924 have shut down their operations, or merged with another school. Over the nex ...
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Corsicana, Texas
Corsicana is a city in Navarro County, Texas, United States. It is located on Interstate 45, 56 miles northeast of Waco, Texas. The population was 23,770 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Navarro County, and an important Agri-business center. History Founded in 1848, Corsicana was named by José Antonio Navarro after the Mediterranean island of Corsica, the birthplace of his father. He had died when Navarro and his many siblings were young. The first school opened shortly afterwards in 1849. Women's groups have had a strong role throughout the history of the city. They established the Corsicana Female Literary Institute, a school that operated from 1857 through 1870. The first public library in Corsicana opened in 1901 by effort of the women's clubs of the city. A 1905 library matching gift by Andrew Carnegie gave the library a permanent home and its first full-time, professionally trained librarian. The library today is housed in a dedicated building downtown and ...
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Tiger Stadium (Corsicana)
Community National Bank & Trust Stadium is a 10,001-capacity high school and junior collegiate American football, track and field and soccer stadium adjacent to Corsicana High School in Corsicana, Texas. It is the current home of the Corsicana Tigers football, track and field, and soccer teams, the Navarro College Bulldogs football team, and the Heritage Bowl (Corsicana), an NCAA Division II Football Bowl Game. History The sports complex began its history as part of a larger $44.5 million bond project that was passed in 2004 to enlarge the high school, renovate and expand Corsicana Independent School District, Collins Middle School and improve facilities for sports and other extracurricular activities at both schools. Tiger Stadium sits on about of a site bought by the Corsicana Independent School District in 2004 in anticipation of the new stadium. Tiger Stadium replaces Tiger Field, which opened in 1961, as the home for the Corsicana Tigers and Navarro College Bulldogs. The s ...
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Arkansas–Monticello Boll Weevils Football
The Arkansas–Monticello Boll Weevils football program is the intercollegiate American football team for the University of Arkansas at Monticello located in the U.S. state of Arkansas. The team competes in the NCAA Division II and are members of the Great American Conference. Arkansas–Monticello's first football team was fielded in 1911. The team plays its home games at Willis "Convoy" Leslie Cotton Boll Stadium in Monticello, Arkansas. The Boll Weevils are coached by Hud Jackson. Conference Affiliations * Independent (1911 - 1941, 1943 - 1944, 1946 - 1960) * No Team (WWII) (1942, 1945) * Arkansas Intercollegiate Conference (1961 - 1994) * Gulf South Conference (1995 - 2010) * Great American Conference (2011–present) Playoff appearances NAIA The Boll Weevils made two appearances in the NAIA playoffs, with a combined record of 2–2. Boll Weevils in professional football Active As of May 2018, there is a total of one Boll Weevil listed on team rosters in the NFL, CF ...
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Edmond, Oklahoma
Edmond is a city in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, United States, and a part of the Oklahoma City metropolitan area in the central part of the state. The population was 94,428 according to the 2020 United States Census, making it the fifth largest city in Oklahoma. The city borders the northern boundary of Oklahoma City. Public transportation is provided by Citylink Edmond bus service. History 19th century The Santa Fe rail line in Oklahoma Territory established a water and coaling station for steam engines at this location when the Santa Fe Railroad built into Indian Territory in 1887.Oklahoma Municipal Government
''Oklahoma Almanac'', 2005, p. 535. (accessed October 1, 2013)
The site for the station was chosen because it was the highest point on the line in Oklahoma County; train could more easily accelerate g ...
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Wantland Stadium
Chad Richison Stadium (formerly Wantland Stadium) is the on-campus football facility for the University of Central Oklahoma Bronchos in Edmond, Oklahoma. The official seating capacity of the stadium, following recent renovations, is 10,000, making it tied for the 16th largest Division II stadium, and tied with Walton Stadium of the University of Central Missouri and Francis G. Welch Stadium of Emporia State University for the largest in the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association. History The stadium opened in 1965, and was originally named Wantland Stadium after former Broncho head coach Charles W. Wantland. The stadium is a dual sided with a grass berm that imitates a horseshoe-shaped facility with its long axis oriented north/south, with the south end enclosed by grass and the north end bounded by the Sports Performance Center. Visitor seating is on the east sideline. The student seating sections are in Section 102 located in the west stands on the south side, next ...
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Topeka, Kansas
Topeka ( ; Kansa language, Kansa: ; iow, Dópikˀe, script=Latn or ) is the Capital (political), capital city of the U.S. state of Kansas and the County seat, seat of Shawnee County, Kansas, Shawnee County. It is along the Kansas River in the central part of Shawnee County, in northeast Kansas, in the Central United States. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population of the city was 126,587. The Topeka Topeka, Kansas metropolitan area, metropolitan statistical area, which includes Shawnee, Jackson County, Kansas, Jackson, Jefferson County, Kansas, Jefferson, Osage County, Kansas, Osage, and Wabaunsee County, Kansas, Wabaunsee Counties, had a population of 233,870 in the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census. The name "Topeka" is a Kansa-Osage word that means "place where we dig potatoes", or "a good place to dig potatoes". As a placename, Topeka was first recorded in 1826 as the Kansa name for what is now called the Kansas River. Topeka's founders chose ...
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Yager Stadium At Moore Bowl
Yager Stadium at Moore Bowl is a sport stadium in Topeka, Kansas. The facility is primarily used by Washburn University for college football and men's and women's soccer teams. The stadium currently hosts the Kansas State High School Activities Association The Kansas State High School Activities Association (KSHSAA) is the organization which oversees interscholastic competition in the U.S. state of Kansas at the high school, high-school level. It oversees both athletic and non-athletic competition, ... Class 6A state championship game. Previously just called the Moore Bowl, the stadium was re-dedicated in 2002 and named for former Washburn player Gary Yager at the request of an anonymous donor.Topeka Capital-Journal
"Moore Bowl Facts" by Floyd Lee, November 3, 2002


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Emporia State–Washburn Football Rivalry
The Emporia State–Washburn football rivalry, commonly referred to as the Turnpike Tussle, is an American college football rivalry game played annually between the Emporia State Hornets football team of Emporia State University from Emporia, Kansas, and the Washburn Ichabods football team of Washburn University from Topeka, Kansas. Both schools currently compete in the NCAA Division II level, and are members of the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association (MIAA). Emporia State currently leads the series 59–53–2. The Turnpike Tussle is the second-oldest active NCAA Division II rivalry. Prior to joining the MIAA (Washburn in 1989, Emporia State 1991), both schools have competed in the same conferences with the exception of 1935 to 1940 when Washburn was a member of the Missouri Valley Conference. History Emporia State University opened its doors in 1863 as the Kansas State Normal School, with Washburn University opening its doors two years later in 1865 as the Lin ...
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Warrensburg, Missouri
Warrensburg is a city in and the county seat of Johnson County, Missouri, United States. The population was 20,313 at the 2020 census. The Warrensburg Micropolitan Statistical Area consists of Johnson County. The city is a college town as it is home to the University of Central Missouri. History Warrensburg was founded in 1835 by European-American settlers John and Martin D. Warren, who gave the town their last name. A post office called Warrensburg has been in operation since 1837. The phrase "Man's best friend" is based on a famous trial over the killing of Old Drum, a dog in shot in Warrensburg. In 1958, a statue of Old Drum was erected on the Johnson County Courthouse lawn containing a summation of Vest's closing speech, “A man’s best friend is his dog.” Demographics The current mayor is Jim Kushner. 2010 census As of the census of 2010, there were 18,838 people, 6,803 households, and 3,400 families living in the city. The population density was . There were 7,450 ...
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