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Azusa Pacific Cougars Football
The Azusa Pacific Cougars football program was a college football team that represented Azusa Pacific University. From 2012 to 2020, the team was a member of the Great Northwest Athletic Conference of NCAA Division II NCAA Division II (D-II) is an intermediate-level division of competition in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). It offers an alternative to both the larger and better-funded Division I and to the scholarship-free environmen .... Prior to the 2012 season, the Cougars had been an independent program in the NAIA. The Cougars had 10 head coaches since their first recorded football game in 1965. Azusa Pacific University decided to end its football program in December 2020 due to financial restructuring. The most famous player to play for the Cougars was Christian Okoye. Playoff appearances NCAA Division II The Cougars appeared in the Division II playoffs two times with an overall record of 0–2. Head coaches References American f ...
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Citrus Stadium
Citrus Stadium is a 10,000-capacity multi-use stadium located in Glendora, California. The stadium, which features a running track, serves as home to American football, athletics, and soccer for Citrus College and the USL Premier Development League side FC Golden State Force FC Golden State Force is an American soccer team based in Whittier, California, United States that currently plays in USL League Two. The club currently plays at Rio Hondo College Rio Hondo College is a public community college in Whittie .... It is also the home stadium for several area High Schools, including Gladstone HS (Covina), Azusa HS (Azusa), and Glendora HS (Glendora). External links L.A. Sports Council - Citrus Stadium {{California college football venues College football venues Soccer venues in California Citrus College Athletics (track and field) venues in California American football venues in California High school football venues in California Glendora, California ...
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Tom Nelson (American Football Coach)
Tom Nelson is a former American football coach. He was the first head football coach at Azusa Pacific College—now known as Azusa Pacific University—in Azusa, California Azusa (Tongva language, Tongva: ''Asuksa-nga'') is a city in the San Gabriel Valley, at the foot of the San Gabriel Mountains in Los Angeles County, California, United States, located 20 miles east of Downtown Los Angeles, downtown Los Angeles. ..., serving for one season, in 1965, and compiling a record of 1–6. References Year of birth missing Possibly living people Azusa Pacific Cougars football coaches {{1960s-collegefootball-coach-stub ...
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Azusa Pacific Cougars Football
The Azusa Pacific Cougars football program was a college football team that represented Azusa Pacific University. From 2012 to 2020, the team was a member of the Great Northwest Athletic Conference of NCAA Division II NCAA Division II (D-II) is an intermediate-level division of competition in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). It offers an alternative to both the larger and better-funded Division I and to the scholarship-free environmen .... Prior to the 2012 season, the Cougars had been an independent program in the NAIA. The Cougars had 10 head coaches since their first recorded football game in 1965. Azusa Pacific University decided to end its football program in December 2020 due to financial restructuring. The most famous player to play for the Cougars was Christian Okoye. Playoff appearances NCAA Division II The Cougars appeared in the Division II playoffs two times with an overall record of 0–2. Head coaches References American f ...
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Victor Santa Cruz
Victor Santa Cruz (born April 7, 1972) is an American football coach and former player. He was most recently the defensive ends coach at Hawaii. Prior to that, he was the head football coach at Azusa Pacific University in Azusa, California from 2006 to 2019. Playing career Santa Cruz played college football as a linebacker at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He redshirted in 1990 and afterwards became a four-year letterman from 1991 to 1994 for the Hawaii Warriors. Coaching career Azusa Pacific After serving as an assistant coach at Azusa Pacific for five years, Santa Cruz became head coach after the 2005 season, replacing Pete Shinnick, who left to take on the task of reviving the football program at UNC Pembroke. Santa Cruz led Azusa Pacific team to the NAIA playoffs in 2010 and 2011. In 2012, Santa Cruz led the program through its transition from NAIA to NCAA Division II. In 2013, he led the Cougars to a 10–2 season, winning the first conference championship in sc ...
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Pete Shinnick
Pete Shinnick (born May 15, 1965) is an American football coach and former player. He is the head football coach at the Towson University in Towson, Maryland. As the head coach of West Florida, Shinnick won the school's first football national championship in 2019. The football team began play in 2016. 2017 was a big year for Shinnick, as he led the University of West Florida Agronauts to the NCAA Division II playoffs, making them the fastest team to do so (two years). He broke the record he held at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, that being three years. Shinnick also won the 2017 AFCA Region 2 Coach of the Year. He later won the 2017 AFCA Division II Coach of the Year. On December 21, 2019, Shinnick won the NCAA D-II National Championship with the UWF Argos in just the program's 4th year of existence. Shinnick previously served as the head football at Azusa Pacific University from 1999 and 2005 and at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke from the program' ...
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Vic Shealy
Victor Dalmuth Shealy (born July 14, 1961) is an American football coach and former player. He was most recently the head coach at Houston Christian University. He was previously the defensive coordinator and cornerbacks coach at the University of Kansas. From 1995 to 1998, Shealy served as the head football coach at Azusa Pacific University, compiling a record of 27–14–1. In 1998, he coached the team to the NAIA Football National Championship. For his efforts that season, Shealy was named the NAIA Coach of the Year and the American Football Quarterly Schutt National Coach of the Year. Early career Shealy was born in Nashville, Tennessee in 1961, the son of football coach Dal Shealy. He attended Auburn High School in Auburn, Alabama, playing quarterback for the Auburn High Tigers before playing for Liberty Baptist College, now Liberty University, in 1979. After a year at Liberty, Shealy transferred to the University of Richmond, from where he graduated in 1984. Shealy i ...
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Jim Milhon
Jim Milhon (born 1935) is a former American football coach. He was the sixth head football coach for the Azusa Pacific University in Azusa, California Azusa (Tongva language, Tongva: ''Asuksa-nga'') is a city in the San Gabriel Valley, at the foot of the San Gabriel Mountains in Los Angeles County, California, United States, located 20 miles east of Downtown Los Angeles, downtown Los Angeles. ..., serving for 17 seasons, from 1978 until 1994, and compiling a record of 81–69–4. References Year of birth missing (living people) 1930s births Living people Azusa Pacific Cougars football coaches {{1970s-collegefootball-coach-stub ...
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Jerry Sconce
Jerry Sconce is a former American football coach and convicted criminal. He was the fifth head football coach at Azusa Pacific College—now known as Azusa Pacific University—in Azusa, California Azusa (Tongva language, Tongva: ''Asuksa-nga'') is a city in the San Gabriel Valley, at the foot of the San Gabriel Mountains in Los Angeles County, California, United States, located 20 miles east of Downtown Los Angeles, downtown Los Angeles. ..., serving for six seasons, from 1972 to 1977. and compiling a record of 24–31. Criminal charges Sconce operated the Lamb Funeral Home with his wife, Laurieanne Lamb Sconce. The Sconces were arrested on numerous charges relating to forgery of donor consent forms, removal of organs and body parts from the dead and selling them to organ banks and for scientific research, removal of gold dental fillings, and theft of funds from trust accounts. They were each sentenced to three years and eight months in prison. References Year of ...
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Bob Damewood
Robert David Damewood (June 7, 1940 – June 28, 2009) was an American football coach. He was the fourth head football coach at Azusa Pacific College—now known as Azusa Pacific University—in Azusa, California Azusa (Tongva language, Tongva: ''Asuksa-nga'') is a city in the San Gabriel Valley, at the foot of the San Gabriel Mountains in Los Angeles County, California, United States, located 20 miles east of Downtown Los Angeles, downtown Los Angeles. ..., serving for two seasons, from 1970 to 1971, and compiling a record of 7–10. Damewood died on June 28, 2009, of a stroke. References 1940 births 2009 deaths Azusa Pacific Cougars football coaches Sports coaches from Los Angeles Coaches of American football from California {{1970s-collegefootball-coach-stub ...
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John Crandall (American Football)
John Gardner Crandall Jr. (April 10, 1931 – August 23, 2008) was an American football coach. He was the third head football coach for at Azusa Pacific College—now known as Azusa Pacific University—in Azusa, California, serving for three seasons, from 1967 to 1969, and compiling a record of 6–19–1. Crandall died of cancer in Wichita, Kansas Wichita ( ) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kansas and the county seat of Sedgwick County, Kansas, Sedgwick County. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population of the city was 397,532. The Wichita metro area had ... in 2008. References 1931 births 2008 deaths Azusa Pacific Cougars football coaches People from Mount Vernon, Missouri Deaths from cancer in Kansas {{1960s-collegefootball-coach-stub ...
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Dave Drake
David Drake (July 9, 1918 – August 9, 1995) was an American football coach. He was the second head football coach at Azusa Pacific College—now known as Azusa Pacific University—in Azusa, California Azusa (Tongva language, Tongva: ''Asuksa-nga'') is a city in the San Gabriel Valley, at the foot of the San Gabriel Mountains in Los Angeles County, California, United States, located 20 miles east of Downtown Los Angeles, downtown Los Angeles. ..., serving for one season, in 1966, and compiling a record of 5–4. References 1918 births 1995 deaths Azusa Pacific Cougars football coaches {{1960s-collegefootball-coach-stub ...
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2018 Tarleton State Texans Football Team
The 2018 Tarleton State Texans football team represented Tarleton State University in the 2018 NCAA Division II football season. They were led by head coach Todd Whitten, who was in his third consecutive season at Tarleton State and ninth overall as the head coach of the program. The Texans played their home games at Memorial Stadium and were members of the Lone Star Conference. The Texans finished the regular season with an overall record of 10–0 record and mark of 8–0 in conference play, and winning the LSC championship. Schedule Tarleton State announced its 2018 football schedule on May 14, 2018. The schedule consisted of six home and five away games in the regular season. The Texans hosted two of the three non-conference games against Delta State from the Gulf South Conference and Lincoln University but had an away game with Stephen F. Austin canceled. Players drafted into the NFL References Tarleton State Tarleton State Texans football seasons Lone Sta ...
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