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Trinity Bantams Football
The Trinity Bantams football team of Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut competes in the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC), a league of small liberal arts colleges. The Bantams held the nation's longest home winning streak through 13 seasons (1998–2011) and second-longest in consecutive wins (53) through the 2014 season. Trinity has the third-highest number of victories of any NCAA Division III football program in New England and the second-best all-time winning percentage among NESCAC schools. The Bantams' recent history includes only one losing season in the past 25 years. The Trinity football team is coached by Jeff Devanney (2005–present). Devanney follows in the footsteps of Chuck Priore, Dan Jessee, and Don Miller. Jessee compiled a 150–76–7 record from 1933 to 1966, and Miller followed with a 174–77–5 mark over the next 32 seasons. Miller retired after the 1998 season as the most successful coach in Trinity football history and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Devanney
Jeff Devanney is an American college football coach. He is the head football coach at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, a position he has held since 2006. Devanney was previously the defensive coordinator for Trinity under Chuck Priore Chuck Priore (born February 17, 1960) is an American football coach and former player. He is the current head football coach at Stony Brook University, a position he has held since the 2006 season. Priore served the head football coach at Trinity C ... before succeeding Priore as head coach following the 2005 season. Head coaching record References External links Trinity profile {{DEFAULTSORT:Devanney, Jeff Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Albany Great Danes football coaches Central Connecticut Blue Devils football coaches Coast Guard Bears football coaches Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football coaches Trinity Bantams baseball players Trinity Bantams football coaches Trinity Bantams footb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jessee/Miller Field
Jessee/Miller Field is a sports stadium located on the campus of Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. It is the home field of the Trinity Bantams football team and the school's men's lacrosse team. The facility has a 400-meter track and a stadium seating capacity of 5,500. Named after Trinity's head football coaches Dan Jessee and Don Miller, it is the tenth-oldest college football field in United States. In recent years the field has also been affectionately referred to as The Coop, in reference to Trinity's mascot, the Bantam. The first game was played on September 13, 1900. The stadium, often referred to as Trinity Field, had no official name until November 5, 1966, when it was christened as Jessee Field for the retiring Jessee during his final season as head football coach. Jessee was the head football coach at Trinity from 1932 to 1966, compiling a record of 150–76–7. The stadium was renamed Jessee/Miller Field on November 13, 1999 to honor Jessee's successor, Mille ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hartford, Connecticut
Hartford is the capital city of the U.S. state of Connecticut. It was the seat of Hartford County until Connecticut disbanded county government in 1960. It is the core city in the Greater Hartford metropolitan area. Census estimates since the 2010 United States census have indicated that Hartford is the fourth-largest city in Connecticut with a 2020 population of 121,054, behind the coastal cities of Bridgeport, New Haven, and Stamford. Hartford was founded in 1635 and is among the oldest cities in the United States. It is home to the country's oldest public art museum (Wadsworth Atheneum), the oldest publicly funded park (Bushnell Park), the oldest continuously published newspaper (the ''Hartford Courant''), and the second-oldest secondary school (Hartford Public High School). It is also home to the Mark Twain House, where the author wrote his most famous works and raised his family, among other historically significant sites. Mark Twain wrote in 1868, "Of all the beautifu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New England Small College Athletic Conference
The New England Small Collegiate Athletic Conference (NESCAC) is an American collegiate List of NCAA conferences, athletic conference comprising sports teams from eleven highly selective Liberal arts education, liberal arts institutions of higher education in the Northeastern United States. The eleven institutions are Amherst College, Bates College, Bowdoin College, Colby College, Connecticut College, Hamilton College (New York), Hamilton College, Middlebury College, Tufts University, Trinity College (Connecticut), Trinity College, Wesleyan University, and Williams College. The conference originated with an agreement among Amherst, Bowdoin, Wesleyan and Williams in 1955. In 1971, Bates, Colby, Hamilton, Middlebury, Trinity, Tufts, and Union College joined on and the NESCAC was officially formed. Union withdrew in 1977 and was replaced by Connecticut College in 1982. The members are grouped within the Division III (NCAA), NCAA Division III athletic conference. Members of the conf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trinity College (Connecticut)
Trinity College is a Private university, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Hartford, Connecticut. Founded as Washington College in 1823, it is the second-oldest college in the state of Connecticut. Coeducational since 1969, the college enrolls 2,235 students. Trinity offers 41 majors and 28 interdisciplinary minors. The college is a member of the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC). History Early history Thomas Church Brownell, Bishop Thomas Brownell opened Washington College in 1824 to nine male studentsAlbert E. Van Dusen, ''Connecticut" (1961) pp 362-63 and the vigorous protest of Yale University, Yale alumni. A 14-acre site was chosen, at the time about a half-mile from the city of Hartford. Over time Bushnell Park was laid out to the north and the east, creating a beautiful space. The college was renamed Trinity College in 1845; the original campus consisted of two Greek Revival buildings. One of the Gre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NCAA Division III
NCAA Division III (D-III) is a division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in the United States. D-III consists of athletic programs at colleges and universities that choose not to offer athletic scholarships to their student-athletes. The NCAA's first split was into two divisions, the University and College Divisions, in 1956, the College Division was formed for smaller schools that did not have the resources of the major athletic programs across the country. The College Division split again in 1973 when the NCAA went to its current naming convention: Division I, Division II, and Division III. Division III schools are not allowed to offer athletic scholarships, while D-II schools can. Division III is the NCAA's largest division with around 450 member institutions, which are 80% private and 20% public. The median undergraduate enrollment of D-III schools is about 2,750, although the range is from 418 to over 38,000. Approximately 40% of all NCAA studen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chuck Priore
Chuck Priore (born February 17, 1960) is an American football coach and former player. He is the current head football coach at Stony Brook University, a position he has held since the 2006 season. Priore served the head football coach at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut from 2000 to 2005. He was also the head men's lacrosse coach at the University at Albany in 1986 and at Union College in Schenectady, New York from 1988 to 1991. Priore's coaching style is known for his run-heavy offense and aggressive defense. Playing career Priore played football at the University at Albany before graduating in 1982. He was the starting fullback for three seasons and was named team captain before his senior year. In 1982, he won the Spud Kruzan Award, given to Albany's most outstanding athlete. Coaching career After the end of his playing career, Priore was the running backs and strength coach at Albany from 1983 to 1986. In 1986, he was also Albany's head lacrosse coach. Priore was the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Jessee
Daniel Edward Jessee (February 22, 1901 – April 30, 1970) was an American professional baseball player and coach of college football and college baseball. He appeared in one Major League Baseball game as a pinch runner for the Cleveland Indians on August 14 during the 1929 Cleveland Indians season. Jessee served as the head football coach at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut from 1932 to 1966, compiling a record of 150–76–7. He also had two stints as Trinity's head baseball coach, from 1935 to 1961 and 1963, to 1967, tallying a mark of 239–170–5. Jessee/Miller Field, the home stadium of the Trinity Bantams football team was named for Jessee in 1966 and now also honors his successor as head football coach, Don Miller. Jessee attended Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon, where he played football, basketball, and baseball. He earned a master's degree in physical education from Columbia University in 1932. Jessee died on April 30, 1970, in Venice, Florida Ven ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Miller (American Football Coach)
Donald G. Miller (born ) is a retired American football coach and former player. He served as the head football coach at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut from 1967 to 1998. Miller played college football at the University of Delaware, where he was the starting quarterback who led the Blue Hens to victory in the 1954 Refrigerator Bowl. Miller began his coaching career at Newark High School in Newark, Delaware in 1955. He led Newark to a record of 31–2 in four seasons as head coach before he resigned in April 1959 to take an assistant coaching position at Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts. Jessee/Miller Field, the home stadium of the Trinity Bantams football team is named for Miller and his predecessor, Dan Jessee Daniel Edward Jessee (February 22, 1901 – April 30, 1970) was an American professional baseball player and coach of college football and college baseball. He appeared in one Major League Baseball game as a pinch runner for the Cleveland Indians ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mickey Kobrosky
Milton Leonard "Mickey" Kobrosky (February 22, 1915 – May 29, 2003) was an American football player. He played quarterback collegiately for Trinity College. He was selected in the fifth round of the 1937 NFL Draft. He played one season in the National Football League (NFL) for the New York Giants. Kobrosky was posthumously elected to the College Football Hall of Fame The College Football Hall of Fame is a hall of fame and interactive attraction devoted to college football. The National Football Foundation (NFF) founded the Hall in 1951 to immortalize the players and coaches of college football that were vote ... in 2011. References 1915 births 2003 deaths American football quarterbacks New York Giants players Trinity Bantams football players College Football Hall of Fame inductees {{collegefootball-player-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
College Football Hall Of Fame
The College Football Hall of Fame is a hall of fame and interactive attraction devoted to college football. The National Football Foundation (NFF) founded the Hall in 1951 to immortalize the players and coaches of college football that were voted first team All-American by the media. In August 2014, the Chick-fil-A College Football Hall of Fame opened in downtown Atlanta, Georgia. The facility is a attraction located in the heart of Atlanta's sports, entertainment and tourism district, and is adjacent to the Georgia World Congress Center and Centennial Olympic Park. History Early plans 1949 - Rutgers was selected as the site for football’s Hall of Fame, via a vote by thousands of sportswriters, coaches, and athletic leaders. Rutgers was chosen for the location because Rutgers and Princeton played the first game of intercollegiate football in New Brunswick on November 6, 1869. Secondary plans in 1967 called for the Hall of Fame to be located at Rutgers University in New Bru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wesleyan Cardinals Football
The Wesleyan Cardinals football team represents Wesleyan University in the sport of American football. It is a member of the Division III New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) and competes against traditional Little Three rivals Amherst and Williams. Wesleyan is one of the 39 founding members of the NCAA. The Cardinals’ home field, Andrus Field, is the oldest continuously used American football field in the world. Andrus Field is also the oldest continuously used baseball field in the world as the Wesleyan baseball team also uses Andrus Field. Notable players * Bill Belichick: head coach of the New England Patriots of the National Football League (NFL) * Eric Mangini: former head coach of the NFL's New York Jets and Cleveland Browns and NFL analyst for ESPN and Fox Sports 1 * Jeff Wilner: first Wesleyan graduate to play for an NFL team; played tight end for the Green Bay Packers and Denver Broncos from 1994 to 1996 * Field Yates: analyst on ESPN and forme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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