The 1970 Xavier Musketeers football team was an

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with ...

team that represented

Xavier University Xavier University ( ) is a private Jesuit university in Cincinnati and Evanston (Cincinnati), Ohio. It is the sixth-oldest Catholic and fourth-oldest Jesuit university in the United States. Xavier has an undergraduate enrollment of 4,860 studen ...

as an independent during the

1970 NCAA University Division football season The 1970 NCAA University Division football season was marked by tragedy, due to two airplane crashes. On October 2, one of the planes carrying the Wichita State football team crashed on the way to a game against Utah State, killing 31 people on ...

. In their first year under head coach

Dick Selcer Richard James Selcer (born August 22, 1937) is a former American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio Cincinnati ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat ...

, the Musketeers compiled a 1–9 record.

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Xavier Xavier Musketeers football seasons

Xavier Musketeers football The Xavier Musketeers football program, formerly known as the St. Xavier Saints, was an American football program that represented Xavier University of Cincinnati in college football from 1900 to 1943 and 1946 to 1973. Xavier discontinued its part ...

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