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Citadel Bulldogs Football
The Citadel Bulldogs football program represents The Citadel in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS). The Bulldogs play in the Southern Conference, as they have since 1936. The Bulldogs are coached by Maurice Drayton, who was hired on January 12, 2023, to replace Brent Thompson, whose contract was not renewed. History Facilities The Bulldogs first recorded stadium was College Park, located in the northeast corner of Hampton Park in Charleston, South Carolina. This field predated the current College Park at the same site, which is used as a practice facility for The Citadel Bulldogs baseball. Due to increasing attendance and the poor state of the stadium, the Bulldogs moved to the original Johnson Hagood Stadium in 1927. In 1948, that stadium was replaced by the current Johnson Hagood Stadium, which lies just to the south of The Citadel's gates in Charleston. Johnson Hagood is a 21,000-seat stadium, in which The Citadel routinely ranks in the top 25 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1905 The Citadel Bulldogs Football Team
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2016 The Citadel Bulldogs Football Team
The 2016 The Citadel Bulldogs football team represented The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina in the 2016 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Bulldogs were led by first-year head coach Brent Thompson and played their home games at Johnson Hagood Stadium. They played as members of the Southern Conference, as they have since 1936. With their win over Samford on November 4, the Bulldogs clinched their second consecutive, and fourth overall, SoCon championship. By virtue of their victory over VMI on November 12, 2016, The Citadel completed their first undefeated SoCon season in program history and claimed the championship outright. The win over VMI also marked the second time in program history that the Bulldogs earned double digit wins in one season, after winning 11 games in 1992. They finished the season 10–2, 8–0 in SoCon play to win the SoCon title. They received the SoCon's automatic bid to the FCS Playoffs where they lost in the second round to Woff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Rogers (American Football Coach)
George Calvin Rogers Sr. (October 9, 1889 – October 22, 1964) was an American football and baseball coach. He was the sixth head football coach at The Citadel, serving for four seasons, from 1913 to 1915 and again in 1919, compiling a record of 14–16–3. He also served as head baseball coach in 1914 and 1915 and resumed the position from 1921 through 1924. Rogers graduated from The Citadel in 1910, serving as team captain in football, baseball and track, and earning a total of 12 varsity letters. He also coached at the Georgia Military Academy and at high schools in Charleston. Rogers later served as superintendent of Charleston, South Carolina Charleston is the List of municipalities in South Carolina, most populous city in the U.S. state of South Carolina. The city lies just south of the geographical midpoint of South Carolina's coastline on Charleston Harbor, an inlet of the Atla ...'s public school system, from 1946 until retiring in June 1955. Rogers died on Oc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis LeTellier
Louis Shepherd LeTellier (February 8, 1887 – July 2, 1975) was an American football coach and university instructor and administrator. He was the fourth head football coach at The Citadel, serving for two seasons, from 1911 to 1912, and compiling a record of 8–6–2. LeTellier was an instructor in the Engineering department and later became head of the Civil Engineering Department. He served as interim President of The Citadel from the time of General Charles P. Summerall's departure in 1953 until General Mark W. Clark Mark Wayne Clark (1 May 1896 – 17 April 1984) was a United States Army officer who fought in World War I, World War II, and the Korean War. He was the youngest four-star general in the U.S. Army during World War II. During World War I, he wa ...'s arrival in 1954. The current home of the Civil Engineering Department at The Citadel, LeTellier Hall, is named for him. Head coaching record References External links * 1887 births 1975 dea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Costen
Samuel Cutter Costen (May 18, 1882 – January 21, 1955) was an American football player and coach. Costen was a quarterback for Dan McGugin's Vanderbilt Commodores of Vanderbilt University. As a player, he weighed some 150 pounds. He was the third head football at The Citadel, serving two seasons, from 1909 to 1910, and compiling a record of 7–7–2. He also coached in . Costen graduated from Vanderbilt in 1908 with an LL.B. degree. He was a member of Alpha Tau Omega. Costen was the first head football coach at Blytheville High School in Blytheville, Arkansas, leading the team from 1913 to 1919. He died on January 21, 1955, in Memphis, Tennessee Memphis is a city in Shelby County, Tennessee, United States, and its county seat. Situated along the Mississippi River, it had a population of 633,104 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making it the List of municipalities in Tenne ..., where he had lived in the 1930s. Head coaching record References Exter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph Foster (American Football Coach)
Ralph Kelsey Foster (May 11, 1884 – February 2, 1956) was an American football player and coach. He was the second head football coach at The Citadel The Citadel Military College of South Carolina (simply known as The Citadel) is a public senior military college in Charleston, South Carolina, United States. Established in 1842, it is the third oldest of the six senior military colleges ..., serving for three seasons, from 1906 until 1908, and compiling a record of 8–6–2. Foster died in 1956. Head coaching record References External links * 1884 births 1956 deaths American football ends The Citadel Bulldogs football coaches South Carolina Gamecocks football players Sportspeople from Lancaster, South Carolina Players of American football from South Carolina {{1900s-collegefootball-coach-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syd Smith (baseball)
Sydney A. Smith (August 31, 1883 – June 5, 1961) was an American professional baseball catcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Philadelphia Athletics and the St. Louis Browns in 1908, the Cleveland Naps from 1910 to 1911, and the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1914 to 1915. Smith was also the first head football coach at The Citadel, serving for one season, in 1905, and compiling a record of 2–3–1. Smith later worked for the South Carolina Employment Security Commission. He retired to Camden, South Carolina and died on June 5, 1961, at a hospital in Orangeburg, South Carolina Orangeburg, also known as ''The Burg'', is the principal city in and the county seat of Orangeburg County, South Carolina, Orangeburg County, South Carolina, United States. The population of the city was 13,964 according to the 2020 United Stat .... Head coaching record Football References External links * * 1883 births 1961 deaths Major League Baseball catchers Phil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Houston (American Football)
Michael Glenn Houston (born November 14, 1971) is an American football coach who is currently a defensive assistant at Clemson University. He previously won the 2016 FCS championship during his time as the head coach of James Madison. Houston has also served as the head coach of Lenoir–Rhyne, The Citadel and East Carolina. Early life Houston played as a tight end at Mars Hill, where he earned a degree in biology in 1994. Coaching career Early coaching career Houston began his coaching career that fall as defensive coordinator at Forbush High School in East Bend, North Carolina, where he remained for two seasons. He moved to the same position at T. C. Roberson High School in Asheville, North Carolina. After five seasons, he was elevated to the head coaching position. In his five years as head coach, he compiled a record of 42–18, including a 5–4 playoff record, and earned the 2002 and 2004 Asheville Citizen-Times Area Coach of the Year awards. In 2004, his team finis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph Friedgen
Ralph Harry Friedgen (born April 4, 1947) is a former American football coach. He was most recently the special assistant coach for Rutgers in 2015 after serving as their offensive coordinator in the 2014 season. He was the head coach at the University of Maryland, College Park from 2000 to 2010. Friedgen was previously an offensive coordinator at Maryland, Georgia Tech, and in the National Football League (NFL) with the San Diego Chargers. Early life and education Friedgen was born on April 4, 1947, in Harrison, New York. His father, "Big Ralph" Friedgen, attended Fordham University, where he played from 1938 to 1939, and coached high school football for 30 years. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al Davis
Allen R. Davis (July 4, 1929 – October 8, 2011) was an American professional football executive and coach. He was the managing general partner, principal owner and ''de facto'' general manager of the National Football League (NFL) Oakland Raiders for 39 years, from 1972 until his death in 2011. Prior to becoming principal owner of the Raiders, he served as the team's head coach from 1963 to 1965 and part owner from 1966 to 1971, assuming both positions while the Raiders were part of the American Football League (AFL). He served as AFL commissioner in 1966. Known for his motto "Just win, baby", Davis managed the Raiders into one of the NFL's most successful and popular teams. The franchise enjoyed their greatest successes during the 1970s and 1980s where they were perennial playoff contenders and won three Super Bowl titles. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1992. Davis was active in civil rights, refusing to allow the Raiders to play in any city where blac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Beamer
Franklin Mitchell Beamer (born October 18, 1946) is an American former college football player and coach, most notably for the Virginia Tech Hokies football, Virginia Tech Hokies. Beamer was a cornerback, defensive cornerback for Virginia Tech from 1966 to 1968. He began coaching as a graduate assistant at the University of Maryland in 1972, and was the head football coach at Murray State University from 1981 to 1986. He became the head football coach at Virginia Tech in 1987, where he stayed for the remainder of his coaching career until 2015,. He was one of the longest tenured active coaches in NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision and was the winningest active coach at that level at the time of his retirement. Upon retiring, Beamer accepted a position as special assistant to the Virginia Tech athletic director, where he focuses on athletic development and advancement. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2018. Early life and playing career Beamer w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellis Johnson (American Football Coach)
Laurens Ellis Johnson (born December 23, 1951) is a former American college football coach. He served as head football coach at Gardner–Webb University in 1983, The Citadel from 2001 to 2003, and the University of Southern Mississippi in 2012. Assistant coaching career Johnson began his coaching career following his graduation from The Citadel in 1975, as the defensive ends coach at his alma mater under Bobby Ross in 1975. In 1976, Johnson accepted an assistant coaching position at Gaffney High School. He served as an assistant at Gaffney through the 1978 season before taking the defensive coordinator position at Spartanburg High School in 1979. After one season as defensive coordinator at Spartanburg, Johnson was promoted to head coach in 1980 and held the position through the 1981 season. As head coach he led the Vikings to a pair of playoff appearances and an overall record of 16 wins and eight losses (16–8). Johnson resigned his position to take the linebackers coach pos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
