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E.115

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Quote from: WashJeff68 on July 10, 2019, 06:24:19 PM
When the PAC was formed, Allegheny College was a charter member and W&J joined the next year. I don't think they ever played football before then, but from 1956 until Allegheny left to join the NCAC they played very year, and fairly often after Allegheny left the conference, including the famous O'T Playoff thriiler played in the snow in Meadville in 1987 (a 23-17 win for W&J). W&J leads the series 21-20-1.


You got me interested in the history of the PAC, so I dug in a little deeper.

I show W&J and Allegany joining at the same time in 1958. 

Founders were John Carroll, Case Tech, Western Reserve, and Wayne State in 1955. 

Interesting to see the geographic shift move from Cleveland-Detroit to essentially Pittsburgh-Western PA.

IMAGE SOURCE:  Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidents%27_Athletic_Conference

Two interesting notes:

1) Eastern Michigan was once a member of the PAC!
2) When the Western Reserve and Case Tech teams merged in 1970, they stayed in the PAC as the combined team

mikefln

Quote from: E.115 on July 12, 2019, 01:12:46 PM

You got me interested in the history of the PAC, so I dug in a little deeper.

I show W&J and Allegany joining at the same time in 1958. 

Founders were John Carroll, Case Tech, Western Reserve, and Wayne State in 1955. 

Interesting to see the geographic shift move from Cleveland-Detroit to essentially Pittsburgh-Western PA.

IMAGE SOURCE:  Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidents%27_Athletic_Conference

Two interesting notes:

1) Eastern Michigan was once a member of the PAC!
2) When the Western Reserve and Case Tech teams merged in 1970, they stayed in the PAC as the combined team

What I find  interesting is the President's run the league not ADs that is where the conference name comes from.  I wonder if it still runs that way.

ADL70

Season getting closer ... players report in a month.
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E.115

#4788
In other off season news - the new Struthers High School's athletic complex, which pretty much sits on the Ohio- Pennsylvania border of PAC country, is being named after one of the (Case) Western Reserve football alumnus greats, Steve Belichick:

https://www.vindy.com/news/2019/jul/17/struthers-complex-named-for-belichick/

Bob.Gregg

Quote from: mikefln on July 12, 2019, 01:48:47 PM
What I find  interesting is the President's run the league not ADs that is where the conference name comes from.  I wonder if it still runs that way.
Yes, it certainly does.  Just ask Thomas More.
Been wrong before.  Will be wrong again.


ADL70

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ADL70

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E.115

#4793
Quote from: ADL70 on July 25, 2019, 07:46:46 PM
PAC Media Day Tues Aug 6

http://pacathletics.org/news/2019/7/24/pac-announces-lineup-for-annual-football-media-day.aspx

Interesting to see CWRU is bringing their sophomore QB, in the line up of all seniors (minus the Westminster guy).

And perhaps even more interesting to see that every player hails from PA (minus the Grove City guy).

ADL70

#4794
W&J and  CWRU 1-2 in PAC Poll  W&J by a big margin 23 first place votes to 6.

http://pacathletics.org/news/2019/8/4/w-j-headlines-pac-preseason-football-poll.aspx
SPARTANS...PREPARE FOR GLORY
HA-WOO, HA-WOO, HA-WOO
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mikefln

Quote from: ADL70 on August 06, 2019, 08:49:05 PM
W&J and  CWRU 1-2 in PAC Poll  W&J by a big margin 23 first place votes to 6.

http://pacathletics.org/news/2019/8/4/w-j-headlines-pac-preseason-football-poll.aspx

I am rooting for Geneva and Tyler Cann this year.  Anybody who can rock out a mullet like that is A ok in my book.

WashJeff68

Here is the pre season report from W&J

https://gopresidents.com/news/2019/8/12/preseason-preview-2019-football.aspx

Some holes to fill, but for the past 35 years, it has basically been reload rather than rebuild.
Older than Springtime...Younger than dirt

ADL70

Congrats to PAC's d3football.com pre-season All-Americans

First Team  Justin Wolf  WR  W&J

Third Team  Wesley Schools  RB  Grove City
                  Colt Morgan  WR  CWRU


https://www.d3football.com/awards/all-americans/2019-preseason
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ADL70

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