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Dave Gettleman '72 Represents Springfield College in Super Bowl XLVI

02/02/2012
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Springfield, Mass. -- February 2, 2012 -- Dave Gettleman of the New York Giants front office will be representing Springfield College in this year's Super Bowl in Indianapolis this upcoming Sunday. It will be the fifth time in the last six years that SC will have had at least one alum representing SC in the Super Bowl. Read More

Ryan Sylvia '05 Named Head Football Coach at Bishop Stang

Ryan Sylvia Springfield, Mass. -- January 24, 2012 -- Ryan Sylvia '05, former Springfield College football standout and current Athletic Director at Bishop Stang, has been appointed the new head football coach at the high school, according to Theresa Dougall, President of Bishop Stang. Sylvia was named the ECAC Division Player of the Year in 2004 when he quarterbacked the Pride. Read More

Meagher Named First Team ECAC Football North All-Star

Sean Meagher Centerville, Mass. -- January 11, 2012 -- Sean Meagher, an offensive tackle from Springfield College, has been named a First Team ECAC North All-Star, adding to his growing list of awards compiled during the 2011 season. Read More

Carter, Meagher Named BSN Football All-Americans

Josh Carter Springfield, Mass. -- January 5, 2012 -- Seniors Josh Carter and Sean Meagher of the Springfield College football team, have been named BSN Football All-Americans for the 2011 season. Carter, a quarterback, was named to the First Team. Meagher, an offensive tackle, was named to the Third Team. Read More


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The Springfield College football team will open its 2011 season with a Saturday afternoon tilt versus Frostburg State on Sept. 10 at 1 pm. It will be the first of 10 games that season and will mark as one of four home contests.

Head Coach Mike DeLong enters his 30th season overall, 28th at Springfield College. With 171 victories overall, he is the winningest active head football coach in New England Division III. SC is coming off an 9-2 record in 2010, when it finished the season with an ECAC Division III North Atlantic Bowl Championship as it defeated Mount Ida, 26-17, at Stagg Field.

In 2006, Springfield's Chris Sharpe was recognized on the national level as he was awarded the Melberger Award, emblematic of the National Player of the Year in Division III. The QB established 12 school records and six NCAA Division III national marks in '06. Sharpe also received a bevy of further awards, including the Gold Helmet Award for the season from the New England Football Writers Association, the Joseph P. Zabilski Award from the Gridiron Club of Greater Boston, the ECAC Division III Northwest Offensive Co-Player of the Year, and the Empire 8 Offensive Player of the Year.

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Head Coach Mike DeLong

Head Coach Mike DeLong Michael C. “Mike” DeLong ’74 enters his 30th season as a head football coach in the fall of 2011. He enters his 28th year at Springfield College alone. For the past 27 years (1984 through 2009, inclusive), he has been the head coach at Springfield, his alma mater. Mike had also been the head coach at Maine Maritime in Castine, Maine in 1979 and 1980. Read more.

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