FOOTBALL - MOMENT #20
November 6,
2004
Behind a school-record three 100-yard rushers, DePauw University
wins its fifth straight game with a 30-3 victory over Rose-Hulman
Institute of Technology. Quarterback Ross Wiethoff had 186 yards on
15 carries and running backs Matt McMahon and Jeremiah
Marks finished with 137 yards on 22 carries and 129 yards
on 17 carries, respectively, as the Tigers posted the biggest
rushing day in SCAC history with 507 yards on the ground.
FOOTBALL - MOMENT #19
September 29,
2001
Trinity University junior quarterback Roy Hampton sets a new SCAC
single-game record with seven touchdown passes in a 61-28 victory
over Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Hampton was 22-of-30 for
322 yards. Junior wide receiver Jason Hunt caught four of the seven
TD receptions - also a SCAC single-game record.
FOOTBALL - MOMENT #18
August 7,
2009
New DePauw University head football coach Robby Long becomes the
first African-American head football coach in league history.
FOOTBALL - MOMENT #17
September 14,
1996
Millsaps College and Rhodes College play the first overtime
football game in the history of the SCAC with the Majors taking the
28-22 victory. The NCAA allowed for the use of overtime in football
beginning with the 1996 season.
FOOTBALL - MOMENT #16
October 20,
2007
Jeremiah Marks of DePauw University rushes for a school-record 211
yards and ties the SCAC single-game record with five rushing
touchdowns against Colorado College – a 41-40 victory for
DePauw in just the second double overtime game in conference
history (Rhodes defeated Rose-Hulman 38-31 in double overtime on
Oct. 9, 2004). Marks’ five rushing TDs moves his career total
to 49 – breaking the all-time SCAC mark of 47 set by Tim
McDaniel of Centre (1988-91). He finishes his career three weeks
later with 56 career touchdowns and 336 career points – both
all-time SCAC records.
FOOTBALL - MOMENT #15
September 23, 2000
Sewanee-The University of the South defeats Stillman
(Ala.) College 27-24 in four overtimes – the longest
football game involving a SCAC school since the NCAA adopted
overtime for use beginning with the 1996 season. Brian Morrison had
99 yards and two touchdowns on 23 carries with his second touchdown
proving to be the game-winner in the fourth overtime.
FOOTBALL - MOMENT #14
October 25, 2003
DePauw University junior Jamarcus Shephard returns an
SCAC-record and NCAA record-tying two kickoffs for touchdowns
– 95 and 91 yards – in a 55-34 victory over Millsaps.
He finishes the season ranked second in Division III in kickoff
returns (34.7 yards/return) and was named to five different
all-America teams.
FOOTBALL - MOMENT #13
December 4,
1999
In national quarterfinals of the 1999 NCAA Football
Playoffs, Trinity University builds a 40-17 lead and holds on
for a 40-33 victory over Hardin-Simmons in San Antonio. The win was
the 24th straight at home and sends the Tigers to the NCAA
semifinal round for the second consecutive year. A week later,
however, Trinity’s Stagg Bowl dreams come to an end in
San Antonio as 15th-ranked Pacific Lutheran upsets the
second-ranked Tigers 49-28 in the NCAA Division III Football
Semifinals at E.M. Stevens Stadium. Senior quarterback Mike Burton
ends his collegiate career with 437 yards passing and four
touchdown tosses. He completed a school-record 39 passes on 57
attempts.
FOOTBALL - MOMENT #12
December 2,
2008
Millsaps College senior standout quarterback Juan Joseph
becomes the first Division III player to win the Cellular South
Conerly Trophy as the best college football player in the state of
Mississippi. Joseph beat out a pair of Ole Miss teammates,
offensive tackle Michael Oher and defensive tackle Peria Jerry for
the honor. Oher and Jerry were the 23rd and 24th overall
selections, respectively, in the 2009 NFL Draft. Oher was the
central character in the movie “The Blind Side.”
Joseph, whose career ended two days earlier with
a 35-20 loss to Washington & Jefferson in the second
round of the NCAA Division III Football Championship, finished as
the SCAC's all-time leader in total offense with 9,822 yards. Ten
days later, Joseph was named one of four regional finalists for the
prestigious Gagliardi Trophy, annually presented to the top
Division III player recognizing excellence in athletics, academics
and community service.
FOOTBALL - MOMENT #11
November 28, 1998
Trinity University becomes the first SCAC football team
to advance beyond the second round of the NCAA Division III
Football Playoffs. The Tigers travel to Lycoming (Pa.) College and
pull out the 37-21 victory, avenging a second-round loss to the
Warriors in last year’s championships. A week later, in the
national semifinals, Trinity drops a 34-29 decision to eventual
national champion Mount Union in Alliance, Ohio. The Tigers, who
trailed 21-2 at the half, scored 20 unanswered points to take a
22-21 lead early in the fourth quarter. But Mount Union rallied for
two fourth quarter touchdowns to pull out the victory. Trinity
finished the season with a school-record 12 wins against just one
loss.
FOOTBALL - MOMENT #10
October 19, 2002
Don Rodgers of Sewanee-The University of the
South blocks three Rhodes College punts to tie a national
record and the Tigers’ Nate Murphy returned all three for
touchdowns, also a national record, in Sewanee’s 36-31
homecoming win against the Lynx. ESPN did a 45-second segment on
the highlights, including nicknaming the game, “Punt Rhodes
Punt” – a reference to the 1972 Alabama-Auburn game in
which Auburn blocked two Alabama punts and returned both for
touchdowns in a major upset.
FOOTBALL - MOMENT #9
November 22, 1997
Trailing 33-24 late in the third quarter, Trinity
University rallies for 20 unanswered points to defeat Catholic
(D.C.) University 44-33 in the first round of the 1997 NCAA
Division III Football Championship at E.M. Stevens Stadium in San
Antonio. The victory is the first NCAA football postseason win for
a conference team in the SCAC era. The Tigers are eliminated the
following weekend at fifth-ranked Lycoming (Pa.) 46-26 in the
National Quarterfinals.
FOOTBALL - MOMENT #8
October 21,
2000
Centre College's Drew Mildren completed 25 of 40 passes
for 307 yards and three touchdowns as the Colonels upset No. 2
nationally-ranked Trinity University, 25-21. Mildren hit Joe
Guthrie with a 15-yard scoring strike with just 37 seconds
remaining to give Centre the come-from-behind victory and snap
Trinity’s 35-game regular season win streak as well as the
Tigers’ run of 18 consecutive conference wins.
FOOTBALL - MOMENT #7
November 3,
2001
Trinity University junior running back Jeremy Boyce rushes
for a SCAC single game record 305 yards and also scores three
touchdowns on just 28 carries in the Tigers’ 38-7 victory
over Sewanee. The 305 rushing yards breaks both a 28-year old
school record and also the CAC/SCAC single-game record of 304 yards
– previously held by Kelvin Gladney of Millsaps from a Sept.
18, 1993 contest against DePauw.
FOOTBALL - MOMENT #6
November 19,
1994
Trinity University receives a bid to the 1994 NCAA
Division III Football Championships – the first football team
in the SCAC-era to earn a berth in the field. The last CAC team to
advance to the NCAA Division III Football Tournament was Rhodes,
who lost to Ferrum 34-10 in 1988. Trinity’s stay in the 1994
Championships was a short one as the Tigers were defeated 28-0 by
Washington & Jefferson in a first-round game played in San
Antonio.
FOOTBALL - MOMENT #5
November 11,
2006
In what was the defacto 2006 SCAC football title game, Millsaps
College snapped Trinity University's streak of
13-straight conference championships (the third longest consecutive
championship streak in any sport in CAC/SCAC history), defeating
the 14th-ranked Tigers 34-12 in Jackson to earn the program its
first conference title since 1996 and first Division III playoff
berth since 1975. The contest was historic in another fashion as it
marked the first time that two teams unbeaten in conference play
(both Millsaps and Trinity were 5-0 in league play heading into the
contest) would settle the league championship on the last day of
the regular season. Millsaps senior receiver Chris Jackson put on a
show, racking up 225 yards of total offense, including a league
record-tying two punt returns for touchdown (51 and 67 yards) and
one receiving touchdown.
FOOTBALL - MOMENT #4
December 20,
1992
Senior defensive tackle Sean Brewer of Millsaps College, the
two-time SCAC Defensive Player-of-the-Year, becomes the first (and
only) SCAC football player to earn All-America honors three times
in a career. Brewer was selected to the Kodak Football College
Division II All-America team – which consists of the top
players from NCAA Division III and NAIA Division II programs. He
was later selected to the Champion USA Division III All-America
Football First Team.
FOOTBALL - MOMENT #3
December 14, 1998
Junior quarterback Mike Burton of Trinity University is
named the winner of the 1998 Melberger Award – awarded by the
Downtown Wilkes-Barre Touchdown Club to the NCAA Division III
Player of the Year. It is the first time a SCAC student-athlete is
recognized as a national player of the year in any sport. Burton is
just the second junior to win the award.
Also receiving national recognition was Trinity head coach Steve
Mohr, who was named the CBS Sportsline Division III
Football Coach-of-the-Year.
FOOTBALL - MOMENT #2
December 14, 2002
The Trinity University football team advances to the
Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl (Division III National Championship
game) for the first time in school history, as the Tigers
defeat sixth-ranked St. John's (Minn.) University 41-34 on Saturday
afternoon in San Antonio. Trinity (14-0) led 34-13 at the half, and
survived a furious rally by the Johnnies. St. John's tied the game
at 34-34 with 9:57 remaining in the game, but Trinity burned up the
clock with a 7:28 game-winning drive.
FOOTBALL - MOMENT #1
October 27,
2007
In what many have called the most incredible ending to any football
game at any level, Trinity University used 15 laterals to go
60 yards and score on the final play of the game and defeat
Millsaps College, 28-24. The play – dubbed the Mississippi
Miracle – became an instant sensation on YouTube (It was
recognized by USA Today as part of a decade-ending
countdown of the top 10 Web sports sensations since 2000), and was
named the Pontiac Game Changing Performance of the 2007 NCAA
Football season and Time Magazine's #1 Sports Moment of 2007.
Trailing 24-22 with two seconds remaining and the ball at his own
40-yard line, Trinity quarterback Blake Barmore began the play with
an innocent 10-yard completion across the middle to Shawn Thompson.
But then, as fireworks were launched and the clocked turned to
0:00, Thompson began the sequence of laterals to Riley Curry. From
there it went from Curry to Josh Hooten (an offensive lineman) to
Michael Tomlin to Stephen Arnold (another offensive lineman) to
Thompson to Brandon Maddux to Curry to Maddux to Barmore to
Thompson to Curry to Tomlin to Hooten to Maddux to Curry, who
rumbled 44 yards for the inexplicable score. View
the play on YouTube
For more on the top SCAC Football moment, including
interviews with Trinity University play-by-play announcer Jon
Wiener and former Tiger wide receiver Riley Curry, click here.