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>>>There are lots of Discontinue teams from the 1800s up >>>to 2014. >> >>Thanks, I'll look through the list and see if there >>are others I should mention at the website. Basically >>I'm not worried about teams that existed only before >>1960 since they would not be covered at the website >>anyway, but I see some names there that I have not >>seen before. Many of the teams listed appear to be >>club-level teams (e.g., Atlantic Christian 2005, >>Chattahoochee Technical College 2012, Clarkson 2014, >>Columbus State 2014, DePaul 2014, Eastern Connecticut >>State 2014, George Mason 2014, Greenville Tech 2012, >>etc). Some others such as Albert Lea may be >>legitimate post-1959 varsity teams that merit >>inclusion at the website, so additional research will >>be necessary (not that there's much hope of finding >>any information about helmet designs). >> >>Saint Leo was, to the best of my knowledge, always a >>club team. The school's yearbooks have been digitized >>and placed on the internet; the 1973 and 1976 >>yearbooks specifically say "club football". >> >> This article: >>https://web.archive.org/web/20130106232301/http://www. >t >>ampabayfootball.net/news/news200.htm >> >>states: >> >>"Saint Leo had been talking about club level football >>for several years and in 1972 decided to take the >>plunge with a $15,000.00 investment. Club level >>football did not require NCAA accreditation and it was >>definitely football on the cheap. There were no >>scholarships, the players had to sign waivers, provide >>their own insurance and buy their own shoes. >> >>Joe Sico was the first head coach, as he had coached a >>freshman high school team in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. >>The Monarchs, the school would change its nickname to >>the Lions in the late 1980s, played their first game >>on September 23, 1972 at the Pasco High School >>stadium. The University of Tampa freshman team won the >>game 40-0 and Saint Leo was slaughtered in all four >>games that season. >> >>Tilrow Morrison, the former athletic director at Polk >>High School, took over the head coaching duties in >>1973 and would lead the team for the next eight >>seasons. Things did improve and the Monarchs won two >>games that season and in 1978 posted a school best 5-3 >>record. >> >>Saint Leo was a bit of a pioneer, as there were no >>colleges with club level programs in the deep south. >>It was hoped other Florida schools would start club >>football. Some other school’s club teams were >>played, such as Duke, North Carolina and Rutgers, but >>scheduling was a problem. Semi-pro teams were played, >>the Tampa Rangers, Miami Barracudas and Haines City >>Warriors. Scholarship programs, such as Newberry, >>NC-Wilmington and Millsap, were on the schedule. Saint >>Leo’s team did not travel that much, but there were >>trips to Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee and even one game >>in Washington, D.C. The very first game played by the >>University of Central Florida was played at Saint Leo >>in the 1979. UCF won that game 21-0 and won 53-0 when >>the two teams met in the Tangerine Bowl the following >>year. >> >>Saint Leo built an on campus field, called College >>Field, in 1974 and there were plans to move up to the >>NCAA Division III level. By 1980, it was costing about >>$35,000.00 to run the program and the school decided >>to drop football." >> >> - so I don't see any mention of them ever actually >>achieving NCAA Division III status. >> >>The only references I've found to Saint Leo ever being >>a non-club team are as follows: >> >>http://alumni.worcester.edu/s/140/social.aspx?sid=140& >g >>id=1&pgid=3356&cid=5511&ecid=5511&crid=0&calpgid=15&ca >l >>cid=848 >> >>...where it is stated "The 1980 Club Football Team won >>the National Collegiate Football Association >>championship, which was Worcester State’s second >>national championship in eight months (women’s >>basketball was the other.) Under the direction of >>12-year head coach Jim Girouard, the team finished 9-1 >>in 1980 losing only to Stonehill and beating a >>Division III team, St. Leo of Florida. " >> >>And: >> >>https://www.facebook.com/saintleofootball/photos/a.720 >6 >>78354638716/720680804638471/?type=3&theater >> >>- this links to a scan of an old newspaper article >>entitled 'Monarchs End First Season With a Loss' >>('Monarchs' was the name of Saint Leo's athletic teams >>at that time). Perhaps 'first season' is a reference >>to 'first season as a varsity team'? >> >>So maybe Saint Leo achieved NCAA Division III football >>status for one season only (1980), before dropping the >>sport because it did not wish to construct a stadium >>adequate to meet NCAA guidelines. > > >I do wonder if the wording in footballscoops from >another news article talking about bringing football >back at Saint Leo meant that they had varsity football >back in the 1920s and 30s before dropping the sport >and then the club team came about in the 1970s? That >is why it is in the incomplete data list. > >Got word that Florida State College dropped all men's >sports when it became an all female college until it >became a coed again which is now known today as >Florida State University.
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