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Earlham College suspends football program after suffering a record 53 straight losses

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https://www.pal-item.com/story/sports/college/quakers/2018/11/13/earlham-college-suspends-2019-football-season/1990050002/

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With a 70-6 loss to Rose-Hulman on Saturday, Earlham completed a fifth consecutive winless season, and extended the NCAA Division III national record with its 53rd straight loss. The Quakers last won on Oct. 26, 2013, when they defeated Anderson 21-20. 

Interim president Avis Stewart, a 1974 graduate of the college, announced in a statement Tuesday that next year’s season would be suspended after consultation with the College Cabinet, the Senior Director of Athletics, Faculty Athletics Representatives, and the Earlham Board of Trustees and “authorizing a review to examine the factors that are necessary to build and sustain a viable and competitive football program that would potentially attract significant numbers of student-athletes to enroll in our College.”

 

#10

Kinda OT but one of my best friends growing up went to Earlham as did his parents. He played soccer for them.

#11
6 minutes ago, AUinHsv said:

Kinda OT but one of my best friends growing up went to Earlham as did his parents. He played soccer for them.

And he won as many football games there as did the last two graduating classes of FB players combined.

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#12

Earlham's been brutally bad for years, too... not like it's a recent phenomenon or anything.

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#15
1 minute ago, gecko said:

Baylor now has a scheduling hole to fill...

Well I'm sure the co-eds are glad the football team is concentrating on a different hole for once. 

#17

Maybe they can take a year or two off, and then come back and beat aggy in a week 12 non conference game. 

#20

Well, now I guess all the talk of Matt Campbell to Earlham can finally be put to rest...

#23
1 hour ago, satyanash said:

Earlham's been brutally bad for years, too... not like it's a recent phenomenon or anything.

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Too bad they were never able to recapture the glory of their 2013 season.

#24
44 minutes ago, Blanton said:

You can't be the best at winning...be the best at losing?

 

In their ten games this season, they were outscored 566 - 75.  Scores included 70-6, 64-20, 63-0, 83-17, 69-0, and 59-2 (gotta be scorigami, right?)

#28
1 minute ago, Snacks said:

Earlham is in my hometown... so this hits close to home?

I didn't even know they still played football.

Apparently they haven't for almost 10 years.

#29
Apparently they haven't for almost 10 years.
Nobody in the town is any good at football any more... it's a poor place. I think the high school went 0-fer last year... after celebrating the 50 year reunion of the state title team my dad was on.
#30

Wow. At least my alma mater had an undefeated record before they dissolved the football program.

Still undefeated bitches!

#34

Supposedly Mary Anne flew in from Atlanta on a red eye midnight flight.  She held Wanda's hand as they worked out a plan and it didn't take 'em long to decide that Earlham had to die.

#37
Too bad they were never able to recapture the glory of their 2013 season.
I'm sure it's on their stadium wall somewhere, and in 2023 there will be a halftime ceremony.

Oh, wair..
#39
47 minutes ago, TexOx said:

Close. Quakers. 

They just didn’t have the oats to feed the horses required to run a football program 

#40
1 hour ago, TexOx said:

Close. Quakers. 

Which is ironic because they're not known for quitting. They're better known for not starting anything in the first place. 

#42
10 hours ago, ClubWhatever said:

All my Earlham gear in the garbage, just like that

Send it to Guatemala with all the Aggy NC T's.

#44

Bates got *this close* to killing their program in the mid nineties after 4 winless seasons and starting a D3 hockey program before we won a game my Junior year.  

Gotdamn that was a hell of a party, tho. 

#45
On 11/13/2018 at 9:26 PM, ClubWhatever said:

All my Earlham gear in the garbage, just like that

Shit. You just reminded me that I have a small collection of hoodies from Indy schools that my family has attended (Ball State, IU, ND, Indiana Weslyan) but not one from Earlham or Indiana State...

 

Can I have your Earlham hoodie?

#47
On 11/13/2018 at 10:21 PM, WhatTheBuck said:

Which is ironic because they're not known for quitting. They're better known for not starting anything in the first place. 

They've got no fight in them.

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