consin (CCIW) have picked North Central College to win the 2008 conference title in a preseason poll. The Cardinals (9-3, 6-1 in 2007) won the poll with 48 points including six first-place votes. North Central earned the conference’s automatic bid to the NCAA Division III Football Championship last season, advancing to the second round.
read moreThe Carthage College football team (0-0, 0-0 College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin) reports for training camp on Aug. 21. The Red Men, tied for 48th place in the "D3football.com" pre-season poll, open their 2008 season on Saturday, Sept. 13 by playing host to Hope College in a 1 p.m. game at Art Keller Field in Kenosha, Wis.
Carthage College Director of Athletics Robert Bonn has named Terry Peebles as the Red Men’s new football offensive coordinator. Peebles replaces Garrett Campbell, who resigned on May 14 to take the head coaching job at Illinois College. Peebles was the offensive coordinator at Hanover College from 2003 to 2007, where also served as the head men’s tennis coach in 2004 and 2005 and an assistant baseball coach. Prior to that, he was the offensive coordinator at Waynesburg College in 2002, the offensive coordinator at Benedictine University (Ill.) in 1999 and 2000, an assistant coach at Western Kentucky University in 1997 and 1998 and an assistant at DePauw University in 1996. Watch Terry Peebles on ESPN from 1995!
read moreCarthage College director of athletics Robert Bonn has announced that former Red Men middle linebacker John Sedeska has been named football defensive coordinator. Sedeska replaces Greg Etter, who was named head football coach at Concordia University (Wis.) on April 10. Sedeska, who served as a part-time Carthage assistant for the 1999 and 2000 seasons, has been the head coach at J.I. Case High School in Racine, Wis., since 2001.
read moreCarthage has made a change to its 2008 schedule. Campbell University has replaced Valparaiso University as the Red Men’s home opponent on Sept. 27, 2008. Campbell, located in Buies Creek, N.C., is an NCAA Division I institution, NCAA Division I-AA non-scholarship for football, and the Fighting Camels are returning to gridiron for the first time since the sport was discontinued after the 1951 season.
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