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  Pioneer Football League - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Pioneer Football League is a college athletic conference which operates literally from coast to coast in the United States It has member schools that range from North Carolina and Florida in the east to California in the west.
The University of San Diego joined in 1992, but the league was narrowed back to five members after the University of Evansville dropped football in 1997.
On April 8, 2005, Austin Peay announced that it would be leaving the Pioneer Football League after the 2005 season and returning to scholarship-granting competition in 2007 with the Ohio Valley Conference in which it competes in other sports.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pioneer_Football_League   (342 words)

  
 PFL Home
The Pioneer Football League (PFL) was established in July of 2000 to give home-schooled and private-schooled boys, ages 12 - 18 the opportunity to play regulation football.
The Pioneer Football League (PFL) is a non-profit 501 (c) 3 corporation.
The first concern of the coaches and the league officials is the physical, mental and spiritual well being of each of the student athletes.
www.pioneerfootballleague.net   (190 words)

  
 College football - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
College football is also used to refer to Canadian football played by students at Canadian universities; this article focuses on the American version of the sport.
Camp is responsible for pioneering the play from scrimmage (earlier games featured a rugby scrum), most of the modern elements of scoring, the eleven-man team, and the traditional offensive setup of the seven-man line and the four-man backfield.
Prior to the founding of the National Football League, and for a few decades thereafter, college football was the predominant venue of American football.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/College_football   (1795 words)

  
 Derwin Gray speaks at Pioneer Football League banquet
The PFL, started three years ago by a group of parents whose sons wanted to play football, but were home-schooled or attending private schools with no football teams, was founded on Christian principles.
The league is open to boys from 12 to 18 years old who are home-schooled or attend a private school without a football team.
All PFL board members, advisors, and coaches are volunteers, and all the coaches and assistants donate hours of time with three to four practices weekly and games on Saturdays.
www.thecharlotteworld.com /fullarticle.asp?ID=259   (628 words)

  
 Official Internet Home of the Pioneer Football League
The league is comprised of NCAA Division I universities that previously sponsored intercollegiate football at other levels with the exception of Jacksonville, which started a non-scholarship program in 1998.
Beginning in 2005, the Pioneer Football League and Gateway Football League were joined by the Great West Football Conference as the only Division I conferences that sponsor football as their only sport.
The PFL remains a proponent of NCAA Division I-AA legislation that would develop a classification for Division I football programs operating with need-based aid and adopted the moniker of Pioneer based on the intent to become the first league in that new division.
www.collegesportingnews.net /Sites/PFL/view_article.asp?articleid=58731   (299 words)

  
 Davidson Athletics
A league-record 299 student-athletes from nine member institutions were named to the Pioneer Football League Academic Honor Roll for the Fall 2003 semester.
Pioneer Football League athletic directors and coaches established the honor roll three years ago as a way to recognize the league's outstanding student-athletes.
The academic honor roll consists of student-athletes who participated in football at member institutions during the fall semester and posted a 3.0 grade-point average or higher while enrolled full-time in accordance with NCAA rules.
www2.davidson.edu /athletics/ath_news_arch.aspx?newsid=2433&module=42   (115 words)

  
 NBC 4 - College Football - 2005 All-Conference Pioneer League Teams Announced
PFL North Champion San Diego fielded eight first-time first-team honorees, senior wide receiver Adam Hannula moved up from honorable mention honors in 2004 to claim first-team recognition in 2005.
The first-team All-PFL North squad is a veteran team with 14 seniors, six juniors and seven sophomores among its honorees.
The PFL South team is composed of two freshmen, five sophomores, eight juniors and 11 seniors.
www.nbc4.tv /cfoot/5341125/detail.html   (349 words)

  
 Iowa Football Camps at Drake by Drake Football Camp Coach Rob Ash
Ash was the winningest football coach in Juniata College history, posting a 51-36-3 record in nine years as head coach while guiding the NCAA Division III school to the Middle Atlantic Conference co-championship in 1981.
Active in the American Football Coaches Association, Ash was elected to the AFCA Board of Trustees in January of 2002.
Ash ushered Drake into a new era of football in 1993 with the Bulldogs competing in the newly formed NCAA I-AA Pioneer Football League.
www.robashfootball.com /index.cfm?page=10   (1186 words)

  
 Pioneer Football - 2005 News
This is the third straight year these teams have met, with the Pioneers capturing a 21-20 win in 2003 and a 33-23 victory last year in Des Moines.
The 1980 Pioneers were 7-3 overall and 6-2 in the then-Wisconsin State University Conference.
The Pioneers are playing two teams from Iowa in the same season for the first time since 1997.
www.uwplatt.edu /athletics/football/2005/drakepreview.html   (844 words)

  
 University of San Diego Magazine
University of San Diego football will never be confused with Florida State, Nebraska or any of the 100 or so universities that invest millions in the game, luring top high school prospects with 60,000-seat stadiums and full ride scholarships.
Composed of Midwestern colleges that had competed at other NCAA levels, the league philosophy is that quality football and high academic standards are not mutually exclusive.
PFL teams like Ohio's University of Dayton and Iowa's Drake University hail from the nation's heartland, where football is a staple and the corn-fed players often tower over the Toreros.
www.sandiego.edu /publications/usdmagazine/fall2001/game2.shtml   (852 words)

  
 Official Internet Home of the Pioneer Football League
League expansion in 2001 led to the creation of divisions and team’s were required only to play a round-robin schedule within their division.
The six PFL Academic All-America honorees were part of 17 PFL Academic All-District selections, including nine first-team All-District honorees which each qualified for the All-America ballot.
Pioneer Football League officials announced today the winners of its divisional post-season honors: Offensive Player of the Year, Defensive Player of the Year and Coach of the Year.
www.pioneer-football.org   (847 words)

  
 Unofficial Pioneer Football League Page
While the PFL is excluded from the I-AA playoffs on the theory they would be uncompetitive, most of I-AA has removed all doubt about its non-competitiveness in Division I basketball.
I-AA is Division II football without history or dignity.
The Ivy League is a notable departure from the I-AA model.
www.geocities.com /lurkingd   (501 words)

  
 USDTOREROS.COM
The Pioneer Football League announced today its 10th annual Academic All-PFL squads and the USD Toreros placed seven student-athletes on the two squads.
The Pioneer Football League officials announced the winners of its divisional post-season honors today, and 7th-year USD Torero head coach Kevin McGarry was selected the PFL North's "Coach of the Year."
The University of San Diego football team, which finished 5-5 overall and 3-1 in the PFL North Division, had nine players represented on the 2002 Pioneer Football League All-Conference Team.
www.sportsmediainc.net /usdtoreros/index.cfm?func=showarticle&newsid=2663   (1053 words)

  
 Morehead State University - Quality education for every generation.
MSU is a member of the NCAA, the Ohio Valley Conference, and the Pioneer Football League.
All sports compete within the OVC at the Division I level except football, which competes at the I-AA level in the Pioneer Football League.
Jacobs Field (football) was resurfaced during the summer of 2000 with a new, state-of-the-art AstroPlay surface.
www.morehead-st.edu /index.aspx?id=6335   (1042 words)

  
 Austin Peay State University Official Athletics Web site   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
This is the final year for the Govs in the Pioneer Football League as they make their way back to the OVC in 2007.
For the second consecutive week, the Austin Peay football team's offense was stymied by a PFL North foe, this time it was Drake winning a 54-0 decision in Des Moines, Iowa.
Austin Peay's football team was picked to finish third in the PFL South.
www.apsu.edu /letsgopeay/updates/football/fb.htm   (1814 words)

  
 Definition of College football   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
College football was the venue through which American football first gained popularity in the United States.
The college post-season is ushered in by the annual presentation of the Heisman Trophy Award, considered the most prestigious award in all of college football, given to the top player of the year as determined by a panel consisting of media voters and former winners of the award.
This is then followed by a series of bowl games that showcase (usually) the top college team in a particular conference, as well as the consensus "national champion", which is determined not by a true playoff, but by a controversial confederation of voters, broadcast networks, bowls and conferences known as the Bowl Championship Series.
www.wordiq.com /definition/College_football   (1058 words)

  
 2002 Pioneer Football League Championship - Don Hansen's National Weekly Football Gazette
The University of Dayton Flyer football team travels to Morehead, Kentucky on Saturday to defend its 2001 Pioneer Football League championship.
The Flyers, the PFL North Division champion thanks to last week's 27-17 win at San Diego, will stay on the road to meet Morehead State, the PFL South Division winner who was off last week.
Tickets for the 2002 Pioneer Football League Championship Game, to be played Nov. 23 at MSU's Jayne Stadium will be priced as follows: $10 for box seats, $8 for reserved seats, $6 for general admission and $3 for MSU students and for students of the opposing team.
www.donhansen.com /playoffs/plfc.htm   (178 words)

  
 Toreros hitting the Pioneer trail | The San Diego Union-Tribune
USD football player Matt Collins can tell you all about the little intricacies that come with playing at Drake –; the way the wind blows a little differently, the way the grass grows a little longer and the crowd is a bit more hostile.
But after being a part of the league's co-championship squad last year, Collins has his sights set on finishing his last season with USD alone on top.
Play in the Pioneer Football League-North opens today for the Toreros with a trip to Des Moines, Iowa, to meet Drake, the first step USD must take if it hopes to achieve its goal of winning the conference.
www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20041009/news_1s9usdfb.html   (637 words)

  
 Player Bio: Steve Gilbert :: Football
As JU enters its eighth season of football, including its fifth as a member of the Pioneer Football League, head coach Steve Gilbert has established the Dolphin program as a perennial PFL Championship contender.
In only the fourth season of intercollegiate football and the Dolphins' first season as a member of the Pioneer Football League, JU captured the PFL South Division Championship.
The Dolphins sported a league-high 12 players on the PFL All-Conference Team, while free safety Tyrone Wright was tabbed the PFL Co-Defensive Player of the Year.
judolphins.collegesports.com /sports/m-footbl/mtt/gilbert_steve00.html   (1416 words)

  
 UD Football   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
For the first time since dropping their Division I ranking, the UD football team cracked the top 25 of the Division I-AA poll, climbing to the No. 21 slot after a 34-13 win over Valparaiso University, Oct. 25.
Led by senior quarterback Kevin Johns, the UD football team remained undefeated into the month of November, racking up a 9-0 record.
The Flyers' 5-0 record in the PFL propelled them to the top of the league for the second straight year.
www.udayton.edu /udq/97/fallsports/football.html   (587 words)

  
 ASU Assistant Football Coach   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
During his tenure as coach, the Bulldogs set a school scoring record and a Pioneer Football League single game total offense record.
He helped the Bulldogs to the 2001 Pioneer Football League championship and his 2001 offensive line was named the offensive MVP for the team.
McClung was also the head football coach at Midwestern State from 1996 to 1998, directing the team's move from an NAIA non-scholarship program to an NCAA Division II program in the Lone Star Conference.
www.angelo.edu /services/athletics/football/mcclung.htm   (336 words)

  
 The Honolulu Advertiser | Sports   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
Ching, a 1996 Kamehameha Schools graduate from Lahaina, yesterday was drafted by the Saskatchewan Rough Riders of the Canadian Football League.
Ching, a three-time All-Pioneer Football League wide receiver for University of San Diego, was the first player chosen in the third round and the 15th overall.
Canadian Football League spokesman Jeff Dominic said Ching was a “potential roster buster” because he qualifies as Canadian but all his football training is American.
the.honoluluadvertiser.com /2000/Apr/19/sports7.html   (677 words)

  
 ELEVEN FLYERS NAMED ACADEMIC ALL-PIONEER FOOTBALL LEAGUE :: Brandon Cramer One Of Four Unanimious Choices
The University of Dayton has placed the most student-athletes on the Academic All-Pioneer Football League squads for the third straight year, and for the 11th time in the 13-year history of the league.
The Academic All-PFL team was created in 1993 to recognize student-athletes who excel on the field and in the classroom.
The student-athlete must be a starter or important reserve and have a 3.00 cumulative grade point average.
daytonflyers.collegesports.com /sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/112005aaa.html   (303 words)

  
 Davidson Athletics
LOUIS, Mo. -- Davidson had five players named to the two Academic All-Pioneer Football League teams, the league announced yesterday, with defensive back Yeatts Anderson and defensive lineman Kyle Kinsell earning first-team honors.
In addition, each of the five Wildcats has been named to the Pioneer Football League Honor Roll every year they have been a member of the football team.
Quick off the ball, he led Davidson with 10 tackles for a loss and four sacks, which tied him for fifth in the league.
www2.davidson.edu /common/templates/ath/mvfb_tmp00.asp?newsid=5344   (500 words)

  
 1290whio.com: UD Flyer News "Flyers Name 2005 Football Team Captains"
He was First Team All-PFL, First Team ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District and named Second Team Academic All-Pioneer Football League.
The 6-6, 294-pound Winner was First Team All-Pioneer Football League and selected an Honorable Mention All-American by the Football Gazette.
Dayton has won eight PFL titles in the 11-year history of the league, and begin the pursuit of its ninth PFL championship on August 7, when the players report for pre-season camp.
1290whio.com /whiosports/2005udfballcapts.html   (406 words)

  
 Austin Peay State University   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
A league-record 299 student-athletes from nine member institutions were named to the Pioneer Football League Academic Honor Roll for Fall 2003.
Four other PFL member schools posted three-year bests, including the University of Dayton, which placed a league-high 49 members, Drake University, Jacksonville University and Morehead State University.
Pioneer Football League athletic directors and coaches established the honor roll three years ago as a way to recognize the league’s outstanding student-athletes.
www.apsu.edu /inneraction/releases/show_news.asp?id=1524   (134 words)

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