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The Carleton Knights football team represents Carleton College in college football at the NCAA Division III level. The program was started in 1883 and was very successful through the early 1960s, winning over 20 conference championships from 1895 to 1956. Carleton has played in the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference since 1983.
The Carleton Knights are the athletic teams that represent Carleton College, located in Northfield, Minnesota, in intercollegiate sports as a member of the NCAA Division III ranks, primarily competing in the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) since the 1983–84 academic year; which they were a member on a previous stint from 1920–21 to 1924–25.
The Originals, the first Carleton College football team, played its first organized game on a rainy October day in 1945. The Second World War had just ended and 36 war veterans, turned students, lined up to face their opponents Macdonald College in Ste. Anne de Bellevue, Que. Though the Carleton College team was bigger and more experienced ...
On March 15, 1920, a formal constitution was adopted and the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference with founding members Carleton College, Gustavus Adolphus College, Hamline University, Macalester College, Saint John's University, St. Olaf College, and the College of St. Thomas (now University of St. Thomas).
The 1992 Carleton Knights football team represented Carleton College in the 1992 NCAA Division III football season. Bob Sullivan returned as the head coach, and Gerald Young was hired as the team's new defensive coordinator. The team compiled a 9–1 record and won the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) championship, [1] but ...
Carleton College (/ ˈ k ɑːr l t ɪ n / KARL-tin) is a private liberal arts college in Northfield, Minnesota. Founded in 1866, the 200-acre (81 ha) main campus is between Northfield and the approximately 800-acre (320 ha) Cowling Arboretum , which became part of the campus in the 1920s.
Carleton established a football team during the 1945–46 academic year, losing 15–0 to Macdonald College during its debut match. In tandem with basketball and hockey, Carleton's football matches transformed into a staple of student life at Carleton during the early years of the school, securing funding for sports equipment early in the ...
The 1954 Carleton Knights football team represented Carleton College as a member of the Midwest Conference (MWC) during the 1954 college football season. In their 16th year under head coach Walter Hass , the Knights compiled an 8–0 record (also 8–0 in conference games), won the MWC championship, and outscored opponents by a total of 139 to 59.