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Crees Enters Fold

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15 September 2008 5:00 am
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2008 uwrf game

Michael Crees entered Saturday’s game as the SJU starter after beginning the season third in line behind junior Jordan Hansel and fan favorite Joe Boyle. Crees not only took advantage of last week’s opportunity to audition for the starting QB position but also grabbed last year’s starter Alex Kofoed’s jersey. Number eleven and his magical rise to the top of the quarterback competition is the kind of slight handed imagination required to leap over this season’s probable starters.

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Tip your helmet to Johnnies and Bennies

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8 September 2008 6:14 am
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2008 etbu game

Will The Rats Ever Return to The Main Bleachers? Call me!
You can thank the CSB/SJU student cheer section for helping kill a 4th quarter comeback attempt by the ETBU Tigers Saturday in The Johnnies season opener. It looked as though SJU was serious about allowing the southerners from Marshall, TX to foil the extremely sunny [...]

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Let The 2008 Games Begin!

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17 August 2008 8:42 am

Ok, maybe the phrase “Let The Games Begin” is a bit overused however in an Olympic year and with Johnnie Football Camp in full swing it’s as good as anything.
Just as the Johnnies began practice at 9:30am on Friday morning another sign of the upcoming season is the crew from JohnnieFootball.com gathering at Champps in [...]

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The Board, The Tailgate and The Game… two out of 3 ain’t bad

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26 November 2007 8:00 am
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2007 central game

Finding renewed life after a first round victory over the Redlands Bulldogs The Johnnie Footballers were now set to continue their victory march down I35 to Pella, Iowa.  As a post Thanksgiving Day treat the Central College Dutch were next on the schedule. The Dutch themselves were fresh off an undefeated season and a first [...]

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The Bully returns to the Block

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19 November 2007 7:08 am
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2007 central game

Chase Pollack hauls in a TD…that wasn’t.
Inspiration in the form of Jimmy “Swagger” and his wide open offensive attack made a long awaited return to Clemens Stadium Saturday afternoon.  Just when it appeared offensive coordinator Jimmy Gagliardi was contemplating a return to the Power I, the J’s rolled out their more familiar forward passing attack [...]

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5am

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11 November 2007 5:00 am
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2007 redlands game

Loop back nearly 12 months and a “Ground Hog” like day reappears on the Collegeville horizon and it’s a bout of Gagliardi “déjà vu” all over again.  Heck, when you’ve been the Football Sage at SJU for 55 seasons there’s a good chance things are bound to get a little quirky.
In 2006 the Johnnie season [...]

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Fan Friendly Environs Favor Johnnies

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5 November 2007 8:55 am
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2007 bethel game

With a final regular season Johnnie game vs. Bethel University this coming Saturday, SJU fans were awarded the luxury of an off weekend before the anticipated stretch run through the NCAAs.  The “free” Saturday offered the opportunity to monitor college football games via various medium and a few of us a good start on fall [...]

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AK-11 Uses Shotgun to Torch Tommies

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29 October 2007 8:05 am
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2007 stthomas game

Late October weather finally found its way to Clemens Stadium this past Saturday with temperatures dipping into the 40’s and a quickly disappearing afternoon sun fading west well before half time. Left were those familiar fall shadows engulfing the home half of the sideline and the pleasant knowledge the 2007 season is just getting started.  While [...]

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451, Stiftungsfestivities & Johnnie vs Tommie!

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22 October 2007 6:01 pm
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2007 stthomas game

Here it is folks, following a season full of extreme anticipation with crucial matches vs. Concordia and St. Olaf and insipid predictability vs. The Carleton Knights and The UW River Falls Falcons, it’s the weekend all fans of the “Mother Church” have been waiting for!  Not only are the Jay’s in the midst of an eight game winning streak by virtue of a sound victory over Hamline U, its time once again for men, women and children to head west on I-94 and back home! Following two successful years on the Cretin Avenue campus the Johnnie/Tommie tilt moves its caravan back to the rightful staging ground in Collegeville.  Believe it or not the Johnnies are heading into week number nine with only UST and Bethel University remaining on the calendar.

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Johnnies Stave off Mighty Knights and knaves in 10-7 Victory

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30 September 2007 12:31 am
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2007 carleton game

In what could have become a glaring blemish on a mostly perfect 2007 Johnnie football season ended spectacularly with wide receiver Chace Pollock’s leaping 4th down catch and conversion inside the Carleton Knights 10 yard line.  With St. John’s behind 7 to 3 and only 56 seconds left on the clock senior running back Mike Patnode continued [...]

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