6 Turnovers Doom Johnnies in Loss to Coe

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22 November 2009 7:50 am
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2009 coe game

When the playoffs roll around, you have to be playing your best football of the season if you want to advance to the next week. With each victory comes the reward of playing a tougher opponent the following week. Mistakes are magnified in the playoffs and having an interception or a fumble recovery returned for [...]

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Johnnies Finish Regular Season 41-14 Over Carleton

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15 November 2009 8:11 am
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2009 carleton game

Making the NCAA tournament is an expected conclusion to the regular season for the Johnnie football squad, but with the 2009 season came a number of key injuries  through out the season making the 2009 post season even more special.
The Johnnies took on the Carleton Knights in the season finale and prevailed 41-14 in a [...]

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Johnnies Take Care of Business 28-7 over Auggies

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8 November 2009 9:05 am
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2009 augsburg game

The Johnnies traveled to Minneapolis to take on the Augsburg Auggies as the race to the Division III post season heated up. The Johnnies knew they had to take care of business and not let their concentration slip, because playing at home in the play offs is an advantage the Johnnies want to keep.
From the [...]

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Happy Birthday John

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31 October 2009 11:19 pm

Today John Gagliardi is 83 years young,with no signs of slowing down in the near future.
John has been the head coach of the St John’s University  Johnnies since the 1953 season. Prior to taking the coaching vacancy at St. John’s there was a 4 year stint at Carroll College in Helena, Montana where John compiled [...]

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SJU Emerges 10-3 Over St. Olaf but Lose Boyle

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25 October 2009 10:01 am
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2009 stolaf game

What appeared to be a routine play for SJU QB Joe Boyle ended up seeing him leave the game in the 1st quarter and  not returning. Boyle aggravated an already sprained right thumb (throwing hand)  that was originally injured in the Hamline game October 10th. According to St. Cloud Times reporter,Frank Rajkowski, Boyle will undergo [...]

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Johnnie Football Nips UST 20-17 in OT

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18 October 2009 9:17 am
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2009 stthomas game

When the result of a game has so many implications such as,  potential MIAC Championship, national rankings, and the play-off picture then the 2009 version of  Johnnie-Tommie game did not disappoint. I’m writing this from the perspective of a Johnnie football fan,if  you are a Tommie player or Tommie backer then the result may have [...]

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Johnnies Drum Pipers 41-7

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11 October 2009 10:31 am
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2009 hamline game

In the Robert Browning fairytale, The Pied Piper of Hamelin,  the piper freed the town of rats. On Saturday, the Hamline University Pipers were on a mission to free their campus of the rats who had invaded from SJU and in doing so, saving Homecoming for the Piper alumni and students. There  were a couple of [...]

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From Devastation to Jubilation: Gliadon Kicks Game Winner

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4 October 2009 11:07 am
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2009 bethel game

After having a field goal attempt deflected in the first half, to pushing the game tying PAT wide right with 1:47 remaining in the game, all looked lost for the Johnnie Footballers and the Homecoming crowd of 10,567 in attendance. The ensuing kick off to the Royals, with the Johnnies trailing 14-13, and a three [...]

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Johnnies Streak Continues: SJU 38-10 Over Gusties

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27 September 2009 10:49 am
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2009 gustavus game

On September 26, 1953 a young John Gagliardi faced off against the powerhouse of the MIAC, the Gustavus Adolphus College Gusties, in his first season as the head coach of the Johnnies and prevailed by a score of 21-7. Gagliardi was facing the legendary head coach of Gustavus, Lloyd Hollingsworth, in what would become a [...]

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Johnnies Harvest Cobbers 31-19

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20 September 2009 10:02 am
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2009 concordia game

Saturday, as we took  the long drive to the Red River Valley I was reminded of all the agricultural production that takes place in this area of the state. As we drove I-94 to the Moorhead area I saw the small grain crop was nearly all in the bins and the  sunflowers, corn,soybeans and sugar [...]

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