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2010 Week 4: Augsburg

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22 September 2010 10:00 pm
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2010 augsburg game

The Johnnies come off a big win over the Cobbers last weekend and travel to downtown Minneapolis to play the Augsburg Auggies.  The Auggies come off a dramatic come from behind victory where they trailed 35-10 at one point in the 2nd half to beat Hamline at Edor Nelson Field.
1st year alum Nick Gunderson in [...]

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2010 Week 3: Concordia-Moorhead

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15 September 2010 10:00 pm
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2010 concordia game

The Johnnies open MIAC conference play this Saturday hosting the Concordia-Moorhead Cobbers at Clemens Stadium.  The Cobbers have opened the season with a 1-1 record against Dickinson State and Valley City State.  They’ve won two out of the last three games in Collegeville and always seem to give the Johnnies fits on both sides of the [...]

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2010 Week 2: Wisconsin-Eau Claire

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8 September 2010 9:00 pm
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2010 uwec game

The Johnnies play their 2nd and final non-conference game of the regular season on Saturday traveling to Eau-Claire, Wisconsin for a rare 7pm gametime against the Blugolds.  They are a team dominated by sophomores and juniors & as always have tremendous size.  This will be a stern early season test for the Cardinal & Blue [...]

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2010 Week 1: Northwestern

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1 September 2010 3:29 pm
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2010 northwestern game

The Johnnies open the 2010 football season with a non-conference matchup with the Northwestern Eagles of Roseville, MN in the Upper Midwest Athletic Conference (UMAC).  Here is a brief breakdown of what to look forward to on this holiday weekend in Collegeville…

Northwestern Offense: The Eagles had 6 1st All-UMAC players last season and return just [...]

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2010 Season Preview + News & Notes

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30 August 2010 5:12 pm
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2010 game

The 2010 football season is fast approaching and we are ready to get things ratcheted up here at JohnnieFootball.com.  Welcome back to the site and many thanks for coming to visit us on a regular basis during the football season.  Please send your comments/critiques/corrections/complaints/compliments to touchdowntommy@johnniefootball.com.  Now let’s get right down to business…

Top Teams in [...]

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Handicapping the Field with Touchdown Tommy

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17 November 2009 12:12 pm
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2009 coe game

The 2009 NCAA Division III football playoffs are upon us. On Sunday around 2:10pm the brackets were revealed on ESPNEWS. The committee has decided NOT to place seedings on teams this year, however, one can reasonably surmise that the West Region Bracket looks like this.

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Showing Up to the Regular Season Finale…

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10 November 2009 12:00 pm
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2009 carleton game

First and foremost, I hope the Carleton Knights show up to the game this week.  They are coming off five straight losses in the MIAC and the schedule on their school site has them playing in St. Joseph, MN on Saturday. 
The Knights, led by Johnnie QB legend Kurt Ramler, are having a tough season after [...]

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Scouting the Auggies…

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3 November 2009 11:58 am
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2009 augsburg game

Saturday was Halloween.  The Johnnies were on a bye week and the plan was to lounge around watching college football all day in HD and possibly change the channel to the World Series at night.  As I was doing my daily website routine, I checked out the MIAC football schedule for the day.  It was here that [...]

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Imposing Your Will…

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20 October 2009 10:05 am
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2009 stolaf game

Saturday was an atmosphere that is rarely seen at the Division 3 level.  The stars were definitely aligned for a colossal matchup in Collegeville.  Both teams entered the game undefeated and with sky high expectations for themselves.  Nearly 13 thousand people showed up to witness what was supposed to be the best Tommie squad in years [...]

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Scouting the Tommies…

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12 October 2009 8:00 am
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2009 stthomas game

So I made the executive decision to skip the Johnnies vs Hamline game on Saturday afternoon by instead heading to St. Thomas for a little scouting.  This was just another instance of sacrificing short-term pleasure for the benefit of my loyal readers here at JohnnieFootball.com.  I kid.  I kid.

The day got off to a rousing [...]

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