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Dayton Wolfpack

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{{Infobox indoor American football team

| name = Dayton Wolfpack

| logo =

| helmet = Dayton Wolfpack Helmet Logo 2017.png

| founded = 2016

| folded = 2017

| city =

| misc =Traveling team only
[http://www.daytonwolfpack.com/ DaytonWolfpack.com]

| uniform =

| colors = Black, red, silver, white
{{Color box|black}} {{Color box|#AF272B}} {{Color box|#B7B7B9}} {{Color box|white}}

| coach =

| owner =

| chairman =

| president =

| general manager =

| mascot =

| nicknames =

| league =

National Arena League (2017)

| team_history =

  • Dayton Wolfpack (2017)

| no_league_champs = 0

| no_conf_champs = 0

| no_div_champs = 0

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| no_playoff_appearances = 0

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}}

The Dayton Wolfpack were a professional indoor football team and a charter member of the National Arena League (NAL) in its inaugural 2017 season. Originally to be based in Dayton, Ohio, the Wolfpack had announced their home venue as the Nutter Center but apparently failed to reach a lease agreement. The Wolfpack were then listed as a traveling team by the NAL.

The Wolfpack would have been the sixth indoor football team to call Dayton home, following the Dayton Skyhawks of the original Indoor Football League (1999–2000), the Dayton Warbirds/Bulldogs of the National Indoor Football League (2005–2006), The Marshals also of the NIFL (2007), the Dayton Silverbacks of the Continental Indoor Football League (2011–2012) and finally the Dayton Sharks also of the CIFL (2013–2014).

History

On August 11, 2016, the Arena Developmental League (which then became the National Arena League) officially announced the Wolfpack as its fourth charter team, following the previously announced Columbus Lions, High Country Grizzlies and Lehigh Valley Steelhawks.{{cite web | url=http://www.arenadl.com/news-m/54-dayton-wolfpack-announce-intentions-to-join-adl.html | title=Dayton Wolfpack Announce Intentions to Join ADL | publisher=Arena Developmental League | date=August 11, 2016 | accessdate=August 19, 2016 | archive-date=January 22, 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170122115301/http://www.arenadl.com/news-m/54-dayton-wolfpack-announce-intentions-to-join-adl.html | url-status=dead }} The team was originally announced to be led by head coach Derrick Shepard and owners Jerome and Jesse Clark.{{cite web |url=http://nationalarenaleague.com/news-m/132-2017-coaches-for-the-dayton-wolfpack-announced.html |title=2017 Coaches For The Dayton Wolfpack Announced |publisher=National Arena League |date=December 31, 2016 |access-date=January 4, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170121225300/http://nationalarenaleague.com/news-m/132-2017-coaches-for-the-dayton-wolfpack-announced.html |archive-date=January 21, 2017 |url-status=dead }}

Over social media, the owners of the Wolfpack announced they would be playing at the Nutter Center and the NAL made the schedule listing the Nutter as their home venue. Due to the Jacksonville Sharks needing to fulfill their previous eight home contract with their arena from their time in the Arena Football League, the Wolfpack and Corpus Christi Rage each were only scheduled for five home games, with four home games of the Wolfpack's falling on a Monday. However, by February 2017, several signed players reported over social media that they had all been released from their contracts due to lack of a home venue. By February 20, the NAL had removed their home games from the schedule, leaving the Wolfpack as a traveling team. Also over social media, Marcus Ray announced he would be operating the Wolfpack traveling team out of the Atlanta area for the season.{{cite web |url=http://arenafootballtalk.weebly.com/blog/nals-dayton-wolpack-set-to-become-a-travel-only-team |title=NAL's Dayton Wolpack set to become a travel only team |publisher=Arena Football Talk |date=February 20, 2017}}

Later in the season, Erasmus Harvey announced his new team, the Georgia Doom, would play the Georgia Firebirds as the Dayton Wolfpack for the April 29 game in Albany.{{cite web |url=http://www.oursportscentral.com/services/releases/weekly-sports-league--franchise-report/n-5255836 |title=WEEKLY SPORTS LEAGUE & FRANCHISE REPORT |publisher=OurSports Central |date=May 8, 2017}}

The Wolfpack were not listed as members of the league after the NAL 2017 summer meetings concluded.{{cite web |url=http://www.nationalarenaleague.com/news-m/308-nal-announces-teams-for-2018-play-northeast-bolstered-by-expansion.html |title=NAL Announces Teams for 2018 Play - Northeast Bolstered by Expansion |publisher=NAL |date=July 20, 2017 |access-date=July 21, 2017 |archive-date=August 14, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170814104332/http://www.nationalarenaleague.com/news-m/308-nal-announces-teams-for-2018-play-northeast-bolstered-by-expansion.html |url-status=dead }}

Season-by-season results

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style="background:#fcc;"|League Champions

| style="background:#dfd;"|Conference Champions

| style="background:#d0e7ff;"|Division Champions

| style="background:#96cdcd;"|Playoff Berth

| style="background:#c8a2c8;"|League Leader

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; font-size: 95%;"
rowspan="2" | Season

!rowspan="2" | Team

!rowspan="2" | League

!rowspan="2" | Conference

!rowspan="2" | Division

!colspan="4" | Regular season

!rowspan="2" | Postseason results

FinishWinsLossesTies
2017

| 2017 || NAL || ||

| 7th || 0 || 7 || 0 ||

2017 season

{{Infobox NFL team season

| team = Dayton Wolfpack

| year = 2017

| record = 0–7

| conference_place = 7th

| coach =

| general_manager =

| owner =

| stadium = Traveling team

| playoffs = Did not qualify

| no_prevseason = true

| no_nextseason = true

}}

=Schedule=

Key:

{{legend2|#CCFFCC|Win|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}

{{legend2|#FFFFCC|Tie|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}

{{legend2|#FFCCCC|Loss|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}

{{legend2|#CCCCCC|Bye|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}

All start times were local time

class="wikitable"
rowspan="2" width="40" | Week

! rowspan="2" width="80" | Day

! rowspan="2" width="90" | Date

! rowspan="2" width="60" | Kickoff

! rowspan="2" width="200" | Opponent

! colspan="2" width="200" | Results

! rowspan="2" width="250" | Location

width="140" | Score

! width="60" | Record

align="center" bgcolor="#FFCCCC"

! 1

| Sunday

| March 19

| 4:00pm

| at Lehigh Valley Steelhawks

| L 25–66

| 0–1

| PPL Center

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! 2

| Monday

| March 27

| 7:00pm

| at Monterrey Steel

| L 24–61

| 0–2

| Arena Monterrey

align="center" bgcolor="#FFCCCC"

! 3

| Saturday

| April 1

| 7:00pm

| at High Country Grizzles

| L 6–94

| 0–3

| George M. Holmes Convocation Center

align="center" bgcolor="#CCCCCC"

! 4

| Monday

| April 10

| 7:05pm

| Monterrey Steel

| colspan=3 |Cancelled{{efn|name=Dayton|Originally scheduled home game for the Wolfpack, cancelled when the team became a traveling team.}}

align="center" bgcolor="#CCCCCC"

! 5

| Sunday

| April 16

| 7:05pm

| Corpus Christi Rage

| colspan=3 |Cancelled{{efn|name=Dayton}}

align="center" bgcolor="#CCCCCC"

! 6

| colSpan=7 | BYE

align="center" bgcolor="#FFCCCC"

! 7

| Saturday

| April 29

| 7:00pm

| at Georgia Firebirds

| L 32–35

| 0–4

| Albany Civic Center

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! 8

| Saturday

| May 6

| 7:00pm

| at Lehigh Valley Steelhawks

| L 6–68

| 0–5

| PPL Center

align="center" bgcolor="#CCCCCC"

! 9

| Monday

| May 15

| 7:05pm

| High Country Grizzlies

| colspan=3 |Cancelled{{efn|name=Dayton}}

align="center" bgcolor="#FFCCCC"

! 10

| Saturday

| May 20

| 7:00pm

| at Columbus Lions

| L 0–77

| 0–6

| Columbus Civic Center

align="center" bgcolor="#CCCCCC"

! 11

| Monday

| May 29

| 7:05pm

| Lehigh Valley Steelhawks

| colspan=3 |Cancelled{{efn|name=Dayton}}

align="center" bgcolor="#FFCCCC"

! 12

| Saturday

| June 3

| 7:00pm

| at Jacksonville Sharks

| L 32–77

| 0–7

| Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena

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! 13

| colSpan=7 | BYE

align="center" bgcolor="#CCCCCC"

! 14

| Monday

| June 19

| 7:05pm

| Lehigh Valley Steelhawks

| colspan=3 |Cancelled{{efn|name=Dayton}}

{{notelist}}

=Roster=

class="toccolours" style="text-align: left;"
colspan="7" style="{{NFLPrimaryStyle|Dayton Wolfpack|border=2}}; text-align:center;"| 2017 Dayton Wolfpack roster
style="font-size: 95%;vertical-align:top;" | Quarterbacks

{{NFLplayer| 4|Efi Eyo|link=no}}

Fullbacks

{{NFLplayer|12|Aaron Appleby|link=no|rookie=y}}

Wide receivers

{{NFLplayer| 9|Cory Alberty|link=no}}

{{NFLplayer|15|DeQuavious Barbin|link=no|rookie=y}}

{{NFLplayer| 1|Lajuantae Hicks|link=no|rookie=y}}

{{NFLplayer| 2|Brian Robinson|link=no|rookie=y}}

{{NFLplayer| 3|DeMarcus Sweat|link=no|rookie=y}}

| style="width: 25px;" |

| style="font-size: 95%;vertical-align:top;" | Offensive linemen

{{NFLplayer|30|Kirk Holcombe|link=no|rookie=y}}

{{NFLplayer|75|Terry Johnson|link=no|rookie=y}}

{{NFLplayer|70|William Kohliem|link=no|rookie=y}}

{{NFLplayer|44|Zachariah Taylor|link=no|rookie=y}}

Defensive linemen

{{NFLplayer|78|Dillon Berryhill|link=no|rookie=y}}

{{NFLplayer|11|Darrick Cannon|link=no|rookie=y}}

{{NFLplayer|10|Carl Green|link=no|rookie=y}}

{{NFLplayer|48|Darius Murphy|link=no|rookie=y}}

{{NFLplayer

-|Stephen Williams|link=no|rookie=y}}

| style="width: 25px;" |

| style="font-size: 95%;vertical-align:top;" | Linebackers

{{NFLplayer| 6|Vaughn Cornelia|link=no|rookie=y}}

{{NFLplayer| 8|Justin Spruill|link=no|rookie=y}}

Defensive backs

{{NFLplayer|15|Vincent Bridges|link=no|rookie=y}}

{{NFLplayer| 5|Louis Brown|link=no|rookie=y}}

{{NFLplayer|14|Daryl Thomas|link=no}}

{{NFLplayer| 7|Terez Wilkins|link=no|rookie=y}}

Special teams

{{NFLplayer|25|Zach Holley|link=no|rookie=y}}

| style="width: 25px;" |

| style="font-size: 95%;vertical-align:top;" | Reserve lists

{{NFLplayer

-|Malcolm Moulton|link=no|rookie=y|DB|Susp.}}

{{NFLplayer|20|Rashawn Robinson|link=no|rookie=y|FB|IR}}

Rookies in italics

Roster updated June 3, 2017

23 Active, 2 Inactive

References

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External links

  • [http://www.daytonwolfpack.com/ Dayton Wolfpack official website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160916055024/http://www.daytonwolfpack.com/ |date=2016-09-16 }}

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Category:American football teams in Dayton, Ohio

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