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Gallaudet Bison football

{{Short description|American college football team}}

{{Infobox college football team

| TeamName = Gallaudet Bison football

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| FirstYear = 1883; {{Time ago|1883}}

| AthleticDirector = Warren Keller

| HeadCoach = Stefan LeFors

| HeadCoachYear = 1st

| HCWins = 0

| HCLosses = 0

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| Stadium = Hotchkiss Field

| Location = Washington, D.C.

| StadCapacity = 1,500

| StadSurface = Field Turf

| Conference = ODAC

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| PastAffiliations = ECFC

| ATWins = 159

| ATLosses = 367

| ATTies = 2

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| ConfTitles = 3 (2013, 2022, 2023)

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| WebsiteName = gallaudetbison.com/football

| WebsiteURL = https://gallaudetbison.com/sports/football/

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The Gallaudet Bison football team represents Gallaudet University in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III competition. It has been discontinued many times, and most recently restarted in 2007.{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/11/AR2005071101243.html|title=Gallaudet to Re-Start Program in 2007|work=Washingtonpost.com|date=July 12, 2005}}{{cite web|url=http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/football_records/2013/discontinued.pdf|title=2013 Football Records Book|publisher=Fs.ncaa.org|access-date=2015-08-11}}

After an undefeated season in 2005, the first time such a season was achieved in the program's 122-year history, head coach Ed Hottle began his campaign to return Gallaudet to the NCAA ranks. With support from the Gallaudet administration, the Bison played their last season of club football in 2006 and played a full NCAA slate of eight games in 2007.{{cite news| url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/15/AR2007081501367.html | newspaper=The Washington Post | title=Sound and the Fury | first=Brooke | last=Foster | date=August 19, 2007 | access-date=May 3, 2010}}

The home stadium, Hotchkiss Field, was known as Garlic Field prior to 1924.{{Cite web |last=Newman |first=Bruce |title=Clear Signals |url=https://vault.si.com/vault/1991/08/26/clear-signals-for-gallaudet-a-university-for-the-deaf-the-language-may-be-different-but-football-is-very-much-the-same |access-date=2023-12-29 |website=Sports Illustrated Vault {{!}} SI.com |language=en-us}}

History

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The football team was organized in 1883 by coach John B. Hotchkiss. In the 1890s, the football huddle originated at Gallaudet when the team noticed that their opponents were trying to see and read their signs in order to try to guess their plays.{{cite web|url=http://pr.gallaudet.edu/GallaudetHistory/page3.html |title=The History of Gallaudet University (page 3) |publisher=Pr.gallaudet.edu |date=November 7, 1997 |access-date=July 16, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120415005157/http://pr.gallaudet.edu/GallaudetHistory/page3.html |archive-date=April 15, 2012 |df=mdy }}{{cite web |url=http://pr.gallaudet.edu/GallaudetHistory/page3.html |title=The History of Gallaudet University (page 3) |publisher=Pr.gallaudet.edu |date=November 7, 1997 |access-date=July 16, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120415005157/http://pr.gallaudet.edu/GallaudetHistory/page3.html |archive-date=April 15, 2012 }}{{cite journal|url=http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/CFHSN/CFHSNv11/CFHSNv11n2c.pdf|page=4|title=The Huddle Debate Continues|journal=College Football Historical Society|volume=11|number=2| date=February 1998 |access-date=August 4, 2015|via=LA84}} {{Open access}}{{cite web|url=http://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-storied-football-team-of-gallaudet-the-nations-first-university-for-the-deaf/|title=The Storied football team of Gallaudet, the nation's first university for the deaf|author=Jeff Pegues|date=November 11, 2013|publisher=Cbsnews.com|access-date=2015-08-11}}

Quarterback Paul D. Hubbard noticed sign language signals could be read by opposing players, a particular concern when Gallaudet played other schools for the deaf. To remedy this, he had his players form a circle so that his sign language signals could be sent and received without anyone on the sidelines or on the opposing team seeing.{{cite journal|author=Gannon, Jack|date=1981|title=Deaf Heritage: Narrative History of Deaf America|journal=Silver Spring, MD: National Association of the Deaf|pages=272 & 276|url=http://studentunitymovement.org/Deaf_Heritage_by_Jack_Gannon_page_272.pdf|publisher=Studentunitymovement.org|access-date=2015-08-11}}

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After the 2009 football season, Coach Hottle left to become the first head coach of the first football team at Stevenson University. He announced his decision in a heart-felt meeting with the football team. Offensive Coordinator Chuck Goldstein was tapped to be the interim head coach of the football team. On December 17, 2009, the interim tag was removed and he is now the permanent head coach of the team.{{cite web|title=Goldstein Named Gallaudet's 36th Head Football Coach, Davis Elevated to Assistant Coach|date=17 December 2009|url=http://gallaudetathletics.com/sports/fball/2009-10/releases/coachingmoves|publisher=Gallaudet University|access-date=16 July 2012|archive-date=2 March 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120302185930/http://gallaudetathletics.com/sports/fball/2009-10/releases/coachingmoves|url-status=dead}}

In the fall of 2013, Gallaudet's football program began a remarkable run for the Division III playoffs and garnering a considerable amount of publicity, winning the regular season with a 9–1 record, before falling to Hobart College in the first round of the playoffs and ending the season with a 9–2 (.818) overall record.{{cite web|url=http://www.wjla.com/articles/2013/11/gallaudet-football-prepares-for-first-ever-playoff-game-97237.html|title=Gallaudet football prepares for first ever playoff game|author=The Associated Press|work=wjla.com|access-date=2015-08-06|archive-date=2013-12-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131216102112/http://www.wjla.com/articles/2013/11/gallaudet-football-prepares-for-first-ever-playoff-game-97237.html|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=http://www.cnycentral.com/m/news/story?id=976784|title=Hobart derails Gallaudet football's historic season : News : CNYcentral.com|work=cnycentral.com|access-date=2015-08-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131216102243/http://www.cnycentral.com/m/news/story?id=976784#.Uq7Ft3i9LCQ|archive-date=2013-12-16|url-status=dead}}

Championships

= Conference championships =

Gallaudet claims three conference titles, the most recent of which came in 2023.

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{{CollegePrimaryHeader|team=Gallaudet Bison|border=1|Year|Conference|Overall Record|Conference Record|Coach}}
2013†rowspan=3|Eastern Collegiate Football Conference9–26–1rowspan=3|Chuck Goldstein
20227–35–1
2023†4–53–1

† Co-champions

Postseason games

=NCAA Division III playoff games=

Gallaudet has appeared in the Division III playoffs two times, with an overall record of 0–2.

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{{CollegePrimaryHeader|team=Gallaudet Bison|border=1|Year|Round|Opponent|Result}}
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| 2013

| First Round

| Hobart

| L, 7–34

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| 2022

| First Round

| Delaware Valley

| L, 0–59

Hall of Fame

The following football players have been inducted into the Gallaudet Athletics Hall of Fame.{{cite web|url=http://www.gallaudetathletics.com/hof/inductees|title=Gallaudet University Athletics Hall of Fame|publisher=Gallaudeathletics.com|access-date=2015-08-11}}

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  • George Andree
  • Hume Le Prince Battiste
  • Lou Byouk
  • Richard Caswell
  • Albert Couthen
  • Scott Cuscaden
  • Dewey Deer
  • Race Drake
  • Louis Dyer
  • Bernie Fairwood
  • Edward Foltz
  • Charles Hammack
  • Paul D. Hubbard
  • Frederick Hughes
  • John Jacobs
  • Richard Jacobs
  • John Kaleta
  • Ernest Langenberg
  • James Macfadden
  • Charles Marshall
  • Bilbo Monaghan
  • Frederick Moore
  • Bill Ramborger
  • John Ringle
  • Lester Rosson
  • James Segala
  • Vincent Silvestri
  • Shannon Simon
  • Frank Turk
  • Robert Westermann
  • Franklin Willis
  • Darnell Woods
  • John Wurdemann

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Rivalries

Gallaudet University's football team has a longstanding rivalry with Catholic University of America, another school in the Washington D.C. area. On September 7, 2012, Gallaudet University defeated Catholic University of America for the first time in the 106-year history of the rivalry between the two D.C. schools.{{cite web|title=Gallaudet Defeats Catholic for the First Time in the School History|date=7 September 2012|url=http://www.gallaudetathletics.com/sports/fball/2012-13/releases/recap_catholic|publisher=Gallaudet University Athletics|access-date=7 September 2012|archive-date=20 September 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120920062525/http://www.gallaudetathletics.com/sports/fball/2012-13/releases/recap_catholic|url-status=dead}}

References

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