Football
The Dukes play in the NCAA Division I FCS in the Northeast Conference. The were NEC Co-Champions in 2011 with a 7–1 conference record and 9–2 overall record. Previously, Duquesne Football was a member of the NCAA Division I Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, winning or sharing 11 conference titles.
Duquesne was the ECAC Bowl champions and NCAA Division I FCS Mid-Major National Champions in 2003. (The team was the 1995 ECAC Bowl Champions as well. Duquesne was rated #1 NCAA Division 1 in the Nation by the Massey Ratings in 1941 and won a NCFA- Club National Championship in 1973)
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Famous quotes containing the word football:
“People stress the violence. That’s the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it there’s a calm, a tranquility. The players accept pain. There’s a sense of order even at the end of a running play with bodies stewn everywhere. When the systems interlock, there’s a satisfaction to the game that can’t be duplicated. There’s a harmony.”
—Don Delillo (b. 1926)
“In football they measure forty-yard sprints. Nobody runs forty yards in basketball. Maybe you run the ninety-four feet of the court; then you stop, not on a dime, but on Miss Liberty’s torch. In football you run over somebody’s face.”
—Donald Hall (b. 1928)