Football 2017:

by **Tom Nolette** » Wed Mar 29, 2017 6:13 am

MMA Athletics‏ @MarinersSports
The 2017 @MMA_Football schedule has been released! | http://bit.ly/2mMMFiK #MaineMaritime #RespectTheAnchor
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by **Tom Nolette** » Thu Apr 06, 2017 3:57 am

MMA Athletics‏ @MarinersSports
.@MMA_Football's Bradley, Jr. Named to 2017 @NFFNetwork Hampshire Honor Society http://bit.ly/2nErriD #StudentAthlete #RespectTheAnchor

by **Tom Nolette** » Fri Apr 07, 2017 9:14 am

BatesSports‏ @BatesSports
Six Bates football seniors named to @NFFNetwork Hampshire Honor Society http://athletics.bates.edu/sports/fball ... 0407d77854 … #mesports
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by **Tom Nolette** » Tue Apr 18, 2017 3:08 am

Colby Football Retweeted
Sean Conerly‏ @ColbyCoachC
How Colby Football and colbystrength do #legday! Put 480lbs on your… https://www.instagram.com/p/BS_5PudhcNl ... CQV8T4Ic0/ …

by **Tom Nolette** » Sat Apr 22, 2017 3:39 am

Husson Athletics‏ @HussonEagles
Batty, Lewis, McLaughlin, and Throckmorton Named to 2017 NFF Hampshire Honor Society
https://t.co/1vdNHXZTJq

by **Tom Nolette** » Sat Apr 29, 2017 5:47 am

Colby Football‏ @Colby_Football
Wow! What an end to the week! @NESCACFootball announces the move to a 9-game schedule, effective immediately! #BTP

NESCAC Football Moves to Full Round-Robin Schedule

HADLEY, Mass. – The New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) will implement round-robin scheduling in the sport of football beginning with the 2017 season. The NESCAC Presidents voted to support converting the annual scrimmage each school plays into a regular-season game.

"We are pleased to move to a full, round-robin schedule for football," said Trinity College President Joanne Berger-Sweeney, Chair of the Conference Committee. "Converting the scrimmage to a regular season game solves challenges institutions had finding opponents to play in a scrimmage and supports our efforts to improve safety."

Converting the scrimmage into a regular-season contest will allow the 10 schools that sponsor football to play each other. This change will also result in fewer live contact practices for teams as they prepare for a game rather than a scrimmage. The NESCAC head football coaches fully supported the change and reduction in contact practices. The coaches also unanimously agreed to continue their current practice of players not engaging in live tackling during practice once in-season.

"Moving to full round robin alleviates the difficulty institutions encountered trying to schedule scrimmages due to our later start date," stated NESCAC Executive Director Andrea Savage. "Additionally, reducing the number of contact practices supports our continuing efforts on enhancing health and safety."

The 2017 NESCAC football season begins on September 16, click here for the composite schedule.

by **Tom Nolette** » Sat Apr 29, 2017 5:54 am

BatesSports‏ @BatesSports
FOOT: #NESCAC, Bates move to nine-game, round-robin schedule for 2017 season:
http://athletics.bates.edu/sports/fball ... 0428jtum3d …

by **Tom Nolette** » Sat Apr 29, 2017 5:56 am

NESCAC‏ @NESCAC
NESCAC Football Moves to Full Round-Robin Schedule >> http://ow.ly/yXq730bgBgy

by **Tom Nolette** » Sat Apr 29, 2017 6:48 am

Colby Now With Nine Football Games

Colby College will play all the New England Small College Athletic Conference football opponents after round-robin scheduling was approved by the conference presidents for the 2017 season.

While the league has 10 teams playing football, only eight games were played each season and each team was allowed a scrimmage. The scrimmage, played a week for the regular season began, will no longer take place and nine games will now be played.

http://wabi.tv/2017/04/28/colby-now-wit ... all-games/

by **Tom Nolette** » Sat Apr 29, 2017 8:11 am

Bates College football coach Mark Harriman likes NESCAC's switch to nine-game slate

...“It’s great,” Harriman told the Sun Journal on Friday. “It’s something that as a coaching body, NESCAC coaches, we’ve been trying to push forward for a long time. You know, it makes sense to have a true playing conference. It gives our guys another opportunity to compete.”

The change, voted on by the NESCAC presidents, was announced Friday.

For many years, Harriman said, the Bobcats would scrimmage either Amherst or Trinity the week before the season, and then open the season against the other team, the one they didn’t scrimmage. Each NESCAC team had two conference schools it would rotate between playing and scrimmaging.

http://www.sunjournal.com/news/local-sp ... te/2120766