(release/graphic courtesy of Gallaudet Athletic Communications)
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Gallaudet University football team will depart for Doylestown, Pa., early Friday morning. The Bison are off to the 2022 NCAA Division III football championships where they will play a first round game against No. 8 Delaware Valley University on Saturday, Nov. 19, at noon at Robert A. Lipinski Field at James Work Memorial Stadium.
Gallaudet (7-2) won its second Eastern Collegiate Football Conference (ECFC) title after it went 5-1 in league play to earn the automatic qualifier bid. The Bison last made an appearance in the NCAA tournament in 2013 where the Bison lost 34-7 at Hobart College in the first round. The Gallaudet football team is the only men's team sport to make an NCAA tournament appearance in school history.
Delaware Valley (10-0) is making its fifth consecutive appearance in the NCAA tournament, 11th overall. The Aggies won their fifth straight Middle Atlantic Conference (MAC) championship with a perfect 8-0 mark to earn the automatic bid. Delaware Valley is 12-10 all-time in NCAA play, last season the Aggies reached the second round. The Aggies are currently ranked No. 8 in the American Football Coaches Association coaches poll and No. 14 in the D3football.com media poll.
There are no common opponents between Gallaudet and Delaware Valley this season.
This will be the 16th meeting between the two schools on the gridiron. The Aggies hold a 14-1 series edge, the last time Delaware Valley faced Gallaudet was in 1966. GU's lone win, 14-13, came in 1958. The winner will advance to the second round to face either Randolph-Macon (10-0) or SUNY Cortland (9-1) on Saturday, Nov. 26, at noon.
TICKETS
All tickets for the game are general admission and will be sold two hours before kickoff at 10 a.m. Tickets will cost $4 for students with valid ID and $8 for adults. Children 2 and under are free, as long as they don't take up a seat. There are no complimentary tickets available due to NCAA rules.
DIRECTIONS
Delaware Valley University is located at 700 E. Butler Ave., Doylestown, PA 18901 which is approximately three hours from Washington, D.C. There is a $5 parking fee at DVU.
LIVE VIDEO/LIVE STATS
If you are unable to attend the game, the DVU Sports Information Office will be offering Live Stats and Live Video of the game.
SOCIAL MEDIA
Stay connected with the Gallaudet Bison football team on social media. Tweet words of encouragement to @GallaudetBison and use hashtag #GUBison so we can share with the team. Also, checkout and like our Facebook page and Instagram (@GallaudetBison) pages.
About the ECFC
The Eastern Collegiate Football Conference was formed in the spring of 2009 as an NCAA Division III single-sport football conference. The conference, named after the geographic location of the institutions began competition in the fall of 2009.
Current members are Alfred State College (Alfred, NY), Anna Maria College (Worcester, MA), Castleton University (Castleton, VT.), Dean College (Franklin, MA), Gallaudet University (Washington, D.C.), Keystone College (La Plume, PA), and Maritime College State University of New York (Throggs Neck, NY).
The mission of the conference is to:
- Promote intercollegiate varsity football as an integral part of the educational experience of all competitors.
- Establish a conference schedule and determine a conference championship that will represent the conference as the automatic qualifier to the NCAA national tournament.
- Adopt sportsmanship, fair play, moral integrity, and competitive excellence as cornerstones of the conference.
