Four Carthage players were named to the 2011 All-College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin Football Team. Middle linebacker Brad Fortney (Sr., Antioch, Ill./Community, 68 tackles, 11 ...
The Carthage College football team (5-5, 2-5 College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin) closed out its 2011 season on Saturday afternoon, Nov. 12 with a 28-7 loss to CCIW-opponent Elmhurst ...
The Carthage College football team (5-4, 2-4 College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin) concluded its home schedule on Saturday, Nov. 5 with a 13-9 loss to CCIW-opponent and No. 21 Illinois ...
The Carthage College football team (5-3, 2-3 College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin needed a last-minute touchdown from fullback Colin Altenburg (Fr., Oak Lawn Ill.), his first score of the ...
On an otherwise perfect October evening for football, the Carthage College football team (4-3, 1-3 College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin) fell to CCIW-opponent and No. 16 Wheaton College ...
10.15.11 | Football
On a cool, crisp evening on the banks of the Mississippi River, the Carthage College football team (4-2, 1-2 College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin) almost had enough late-night heroics to upend CCIW-opponent Augustana College (Ill., 1-5, 1-2 CCIW). Not quite, though, as the Red Men came up a 19-13 loser to the Vikings at Ericson Field in Rock Island, Ill.
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10.8.11 | Football
The Carthage College football team (4-1, 1-1 College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin) defeated CCIW-opponent Millikin University (3-2, 1-1 CCIW), 40-23, on Saturday, Oct. 8 at Frank M. Lindsay Field in Decatur, Ill., as the Red Men out-scored the Big Blue, 40-7, after the midway-point of the second period.
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10.1.11 | Football
The Carthage College football team (3-1, 0-1 College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin) opened its CCIW schedule on Saturday, Oct. 1 with a 24-0 loss to defending-conference-champion and No. 9 North Central College (3-1, 0-1 CCIW) at Carthage's homecoming game at Art Keller Field in Kenosha, Wis.
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9.17.11 | Football
The Carthage College football team (3-0, 0-0 College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin) completed its non-conference schedule on Saturday, Sept. 17 with a 20-3 win over Concordia University (Wis., 0-3) at Art Keller Field in Kenosha, Wis.
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9.12.11 | Football
Carthage College strong safety Alex Vitkauskas (Jr., Tinley Park, Ill./St.Rita) was named College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin "Football Defensive Player of the Week on Sept. 12. Vitkauskas recorded two interceptions in the Red Men's 38-0 shutout of Lakeland College. He returned the first interception 38 yards for first-period touchdown that put Carthage up, 14-0.
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9.10.11 | Football
The Carthage College football team (2-0, 0-0 College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin) blanked Lakeland College (0-2), 38-0, on Saturday night, Sept. 10 at Art Keller Field in Kenosha, Wis. It was the biggest win in the Lakeland series, which began in 1958, as well as the Red Men's first shutout of the Muskies.
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9.3.11 | Football
The Carthage College football team (1-0, 0-0 College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin) opened its 2011 season with a come-from-behind, 16-13 win over Carleton College (0-1) on Saturday, Sept. 3 at Laird Stadium in Northfield, Minn.
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8.28.11 | Football
The Carthage College football team (0-0, 0-0 College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin), coached by Tim Rucks (87-70-1, 16 years at Carthage/96-103-4, 21 years overall), opens its 2011 season on Saturday, Sept. 3 by traveling to Northfield, Minn., to play Carleton College in a 1 p.m. game at Laird Stadium.
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7.31.11 | Football
The College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin conducted its third-annual live chat with its eight head football coaches on Thursday, Aug. 4. Members of the news media and fans joined the session on the CCIW web site. Participants were be able to ask questions of all eight CCIW football coaches regarding the upcoming season.
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4.26.11 | General
As part of the construction of Carthage College's new student center on the south end of campus, Art Keller Field is getting a new press box. The student center, rising on the site of the former W.A. Seidemann Natatorium, will open this summer and feature gathering spaces for students, new dining options, a new Barnes & Noble campus book store, , a 200 seat theatre, and an art gallery.
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2.16.11 | General
Carthage College men's football linebacker Josh Brennan (Sr., Geneva, Ill.) and women's tennis player Hollis McPeek (Jr., Lake Bluff, Ill./Lake Forest) have been named fall 2010 College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin/Jack Swartz all-academic.
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2.8.11 | Football
Carthage College Director of Athletics Robert Bonn has named Mike Yeager football defensive coordinator. Yeager replaces John Sedeska, who resigned at the end of the 2010 season.
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Did You Know...
Paul Smith
Paul Smith, a member of Carthage’s inaugural men’s soccer team in 1981, was inducted into the Wisconsin Soccer Association Hall of Fame in 2010. A native of Racine, Wis., Smith set a Carthage game record that season by collecting four assists against Milton College on Oct. 21. Smith is currently the outdoors editor of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.
Bosko Djurickovic
Carthage men's basketball coach Bosko Djurickovic’s CCIW winning percentage entering the 2011-12 season (.669, 245-121) is the sixth-best in the 65-year history of the league, and his 245 wins placed him first among active conference coaches.
Carthage Turns on the Lights
Carthage added lights to its baseball facility in April 2010. Assistant coach Cory Everts flipped the switch in the bottom of the eighth inning of an April 24 game versus Augustana College (Ill.), marking the first-ever use of the bulbs in a game situation.
Coach Brady Lindsley
Carthage women's tennis coach Brady Lindsley won his 200th career match in the fall of 2009. Lindsley, with a 219-93 record heading into the fall 2011 portion of the season, has been named CCIW "Women's Tennis Coach of the Year" three times.
Carthage's "Mr. Touchdown"
The last living member of Carthage's first football team, the 1895 squad, was William Simmons, "02. Simmons was honored at a 1958 Carthage game for scoring the Red Men's first-ever home touchdown in an 18-0 win over Quincy University on Nov. 28, 1895 in Carthage, Ill. Simmons scored on a 75-yard fumble recovery.
L.J. Marx Reaches 100 Wins
Carthage men's volleyball coach L.J. Marx won his 100th career match on April 9, 2010 with a 3-0 win over Fontbonne University in the semfinals of the M-III Volleyball Conference Tournamrnt in Kenosha, Wis.
Doubling Up
With a school-record 12 doubles in the May 5, 2011 Lakeland game, the Carthage baseball team tied an NCAA III game record first set by Bridgewater State University versus the Massachusetts Maritime Academy on March 29, 1997.
Carthage's First Hole-in-One
Carthage men's golfer Don Huff scored the Red Men's first-ever hole-in-one on Oct. 10, 1981 against Lawrence University at Rainbow Springs in Mukwonago, Wis. Huff aced the third hole with a seven-iron.
Coach Leanne Ulmer
Head women's volleyball coach Leanne Ulmer enters the 2011 season with a .782 winning percentage over 10 seasons, which was raned ninth among active NCAA Division III coaches thru 2009. Ulmer has won six CCIW titles in nine years at Carthage, including a shared title in 2004 and outright titles in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009.
Brooke Mix Scores Her Second Career Hole-in-0ne
Carthage College women's golfer Brooke Mix (Sr., Westfield, Ind.) scored a hole-in-one on Sept. 23, 2011 on the first day of the Wisconsin-Whitewater "Fall Fling." Mix' ace came on the 130-yard 15th hole at the Riverside Golf Course in Janesville, Wis. It was the second collegiate hole-in-one for Mix, with the other coming on Sept. 4, 2009 on the 11th hole of the Foss Park Golf Course at the Robert Morris “Fall Classic.”
Red Men's 1,000th Basketball Win
With an 85-60 win over Concordia University (Wis.) on Nov. 28, 2009, Carthage won its 1,000th men's basketball game. The program began in 1907.
Coach Tim Rucks Hits 100
Carthage football coach Tim Rucks won his 100th career game with a 40-23 decision at Millikin University on Oct. 8, 2011.
Little All-Americans
The Associated Press has named 17 Carthage football players "Little All-Americans" since 1938, including punter Tyler Funk, a 2010 honoree.
Kent Dernbach
Former Carthage basketball player Kent Dernbach (2002-03) was named an assistant men's basketball coach at Wisconsin-Stevens Point in October 2011. Dernbach had been the Northern Illinois University Director of Men’s Basketball Operations. He held the same post at George Mason University from 2007 to 2009.
Rob Lytle
Former University of Michigan football tailback Rob Lytle, who died on Nov. 20, 2010, played for the Denver Broncos Super Bowl XII team that lost to the Dallas Cowboys in 1978. Denver’s head coach that year was Robert “Red” Miller, who assisted Carthage head coach Art Keller from 1955 to 1957.
First NFL Playoff Game
John “Popeye” Wager, ‘31, was a lineman for the 1932 NFL Portsmouth (Ohio) Spartans, who played the Chicago Bears in the first-ever NFL post-season game. The Spartans finished the regular season in a first-place tie with the Bears, whose owner, George Halas, had a playoff game scheduled and moved from Wrigley Field to an indoor contest at the Chicago Stadium.
Augie Schmidt IV Reaches 700 Wins
With a victory over Ohio Wesleyan University on March 6, 2010, Carthage College baseball coach Augie Schmidt IV will became only the 17th coach in NCAA Division III history to reach the 700-victory plateau.
Leanne Ulmer's 300th win
Carthage women's volleyball coach Leanne Ulmer won her 300th career match with a 3-0 decision over Southwestern (Texas) on Sept. 16, 2011.
Emily Goetz
Former Carthage graduate assistant women's lacrosse coach Emily Goetz is now the head women's lacrosse coach at Loras College.
Carthage's 24th Varsity Sports Began in 2009-10
Carthage launched its 24th varsity sport in 2009-10, as the women's lacrosse team began varsity play.
Carthage Baseball in the NCAAs
The Carthage baseball team made its 18th NCAA regional appearance in 2011.
Brotherly Love
Sixteen sets of brothers have played soccer for Carthage men's coach Steve Domin since 1995.
Brady Lindsley Wins No. 250
Carthage men's tennis coach Brady Lindsley won his 250th match on April 23, 2011 with a 9-0 win at Principia College.
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