The Carthage College men's cross country team (58-75) closed out its 2011 season by finishing 21st at the Saturday, Nov. 12 at the NCAA Division III Midwest Regional Championship at the Saukie ...
The Carthage College men's cross country team (40-55) finished sixth at the Saturday, Oct. 29 College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin Cross Country Championship at the Montrose Harbor and ...
The Carthage College men's cross country team (38-50) finished 34th at the Saturday, Oct. 15 Wisconsin-Oshkosh “Brooks Invitational” at the Lake Breeze Golf Course in Winneconne, Wis.
The Carthage College men's cross country team (25-17) finished third at the Saturday, Oct. 8 Lawrence University “Gene Davis Invitational” at the Reid Municipal Golf Course in ...
The Carthage College men's cross country team (22-15) tied for 16th place at the NCAA Division III portion of the Saturday, Sept. 24 University of Minnesota “Roy Griak Invitational” at ...
9.17.11 | Men's Cross Country
The Carthage College men's cross country team (8-0) won the Saturday, Sept. 17 Concordia University (Wis.) “Falcon Invitational” in Mequon, Wis.
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9.11.11 | Men's Cross Country
The Carthage College men's cross country team (0-0) opened its 2011 season at the Saturday, Sept. 10 Wisconsin-Stevens Point “Four-Mile Dual” at Iverson Park in Stevens Point, Wis. No team scores were kept.
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8.28.11 | Men's Cross Country
The Carthage College men's cross country team opens its 2011 season at the Saturday, Sept. 10 Wisconsin-Stevens Point “Four-Mile Dual” at Iverson Park in Stevens Point, Wis., beginning at 11:15 a.m.
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8.19.11 | Men's Cross Country
The 1971 Carthage College men's cross country team celebrated its 40th reunion in July 2011 at the Wisconsin Dells home of Jon Swift. The 1971 team finished third at that year's NAIA Cross Country Championship.
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11.13.10 | Men's Cross Country
The Carthage College men’s cross country team (55-69) finished 20th at the Saturday, Nov. 13 NCAA Division III Midwest Regional Championship at the Saukie Golf Course in Rock Island, Ill.
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10.30.10 | Men's Cross Country
The Carthage College men’s cross country team (36-50) finished sixth at the Saturday, October 30 College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin Cross Country Championship at the Saukie Golf Course in Rock Island, Ill.
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10.16.10 | Men's Cross Country
The Carthage College men’s cross country team (36-45) finished 22nd at the Saturday, Oct. 16 Wisconsin-Oshkosh “Brooks Invitational” at the Lake Breeze Golf Course in Winneconne, Wis.
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10.13.10 | Men's Cross Country
Carthage College’s Jake Mahaffey (So., Mahomet, Ill./Mahomet-Seymour) was named CCIW “Men's Cross Country Runner of the Week” on Oct. 12. Mahaffey finished second in (26:27.33) at the Oct. 9 Lawrence University “Gene Davis Invitational” at the Reid Municipal Golf Course in Appleton, Wis.
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10.9.10 | Men's Cross Country
The Carthage College men’s cross country team (22-24) won the Saturday, Oct. 9 Lawrence University “Gene Davis Invitational” at the Reid Municipal Golf Course in Appleton, Wis. The Red Men won the five-team event with 32 points, followed by Lawrence second at 47, Wisconsin-Whitewater third at 63, the Milwaukee School of Engineering fourth at 96 and Carroll University fifth with 140 points.
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10.1.10 | Men's Cross Country
The Carthage College men’s cross country team (18-24) finished fourth at Friday, Oct. 1 Carthage Invitational at the Wisconsin-Parkside course in Somers, Wis.
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9.25.10 | Men's Cross Country
The Carthage College men’s cross country team (18-21) finished 16th at the Saturday, Sept. 25 for the University of Minnesota “Roy Griak Invitational” at the Les Bolstad Golf Course in Falcon Heights, Minn.
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9.19.10 | Men's Cross Country
The Carthage College men’s cross country team (5-6) opened its 2010 season by finishing eighth at the Saturday, Sept. 18 Concordia University (Wis.) Invitational in Mequon, Wis.
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Did You Know...
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.
Emily Goetz
Former Carthage graduate assistant women's lacrosse coach Emily Goetz is now the head women's lacrosse coach at Loras College.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Brotherly Love
Sixteen sets of brothers have played soccer for Carthage men's coach Steve Domin since 1995.
Carthage Baseball in the NCAAs
The Carthage baseball team made its 18th NCAA regional appearance in 2011.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
Little All-Americans
The Associated Press has named 17 Carthage football players "Little All-Americans" since 1938, including punter Tyler Funk, a 2010 honoree.
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.
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.
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.
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