« back to article

Discuss “Carnegie Mellon football tramples Majors”

All season long, a photograph of the 1990 Tartans loomed above the players’ entrance at Gesling Stadium as a monument to the program’s last perfect regular season. Saturday morning, before his team’s first NCAA playoff game since that special group 16 years ago, Tartan head coach Rich Lackner taped over that portrait a photo of the 2006 Tartans to honor Carnegie Mellon’s newest undefeated team.-

If there was any doubt as to the stability of Lackner’s hasty pre-game tape job, later that afternoon, the Tartans went out and secured their place in Carnegie Mellon football lore by hammering Millsaps College (Miss.) for their first NCAA playoff win in 28 years.

Following a recipe that launched them to 10 consecutive regular-season victories...

Comments

Be heard

Name:
Required
Email:
Optional
Comment:

Comment guidelines

If you provide an email address, it will be displayed. This may make you more vulnerable to spammers.

HTML is not allowed. Paragraphs are automatically created by leaving a blank line. Links are created from URLs automatically.

Off-topic or inappropriate (e.g. obscene, libelous) comments are not permitted and will be removed.

Important: The Tartan provides these discussion boards to encourage discussion about the topics we report. The views and opinions expressed in these comments are those of their authors, and do not reflect the opinions of The Tartan.