Tommies Blog: St. Thomas Travels To Unbeaten Augsburg Saturday
Every game is big when you're undefeated, ranked in the top five in the nation and everyone wants nothing more than to beat you.
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Every game is big when you're undefeated, ranked in the top five in the nation and everyone wants nothing more than to beat you.
It was unfamiliar territory for both St. Thomas and St. John's at O'Shaughnessy Stadium in St. Paul on Saturday.
Focus isn't going to be an issue this week for the St. Thomas football team, at least if you ask coach Glenn Caruso. It's too big of a week for the Tommies program to go into a game without the necessary focus to come away with a win Saturday afternoon.
St. Thomas coach Glenn Caruso said last Saturday's game at Concordia would be "no slam dunk," but the Tommies sure made it look easier than expected with a 48-30 win over the Cobbers in Moorhead.
St. Thomas, now ranked No. 3 in the latest Division III national poll, face a long road trip to Moorhead and have a formidable opponent in front of them in the Concordia Cobbers.
The St. Thomas football team faced another 2-0 team in its MIAC opener on Saturday, and left little doubt as to how they would fare in their first conference battle.
A pair of 2-0 teams will face off at 1:10 p.m. Saturday at O'Shaughnessy Stadium in St. Paul as St. Thomas hosts St. Olaf in its MIAC opener.
The Tommies got six touchdowns from their running game, including four from senior Colin Tobin, in a 45-22 win at UW-River Falls on Saturday. Tobin finished with 122 yards in the game.
The St. Thomas football team heads just across the Wisconsin border Saturday afternoon to complete its non-conference schedule. The No. 4-ranked Tommies (1-0) travel to UW-River Falls, who will be playing its season opener.
Dakota Tracy is expected to be a leader of the St. Thomas offense this season, and the quarterback played like it on Saturday as the Tommies beat St. Norbert (Wis.) 20-7 in the season opener for both teams at O'Shaughnessy Stadium in St. Paul.
It's a new season, but the goals are as high as ever for the University of St. Thomas football team. The Tommies enter the 2011 regular season coming off a 12-1 campaign in 2010.
Steve Fritz, the athletic director at the University of St. Thomas, admitted it was time four years ago for the athletic facilities at the small private college in St. Paul to get a facelift.
The University of St. Thomas football team is coming off arguably its most successful season in school history. The Tommies finished the 2010 regular season 10-0 and claimed its first outright MIAC title since 1983. They finished the season 12-1 overall and competed in the NCAA Division III quarterfinals for the second consecutive season.
The Tommies enter the playoffs having won 15 of their last 16 regular season games. It's a stretch that included doubleheader sweeps of Concordia-Moorhead, St. Olaf, Macalester and St. Mary's.
After 31 years as the University of St. Thomas men's basketball coach, Fritz announced Thursday on the St. Thomas web site and the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference website that he is resigning.
830 WCCO has announced a partnership with the University of St. Thomas to broadcast the Tommies entire 2011 and 2012 football seasons.
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