Talk:Carleton Knights football

Merge from 1883 season article

I've already merged the text content and sources from 1883 Carleton Knights football team. The infoboxes do not need to be moved. - Mnnlaxer | talk | stalk 02:46, 28 October 2017 (UTC)

Number of conference championships

I think the statement in the lead is justified: "The program was started in 1883 and was very successful through the early 1960s, winning over 20 conference championships from 1895 to 1956."

There is no doubt that Carleton won 1 MIAC championship (1924) and 9 MWC championships from 1923 to 1956. So that's 10. There are also these citations for "over 20 conference championships" when you extend back to 1895. "1905 - The Carleton football team wins the first of 10 championships in the next 13 seasons." "Timeline: 1892-1916". Carleton College.

And there is this on page 108, "Since 1895 and including the present year [1915], Carleton has had twelve championships and has tied twice for the championship." And on page 112 says "The conference rules of the Minnesota-Dakota Conference, of which Carleton is a member..." Hill, Fred B. (December 2015). "A Review of Carleton's Athletic Record". The Alumni Magazine. VI (3). Carleton College Alumni Association: 108–113. - Mnnlaxer | talk | stalk 05:38, 6 November 2017 (UTC)

Parked sources

• 1954 Football Season Recap - Carleton's Last Undefeated Football Team Added.
• Joseph Markley Joseph Markely Nothing to use.
• Source for Minnesota Collegiate Athletic Conference forming in 1913, concurrant to Minnesota-Dakota Conference.
• Another source for Minnesota-Dakota conference. South Dakota schools wanted to withdraw in 1917 and form their own conference.

- Mnnlaxer | talk | stalk 23:04, 17 December 2017 (UTC)

Redlink coaches sources

Warren Beson

• Carleton Athletic Hall of Fame
• One year as a pro 1949 Baltimore Colts
• Captain of Golden Gophers football team 1948
• Mentioned as part of one of the best offensive lines in college football history

Interesting fact: Walter Hass, Warren Beson, and Dale Quist all coached in the same MN HS all-star game in 1956, the year between Hass' and Beson's tenures. page 15

 Done - Mnnlaxer | talk | stalk 02:51, 7 December 2017 (UTC)

Dale Quist

• Carleton resignation
• 1954 Gophers roster
• 5 pages of a book on Quist

- Mnnlaxer | talk | stalk 23:04, 17 December 2017 (UTC)

1992 season text

Here's the current text:

The Knights went 8–1 in the MIAC and were crowned conference champions in 1992. It was Carleton's first conference championship since 1956 in the Midwest Conference. The team was 9–1 overall and was selected to play in the Division III playoffs that year, but lost 20–8 at Central College in the first round.

I'm struggling to find sources for something more than a list of scores, and I don't want to go game by game just to pad out the content. The Northfield and Minneapolis papers are paywalled, D3football.com only goes back to 1998, and I don't have access to newspaper archive services. Can anybody help me out? - Mnnlaxer | talk | stalk 18:33, 21 November 2017 (UTC)

Don Senior

I have clarified the claim made in the article that Carleton has had three "All-Americans". Bradford and Ziller were either Division III or Little All-America selections, and I have expressly made note of that. The third claimed All-American is Don Senior, with the AA status based on this profile from the "Carleton Alumni Network". All-America claims made by alumni associations and college PR departments are notoriously unreliable, and the Don Senior claim appears to be such an exaggerated case. I found a 1934 newspaper article announcing that year's Little All-America team (see here), and Senior was not selected as either a first- or second-team player. He was mentioned as a really good player who did not make the cut, and that doesn't support the claim that he was an All-American. Absent a reliable source showing that Senior actually appeared on the 1934 Little All-America team, the claim that Don Senior was an All-American should be removed. Cbl62 (talk) 02:37, 17 December 2017 (UTC)

The bogus nature of the claim that Senior was selected to the Little All-America team is reinforced by his omission from the official NCAA list of Little All-America selections found here at page 28. Based on the 1934 newspaper article and the NCAA document, I am omitting the claim from the Wikipedia article. Cbl62 (talk) 02:53, 17 December 2017 (UTC)

I would think it would be clear that a Division III program would only produce Division III A-A, but the clarification is fine. As for Senior, the Carletonian archives are open, just not linkable. The September 18, 1948 article on page 15 contains a list of three Little All-Americans, including Senior. Go to [1]. I'm happy to let you be the judge about who is and who isn't an all-american. Was there more than one Little All-American list? - Mnnlaxer | talk | stalk 03:05, 17 December 2017 (UTC)

I don't know if honorable mention Little All-American is enough to get a line in the article, but it looks like Richard (Dick) Raiter was HM on the 1939 AP list. It is mentioned in the 1948 Carletonian article, another Carletonian article from 1940 (page 7 from November 4), and maybe here [2]. That's just an possible indication, I'm sure Cbl62's excellent research skills could find the 1939 list to determine the matter. - Mnnlaxer | talk | stalk 06:12, 17 December 2017 (UTC)