Robert Morris Colonials football

The Robert Morris Colonials football program is the intercollegiate American football team for the Robert Morris University located in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The team competes in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS). Formerly members of the Northeast Conference, the Colonials were originally intended to compete in the 2020 season as an FCS independent before becoming a foothall-only member of the Big South Conference in July 2021.[2] The Colonials would ultimately join Big South football several months ahead of schedule. After COVID-19 caused the Big South to move its fall 2020 season to spring 2021, with two teams playing in the fall and a third not playing at all in 2020–21, the conference brought RMU into its football league for its spring 2021 season.[3]

Robert Morris Colonials
2020 Robert Morris Colonials football team
First season1994
Head coachBernard Clark
3rd season, 9–14 (.391)
StadiumJoe Walton Stadium
(Capacity: 3,000)
LocationMoon Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
NCAA divisionDivision I FCS
ConferenceBig South
All-time record116–102–1 (.532)
Conference titles6
ColorsBlue, White, and Red[1]
              
Websitermucolonials.com
For information on all Robert Morris University sports, see Robert Morris Colonials

The school's first football team was fielded in 1994.[4] The team plays its home games at the 3,000 seat Joe Walton Stadium. They are currently led by third-year head coach Bernard Clark.

History

Classifications
  • 1994–present: NCAA Division I–AA/FCS[5]

Conference memberships

On June 15, Robert Morris Colonials announced leaving the Northeast Conference for the Horizon League in all sports except for football starting in 2020. The football program will join the Big South Conference in football 2021. For the 2020 football team, the Colonials were originally intended to play as an FCS independent.[6] The team's 2020 schedule was to have been played as originally set, but all games would have been considered non-conference.[7] However, this would change due to COVID-19 disruptions; the Big South brought RMU into its football league for its rescheduled spring 2021 season.[3]

FCS Playoffs results

The Colonials have appeared in the FCS playoffs one time with an overall record of 0–1.

YearRoundOpponentResult
2010First roundNorth Dakota StateL 17–43

Notable former players

Notable alumni include:

Championships

Conference
Year Coach Conference Record
1996CoJoe WaltonNortheast Conference9–2
1997Joe WaltonNortheast Conference8–3
1998CoJoe WaltonNortheast Conference8–2
1999Joe WaltonNortheast Conference4–6
2000Joe WaltonNortheast Conference10–0
2010CoJoe WaltonNortheast Conference8–3
Total 6

Co Robert Morris shared the conference championship and were therefore named co-champions.

References
  1. "RMU Athletics Logo". September 9, 2013. Retrieved November 3, 2018.
  2. "Robert Morris leaves NEC for Horizon League; football moves to Big South". wtae.com. June 15, 2020. Retrieved June 15, 2020.
  3. "Big South Announces Football 2021 Spring Schedule" (Press release). Big South Conference. November 9, 2020. Retrieved December 23, 2020.
  4. Robert Morris Colonials, College Football Data Warehouse, retrieved October 1, 2016.
  5. Phil Axelrod (3 Sep 1994). "Ready or not, the future is here for fledgling Robert Morris". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. p. E-5. Retrieved 22 January 2019.
  6. "Robert Morris football to join Big South Conference in 2021". fbschedules.com. June 15, 2020. Retrieved June 15, 2020.
  7. "Robert Morris joins Horizon League, football heads to Big South". timesonline.com. June 15, 2020. Retrieved June 15, 2020.
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