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A table at the Kent State 1972 championship football team reunion at Laziza in downtown Kent featured the '72 football schedule and a helmet signed by then-coach Don James. The tangerines celebrated the team's appearance in the program's first bowl game that year.

Champions 50 years later: Football classes reunite to reminisce on historic ’72 season

Isabella Schreck, Sports Editor October 23, 2022

Three years after Dix Stadium was built, the then-largest crowd in school history watched Kent State’s football team face Toledo in the season’s final Mid-American Conference game. The date was...