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The independent news website of The Kent Stater & KSTV

KentStater

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...

Don James by the numbers

A sound, fundamental relationship

Nick Buzzelli October 20, 2016

On a muggy, late August evening in 2013, Mike Lude sat next to his friend and former colleague, Don James, during the University of Washington’s season opener against Boise State in the newly remodeled...

09/22/16 Nick Saban Alabama

Saban faces Flashes as a ‘James Gang Disciple’

Nick Buzzelli September 21, 2016

As the final 12 seconds ticked off the game clock in the 2016 College Football Playoff National Championship, O.J. Howard and Derrick Henry lifted an orange, 10-gallon Gatorade cooler high above University...