Saturday, May 18, 2019

Celebrating 150 Years of College Football - Day 97 - Eastern Kentucky Colonels


The Sports Aesthetics: A Uni Watch Fans Page will be posting a minimum of 1 NCAA Football Team (Division I) a day to celebrate the 150 years of College Football. The teams will begin with the oldest team in their respective conference (Big Ten = Oldest Conference) until all the teams are listed. The team helmets will go back to the early 1960’s and their current logo will be used.
The Eastern Kentucky Colonels football program represents Eastern Kentucky University in college football as a member of the Ohio Valley Conference (OVC), and competes at the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) level. The school has traditionally had much success on the football field, having won 21 OVC conference titles and two Division I FCS National Championships (then called Division I-AA) in 1979 and 1982, and reaching the finals in 1980 and 1981. Much of the success came during the long tenure of head coach Roy Kidd from 1964 to 2002. In 1990, Eastern honored Kidd by naming the school's football stadium Roy Kidd Stadium. Eastern Kentucky's football team was able to secure 31 consecutive winning seasons before finally posting a losing season record in 2009.
In September 2013, the Lexington Herald-Leader, the daily newspaper of nearby Lexington, reported that EKU was considering moving its program to the top-level Football Bowl Subdivision. However, under NCAA rules, such a move would require that EKU receive an invitation from an existing FBS conference.

All-Time Record: 553-345-38 (.611)

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Conference: Ohio Valley
Team: Eastern Kentucky Colonels
Founded: 1891
Joined Conference: 1948

1955-1961

1962

1963

1964

1965-1967

1966-2004

1968

1969-1970

1971-1976

1977-1978

1979

1980-2005

2004-Present

2006-2008; 2016-Present

2008

2009-2015

2017-Present

2018 Uniforms







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