The Hobart Statesmen (12-1) saw three players named to the D3Football.com All-American team last week. SO DE Tyre Coleman, JR OLB Devin Worthington and SR OL Art Garvey earned first, second and third team nominations, respectively. I believe this is the first time in the history of Hobart Football that three players made this honor, and Coleman's first team nomination is likely a first as well.
Hobart ended up dropping two spots to ninth in the final post-season 2012 D3Football.com poll, but finishing in the Top 10 out of 239 D3 programs is another first for the Statesmen (and likely will lead to a high preseason ranking in 2013). Hobart was leapfrogged by North Central (9-3) and Elmhurst (10-2), previously ranked 14th and 17th. The latter gave third ranked University of Saint Thomas (14-1 and the national runner up) a better game, losing 24-17, after taking an early lead off of turnovers and UST mistakes.
Links to the All-America and Final Polls are below:
http://www.d3football.com/awards/all-americans/2012
http://www.d3football.com/top25/2012/final
This will be the final blog post of 2012. I'd like to thank all the readers / visitors to the site (11k+ since August) for their support this historic season. I'll be back in 2013 with reports on incoming recruits and hopefully an update on a tenth game for the Statesmen this fall.
Thanks for reading and go 'Bart!
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