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BUIES CREEK, N.C. – The Fighting Camels football team returns home to take on the University of Dayton this Saturday, Oct. 10 at 1 p.m. at Campbell University’s Barker-Lane Stadium.
The day will serve as "Monogram Club Day" where all former athletes of Campbell that are members of the Monogram Club will get two complimentary tickets to the football game and four tickets to the men's soccer game. The day is also "Take a Kid to the Game" presented by Coca-Cola, where kids aged 14 and younger will receive a ticket to the game with the purchase of an adult ticket (limit two kids tickets per adult).
About the University of Dayton
Once a boarding school for boys, The University of Dayton is now the largest private university in Ohio, with more than 7,000 students enrolled. The university was founded in 1850 by the Society of Mary (the Marianists) and has since become one of the preeminent Catholic universities in the nation, offering undergraduate, master’s and doctoral degree programs.
Dayton also boasts one of the most successful programs in the Pioneer Football League both in and out of the classroom. In the last nine years, the University of Dayton’s football team has produced 18 Academic All-Americans, the most of any college football program. Among schools playing Division I football, only Nebraska (97) and Notre Dame have had more.
Fast Facts
- Nickname: Flyers
- Location: Dayton, Ohio
- Enrollment: 7,700
- Founded: 1850
- Affiliation: Private
- School Colors: Red & Blue
- Stadium: Welcome Stadium/11,000/Artificial Turf
- First year of Football: 1905
- Head Coach: Rick Chamberlin
- Notable accolades:
- Dayton sports the second-best winning percentage in all of NCAA Football Championship Series (FCS) since the turn of the century at .636 since 1905.
- Dayton has not been shutout in 370 games since Marshall did the trick back in 1976.
- Since moving up the NCAA I-AA in 1993 (prior to I-AA being renamed FCS), Dayton has won a national title and nine Pioneer Football League Championships.
- Former Dayton football players Jon Gruden (1986) and Chuck Noll (1953) have combined to coach NFL teams to five Super Bowl rings.
- Dayton also has a long and storied history in men’s basketball and has made 14 appearances in the NCAA Basketball Tournament.
- The Flyers also annual hosts the NCAA’s play-in game in basketball at the UD Arena.
- Dayton has 16 Division I sports.
Famous alumni:
Charles Pedersen (‘26)-Nobel Prize winner; Joseph Desch (‘29)-builder of code-breaking machine that would bring World War II to an end; Rita Rap (‘50), NASA scientist, developer of space food; Chuck Noll (‘53) four-time Super Bowl winning coach with the Pittsburgh Steelers; Dan Patrick (‘79), NBC Broadcaster and Sports Illustrated columnist; Jon Gruden (‘86), former Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach, who led his team to a Super Bowl win in 2003.
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