RELEASE
DATE:
4/1/04
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: MANSFIELD RED & BLACK SPRING FOOTBALL GAME MOVED
BACK TO MAY 1 – MOUNTAINEERS ANNOUNCE 10-GAME SCHEDULE FOR 2004 SEASON
MANSFIELD
–
Mansfield
University
moved back its annual Red
& Black Spring Football Game to May 1, at Karl Van Norman Field. Game time
is set for noon
following the annual Hampton’s Dodge Chrysler
Jeep/Frank Butsko Award Breakfast.
The
Red & Black Spring Football Game had originally been scheduled for April 24,
but was moved back a week to allow the football team to start the allotted 15
spring practices on April 6.
Mansfield
has also finalized its 2004
Football schedule. The 10-game schedule adds NCAA Division II opponents West
Virginia Wesleyan and
Clarion
University
in the place of 2003 opponents
Bowie
State
and
Buffalo
State
and features six home dates.
For the first time in school history all 10 games will be against NCAA Division
II opponents including nine contest against Pennsylvania State Athletic
Conference teams.
The
Mountaineers tied a school record for wins with an 8-3 record in 2003 and return
18 of 22 starters from that squad.
The
Spring Red & Black Game is free and open to the public.
Mansfield
University 2004 Football Schedule
August
|
28 |
at California
University |
1:00 |
September |
4 |
WEST VIRGINIA
WESLEYAN
(Josh Palmer Fund Pigskin Classic) |
1:00
|
|
11 |
CLARION
UNIVERSITY
(Football Legend’s Club Day) |
1:00
|
|
18 |
OPEN |
|
|
25
|
at Kutztown
University |
1:05
|
October |
2 |
LOCK HAVEN UNIVERSITY
(Homecoming Weekend) |
1:00
|
|
9 |
at
Cheyney
University |
1:00
|
|
16 |
WEST CHESTER
UNIVERSITY
(Parents and Family Day) |
1:00
|
|
23 |
at
Bloomsburg
University |
1:00
|
|
30 |
MILLERSVILLE UNIVERSITY |
1:00
|
November |
6 |
EAST
STROUDSBURG
UNIVERSITY
(Senior Day)
|
1:00
|
|