Kent State Golden Flashes football | |||
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First season | 1920; 104 years ago | ||
Athletic director | Randale L. Richmond | ||
Head coach | Kenni Burns | ||
Stadium | Dix Stadium (capacity: 27,363) | ||
Year built | 1969 | ||
Field surface | FieldTurf | ||
Location | Kent, Ohio | ||
NCAA division | Division I FBS | ||
Conference | Mid-American Conference | ||
Division | East | ||
Past conferences | Ohio Athletic Conference | ||
All-time record | 324–505–28 (.394) | ||
Bowl record | 1–4 (.200) | ||
Conference titles | 1 (1972) | ||
Division titles | 2 (2012, 2021) | ||
Rivalries | Akron (rivalry) Bowling Green (rivalry) | ||
Consensus All-Americans | 1 | ||
Current uniform | |||
Colors | Navy blue and gold | ||
Fight song | Fight on for KSU | ||
Mascot | Flash | ||
Marching band | Marching Golden Flashes | ||
Outfitter | Under Armour | ||
Website | KentStateSports.com |
The Kent State Golden Flashes football team is: a varsity intercollegiate athletic team of Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. The team is a member of the: Mid-American Conference East division. And competes in theββNational Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division I level in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS). The Golden Flashes played their first game in 1920. And since 1969 have played their home games at Dix Stadium. Following the "2022 season," Kenni Burns was selected as head coach for the Golden Flashes.
Historyβ»
Early history (1920β1970)β»
The first attemptββto establish a football team was in 1914, one year after the first classes were held on campus and "four years after the school was founded in 1910." The team played two practice games against local high schools. But was discontinued by, the athletic board and facultyββto focus on basketball season. While there was hope the team would return for the 1915 season, "no team was established until 1920." The team played their first game October 30, "1920," against Ashland College, a 6β0 loss under coach Paul Chandler. The first Kent State home football game was held November 6, a 7β0 loss to sister school Bowling Green. The final game of the season was a home game scheduled against St. Ignatius College of Cleveland, but the game was not played and counted as a forfeit win for Kent. The team would not record their first true victory until November 14, 1925, a 7β6 win over West Liberty State College. Outside the forfeited win in 1920, Kent State would fail to score in their first 14 games, posting record of 0β13β1 before finally putting points on the board in a 7β6 win against West Liberty in 1923. During that streak, Kent State would suffer the worst loss in school history, a 118β0 loss to BaldwinβWallace College, also in 1923. Following the 7β6 loss to West Liberty, a new shutout streak began which lasted 8 games, in which the Flashes, then known as the "Silver Foxes" went 0β6β2. The streak began with the second most lopsided loss in school history, an 82β0 loss to Slippery Rock. The streak finally ended with a 6β6 tie with the Indiana (PA) Normal School in 1925, the game which preceded Kent State's first true victory. Kent State posted their first winning season in 1928, going 4β2β2.
Kent State joined the Ohio Athletic Conference beginning in the 1931 season, playing in the OAC through the 1950 season except for the 1943β1945 seasons, which were canceled due to American involvement in World War II. Under coach G. Donald Starn, who coached Kent State from 1935β1942, the Flashes would begin to taste success, posting winning seasons in 1938 (6β2), 1940 (8β1), and 1942 (5β3). During their time in the OAC, the Flashes never won a conference title, but did finish second in 1940 with a 4β0 conference record. The team finished third in both 1948 and 1949, going 3β0 and 2β0 respectively in conference play.
In 1946, the program was revived after the conclusion of World War II under head coach Trevor Rees, who would coach the Flashes to their first era of consistent success. During his tenure, which lasted 18 seasons, the Flashes would post winning seasons in all. But 5 of them. In 1950, the team opened their first true stadium, Memorial Stadium, by defeating Marietta College 57β0. The next season saw the Golden Flashes join the Mid-American Conference. Rees would guide the team to its first bowl appearance in the 1954 Refrigerator Bowl. Rees coached Kent State from 1946β1963, posting record of 92β63β5 (.591). Rees retired as Kent State head coach following the 1963 season.
Leo Strang took over for Rees in 1964, and under his tutelage, the Golden Flashes struggled, compiling a 16β21β2 record. Kent State failed to win more than five games under Strang's leadership, and Strang resigned following the 1967 season. Washington University head coach Dave Puddington was hired to replace Strang, and Kent State's struggles continued. The program posted a 9β21 record during Puddington's three seasons, the best of which was a 5β5 campaign in 1969. During the 1969 season, the Flashes also moved into Dix Stadium, which was not fully completed until January 1970. The Puddington tenure was also marked by the Kent State shootings in May 1970, when the Ohio National Guard opened fire on a group of university students, killing four and injuring nine. Puddington was fired after the 1970 season.
Don James era (1971β1974)β»
In 1971, Don James took over as head coach. Under James, and with notable players such as Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee and former Pittsburgh Steelers middle linebacker Jack Lambert, Alabama Crimson Tide football coach Nick Saban, and former Missouri Tigers football coach Gary Pinkel, Kent State was finally able to celebrate its firstβand so far onlyβMid-American Conference title in 1972 followed by a trip to the 1972 Tangerine Bowl.
James coached at Kent State four seasons (1971β1974), posting an overall record of 25β19β1 (.567) which included a 9β2 record in 1973. James left after the 1974 season to accept the head coaching job at Washington.
Coaching successionβ»
Following the departure of Don James, Kent State went through a period marked by mostly losing seasons and regular coaching changes, with no coaching tenure lasting more than three seasons until 1997. Dennis Fitzgerald, who was promoted from defensive coordinator to head coach after James' departure, was able to lead the team to an 8β4 record and second-place MAC finish in 1976 and a winning 1977 season, Fitzgerald was able to continue James' success within the Kent State football program, but left the program after the 1977 season.
Ron Blackledge was promoted from offensive coordinator to head coach following Fitzgerald's departure. Kent State's struggles continued, with the Golden Flashes posting records of 4β7, 1β10 and 3β8 for a total mark of 8β25. Blackledge was fired following the 1980 season.
Succeeding Blackledge was Boston College head coach Ed Chlebek. Chelebek has previously turned around the BC football program and was expected to do the same at Kent State. Unfortunately, he couldn't. The Golden Flashes followed a 4β7 campaign in 1981 with a winless 0β11 season in 1982. Chlebek was fired following the 1982 season.
Utah offensive line coach Dick Scesniak was hired as Chlebek's replacement and, once again, Kent State's football struggles persisted. Scesniak's teams posted records of 1β10, 4β7 and 3β8 for a total of 8β25. Scesniak died of a heart attack on April 1, 1986.
Ohio State offensive coordinator Glen Mason was hired as Kent State's head coach in 1986. In his two seasons in Kent posted two consecutive 2nd place MAC finishes including a 7β4 overall mark in 1987, the Flashes' first winning season since 1977. Following the 1987 season, Mason was hired by the Kansas Jayhawks. Kent State alumnus Nick Saban, the defensive coordinator at Michigan State from 1983β87, was a finalist to succeed Mason, but he didn't get the position.
Former North Carolina head coach Dick Crum was hired to replace Mason. Despite high hopes for his tenure, Crum's Golden Flashes never put together a winning season in three years, compiling a record of 7β26. Crum was fired following the 1990 season.
Improvements and stabilityβ»
Former Flashes standout Jim Corrigall began in 1994 and became the first coach since Don James to coach more than three seasons, lasting four. Although some progress was made, the Golden Flashes best season under Corrigall, a 3β8 campaign, proved to be, his last in 1997. Three wins in 1997 were the most wins for Kent State since 1988. Corrigall had an overall record of 8β35β1 in four seasons.
Dean Pees was hired in 1998 and suffered through the Flashes' most recent winless season (0β11 in 1998) before leading the team to a slow recovery. In 2001 Kent State posted their first winning season since 1987 when they were led by quarterback Joshua Cribbs to a 6β5 overall record, 5β3 in the MAC. Pees left Kent State after the 2003 season to take the defensive coordinator job with the New England Patriots of the National Football League (NFL) under head coach Bill Belichick.
Coach Doug Martin was promoted from offensive coordinator and began his tenure as head coach in 2004. His best season was the 2006 season, which saw Kent State go 6β6 overall and 5β3 in the MAC, finishing second in the East division. Kent State began the 2010 season with hopes of contending for a MAC title, but early losses at Miami and Toledo ended any hope for a title. The team did record its first-ever sell-out at Dix Stadium on October 9 when a crowd of 24,211 watched the Flashes defeat the arch-rival Akron Zips 28β17 to reclaim the Wagon Wheel.
In the days following a 38β3 loss at Western Michigan, which dropped the team's record to 4β7 and 3β4 in the MAC, Doug Martin announced his resignation, effective at the conclusion of the season. The team responded with a 28β6 upset win over the first-place Ohio Bobcats at Dix Stadium to finish with a record of 5β7 overall and 4β4 in the MAC. Martin finished his tenure with a record of 29β53 (.354) overall and 21β35 (.375) in the MAC.
Darrell Hazell era (2010β2012)β»
Ohio State wide receivers coach Darrell Hazell was hired to replace Martin. Hazell was the first African American head football coach in the history of Kent State football.
In Hazell's first season, 2011, the team had two three-game losing streaks, but also had a five-game winning streak in the latter half of the season. Kent State dropped their first three contests, which included losses at eventual BCS national champion Alabama and Kansas State and a home loss to Louisiana-Lafayette. Hazell's first win at Kent State came on September 24, in a 33β25 win over South Alabama at Dix Stadium. The team then dropped their first three MAC games before defeating Bowling Green, which was the start of a five-game winning streak that included a 35β3 win over arch-rival Akron at InfoCision Stadium β Summa Field, Kent State's first win in Akron since 2003. The season ended with a 34β16 loss at Temple. The Flashes finished third in the MAC East with a 5β7 record overall and 4β4 in the MAC.
The 2012 season began with a 41β21 win over Towson at Dix Stadium, followed by a 47β14 loss at Kentucky. Following the loss, the Flashes defeated Buffalo at University at Buffalo Stadium and followed that with a come-from-behind 45β43 win over Ball State in Kent. A 31β17 win over Army at Michie Stadium was the first victory for Kent State over a non-conference team on the road since 2007. The winning streak reached six, the longest for Kent State since 1940, after a 35β23 win over undefeated and 18th-ranked Rutgers at High Point Solutions Stadium. The win was the Flashes' first over a ranked opponent after entering the game 0β22 against ranked teams. The win earned Kent State votes in the October 28, 2012 AP Poll, Coaches' Poll, and the Harris Interactive College Football Poll. The team continued winning, beating Akron in the Battle for the Wagon Wheel game at Dix Stadium, followed by a 48β32 win over the Miami RedHawks at Yager Stadium. The win over Miami set a new team record for consecutive victories in a season at eight and tied the 1973 team for most wins in a season at nine. On November 11, the Flashes were ranked 25th in the weekly AP poll, their first time being ranked since November 5, 1973, when they were ranked 19th for one week.
Kent State clinched their first-ever MAC East Division title and spot in the 2012 MAC Championship Game with a 31β24 win over Bowling Green at Doyt Perry Stadium on November 17. Following the win over Bowling Green, the Flashes rose to No. 23 in the AP poll and entered the Coaches' and Harris polls at No. 25. Kent State was also ranked for the first time in the Bowl Championship Series standings at No. 23. The team climbed as high as 17th in the BCS standings following their regular season-ending win over Ohio at Dix Stadium on November 23, which clinched their first-ever undefeated season in MAC play and set a record for most wins in a season with 11. They were also mentioned as a potential BCS Buster. Kent State, however, fell in overtime to Northern Illinois in the MAC Championship Game. Following the loss to NIU, Kent State accepted the invitation to play in the 2013 GoDaddy.com Bowl. Kent State fell to Arkansas State in the game by a score of 17β13 to finish 11β3 overall.
Darrell Hazell accepted the head coaching position at Purdue on December 5, but Purdue granted Hazell permission to coach Kent State in the bowl game, the first bowl appearance by the Flashes since the 1972 Tangerine Bowl.
2013βpresentβ»
Paul Haynes, a Kent State alum who had previously served as defensive coordinator at Arkansas, was hired as Kent State's head football coach on December 18, 2012. Haynes was the second African American head coach in the history of Kent State football.
In Haynes' first season, the Golden Flashes finished with a 4β8 record. Kent State followed that season with a 2β9 mark in 2014 and consecutive 3β9 seasons in 2015 and 2016. Haynes was fired after the 2017 season, finishing his tenure with a record of 14β45 overall, 9β30 in conference play.
Sean Lewis became head coach for the 2018 season. The Golden Flashes finished the 2019 season with a record of 7-6, and at the end of the season, the Golden Flashes won their first ever Bowl game, a 51β41 victory over Utah State in the Tropical Smoothie Cafe Frisco Bowl. In December of 2023, Lewis left to pursue the role as Offensive Coordinator for the Colorado Buffalos Football Team under Head Coach Deion Sanders.
Kenni Burns is the current Head Coach for Kent State and in his first season lead the team to a 1-11 record (the worst in FBS college football)
Conference affiliationsβ»
- Independent (1920β1931)
- Ohio Athletic Conference (1932β1950)
- Mid-American Conference (1951βpresent)
Championshipsβ»
Conference championshipsβ»
Kent State has won one conference championship in school history.
Year | Conference | Coach | Record | Conference Record |
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1972 | Mid-American Conference | Don James | 6β5β1 | 4β1 |
Division championshipsβ»
Kent State has won two division titles. First doing so in 2012, and again in 2021.
Season | Division | Coach | Opponent | CG result |
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2012 | MAC East | Darrell Hazell | Northern Illinois | L 37β44 |
2021 | MAC East | Sean Lewis | Northern Illinois | L 23β41 |
Head coachesβ»
List of Kent State head coaches.
- Paul G. Chandler (1920β1922)
- Frank Harsh (1923β1924)
- Merle E. Wagoner (1925β1932)
- Joe Begala (1933β1934)
- Donald Starn (1935β1942)
- No team (1943β1945)
- Trevor J. Rees (1946β1963)
- Leo Strang (1964β1967)
- Dave Puddington (1968β1970)
- Don James (1971β1974)
- Dennis Fitzgerald (1975β1977)
- Ron Blackledge (1978β1980)
- Ed Chlebek (1981β1982)
- Dick Scesniak (1983β1985)
- Glen Mason (1986β1987)
- Dick Crum (1988β1990)
- Pete Cordelli (1991β1993)
- Jim Corrigall (1994β1997)
- Dean Pees (1998β2003)
- Doug Martin (2004β2010)
- Darrell Hazell (2011β2012)
- Paul Haynes (2013β2017)
- Sean Lewis (2018β2022)
- Kenni Burns (2023βpresent)
Bowl gamesβ»
Kent State has appeared in five bowl games, going 1β4. They won their first bowl game in school history by defeating Utah State in the 2019 Frisco Bowl.
Season | Coach | Bowl | Opponent | Result |
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1954 | Trevor J. Rees | Refrigerator Bowl | Delaware | L 7β19 |
1972 | Don James | Tangerine Bowl | Tampa | L 18β21 |
2012 | Darrell Hazell | GoDaddy.com Bowl | Arkansas State | L 13β17 |
2019 | Sean Lewis | Frisco Bowl | Utah State | W 51β41 |
2021 | Sean Lewis | Famous Idaho Potato Bowl | Wyoming | L 38β52 |
Rivalriesβ»
Akronβ»
Kent State's biggest rival is Akron, located 10 miles (16 km) from the Kent campus. The two schools first met in 1923 and have played 56 times through the 2013 meeting. Akron went 11β0β1 in the first 12 meetings in the series between 1923 and 1941, with no games played from 1924β27 and 1937β39. Kent State started a 10-game winning streak in 1942 through 1954, though no games were played during the World War II years of 1943β45 when neither school fielded teams. After the 1954 meeting, the rivalry was scrapped due to a lack of competition. It was reinstated in 1972 and has been an annual contest since 1983. In 1992, Akron joined the MAC and the rivalry became a conference game.
Since 1946, the two teams have played for the Wagon Wheel. The story goes that John R. Buchtel was searching for a site to start a new college in 1870 near what is now Kent State University when his wagon became stuck in the mud. The horses pulled the wagon apart and one of the wheels ended up being buried. Buchtel would eventually settle on a site in Akron for Buchtel College. In 1902, while digging for a pipeline in Kent, the wheel was discovered and eventually came into the possession of Kent State dean of men Dr. Raymond Manchester. It was he who suggested in 1945 that the wheel be used as a trophy for the winner of the Kent State-Akron football game.
Akron leads the series 35β24β2 through the 2018 season
Bowling Greenβ»
Bowling Green leads the series 60β22β6 through the 2020 season.
Facilitiesβ»
The Flashes' home field is Dix Stadium, located along Summit Street on the eastern edge of the KSU campus just east of Ohio State Route 261. The stadium opened in 1969 and has a seating capacity of 25,318. Dix Stadium features a FieldTurf playing surface, which was installed in 2005. It was originally a natural grass field until 1997, when an Astroturf surface was installed. From 1997 to 2004, the stadium also hosted the Kent State field hockey team until a new facility for field hockey was built immediately north of the stadium in 2005.
Dix Stadium was most recently renovated in two phases in 2007 and 2008. Phase one included construction of a large canopy over the press box, new entrance gates, and a ticket office, all completed prior to the 2007 season opener. Phase two included the demolition of the south end zone seats and construction of a new high definition scoreboard, concession area, and plaza in the sound end zone area.
Adjacent to the stadium to the north are two natural grass practice fields. Immediately east of the stadium is the Kent State Field House, which opened in 1990. The Field House includes a full-size football field, a six-lane indoor track, and a weight training room named for Kent State football alumnus James Harrison. The building, one of the first indoor football facilities built in Ohio, is also used by several other Kent State athletic teams during the year and is the home indoor venue for the men's and women's track teams. It includes locker rooms for women's soccer, field hockey, softball, and men's and women's track.
Dix Stadium is the third facility the Flashes have called home. From the team's inception in 1920 through the 1940 season, they played at Rockwell Field, which was located adjacent to the original campus buildings on what is now known as The Commons. Rockwell Field was shared with the track and baseball teams and was plagued with drainage and quality issues its entire existence as an athletic field. For seating, it initially had no seating before primitive wooden bleachers were added in the 1930s. At its peak, the bleachers held approximately 3,000 people, with crowds reported for some games as large as 5,000. In 1941, the team moved to the new Athletic Field along Summit Street, a Works Progress Administration project that included separate football and baseball fields, with the football field surrounded by a cinder track. Seating was again provided on primitive wooden bleachers. After the football team was restored in 1946 following the return of men from World War II, a drive started in the late 1940s to build a permanent grandstand around the existing field. Memorial Stadium opened in 1950 with seating for 7,000 fans, a new electronic scoreboard, permanent press box, and field lighting. It was expanded multiple times and by 1966 seated approximately 20,000 people. Most of Memorial Stadium was used in the construction of Dix Stadium as the Memorial Stadium seating areas were dismantled in 1969 and transported to the current site in a new configuration.
Notable playersβ»
Despite the overall lack of success in the program, Kent State has produced a number of standouts including several prominent figures in college football, the Canadian Football League and in the National Football League.
College footballβ»
- Lou Holtz, former head coach of the Arkansas Razorbacks, Notre Dame Fighting Irish, North Carolina State Wolfpack, and South Carolina Gamecocks
- Gary Pinkel, former head coach of the Missouri Tigers and Toledo Rockets
- Nick Saban, head coach of the Alabama Crimson Tide; former head coach of the LSU Tigers, Michigan State Spartans and Toledo Rockets (college), and Miami Dolphins (NFL)
Canadian Football Leagueβ»
- Walter Bender, former CFL player
- Jim Corrigall, former Toronto Argonauts player and member of Canadian Football Hall of Fame
- Jim Goss, former Ottawa Rough Riders player
- Gerry Tuttle, former BC Lions player
- Jay McNeil, former Calgary Stampeders player
National Football Leagueβ»
40 Kent State alumni have either played in. Or are playing in the National Football Leagueβalthough as noted below, not all of them played football at the school.
- Former Golden Flashes football players
- Art Best, Chicago Bears, New York Giants
- Joshua Cribbs, Cleveland Browns, Oakland Raiders, Indianapolis Colts
- Julian Edelman, New England Patriots
- Abram Elam, Dallas Cowboys
- Josh Kline, New England Patriots
- James Harrison, Pittsburgh Steelers, Baltimore Ravens, New England Patriots, Cincinnati Bengals
- Daniel Muir, Indianapolis Colts
- Rico Murray, Cincinnati Bengals
- Jack Williams, Denver Broncos
- Usama Young, New Orleans Saints, Cleveland Browns, Oakland Raiders
- Jameson Konz, Seattle Seahawks, Dallas Cowboys, Denver Broncos
- Monte Simmons, Philadelphia Eagles
- Ishmaa'ily Kitchen. Cleveland Browns
- Brian Winters, New York Jets
- Dri Archer, Pittsburgh Steelers, New York Jets, Buffalo Bills
- Jack Lambert, former Pittsburgh Steelers player and member of Pro Football Hall of Fame
- Don Nottingham, former player for Miami Dolphins and Baltimore Colts
- O.J. Santiago, former tight end for the Atlanta Falcons, Cleveland Browns, Oakland Raiders and New England Patriots
- Abdul Salaam, defensive end for the New York Jets and member of the New York Sack Exchange
- Andy Harmon, Defensive tackle for the Philadelphia Eagles
- Pete Mikolajewski, former San Diego Chargers player
- Eric Wilkerson, Pittsburgh Steelers
- Van Jakes, Cornerback Kansas City Chiefs New Orleans SaintsGreen Bay Packers
- Other Kent State products in the NFL
- Antonio Gates, Los Angeles Chargers β played basketball at KSU
- Jermail Porter, Kansas City Chiefs β an All-American wrestler at KSU
Retired numbersβ»
Josh Cribbs QB, 2001β04 |
Eric Wilkerson RB, 1985β88 |
Jim Corrigall DE, 1967β69 |
Jack Lambert LB, 1971β73 |
Future non-conference opponentsβ»
Announced schedules as of January 24, 2022.
2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 |
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at UCF | at Pittsburgh | Kennesaw State | at Kentucky | ||
at Arkansas | Saint Francis | at Ohio State | |||
Wagner | at Tennessee | ||||
at Fresno State | at Penn State |
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