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Illinois State Redbirds
Illinois State Redbirds athletic logo
UniversityIllinois State University
NicknameRedbirds
Team ColorsRed and White
Head CoachDenver Johnson
LocationNormal, IL
ConferenceGateway Football Conference
NCAADivision I-AA
StadiumHancock Stadium
MascotReggie Redbird
WebsiteISU Football Official Website

The Illinois State Redbirds football team currently competing in the NCAA Division I-Football Championship Subdivision represents the Illinois State University in the Gateway Football Conference. Illinois State's football program is one of the "seniors" in the nation, debuting in 1887 with a win over Illinois Wesleyan, 12-4. The Redbirds went on to finish their maiden season with a 1-1-1 record. The team competed in the Independent scene until 1924, afterwhich the team joined the Illinois Intercollegiate Athletic Conference from 1925-49. The team won its first conference title in 1937 under then coach Howard Hancock after a 4-0-2 conference record. A couple of years later, Coach Hancock's Redbirds won the same title in three successive seasons, from 1939-41 after tallying 10 wins in 13 conference games. ISU added two more titles to raise the team's total championships to five in 25 seasons with the Illinois Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. In 1950, ISU left the Illinois Intercollegiate Athletic Conference to join the Interstate Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, where the team added three more titles, including back-to-back championships in 1967-68. The Redbirds also had their first bowl game appearance in their debut year with the IIAC, losing a close one to Missouri-Rolla in the Corn Bowl, 6-7. ISU spent 20 seasons with the IIAC, then became independent in 1970. ISU had a Division II classification from 1973-75, then was elevated to Division I in 1976 before being reclassified into Division I-A level in 1978. ISU joined the Missouri Valley Conference in 1981 then a year later, was reclassified as Division I-AA. ISU had five fruitless seasons with the MVC, then joined the Gateway Football Conference after the 1985 season when Missouri Valley stopped sponsoring its hybrid I-A/I-AA football league. In 1999, the team of Coach Todd Berry went unbeaten in six conference assignments to win the Gateway Football Conference Championship. That same season, the Redbirds achieved another milestone after finishing the season with double digit wins (11-3) for the first time since the football program's inception.

As of 2006, ISU has won a total of 9 conference titles in three different conferences and has appeared in a College Bowl Game. The team has also been ranked in five occassions, reaching as high as #3 (1999 in the Sports Network Ranking) in the final Division I-AA Polls. The Redbirds enters the 2007 season ranked #7 and #11 in the Preseason polls conducted by the Sports Network and the AGS respectively.


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[edit] Ranking

  • Have not ranked in the final major college polls.


Division I-AA Final Polls
Year Record NCAA Rank Sports Network
Rank 		USA/ESPN
Rank
1998 8-4-0 21 15
1999 11-3-0 3 5
2000 7-4-0 24
2005 7-4-0 22 24
2006 9-4-0 8

[edit] Scouting Report

Category GFC Rank Nat'l Rank
Scoring Offense 4 32
Scoring Defense 5 80
Total Offense 4 33
Total Defense 5 102
Turnover Margin 6 83
Pass Efficiency Defense 6 97
Kickoff Returns 2 25
Net Punting 3 58
Passing Offense 4 54
Passing Defense 4 52
Passing Efficiency 4 49
Punt Returns 6 91
Rushing Offense 5 28
Rushing Defense 6 110

[edit] Championships

Conference Championships

  • 1937 - Illinois Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Co-Champions
  • 1939 - Illinois Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Co-Champions
  • 1940 - Illinois Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Co-Champions
  • 1941 - Illinois Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Co-Champions
  • 1945 - Illinois Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Champions
  • 1950 - Interstate Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Champions
  • 1967 - Interstate Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Co-Champions
  • 1968 - Interstate Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Co-Champions
  • 1999 - Gateway Football Conference Champions

[edit] ISU Bowl History

  • No Major Bowl Games Played.


College Division/Other Bowl Games
Year Bowl Game Opponent Result Score
Nov 23, 1950 Corn Bowl Missouri-Rolla L 6-7

[edit] Schedule

Illinois State Redbirds 2008 Games Schedule
Date Opponent Location Result
08.30.08 Marshall Huntington, W. Va.
09.13.08 Murray State Murray, Ky.
09.20.08 Eastern Illinois Normal, Ill.
10.04.08 Indiana State Terre Haute, Ind.
10.11.08 Northern Iowa Cedar Falls, Iowa
10.18.08 Missouri State Normal, Ill.
10.25.08 North Dakota State Normal, Ill.
11.01.08 Youngstown State Normal, Ill.
11.08.08 South Dakota State Brookings, S.D.
11.15.08 Western Illinois Macomb, Ill.
11.22.08 Southern Illinois Normal, Ill.

[edit] Roster

Illinois State Redbirds 2008 Roster
No. Name Ht. Wt. Pos. Cl.-Exp. Hometown/Last School
1 Khenon Hall 5-9 195 S JR-TR Dallas, Texas/Trinity Valley CC
3 Warren McCarty 6-4 205 WR JR-2L Roscoe, Ill./Hononegah
4 Drew Kiel 6-3 220 QB FR-RS Columbus, Ind./East
5 Cody White 6-5 250 TE FR-RS Bloomington, Ill./Normal West
7 Andrew Paschal 6-2 210 LB SR-1L Largo, Fla./Ft. Scott
9 Tom Nelson 6-0 200 S SR-3L Arlington Heights, Ill./John Hersey
10 Jake Rourke 6-3 195 WR SR-3L Chatham, Ill./Glenwood
11 Joe DeVries 6-4 210 QB SO-TR Lake Villa, Ill./Valparaiso
12 Kevin Brockway 6-4 225 QB SR-3L Crystal Lake, Ill./South
16 Preston Earl 6-2 230 QB SO-1L Lincolnshire, Ill./Adlai E. Stevenson
19 Bobby Kelsey 6-1 220 P SR-3L Channahon, Ill./Providence Catholic
20 Casey Kociuba 6-1 190 S SO-1L Liberty Hill, Texas/Liberty Hill
21 Jason Tate 5-11 175 CB JR-2L Lake Mary, Fla./Seminole
22 Geno Blow 5-11 195 TB JR-2L Seabrook, Texas/Clear Lake
23 Mike Slack 6-1 210 FB SO-Sq. Wadsworth, Ill./Warren Township
24 Kelvyn Hemphill 6-2 180 CB SO-1L San Antonio, Texas/O'Connor
25 Chris Garrett 6-0 175 CB JR-1L Concord, Calif./Diablo Valley
26 Cortes Rice 6-2 215 TB JR-2L Los Alamitos, Calif./Los Alamitos
27 Jermaine Malcolm 6-4 210 S SO-Sq. San Antonio, Texas/Holmes
28 Brent Holtz 6-0 200 S SO-Sq. Bloomington, Ill./Bloomington
29 Antonio Adams 6-1 195 CB JR-Sq. Urbana, Ill./Urbana
30 Graham Corcoran 5-10 180 S JR-1L Warrenville, Ill./Wheaton-Warrenville South
31 Cliffton Gordon 5-10 210 TB FR-RS Chicago Heights, Ill./Marian Catholic
32 Bert Whigham 6-4 240 DE JR-1L Lake Mary, Fla./Seminole
33 Osric Hayes 6-0 235 FB JR-Sq. Urbana, Ill./Urbana
34 Parrish Fisher 5-10 210 TB JR-1L Richardson, Texas/Kansas State
35 Garin Harcar 5-11 255 FB JR-2L Grand Ridge, Ill./Ottawa
36 Kevin Mazur 5-11 190 P/K SR-2L Mt. Prospect, Ill./John Hersey
37 Josh Mitchell 6-0 165 CB FR-RS Bloomington, Ill./Bloomington
38 Tony Trujillo 6-2 230 OLB SO-1L Salt Lake City, Utah/Cottonwood
39 Lupe Guajardo 5-7 170 TB SO Homer Glen, Ill./Lockport
40 Jake Detmers 6-4 220 ILB SO-TR Normal, Ill./Quincy
41 Clark Askam 5-9 170 CB SO Reynolds, Ill./Rockridge
42 James Hoyt 6-0 240 ILB FR-RS Moline, Ill./Moline
43 Casey Cline 6-3 235 FB/TE FR-RS Gibson City, Ill./GCMS
44 Wesley Williams 6-1 255 DE SR-1L Ann Arbor, Mich./Fullerton College
45 Kyle Siskowic 6-1 225 ILB JR-2L San Diego, Calif./Clairemont
47 Kedric Meredith 6-3 270 TE SR-3L Peoria, Ill./Richwoods
48 Pat Cucci 6-1 240 ILB SR-3L Winter Springs, Fla./Winter Springs
49 Josh Howe 6-0 225 ILB FR-RS Chicago Heights, Ill./Marian Catholic
50 Tommie Westbrook 6-0 230 ILB SO-1L Chicago, Ill./Gordon Tech
51 Cal McCarthy 6-2 270 OG FR-RS Shorewood, Ill./Minooka
52 Mark Martin 6-0 245 ILB FR-RS Milwaukee, Wis./Riverside University
54 Nathan Rebholz 6-1 220 LS FR-RS Bloomington, Ill./Central Catholic
54 Brent Gritton 6-2 230 LB SO-Sq. Lincoln, Neb./East
55 Eric Brunner 6-2 255 DT FR-RS Greendale, Wis./Greendale
57 Brandon Wilson 6-2 240 ILB JR-2L San Antonio, Texas/John Jay
58 Doni Phelps 6-1 255 DE JR-TR San Pablo, Calif./City College of San Francisco
59 Ray Sankey 6-2 220 DE FR-RS Maywood, Ill./Proviso East
60 Tom Speer 6-4 230 DE JR-2L Macomb, Ill./Macomb
61 Jonathan St-Pierre 6-3 305 OC SR-2L Longueuil, Quebec, Canada/Miami
62 Mike Piton 6-2 275 DT SO-1L Palos Hills, Ill./Stagg
63 Charles Dennis 6-3 305 OC FR-RS San Antonio, Texas/East Central
67 Landon Humbles 6-4 265 OG SR-1L Peoria, Ill./Richwoods
68 Erik Madsen 6-3 280 OG SR-2L Bolingbrook, Ill./Joliet Catholic
69 Joe Niklasch 6-4 290 OG SR-3L Hartland, Wis./Arrowhead
70 Michael Cross 6-5 290 OT SO-1L Bloomington, Ill./Normal Community
75 Dane Zumbahlen 6-5 260 OT SO-1L Morris, Ill./Morris
76 Chris Riley 6-5 280 OT SO-1L Wadsworth, Ill./Warren Township
77 Nick Bledsoe 6-1 295 OG FR-RS Wheeling, Ill./Wheeling
79 Tyler Doering 6-5 285 OT FR-RS Barrington, Ill./Barrington
80 Kelvin Chandler 6-2 185 WR SR-1L Fort Lauderdale, Fla./Pittsburgh
81 Marcus King 6-4 210 WR FR-RS Bloomington, Ill./Normal Community
82 Steven Fetzer 5-11 185 K SO-1L Mahomet, Ill./Mahomet-Seymour
83 Matt Mose 6-3 195 WR FR-RS Waukegan, Ill./Warren Township
84 Eyad Salem 6-2 180 WR JR-1L Elgin, Ill./Minnesota State University Moorhead
85 Tyler Funk 6-0 170 K SO-1L Racine, Wis./Horlick
86 Levi Dyer 6-11 220 P SR Eaton, Colo./Eaton
87 Drew Kempe 6-3 205 WR JR-Sq. Wheaton, Ill./Wheaton North
88 Kevett Mickle 6-3 200 WR SR-2L Orlando, Fla./Hillsborough CC
89 Dean Eastman 6-4 190 WR FR-HS Eureka, Ill./Eureka/Army Prep
91 Dave Rivas 6-3 245 DT SO-1L Chicago, Ill./Gordon Tech
93 Adam Blankenship 6-2 235 DE SR-2L Tulsa, Okla./Nebraska
95 Keenan Wimbley 6-2 245 DE FR-RS Ocoee, Fla./Edgewater
96 Babtunde Soyebo 6-5 250 DE JR-1L Lagos, Nigeria/South Shore
98 Joe Doyle 6-2 235 LS JR-1L Worcester, Mass./Antelope Valley CC
99 Nick Williams 6-2 285 DT SR-1L Plantation, Fla./Pittsburgh
Brett Werner-Powell 6-2 205 H-Back FR-HS Mequon, Wis./Homestead
Jayme Comer 6-2 220 LB FR-HS Brownsburg, Ind./Brownsburg
Dekendrick Moncrief 6-1 182 WR FR-HS Prattville, Ala./Prattville
Reggie Dozier 5-9 170 DB FR-HS Prattville, Ala./Prattville
Pete Cary 6-4 270 OL FR-HS Cincinnati, Ohio/Turpin
Emanuel Davis 6-3 196 WR FR-HS Prattville, Ala./Prattville
Blake Gumm 6-2 290 DL JR-TR Somerset, Ky./Trinity Valley Community College
Brannon Sanford 6-3 270 OL FR-HS Hickory, Ky./Graves County
Cory Christianson 6-2 280 OL FR-HS Apple Valley, Minn./Holy Angels
Barima Akuoko 6-1 200 RB FR-HS Springfield, Ill./Southeast
Jon Ingerman 6-8 280 OL FR-HS Springfield, Ohio/Northeastern
Nick Broome 6-4 240 DL FR-HS Columbus, Ind./East
Matt Brown 6-4 210 QB FR-HS Marion, Ill./Marion
Alex Buck 6-2 183 DB FR-HS Bloomington, Ill./Normal Community
Pat Wertz 6-4 240 DL FR-HS Orland Hills, Ill./Andrew
Michael Rhines 6-2 250 DL JR-TR Orange, Texas/Blinn JC
Billy Dickson 6-5 280 OL FR-HS Bloomington, Ill./Normal Community
Kane Keirnan 6-3 225 H-Back FR-HS Glenn Ellyn, Ill./Glenbard West
Mario Bailey 6-2 220 DL FR-HS Kankakee, Ill./Kankakee
Austin Davis 6-1 195 DB FR-HS Normal, Ill./Normal Community
Mike Seefeld 6-2 265 OL FR-HS Cudahy, Wis./Cudahy
Brian Hehl 6-4 250 OLB/DE FR-HS Toledo, Ohio/Sylvania Northview

[edit] Coaches/Team Officials

[edit] Notable Alumni in NFL

Illinois State Redbirds in NFL

[edit] References

[edit] External Links


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