October 24th, 2009
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The Bulldogs have had a recent run of success against McMurry by winning seven of the last eight times against the team from
Since that road victory over TLU in 2003, McMurry has dropped five straight to TLU. In those five losses, McMurry has lost three in
In 2009, the two teams enter this American Southwest Conference contest heading in two very different directions. McMurry, under first-year head coach Hal Mumme, has won three games in a row after enduring a 2-22 stretch that ran over the previous two seasons and the first four games of 2009.
McMurry’s three conference wins have put them in third place in the ASC with a 3-2 league mark.
The Bulldogs are 0-6 coming off last week’s non-conference 53-18 loss to NCAA Division II independent University of the Incarnate Word. The TLU losing skid is at nine overall with the six losses in 2009 combined with the final three losses of the 2008 campaign.
TLU’s nine-game losing streak is its longest of the university’s NCAA Division III era, which began in 1998. A loss Saturday to McMurry would match the longest losing skid in TLU’s overall football history.
In the overall TLU football history, the nine-game skid is the longest since a 10-game winless streak that stretched over the 1986 and 1987 seasons. The school record for most consecutive losses (10) has been matched on three different occasions.
TLU had a 13-game winless streak stretching over the 1954, 1955 and 1956 seasons. The Bulldogs had a tie in the 1955 season that kept the team winless, but the tie stopped the consecutive winless streak at 10.
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