> From:         Mike Machnik <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject:      Plug for 1994-95 NC$$ Manual
 
 
> * Section 20.4.1.2 says that DivII or III schools may petition to be
> classified as DivI in any one sport other than football or basketball
> (men's).  I recall there being some discussion about whether RIT, for
> example, had to move everything to DivI to have its hockey team jump up.
> As we have discussed, there is no provision for a school to have a
> team play below its division.
 
 
I wonder, then, how UMass-Lowell, a DivII school, can play DivIII
football?
Can someone help me out here?  I know they WERE playing DivIII pigskin, is
this still true?  Could it have something to do with the fact the Lowell's
only had a varsity football program for a few (~10) years?
 
 
 
 
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Steve Weisfeldt                                   Go Chiefs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Univ. of Lowell (now UMASS-Lowell)  1986, 1988    (Go River Hawks????)
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