Running back Jake Chisholm tied a UD record with five touchdowns as the Flyers upset PFL leader Davidson, 38-29, to finish with a winning record (6-4,  5-3 in the Pioneer Football League).

UD’s Flyers looked down and defeated, trailing mid-major University of Illinois-Chicago by nine points with 10 minutes left.  But a raucous home crowd gave them a lift, and a push across the finish line for a ten-point win in the season opener. Read Hal McCoy.

The ‘Terrific Tandem’ of quarterback Jack Cook and running back Jake Chisholm, with some cameo appearances by the Bubonics Brothers, helped Dayton’s Flyers score a 41-13 victory over the Stetson University Hatters. Read Hal McCoy in the latest Press Pros update.

It was only small Division II Cedarville, but a packed house at UD Arena thoroughly enjoyed the University of Dayton’ basketball team’s 94-60 exhibition victory spliced together by 11 freshmen and led by sophomore transfer (from the University of Georgia) Toumani Camara, who scored 20 points and slammed down a pair of dunks to thrill the throng. Read Hal McCoy in the latest Press Pros update.

The Butler Bulldogs piled up more yardage than did UD’s Flyers, 527 to 443, and ran 90 plays t9 54 for the Flyers, but they pay off in points and UD outscored Butler 38-31 as quarterback Jack Cook and running back Jake Chisholm had big days. Read Hal McCoy in the latest Press Pros update.

Flying High? The unanimous choice to win the A-10 basketball title is St. Bonaventure, which leaves some of the Dayton Flyers a bit frosty.  The good news is…the choosers haven’t gotten it right for years. Read Hal McCoy in Thursday’s Press Pros.

The Flyers took its first possession and looked as if they wouldn’t stop until they reached the banks of Lake Michigan. The Beacons took it right away with that long second half kickoff return. Despite a 1-5 record, the Beacons outscored the Flyers Saturday afternoon on Brown Field, 45-28.

The University of Dayton Flyers football team saw yellow all over Welcome Stadium turf, 11 penalties for 114 yards to only two penalties for 10 yards against Marist, which used the help to defeat the Flyers, 20-17. Nevertheless, UD had a chance to pull it out late but misfired on a fourth-and-three pass.

University of Dayton’s Jake Chisholm rushed for  season’s best 144 yards to lead the Flyers to their first road win of the season, a 28-10 decision over Drake as the Flyers hold Bulldogs’ top running back, Cross Robinson to 27 yards on 14 carries. Read about the Flyers in Sunday’s Press Pros.

After falling behind by 23 points in the first quarter to Presbyterian and its unorthodox way of playing football, the University of Dayton Flyers scored 49 unanswered points and won, 63-43, in a game UD coach Rick Chamberlin called, “Wild and woolly,” and it was much, much more than that as the Flyers won the Pioneer Football League Opener. Read more UD Football by Hal McCoy inside todays Press Pros.

The University of Dayton football team took a couple of giant steps upward in scheduling Southern Illinois, the eighth-ranked team in the Football Championship Subdivision, and the Flyers suffered one of their all-time worst defeats, but kept their scoring streak alive. Read more UD Football by Hal McCoy inside todays Press Pros.

After not playing a game for 658 days, the University of Dayton football team failed to score in the first half and fell behind, 3-0, but behind runningback Jake Chisholm, quarterback Jack Cook and a completely new offensive line the Flyers took complete control in the second half to beat Eastern Illinois, 17-10. Read more UD Football by Hal McCoy inside todays Press Pros.

University of Dayton safety Brandon Easterling (below, in red) has his sights sets on football now, and some football later…and a PFL title in between to help make up for two years of lost time. Hal McCoy writes Flyer football for Press Pros.