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The Old Dominion Monarchs football program represents Old Dominion University in U.S. college football. The first iteration of the team created in 1930 was known as the William & Mary Norfolk Division Braves. Founded in 2009, the current Monarchs team competed as an FCS independent for their first two seasons.
Old Dominion has played their home games at S.B. Ballard Stadium (formerly Foreman Field) in Norfolk, Virginia since 1936. [1] The Monarchs fielded their first team in 1930 under head coach Tommy Scott as the William & Mary Norfolk Division Braves. According to statistics, the NCAA does not recognize the Monarchs' 1930–1940 seasons. [2]
The final record for Old Dominion's 2009 football program was 9–2, at the time the best winning record ever for a first-year collegiate football program. This record is now held by Mercer University who finished 10–2 in 2013. [9] Old Dominion's football program had continued success in 2010 finishing 8–3.
After ODU re-established its football program in 2009, Old Dominion and William & Mary competed as separate schools for the first time on September 18, 2010. The annual CAA divisional battles were coined the ‘Battle for the Silver Mace' with the winner to be presented with a replica of the Norfolk Mace on display at the Chrysler Museum of Art ...
The Old Dominion and James Madison football programs began competing in 2011 when ODU joined the CAA as an FCS independent after restarting football in 2009. Following ODU's departure from the CAA in 2012, the two schools took nearly a ten-year hiatus from football matchups before they both joined the Sun Belt in 2022.
The last time Old Dominion played an SEC team was Vanderbilt in 2023, and now the Monarchs face South Carolina football for the first time in the 2024 season opener on Saturday (4:15 p.m ET, SEC ...
Kornblau Field at S.B. Ballard Stadium, formerly Foreman Field, is a 21,944-seat multi-purpose stadium on the campus of Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia.It opened in 1936 with a football game between the University of Virginia and the College of William & Mary's Norfolk Division, which is now Old Dominion University. [5]
Even down a quarterback and a few other players, Old Dominion football coach Ricky Rahne was generally happy with how his team’s spring went. With incumbent starting quarterback Hayden Wolff ...