Covering UMHB Athletics and the stories behind the score
After a week spent focused on readiness for its season-opener under the lights, seventh-ranked UMHB finds itself back in a camp mode mindset…temporarily. As is standard on the practice fields in Belton, fundamentals will be worked on, and situational awareness will be a priority over the coming days. But this week, they’ll do it without an opponent awaiting them on Saturday.
BELTON — It took all of 12 seconds for No. 8 UMHB to set the tone for the second half on Saturday night.
BELTON — As Larry Harmon made note of on Monday, national championships are not won without the presence of a top-notch offensive line.
BELTON — An oak tree. That was the analogy UMHB head coach Larry Harmon used when talking about his hard-nosed, playoff-tested squad on Monday morning. And it was a fitting comparison.
BELTON — In the first year of the 40 team playoff field, just two teams from the first round are preparing for a third-round game this week: Bethel (MN) and Mary Hardin-Baylor.
BELTON — In what is presumed to be the first time in Division III history, perhaps even in college football history, a pair of top-caliber programs will meet for a third time in a single season on Saturday.
BELTON — The parallels stand out prominently. It doesn’t matter where you look.
It’s almost as if fate wrote it this way, that two seasons, 20 years apart, would take such similar paths for the UMHB Football program.
BELTON — One week remains of UMHB Football’s 2024 regular season. Everything beyond that is up in the air That “everything”, of course, is just one thing: the Division III playoffs.
BELTON — UMHB finds itself on the doorstep of its final road game of the 2024 regular season, in what, by just about every metric, is The Cru’s toughest matchup of the 10-game slate. Already 3-1 away from Crusader Stadium this fall, which includes the 35-17 win over UW-Whitewater that vaulted UMHB back into the […]
UMHB head coach Larry Harmon met with the media for his weekly press conference on Monday, as The Cru heads into Saturday’s road duel at ETBU. Here are our notes and takeaways from this week’s media availability with UMHB set to begin the second round of conference play.