Trojan Athletics · History

Program History, 1912–Today

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Timeline Entries
1912
Earliest Confirmed Finding
1912

Football — the program's first documented season, played under an earlier nickname, “Captain Jack,” predating both “Trojans” and “Bricktowners.” A PIAA District 5 & 6 all-time database puts the program's complete all-time record through 2010 at 350-507-31 (.412), with a 2-5 PIAA District 6 playoff record

1937

Football — won 47-0 over Burnham High, all 47 points after a scoreless first quarter

1937-38

Boys Basketball — called the “only serious threat” to Huntingdon; Coach Bowser's team also had a mid-season roster shakeup

1940

Football — nicknamed both the “Trojans” and the “Bricktowners”

1943

Football — Athletic Director Walter Rumberger Jr. sets a 9-game schedule (5 home, 4 away), opening vs. Tyrone

1945-46

Boys Basketball — Mountain League Champions under Coach Earl Young; celebrated at an American Legion banquet with Penn State's John Lawther as guest speaker; lost the league playoff, 40-29

1947

Football — rivalry games against the Huntingdon Bearcats under Coach Vince Chimente; season closed with a 7-41 loss at Lock Haven under Coach John Kalinowski, Roy Brouse scoring the lone TD

1970

Football, Wrestling & Basketball — a district budget article confirms all three varsity programs were active

1970–77

Football — the program's roughest stretch: four straight losing seasons (1974: 1-8; 1975: 0-9 winless; 1976: 1-8; 1977: 1-8-1), including a 388.4 yards-per-game defense allowed in 1976

1976–1998

Football — two coaches, one dynasty: Russ Quay (1976-85, 46-50-3) gave way to his own assistant Alan Hartman (1986-98, 68-63-3 — still the winningest coach in program history), who guided the Trojans to District 6 AA finals in 1989, 1992, and 1993 (including the program's first-ever undefeated 10-0 regular season). Both men also coached Central PA all-star squads; Hartman was inducted into the CPFCA Hall of Fame in 2000

1978–83

Football — a rebuild culminating in a 7-3 record in 1980 and the area-best 8-1-1 in 1983

1979–87

Wrestling — the Randy Stewart dynasty, including two individual PIAA state champions — see Wrestling

1982–84

Baseball — back-to-back District 6 titles, then an 18-4 Blair County League championship in 1984, both years finishing 3rd in the PIAA state tournament

1984

Track & Field — 2nd of 7 teams at the Mountain Conference Meet; Harry McCartney wins the 800m, 1600m, and 3200m

1991–94

Football — the Vaughn/Stennett rushing dynasty (Vaughn 1,341 net yds in 1992; Stennett 1,829 yds/26 TD/156 pts in 1993, then 1,527 yds in 1994); the 1993 defense allowed just 8.8 ppg, best in the 5-school area

2006

Football — Dave Hummel hired as Mount Union's 21st head coach since 1929, after 17 seasons as a Trojan assistant under both Quay and Hartman; his predecessor, Mike Maclay, was let go after 3 seasons (4-26)

2016

Golf — wins the ICC championship at 8-0, part of a run of 9 titles in 10 years

2018

Wrestling — Josh Boozel ties the all-time career wins record

2021

Football — Dayvon Wilson sets the school-record .525 career completion percentage, with 2,055 total offensive yards, ranked 2nd in the 5-school Huntingdon County area in total offense

2023–25

Football — the 3-year Nasir Collins arc: 3 INTs as a freshman DB in 2023, 1,799 rushing yds/23 TDs as a sophomore in 2024, leading the team in both rushing and passing as a junior in 2025

A Note on Scale

A keyword search for “Mount Union” + “football” on NewspaperArchive.com returns roughly 117,800 matches; “wrestling” returns about 31,700; “champions” about 18,200 — virtually all from The Daily News (Huntingdon), indexed back to the 1800s. Reading even a fraction of that by hand is a multi-week project, and this timeline reflects what's been found so far, not everything that exists.

A Word of Caution on Search Results

Searches for “Mount Union” also surface unrelated results for the University of Mount Union in Alliance, Ohio (the “Purple Raiders”) and for a Mount Union, Iowa community. Every finding in this archive has been filtered to confirm it specifically concerns this school district.

This page draws directly from the independently compiled “Mount Union Trojans Athletics Archive” — itself built from MaxPreps team pages, The Daily News (Huntingdon) archives, NewspaperArchive.com clippings, and submitted newspapers.com scans. It is not an official district publication, and coverage is deliberately honest about its gaps — see Sources & Research Notes for the full accounting.