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Saturday night, so that the excitement of Saturday college football was back at Harding College. Autumn of 1957 saw the return of several intercollegiate sports for Harding, but football still had to wait two more years. Several of the players on these 8-man tackle intramural teams would go on to be part of the 1959 reemergence of Harding Bisons football on the intercollegiate level.
410:“I never hope to coach a finer football player (than Allison). Carl started every game we have played the last four years. He was never late to practice, never hurt, never sick. He was a fine captain. He is a straight B student. In reliability and character he stands at the very top of our squad. We could always depend on him to do his job well. I don't mean to take anything away from our other more-publicized boys but I've never seen a better all-around football player, nor a more reliable one, than Carl Allison.”
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Conference. That left Harding and Ouachita Baptist to form a coalition as NAIA independents for two years while they worked together to move to NCAA Division II, and to the Lone Star Conference in 1997. They moved
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Harding College came into existence in 1924. The first eight years produced a 19–28–6 record, with most of the wins coming against high schools or college B and C teams. But the Bisons cultivated a steady following of excited students and
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1549:2015-07-28
1521:References
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1391:Kurt Adams
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1070:Bowl games
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355:Paul Fiser
215:Fight song
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2493:Standings
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