Former Humboldt State running back Ja’Quan Gardner today signed a three-year contract with the 49ers, according to the team. Gardner made his mark as a Lumberjack, appearing in 42 games in which he broke campus records and was an integral part of the 2015-2016 football team that saw HSU rack up its first post-season win […]
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Jacks Football Over After 2018 Season
Just seven months after what seemed like a miracle save of the Humboldt State University football program, President Lisa Rossbacher announced today that 2018 will be the last season after all. In the announcement, Rossbacher describes the reversal of fortune for the Jacks team as an “unfortunate, but necessary, step in addressing the university’s structural […]
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HSU’s Cappa Picked by Buccaneers in Third Round of NFL Draft
Humboldt State University offensive tackle Alex Cappa has been selected in the third round of the National Football League draft by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, which traded up to get him, becoming the first HSU player taken in the draft in more than 25 years. The 94th player chosen overall, the 6-foot-6, 305-pound Cappa was […]
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Hundreds Line Fortuna’s Main Street to Welcome Champs Home
Hundreds turned out on Fortuna’s Main Street this afternoon to welcome home the city’s state champion high school football team. The Fortuna High School Huskies outscored Katella High School 26-6 in the second half of Saturday’s CIF State Division 5-A title game to take the championship by a commanding 54-33 score. The team spent Sunday […]
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Study of NFL Brains ‘Reinforcing’ for Local Concussion Awareness Efforts
North Coast Concussion Program Coordinator Beth Larson said she wasn’t particularly surprised to see the groundbreaking study released last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association finding that 110 out of 111 brains of deceased NFL players were found to have chronic traumatic encephalopathy, the degenerative disease believed to be caused by repeated […]
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Championship Crusaders
The St. Bernard’s High School football team made history yesterday, becoming the first North Coast team to win a state championship. Under a driving rain in Laguna Hills, the Crusaders lead throughout and beat Saddleback Valley Christian 28-21 to claim the California Interscholastic Federations Division V-A state title. After taking the early lead, the Crusaders […]
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Jacks Defeated in Missouri
After a win over Augustana University to start the Humboldt State University football team’s first postseason since 1968, the Jacks were routed Saturday, 54-7, by the number one-ranked Northwestern Missouri State. Playing in Maryland, Missouri, the Jacks record-setting offense was all but stuffed, held to a single touchdown in the fourth quarter off a blocked […]
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Best Ever? HSU Alum Retires, Takes Football Coaching Job
Did you know a Humboldt State University alum recently hung up his cleats a five-time champion regarded as the best quarterback in his league’s history? No? Well, that’s probably because the league in question is the somewhat obscure Indoor Football League. Chris Dixon, an Oakland native who led the Lumberjacks to an 8-12 record in […]