Football - 2005 Season Archive

Head coach G.A. Mangus and the Aggies finished another memorable season with a 12-1 record, their second straight Middle Atlantic Conference (MAC) championship and a second conseuctive trip to the NCAA Division III playoffs.

Delaware Valley was named the top seed in the East Region and some of the team's highlights were shown on the ESPN Selection Show.

In week one, the Aggies scored 30 of the game's final 38 points for a 37-22 victory over Curry College. The second round featured a match-up with Hobart College and the game was scoreless until the fourth quarter when the Aggies pulled out a 21-14 victory. However, Delaware Valley's quest for a national championship came to an end with a 27-21 loss to Rowan University in the quarterfinals.

Senior quarterback Adam Knoblauch capped his remarkable career by become just the sixth quarterback in college football history (all divisions) to pass for more than 10,000 yards (11,284) and rush for more than 1,000 (1,549) yards in a career. He finished second all-time in Division III history with 12,833 yards of total offense while his passing total ranked fifth on the career list.

Knoblauch brought home plenty of hardware after the season, including the MAC Offensive Player of the Year, the ECAC Southeast Player of the Year, the Philadelphia Sportswriters Association's Outstanding Amateur Athlete and the Maxwell Football Club Tri-State Player of the Year awards. He was also a Gagliardi Trophy finalist for the Division III Player of the Year.

Fellow senior Damien Ciecwisz was named the 2006 recipient of the Rimington Award as Division III's top offensive center. Knoblauch and Ciecwisz were each named to a pair of All-American Teams with junior defensive lineman Anthony Silver joining them on one squad. They were also three of 14 Aggies who were named to the all-MAC team.

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