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Pittsburg Gorillas lawn sign in Fort Scott Kansas, August 2023. The official mascot of Pitt State Athletic teams is Gus the Gorilla, designed in by L. Michael Hailey in 1985. Pitt State is the only college in the nation with the Gorilla as its official mascot for its men's and women's teams. [5]
The Pittsburg State Gorillas football program is a college football team that represents Pittsburg State University in the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association, a part of the NCAA Division II. The team has had 15 head coaches since its first recorded football game in 1908. The current coach is Tom Anthony.
In the program's beginning, the team was known as the Normals, but that changed in the early 1920s when the student body voted to be nicknamed the Gorillas. [2] Since 1924, Pittsburg State's football team has played in Carnie Smith Stadium, named after the seventh head coach at Pittsburg State. Prior to renaming the stadium after Smith in 1986 ...
UCM elected to go for two at the end and it cost them against the Gorillas. Here’s Saturday’s roundup of KC-area small-college games. Area football scoreboard: Pitt State remains unbeaten ...
Here’s the area-wide roundup of Saturday’s college football games.
The Pittsburg State football program began in 1908 under head coach Albert McLeland.McLeland compiled a record of 2–2–2 in his only season as head coach. [3] John Fuhrer succeeded McLeland and served as Pitt State's football coach from 1909 to 1914 and 1918, compiling a record of 26–22–2.
Pittsburg State Gorillas (Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association) (2017–present) 2017–18 Pittsburg State 17–13: 9–10: T–8th [7] 2018–19
John Lance Arena is a 3,500 seat multi-purpose arena in Pittsburg, Kansas. It was built in 1971 and saw its first game played on December 4, 1971. [1] It is the home of the Pittsburg State University Gorillas basketball teams. The arena was named after John F. Lance, (1897 to 1981), educator and head basketball coach at PSU from 1923 until 1963.