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The 2024 Duquesne Dukes football team represented Duquesne University as a member of the Northeast Conference (NEC) [1] during the 2024 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Dukes were led by 20th-year head coach Jerry Schmitt [ 2 ] and played their home games at Rooney Field in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania.
The Duquesne Dukes men's soccer team is a varsity intercollegiate athletic team of Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, United States. [2] The team is a member of the Atlantic 10 Conference, which is part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I. Duquesne's first men's soccer team was fielded in 1995.
The Atlantic 10 Conference (A-10) is a collegiate athletic conference whose schools compete in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's (NCAA) Division I.The A-10's member schools are located mostly on the East Coast and Midwest of the United States: Illinois, Massachusetts, Missouri, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Virginia, and Washington, D.C.
At the club level, Duquesne won the 1973 National Club Football Association national championship at Three Rivers Stadium and was runner-up in 1977. The Dukes football team also boasts the greatest all-time intraconference winning streak (tied with the University of San Diego) in NCAA Division I FCS history with 39 straight wins in the MAAC.
Duquesne has played football as a club team from 1891 to 1894, 1896 to 1903, 1913 to 1914, and 1920 to 1928, in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) from 1929 to 1942 and 1947 to 1950, again as a club team from 1969 to 1978, in NCAA Division III from 1979 to 1992, and in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) from 1993–present.
Duquesne pulled off the first upset of March Madness. Jimmy Clark III scored seven straight points for the No. 11 Dukes in the final three minutes as they beat No. 6 BYU, 71-67 .
In the fall of 2021, Da transferred to Duquesne University to play for the men's soccer team in NCAA Division I. [9] He made his debut on August 26, 2021, against the Pittsburgh Panthers . [ 10 ] He made his first start and scored his first goal on November 14, 2021, against the Saint Louis Billikens . [ 11 ]
A 6-foot (1.8 m) excavation transformed what was once a faculty and staff parking lot into the centerpiece of Duquesne University's urban campus. The space limitations inherent to the university's 49-acre (19.8 ha) plot required that Rooney Field be one of the few in college football that run east to west.