by Chris Creighton — Today was Senior Day and I couldn't be any more proud of our senior class of football players.

Last January they took over this team and we had an incredible off-season. This summer they took their senior trip to the Grand Canyon. This season they have continued to pursue going from good to GREAT through some adverse situations.

This weekend was dedicated to them. Friday night we had a senior dinner with families and our staff. We told stories about recruiting trips four years ago, our trip to Panama, the trip to the Grand Canyon, and just reminisced on our four years together.

After pre-game Saturday morning, the seniors and their families were introduced to the home crowd and then the seniors each invited the man who has had the greatest impact on his life — more than anyone else — back to the locker room to introduce them to the team. There was so much emotion we could hardly get through it. We then proceeded to go out and get a come from behind victory over a very good Wooster team.

We are one win away from securing at least a share of the conference championship. We all want this so badly for this group of seniors. This would be only the second back-to-back conference championship team in Wabash Football history and these seniors are so deserving. They are awesome men. They are men who understand commitment, hard work and the concept of team. They are men who are going to be awesome husbands and fathers. They are men who are going to be difference makers at their workplace, in their communities, and ultimately in this world.

Fellas, you were GREAT this weekend. Our coaching staff, this team and this College are proud of you. You are all some Little Giants!

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Senior Captain Patrick Millikan — The Wabash Football Family suffered a wrenching loss last Saturday. We arrived in Springfield after a great week of practice, planning to show the conference and the country who we were. Needless to say, the game did not go as planned.

However, that does not mean that are identity as a team will not arise from this game. A big win can prove the worth and determination of a team, but a big loss can, too. This loss will not keep the Little Giants from our goals. We can still accomplish everything we set out to do.

Unfortunately, we are no longer in control of our own destiny. Our failure to triumph in a game we should have won has left us at the mercy of the other members of the NCAC. Time will tell what our future will be.

Though there are no longer any guarantees for the playoffs, I can guarantee you this: Our family will not stop and will not give up. We will not come crashing down from the result of a conference loss. We will grow from it. We will fix the problems evident in last Saturday’s game, knowing now the result of such inadequacies.

I encourage all who read this to come see the Little Giants play, because you won’t be disappointed. Our football family never gives up, and WABASH ALWAYS FIGHTS!

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Head Coach Chris Creighton — I am supposed to be game planning right now but I cannot focus on the task at hand. One hour ago our trainer notified me that our senior stud wide receiver, Geoff Walker tore both his MCL and ACL in Saturday’s game. I am devastated.

Geoff Walker is one of my heroes. He is the kind of person I hope to someday become. Geoff is one of the most committed, disciplined, focused, driven and humble people I have ever coached. Geoff Walker lives out all of the catchy slogans that people use when they talk about hard work and commitment. He is the real deal. He is one of the most dynamic leaders on a team full of leaders and he very rarely talks – he doesn’t have to. As a coach you want the seniors to understand that it is their last everything from the moment that their junior season ends. Few really can make themselves realize this reality early on. For most seniors it hits them at some point during the season and sadly, usually towards the end of the season.

Geoff has lived this season to the full all the way through. I still can’t believe that his career as an on the field player is over but I know one thing for sure – Geoff got more out of these first five games than most people get out of their career. He took nothing for granted. He enjoyed the hard work, he made real relationships with his teammates and he never took a rep off, never.

I truly believe that a person’s legacy is defined by who they are and not by what they did.Who you are as a person is more powerful and is more long lasting than what you “accomplish” during your career.

Geoff Walker is someone who will be remembered forever here in the Wabash football program as a man with total integrity, an unwavering work ethic, a passion for being his best and a seriousness that took those around him to another level. On top of all that he will be remembered as a phenomenal wide receiver who was having an All-American senior season.

There are many different reasons why I coach, but one of the reasons is that I get to be around a guy like Geoff Walker every day – a guy who inspires me and who I consider one of my heroes.

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by Chris Creighton

Special Teams and Turnovers always decide the outcome between two good teams in a big game. Fortunately, we came up on the plus side in both categories today against Allegheny.

I don't know the official number for today's attendance but we had a huge crowd and we appreciate the support.

It was a good day overall for Wabash as the soccer team had a big win - congrats to Coach Giannini and his team.

We won't have much time to celebrate today's win because this next week we travel to Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio. Wittenberg is the all time winningest football program in NCAA III and we have had some classic battles with them over the past five years. Both teams are undefeated in the conference... Witt Week is finally here.

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By Chris Creighton
Homecoming at Wabash - it doesn't get any better. Huge crowds that care about football and the game's outcome, floats, banners, school pride, Chapel Sing, tons of red and white and a great conference opponent. Two years ago we finished second in the nation in home game attendance. We finished behind the Division 1-A schools in Indiana but in front of all other Division 1-AA, II, Division III and NAIA schools. We hope to beat the record set two years ago. Come and make a difference on Saturday, we need you.

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