Robert Morris Colonials football

Robert Morris Colonials football
2024 Robert Morris Colonials football team
First season1994; 30 years ago
Head coachBernard Clark
5th season, 13–34 (.277)
StadiumJoe Walton Stadium
(capacity: 3,000)
LocationMoon Township, Pennsylvania
NCAA divisionDivision I FCS
ConferenceNEC
All-time record120–113–1 (.515)
Playoff appearances1
Playoff record0–1
Conference titles6
ColorsBlue, white, and red[1]
     

The Robert Morris Colonials football program is the intercollegiate American football team for the Robert Morris University located in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The team competes in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS). Formerly members of the Northeast Conference, the Colonials were originally intended to compete in the 2020 season as an FCS independent before becoming a football-only member of the Big South Conference in July 2021.[2] The Colonials would ultimately join Big South football several months ahead of schedule. After COVID-19 caused the Big South to move its fall 2020 season to spring 2021, with two teams playing in the fall and a third not playing at all in 2020–21, the conference brought RMU into its football league for its spring 2021 season.[3]

The school's first football team was fielded in 1994.[4] The team plays its home games at the 3,000 seat Joe Walton Stadium. They are currently led by fifth-year head coach Bernard Clark.

  1. ^ "RMU Brand Style Guide" (PDF). March 15, 2023. Retrieved March 18, 2023.
  2. ^ "Robert Morris leaves NEC for Horizon League; football moves to Big South". wtae.com. June 15, 2020. Retrieved June 15, 2020.
  3. ^ "Big South Announces Football 2021 Spring Schedule" (Press release). Big South Conference. November 9, 2020. Retrieved December 23, 2020.
  4. ^ Robert Morris Colonials Archived 2016-10-02 at the Wayback Machine, College Football Data Warehouse, retrieved October 1, 2016.