Over 100 Recruits Expected for Opening of Football Camp

Release Date: August 8, 2000

Monmouth College Fighting Scots football coach Steve Bell will welcome 111 players, including 51 new recruits, to his first official practice Aug. 14. Among the freshmen and transfers who will be on campus for two-a-days are the following area players:

Teigh Slater, Bushnell-Prairie-City; Jeremy Carrier, Phil Pullen and Nathan Gaskill, Monmouth; Ty Glaser, Galva; Ryan Wood and Spencer Cochran, Galesburg; B.J. Gordon, Rockridge; Jon Rider, Wethersfield; David Ekiss, ROWVA; Luke Wessel, Carthage; Adam Peterson and Joel Sage, AlWood; Gentre Graham, Lewistown; Jared Fourdyce, Westmer; Rob Rogers, Orion; and John Newcomb, Knoxville.

Wessels played for a Blueboy team which won the Class 1A state championship. Ekiss and Graham were on squads that each reached the second round of last fall’s IHSA playoffs, while Gordon, Rider and Fourdyce also played for teams which qualified for the postseason.

Bell’s Fighting Scots open their season Sept. 2 at Eureka. The first home game at Bobby Woll Memorial Field is Sept. 16 when Lake Forest visits. That will also be Community Day. Other home highlights include Family Weekend (Sept. 30 vs. Illinois College), Homecoming (Oct. 14 vs. St. Norbert) and the 111th meeting of Knox and Monmouth (Nov. 11).

NOTES: The all-time series between Monmouth and Knox is tied at 50-50-10 … Kelly Kane, Bell’s predecessor, coached the Fighting Scots for 16 years, the longest span of service in school history. Other coaches with 10 years of service or more are Glenn "Jelly" Robinson, 14; Bill Reichow, 13; and Herb Hart, 13 … Monmouth College and Monmouth High School enter the season with eerily similar all-time football records. The Scots have posted a 430-423-39 record in 892 contests, while the Zippers are 429-426-26 in 881 games.