Game on! George Fox will open the season with preseason games before its conference opener on Saturday, Oct. 4.

While the regular season may still be months away, training and preparation begin in earnest during the spring and summer months.

Thanks to the generous support of numerous donors, George Fox’s Stoffer Family Stadium and the Duke Athletic Center are completed and ready for action in the fall.

This school year will be the first for a group of about 50 players who will be eligible to play the following fall.

Building begins on Stoffer Family Stadium and the Duke Athletic Center.

After an extensive national search, the university selected Chris Casey to provide leadership for a new era of football at George Fox.

The university’s board of trustees make it official on March 13: Football will be reinstated and be played at George Fox for the first time since the 1969 season.

The last year football is played at George Fox. The team has no wins, but four players make the NAIA all-conference team: Bob Hadlock, Larry Craven, Herald Fodge and Byron Debban. Hadlock is later drafted by the Detroit Lions.

Football field is improved with grading, draining and portable bleachers.

Fullback Harold “Spud” Ankeny scores 56 points and rushes for 712 yards on 122 carries.

Alumnus George Bales returns to coach the college’s football team for six years of success.

Football resumes after taking a break for World War II in 1943-44. Only two games are played; both are losses.

Soccer is discontinued and football is reinstated, with coach Hubert Armstrong at the helm. Football was shelved in 1926 and soccer was started up the following year.

Football, suspended during World War I, is revived by a unanimous vote of the athletic association.

The Quakers lose to Willamette University 16-0 in their first home game on Dec. 1.

George Fox, then Pacific College, plays its first intercollegiate football game against Willamette University on Nov. 17. The steamboat trip to Salem takes about seven hours.