Thomas Moran "Spook" Dowler was an American football, basketball, and baseball player and coach of football and basketball. He served as the head football coach at The College of William & Mary in 1935 and at the University of Akron in 1939 and 1940, compiling a career college football record of 10–13–5. Dowler also coached the William & Mary men's basketball team from 1934 to 1937 and the Akron Zips men's basketball team in 1939–40, tallying a career college basketball mark of 30–43. Dowler played football, basketball, and baseball at Colgate University. He played with the Brooklyn Dodgers in the National Football League (NFL) for two games in 1931.
The Old Dominion Monarchs football program represents Old Dominion University in U.S. college football. The first iteration of the team created in 1930 was known as the William & Mary Norfolk Division Braves. Founded in 2009, the current Monarchs team competed as an FCS independent for their first two seasons. In the 2011 season, they joined the Colonial Athletic Association and added conference games to their schedule, playing there until joining the Conference USA of the FBS in 2014. They joined the Sun Belt Conference in 2022.
Michael Wilson London Sr. is the current head football coach for the William & Mary Tribe football program at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. He is a former defensive back and associate head coach and defensive line coach for the University of Maryland, College Park. Prior to Maryland, London was the head coach of the Virginia Cavaliers football program of the University of Virginia. Prior to William & Mary, London was head coach of the Howard Bison football program at Howard University in Washington, D.C. A native of the Hampton Roads area of Virginia, London played college and pro football as a defensive back for the Richmond Spiders and Dallas Cowboys. He was a police officer and detective in Richmond, Virginia with the city's street crimes unit before pursuing a coaching career.
Richard F. Gallagher was a baseball, basketball and American football coach and administrator who served as an assistant with the Cleveland Browns and Chicago Cardinals of the National Football League (NFL) in the 1940s and 1950s. Gallagher also coached at high schools in his native Ohio and was the head baseball and basketball coach at the College of William & Mary in Virginia from 1946 to 1947. He spent three years as head football coach at Santa Clara University in California in the early 1950s, and ended his career by becoming the general manager of the Buffalo Bills and later the director of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Thomas Wright Thompson was an American football linebacker and center who played for the Cleveland Browns in the All-America Football Conference (AAFC) and the National Football League (NFL) in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He played college football at the College of William & Mary in Virginia.
Coined as the "Oldest Rivalry in the South", the Capital Cup is one of the longest-running college football rivalries in the United States. Contested yearly between the University of Richmond Spiders and College of William & Mary Tribe, only three rivalries in NCAA Division I have more games played: Lafayette–Lehigh, Princeton–Yale, and Harvard–Yale.
The William & Mary Tribe are a college football team representing the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. William & Mary competes in CAA Football, a single-sport NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision conference operated by the Tribe's primary athletic home of the Coastal Athletic Association. They are currently coached by Mike London. He succeeds Jimmye Laycock, who was the head coach of the Tribe for 39 years.
The 2009 William & Mary Tribe football team represented the College of William & Mary during the 2009 NCAA Division I FCS football season. William & Mary competed as a member of the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) under head football coach Jimmye Laycock and played their home games at Zable Stadium. The 2009 campaign came on the heels of a 7–4 record in 2008.
The 2006 William & Mary Tribe football team represented the College of William & Mary as member of South Division of the Atlantic 10 Conference (A-10) during the 2006 NCAA Division I FCS football season. Led by Jimmye Laycock in his 27th year as head coach, William & Mary finished the season with an overall record of 3–8 and a mark of 1–7 in A-10 play, placing last out of six teams in the South Division.
The 2005 William & Mary Tribe football team represented the College of William & Mary as member of South Division of the Atlantic 10 Conference (A-10) during the 2005 NCAA Division I-AA football season. Led by Jimmye Laycock in his 26th year as head coach, William & Mary finished the season with an overall record of 5–6 and a mark of 3–5 in A-10 play, tying for third place in the South Division.
The 2003 William & Mary Tribe football team represented the College of William & Mary as member of the Atlantic 10 Conference (A-10) during the 2003 NCAA Division I-AA football season. Led by Jimmye Laycock in his 24th year as head coach, William & Mary finished the season with an overall record of 5–5 and a mark of 4–4 in A-10 play, tying for fifth place.
The 2004 William & Mary Tribe football team represented the College of William & Mary in the 2004 NCAA Division I-AA football season. William & Mary competed as a member of the Atlantic 10 Conference (A-10) under head football coach Jimmye Laycock and played their home games at Zable Stadium.
The 1918 William & Mary Indians football team represented the College of William & Mary as a member of the South Atlantic Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SAIAA) during the 1918 college football season. Led by Vernon Geddy in his first and only year as head coach, William & Mary finished the season with an overall record of 0–2 and a mark of 0–1 in SAIAA play.
The 1921 William & Mary Indians football team represented the College of William & Mary as a member of the South Atlantic Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SAIAA) during the 1921 college football season. Led by Bill Fincher in his first and only season as head coach, the Indians compiled an overall record of 4–3–1 with a mark of 1–3–1 in conference play.
The 1953 William & Mary Indians football team represented the College of William & Mary as a member of the Southern Conference (SoCon) during the 1953 college football season. The team is considered, within the school's community, to be one of the most remarkable stories in its athletics history. Due to an academic cheating scandal, eight of the team's starting members were dismissed from school and another portion of the remaining 33 players transferred out. Among the 24 remaining players, five were returning Korean War veterans and one other had never played a minute of football in his life. Many of them were undersized and the coaching staff was few in numbers: five total, including Boydson Baird, William & Mary's head basketball coach.
The 1970 William & Mary Indians football team represented the College of William & Mary as a member of the Southern Conference (SoCon) during the 1970 NCAA University Division football season. Led by Lou Holtz in his second year as head coach, William & Mary finished the season 5–7 overall and 3–1 in conference play, winning the SoCon title. The Indians were invited to the Tangerine Bowl, where they lost to Toledo.
The William & Mary Tribe baseball team represents the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia in NCAA Division I competition. The school's team, founded in 1895, currently competes in the Colonial Athletic Association and play their home games at the off-campus Plumeri Park.
The 1915 William & Mary Orange and Black football team represented the College of William & Mary as a member of the Eastern Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Association (EVIAA) during the 1915 college football season. Led by third-year head coach Dexter W. Draper, William & Mary finished the season with an overall record of 0–9–1 and a mark of 0–6 in conference play, placing last out of four teams in the EVIAA.
The 1916 William & Mary Orange and Black football team represented the College of William & Mary as a member of the Eastern Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Association (EVIAA) and the South Atlantic Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SAIAA) during the 1916 college football season. Led by Samuel H. Hubbard in his first and only year as head coach, William & Mary finished the season 2–5–2 overall, 1–4–1 in EVIAA play, and 0–2–1 against SAIAA opponents.
