Dayton Wolfpack

Dayton Wolfpack
Established 2016 Folded 2017 Traveling team only DaytonWolfpack.com
League/conference affiliations
National Arena League (2017)
Current uniform
Team colors	Black, red, silver, white
Personnel
Team history
Dayton Wolfpack (2017)
Championships
League championships (0)
Conference championships (0)
Division championships (0)

The Dayton Wolfpack were a professional indoor football team and a charter member of the National Arena League (NAL) in its inaugural 2017 season. Originally to be based in Dayton, Ohio, the Wolfpack had announced their home venue as the Nutter Center but apparently failed to reach a lease agreement. The Wolfpack were then listed as a traveling team by the NAL.

The Wolfpack would have been the sixth indoor football team to call Dayton home, following the Dayton Skyhawks of the original Indoor Football League (1999–2000), the Dayton Warbirds/Bulldogs of the National Indoor Football League (2005–2006), The Marshals also of the NIFL (2007), the Dayton Silverbacks of the Continental Indoor Football League (2011–2012) and finally the Dayton Sharks also of the CIFL (2013–2014).

History

On August 11, 2016, the Arena Developmental League (which then became the National Arena League) officially announced the Wolfpack as its fourth charter team, following the previously announced Columbus Lions, High Country Grizzlies and Lehigh Valley Steelhawks. ^[1] The team was originally announced to be led by head coach Derrick Shepard and owners Jerome and Jesse Clark. ^[2]

Over social media, the owners of the Wolfpack announced they would be playing at the Nutter Center and the NAL made the schedule listing the Nutter as their home venue. Due to the Jacksonville Sharks needing to fulfill their previous eight home contract with their arena from their time in the Arena Football League, the Wolfpack and Corpus Christi Rage each were only scheduled for five home games, with four home games of the Wolfpack's falling on a Monday. However, by February 2017, several signed players reported over social media that they had all been released from their contracts due to lack of a home venue. By February 20, the NAL had removed their home games from the schedule, leaving the Wolfpack as a traveling team. Also over social media, Marcus Ray announced he would be operating the Wolfpack traveling team out of the Atlanta area for the season. ^[3]

Later in the season, Erasmus Harvey announced his new team, the Georgia Doom, would play the Georgia Firebirds as the Dayton Wolfpack for the April 29 game in Albany. ^[4]

The Wolfpack were not listed as members of the league after the NAL 2017 summer meetings concluded. ^[5]

Season-by-season results

League Champions

Conference Champions

Division Champions

Playoff Berth

League Leader

Season	Team	League	Conference	Division	Regular season				Postseason results
					Finish	Wins	Losses	Ties
2017	2017	NAL			7th	0	7	0

2017 season

2017 Dayton Wolfpack season
Home stadium	Traveling team
Results
Record	0–7
Conference place	7th
Playoffs	Did not qualify
Dayton Wolfpack

Schedule

Key:   Win  Tie  Loss   Bye

All start times were local time

Week	Day	Date	Kickoff	Opponent	Results		Location
					Score	Record
1	Sunday	March 19	4:00pm	at Lehigh Valley Steelhawks	L 25–66	0–1	PPL Center
2	Monday	March 27	7:00pm	at Monterrey Steel	L 24–61	0–2	Arena Monterrey
3	Saturday	April 1	7:00pm	at High Country Grizzles	L 6–94	0–3	George M. Holmes Convocation Center
4	Monday	April 10	7:05pm	Monterrey Steel	Cancelled [a]
5	Sunday	April 16	7:05pm	Corpus Christi Rage	Cancelled [a]
6	BYE
7	Saturday	April 29	7:00pm	at Georgia Firebirds	L 32–35	0–4	Albany Civic Center
8	Saturday	May 6	7:00pm	at Lehigh Valley Steelhawks	L 6–68	0–5	PPL Center
9	Monday	May 15	7:05pm	High Country Grizzlies	Cancelled [a]
10	Saturday	May 20	7:00pm	at Columbus Lions	L 0–77	0–6	Columbus Civic Center
11	Monday	May 29	7:05pm	Lehigh Valley Steelhawks	Cancelled [a]
12	Saturday	June 3	7:00pm	at Jacksonville Sharks	L 32–77	0–7	Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena
13	BYE
14	Monday	June 19	7:05pm	Lehigh Valley Steelhawks	Cancelled [a]

1. Originally scheduled home game for the Wolfpack, cancelled when the team became a traveling team.

Roster

2017 Dayton Wolfpack roster
Quarterbacks  4 Efi Eyo Fullbacks 12Aaron Appleby Wide receivers  9 Cory Alberty 15DeQuavious Barbin  1Lajuantae Hicks  2Brian Robinson  3DeMarcus Sweat		Offensive linemen 30Kirk Holcombe 75Terry Johnson 70William Kohliem 44Zachariah Taylor Defensive linemen 78Dillon Berryhill 11Darrick Cannon 10Carl Green 48Darius Murphy --Stephen Williams		Linebackers  6Vaughn Cornelia  8Justin Spruill Defensive backs 15Vincent Bridges  5Louis Brown 14 Daryl Thomas  7Terez Wilkins Special teams 25Zach Holley		Reserve lists --Malcolm MoultonDB(Susp.) 20Rashawn RobinsonFB (IR) Rookies in italics Roster updated June 3, 2017 23 Active, 2 Inactive

References

1. "Dayton Wolfpack Announce Intentions to Join ADL". Arena Developmental League. August 11, 2016. Archived from the original on January 22, 2017. Retrieved August 19, 2016.
2. "2017 Coaches For The Dayton Wolfpack Announced". National Arena League. December 31, 2016. Archived from the original on January 21, 2017. Retrieved January 4, 2017.
3. "NAL's Dayton Wolpack set to become a travel only team". Arena Football Talk. February 20, 2017.
4. "WEEKLY SPORTS LEAGUE & FRANCHISE REPORT". OurSports Central. May 8, 2017.
5. "NAL Announces Teams for 2018 Play - Northeast Bolstered by Expansion". NAL. July 20, 2017. Archived from the original on August 14, 2017. Retrieved July 21, 2017.

External links

• Dayton Wolfpack official website Archived 2016-09-16 at the Wayback Machine