Dayton Wolfpack

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Dayton Wolfpack
Established 2016
Folded 2017
Traveling team only
DaytonWolfpack.com
League/conference affiliations
National Arena League (2017)
Current uniform
Team colorsBlack, 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.

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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 ChampionsConference ChampionsDivision ChampionsPlayoff BerthLeague Leader
Season Team League Conference Division Regular season Postseason results
FinishWinsLossesTies
2017 2017 NAL 7th070

2017 season

2017 Dayton Wolfpack season
Home fieldTraveling team
Results
Record0–7
Conference place7th
Playoff finishDid not qualify

Dayton Wolfpack

Schedule

Key:   Win  Tie  Loss   Bye

All start times were local time

WeekDayDateKickoffOpponentResultsLocation
ScoreRecord
1SundayMarch 194:00pmat Lehigh Valley Steelhawks L 25–660–1 PPL Center
2MondayMarch 277:00pmat Monterrey Steel L 24–610–2 Arena Monterrey
3SaturdayApril 17:00pmat High Country Grizzles L 6–940–3 George M. Holmes Convocation Center
4MondayApril 107:05pmMonterrey SteelCancelled [lower-alpha 1]
5SundayApril 167:05pm Corpus Christi Rage Cancelled [lower-alpha 1]
6 BYE
7SaturdayApril 297:00pmat Georgia Firebirds L 32–350–4 Albany Civic Center
8SaturdayMay 67:00pmat Lehigh Valley SteelhawksL 6–680–5PPL Center
9MondayMay 157:05pmHigh Country GrizzliesCancelled [lower-alpha 1]
10SaturdayMay 207:00pmat Columbus Lions L 0–770–6 Columbus Civic Center
11MondayMay 297:05pmLehigh Valley SteelhawksCancelled [lower-alpha 1]
12SaturdayJune 37:00pmat Jacksonville Sharks L 32–770–7 Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena
13 BYE
14MondayJune 197:05pmLehigh Valley SteelhawksCancelled [lower-alpha 1]
  1. 1 2 3 4 5 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 Moulton DB (Suspended)
  • 20Rashawn Robinson FB (IR Tooltip Injured reserve) Injury icon 2.svg

Rookies in italics
Roster updated June 3, 2017
23 Active, 2 Inactive

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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.
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