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Montgomery College Knights Football Alumni Association
Montgomery College Knights Football Alumni Association
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MONTGOMERY COLLEGE Knights Football Alumni Association

We are the Fightin' Knights.We are the Men of the Rock

The Montgomery College Knights Football Alumni Association unites the men who built this program — former players and coaches bound by sacrifice, brotherhood, and an unbreakable legacy.

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The 1954 Knights Football Team Basket Bowl Champions
THE BASKET BOWL TROPHY1954 · Montgomery College

Hall of Fame Inductee · Team Spotlight

The team that
set the standard.

The 1954 Knights · Basket Bowl Champions

8–0
Undefeated season
12+
Point margin in every win
1954
Basket Bowl champions

The 1954 Knights scored in double digits in all eight games, finishing an undefeated season with a Basket Bowl shutout of Chowan College in Murfreesboro, North Carolina. Only one opponent scored more than seven points against them.

Their legacy lives on through Hall of Famers Ted Leneski, Dr. Tom Walker, and the late Marty Gallagher. The squad became only the second team inducted into the Montgomery College Athletic Hall of Fame.

Eight games. An undefeated season. A place in Knights history.

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50+Years of Knights Football
300+Alumni Nationwide
2National Championship Appearances
68All-Conference Honorees

Our legacy

Hall of Fame

The names etched in Knights history forever.

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Maurice Hicks

Football

Maurice Hicks

Year attended MC - 1999

2,812

NC A&T Rush Yards

437

Single-Game Rush Yards

2×

All-MEAC

Mr. Hicks played running back in 1997 and 1998, the year he was the Knights’ leading rusher. He was Player of the Year in 1998 and was nominated for the NJCAA All- American team following his sophomore season; he was selected as an honorable mention. Coach Phil Martin has described him as “our best running back, ever, and we had some very good ones.” Mr. Hicks came to MC from Greenville County High School in Emporia, Virginia, where he was outstanding as a tailback and safety. After MC, he received a full scholarship to North Carolina A&T University, a Division I-AA MEAC football program. While at NCA&T, he started both his junior and senior seasons, finishing his career with a school-record 2,812 rushing yards. In just two years he broke the D-I single-game rushing record with 437 yards; he was All- MEAC in both years; and he was a third team Division I- AA All-American in his senior year, when he led the MEAC with 1,325 rushing yards. His professional football career included the Chicago Bears, 2002, the San Francisco 49ers, 2003–2007, NFL Europe’s Scottish Claymores, 2004, and the Minnesota Vikings, 2008. He also played for the UFL’s Florida Tuskers in Orlando, Florida.

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Phil Martin

Coach · Football

Phil Martin

Years coaching at MC - 1982-2003

137

Coaching Wins

14×

Coach of the Year

2

National Title Games

Phil Martin was head football coach at Montgomery College-Rockville from 1982 until the program’s end in 2002. During those 21 years, Coach Martin won over twothirds of the games that he coached with a final record of 137-58-9. He sent more than 188 players to play at fouryear colleges and universities; 20 of those players advanced to Division I schools on NCAA scholarships, and seven have gone on to play professional football. His 1986 and 1990 teams played for the NJCAA national championships, with the 1990 team led by quarterback John Kaleo, who won the NJCAA’s Player of the Year award in 1990 and is still playing in the Arena Football League. Coach Martin’s 1999 team played in the Golden Isles Bowl for the NJCAA East Coast championship. In November 2002, Coach Martin was inducted into the NJCAA Football Hall of Fame; he was selected as Small College Coach of the Year in 1990 by the Washington, D.C., Touchdown Club; and he has served as president, vice president, and secretary for the NJCAA Football Coaches Association. He was named region or conference coach of the year 14 different times during his footballcoaching career at MC. Coach Martin is now an assistant football coach for the Shenandoah University Hornets, a Division III team, in Winchester, Virginia. He is serving as defensive coordinator, taking over a unit that finished seventh in the nation for the 2002 season in turnover margin and boasted at least one All-Dixie Conference performer at every position.

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