Historic season carries MIT Football into NCAA
Last Saturday, with a 24-13 victory over the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, the MIT football team made history, achieving its first-ever nine-game undefeated regular season — and MIT’s first perfect football season since going 3-0 in 1881. This weekend, the Engineers reach another milestone: their first postseason game ever, against 8-1 Husson University in Bangor, Maine. “It’s been a great ride so far,” Head Coach Chad Martinovich told the The Boston Globe. “Really it’s a tribute to the kids on the roster, the seniors in particular. When they came in as freshmen, they were 2-7 and they’ve helped really improve the program each year, along with the three recruiting classes since then.” Two decades after that last undefeated season, MIT’s football program was disbanded in 1901. Resurrected as a club sport in 1978, the team only regained varsity status in 1988. Over the next 20 years — before Martinovich’s arrival in 2009 —...