NOON: Football kicks off against Eastern Michigan; wins 56-8

Fall Saturdays have special meaning when the CMU football team plays at home.

With last Saturday being Homecoming and against Eastern Michigan, that meaning was amplified with students and alumni together.

The football team charged the field at 12:02 p.m. Saturday, heading straight to the thousands of students in the student section as per pregame tradition.

CMU’s captains, senior quarterback Dan LeFevour and junior linebacker Nick Bellore, were by joined by the entire senior class for the coin toss, where CMU deferred possession to the second half.

Andrew Aguila kicked off to start CMU’s 84th Homecoming football game at 12:07 p.m. Central entered the game 54-27-1 all-time in Homecoming games.

Kelly/Shorts Stadium, by the end of the first hour of play, had a full student section, with the total reported attendance being 26,730. On the field were several alumni, including members of the former swimming and diving program and the 1979 MAC Championship football team. The programs were honored during breaks in the first quarter.

CMU scored touchdowns on its first three drives to start the game, holding EMU to just one first down in the team’s first three drives en route to a dominating 56-8 victory.

“We played with good tempo and just executed,” said head coach Butch Jones after the game.

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