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Sources

Every document this archive was built from, and what each one is used for.

  • Season statistics reports (1997–2019): the official StatCrew cumulative reports linked from the athletics site's football statistics archive, which reaches back to 1999. The 1997 and 1998 reports are the same StatCrew output, recovered from the Internet Archive's crawls of the college's first athletics website — the only copies that survive.
  • Box scores (1997–2025): 304 official game box scores (StatCrew game files 1999–2011, Sidearm box scores 2011–2025), parsed for individual statistics. For 2021–2025 these are the primary source of season totals; for every season they power the game logs and single-game leaderboards and are cross-checked against the season reports.
  • Cumulative statistics pages (2011–2025) on athletics.wheaton.edu, used as a cross-check.
  • Record book: the official career, single-season and single-game, team and coaching records, the year-by-year results, All-Americans and Wheaton in pro football.
  • Game log: the athletics site's opponent history database (every game since 1900), supplemented by the season reports.
  • Rosters (2006–2025): official season rosters, used for positions, hometowns, class years and to resolve player identities.
  • Player bios (2006–2025): 749 official player biographies, used for season-by-season notes and to compile All-CCIW, All-Region and other honors (608 honor mentions).
  • Story archive (1919; 2006–present): 1057 football stories from three publications — 772 from athletics.wheaton.edu, 113 from the CCIW conference office, and 5 articles from the 1919 Wheaton College Record, the student newspaper — four game reports and Coach Gary's season review, which carries the only surviving account of the full 1919 schedule — transcribed by hand from public-domain page scans. 296 recaps are attached to their box scores. Each story credits the publication that wrote it and links back to it.
  • Schedules (1995–2026) for kickoff times, promotions and media links, coaching staff directories (2008–2026), the Athletic Hall of Honor (93 football inductees) and the program pages (McCully Stadium, the Little Brass Bell, recruiting, ministry partnership).