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The Southern Oregon Raiders football team represents Southern Oregon University in college football. They compete at the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) level as members of Frontier Conference. Southern Oregon's first football team was fielded in 1927. The team plays its home games at Raider Stadium, in Ashland, Oregon. ==History== The Raiders played their first game on November 5, 1927 against Lewis & Clark College, which they won, 24–0. The other two games played that season were against rivals Western Oregon and Humboldt State.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Southern Oregon Yearly Results 1927–1929 )〕 The Raiders first tasted sustained success under head coach Al Akins. During Akins' 15 years as the Raiders' head coach, Southern Oregon was conference champions seven times (either outright or co-champions).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Southern Oregon Composite Championship Listing )〕 18 years after Akins' last season, the Raiders experienced their first postseason, defeating Central Washington in the first round of the NAIA playoffs and losing to Mesa State in the quarterfinals.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Southern Oregon Yearly Results 1985–1989 )〕 The Raiders found even greater success during the 2001 and 2002 seasons, reaching the quarterfinals of the NAIA playoffs each year. Although, in both years, Southern Oregon lost to Carroll College, neither game was decided by more than four points.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Southern Oregon Yearly Results 2000–2004 )〕 Southern Oregon was seeking to move up to NCAA Division II as the Great Northwest Athletic Conference had only nine teams after Seattle University moved up to Division I. The University is currently a member of the NAIA and an affiliate member of the Frontier Conference for football while being a member of the Cascade Collegiate Conference for all other sports. It had been reported that the move to NCAA may take years to complete.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=SOU considers move from NAIA to NCAA )〕 However, the move never happened. In November 2010, Steve Helminiak was fired as head coach at Southern Oregon. He was replaced by Craig Howard, a high school football coach from Florida. Howard is best known for being the head coach of Tim Tebow at Nease High School in St Augustine, Florida.〔http://jacksonville.com/sports/football/2011-02-10/story/ex-nease-football-coach-craig-howard-takes-southern-oregon-job〕 In December 2014, the Raiders won the NAIA National Championship in Daytona, Florida.〔http://traveljapanblog.com/ashland/2014/12/10-photos-of-the-champions/〕 The day before, Austin Dodge was named the 2014 NAIA Player of the Year.〔http://traveljapanblog.com/wordpress/2014/12/2014-naia-football-player-of-the-year/〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Southern Oregon Raiders football」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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