CONWAY, Ark. (September 7, 2013) – After a 53-year hiatus, the Hendrix College
football team resumed play with a last-second 46-44 win over Westminster
College at Young-Wise Stadium on Saturday afternoon in front of a raucous crowd
of nearly 3,000 fans.
Trailing by one, freshman kicker Steve Crenshaw booted
a 25-yard field goal through the uprights with one second remaining in the game
to give the Warriors their first victory since the program's last game in 1960.
Read the full story by Sports Information Director Cody Usher here.
Hendrix will open Southern Athletic Association play at
Birmingham-Southern College on Saturday, Sept. 14.
Founded in 1876, Hendrix College is a national leader in
engaged liberal arts and sciences education. For the fifth consecutive year,
Hendrix was named one of the country’s “Up and Coming” liberal arts colleges by
U.S. News and World Report. Hendrix
is featured in the 2012 edition of the Princeton Review as one of the country’s
best 377 colleges, the latest edition of Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools That Will Change
the Way You Think about Colleges, Forbes magazine's annual
list of America's Top 650 Colleges, and the 2013 edition of the
Fiske Guide to Colleges. Hendrix has been affiliated with the United Methodist
Church since 1884. For more information, visit www.hendrix.edu.