The Husson University football team will hold their media day Tuesday, September 8 at 2:30.  New Head Coach Niles Nelson and the Eagles will travel to Merrimack College Saturday, September 9 to open their 2009 season.  Coach Nelson will be available from 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm while players will be available around 3:30 pm. 

The Eagles return a solid group of veterans including 10 starters on offense and 4 starters on defense.  They enter the first year of play in the newly formed Eastern Collegiate Football Conference (ECFC) which features Becker College (Leicester, Mass.), Castleton State College (Castleton, Vt.), Gallaudet University (Washington, D.C.), Husson University (Bangor, Maine), Maritime College State University of New York (Throggs Neck, N.Y.), Mount Ida College (Newton, Mass.), and Norwich University (Northfield, Vt.).  Anna Maria will join conference play in 2010. 

Husson has a 9 game schedule with non-conference games against Merrimack College, Springfield College, and Anna Maria College.  The top two teams in the ECFC will play in a conference championship game on November 14^th.  The ECFC regular season champion will host the championship game.