With over 135 years of Greek Life tradition Monmouth College fraternities and sororities play an important role in supporting the mission of Monmouth College.  Over forty percent of Monmouth College alumni are members of Greek organizations. Not only does Greek Life provide a strong peer structure but it helps students become well-balanced leaders.
International House
Formerly the Theta Chi fraternity house, this facility is home to several international students and also contains a residential suite for general students on the third floor.
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Homecoming 2005.
October 21-23
The exact date of the first game may have been forgotten, but the rivalry between Monmouth and Knox Colleges that began on a football field in 1888 is etched in the collective memory of the two schools. The rivalry ranks as the fourth oldest among Division III schools and sixth overall in college football.

Welcome to Monmouth College Theta Chi!

Guys, we all understand its been many years since Theta Chi has been at Monmouth College, this comment is written August 2005, and all of us have moved on with our lives with families but even if just a few of us contact Monmouth College and work together there can be the opportunity of bringing the chapter back. Please keep your email addresses current in the Theta Chi national directory. Contact me at the following email link if you would like to get in contact with Dan Pulliam or myself. Jamie Jones email

Daniel Pulliam
2248 Dunwich
Springfield, IL 62702
217-528-4247

Website for alumni of Theta Chi Monmouth College, Monmouth Illinois dedicated to bringing back Theta Chi to Monmouth College!

May 16, 1942 Beta Pi chapter installed at Monmouth College, Monmouth, Illinois.

Attention fellow Monmouth Theta Chi alumni, Monmouth College now requires an insurance policy of several hunderd dollars for each new student joining a fraternity.  This year only a small number of new students paid the additional insurance and those fraternities now on campus had few pledges!

There will be no Theta Chi pledge class this year!
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Founded in 1853 by pioneering Scottish Presbyterians, Monmouth College brought the blessings of civilization to the people of the rough frontier and spoke of traditional values to those who were shaping a new world. Though today our life knows different frontiers, the College still thinks of its purpose as its founders did --preserving and celebrating the traditions that have been entrusted to it while promoting discovery and investigation. Although the student body today includes many who come from far beyond western Illinois, Monmouth continues to have a strong sense of identity with its local community and with the region in which it is proudly rooted.

Unusual for the time, Monmouth College was created a coeducational institution. Indeed, it was one of the first colleges to give women equality with men, and, not surprisingly, women's interests have been prominent in the College's history.

Monmouth has chosen to remain the collegiate institution it was founded to be, preferring not to expand into a university. Monmouth continues to insist that its purpose is not to pursue knowledge for its own sake, in the university's fashion, but to encourage students to seek values by bringing together knowledge and belief in a coherent whole. The College has neither graduate nor professional schools and is therefore able to focus its resources entirely on its undergraduates. In true collegiate fashion, Monmouth stresses the unity and equality of the academic disciplines that compose it. The College's chief interest lies in providing its students a generous understanding of human experience; individual disciplines receive their sense of direction from that larger commitment rather than permitting the specific interest to become an end in itself.

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2004 Season

All American
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The post-season awards keep piling up for Monmouth College's Dan Wingler. The 6-foot-1 senior offensive lineman from Urbana, Ill. (HS), has been named to the D3football.com All-American team. more
 

Academic All-District

Tyler Dihle.
Monmouth College's Tyler Dihle (Good Hope, Ill./Northwestern), a 6-foot-6, 300-pound junior defensive lineman has been named to the Verizon Academic All-District V College Division football team. more
 

Football

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Head Coach:
Steve Bell, 6th year
Phone: 309-457-2175
E-mail:
sbell@monm.edu

 
 FOOTBALL HIGHLIGHTS

The 2004 Fighting Scots Football Team

The 2004 Fightings Scots Football Team
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The 2004 Fighting Scots Football Coaches

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PROGRAM HISTORY
Image of Steve Bell.Monmouth College's first official football game was played in 1888 against Knox College. Monmouth was crowned "college champions of Illinois" in 1905 and repeated in 1906 when the team recorded its first perfect season at 8-0.

Hall of Famer Francis "Jug" Earp, who would go on to play 11 seasons of professional football with the Green Bay Packers, dominated the Fighting Scot offensive line in the early 1920s and the Warren Taylor-Keith Molesworth passing combination of the mid-'20s was one of the finest the college has ever produced. Molesworth would later play eight NFL seasons with the Chicago Bears.

Football FansRobert "Bobby" Woll, one of the best all-around athletes ever to wear a Monmouth jersey and the only person to have his football number (29) retired at the college, was the star during the 1931-33 seasons.

In 1981 the new football field was dedicated and named Bobby Woll Athletic Field in honor of Woll's years of competition and coaching service at Monmouth. Following his death in Aug. of 1999, the football field was rededicated Bobby Woll Memorial Field.

Image of Football Fans at the 2003 Turkey Bowl vs. Knox CollegeThe 1952 and 1953 squads featured the rushing prowess of All-American tailback Ray Brooks.

The late '60s through the mid '70s saw some of the most prolific teams in school history featuring two of the best running backs to ever play at Monmouth in Charlie Corle (1967-69) and Ron Baker (1972-75), who ended his career as the team's all-time leading rusher with 3,642 yards.

Fighting Scots vs. Knox College, November 8, 2003The 1972 squad posted the best record of any Monmouth team, winning the MCAC championship with a perfect 9-0 record. 

Following a heartbreaking 3-0 road loss to Coe in the infamous 1986 "Mud Bowl", the Scots won a school-record 26 consecutive regular season games between 1986 and 1989.

Turkey Bowl PhotoThe Scots advanced to the MCAC league championship game in 1987 and enjoyed a three-year run as South Division champions. Mark Reed, who quarterbacked the 1987 divisional champion team, established an NCAA Division III national record that year with 17 rushing touchdowns. Monmouth's first overtime game was ironically against archrival Knox. The Scots won a thrilling 13-7 victory over their rivals in a 1991 snowstorm.

LITTLE FIVE CONFERENCE CHAMPIONS

  • 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917

MIDWEST CONFERENCE CHAMPIONS

  • 1931, 1932, 1934, 1971, 1972, 1976

MIDWEST CONFERENCE SOUTH DIVISION CHAMPIONS

  • 1987, 1988, 1989

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