Allegheny College Athletics

The 1968 football team claimed the second of Allegheny's three outright (four total) Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC) championships, one of 13 overall league titles in program history (nine NCAC). The Gators finished that campaign with a 7-1 overall record and an unblemished 6-0 mark in league play, which is the only time in the 25 years of PAC football for Allegheny that the Gators were undefeated in conference games. At the time, the seven wins equaled the program record for most in a season, matching a mark that had happened just four times since beginning competition in 1893 (1899, 1902, '13 and '23). Five players were tabbed with First Team All-PAC honors that season: OG Plete Blaufarb, QB Mike Ganey, DB Jay Lewis, OE Colin Smith and OT Jim Stover. Ganey, Lewis, Stover and halfback John Boughton were inducted into the Allegheny Hall of Fame as players, while head coach John Chuckran and assistant coach Bob Garbark received the same recognition as coaches. Ganey was the school's all-time career record holder for passing yards, completions and touchdown passes for at least 23 years and can still be found in the record books, as can Boughton (career receptions) and Lewis (career touchdown receptions).