{"id":39004,"date":"2016-04-05T03:58:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T07:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utnews.utoledo.edu\/?p=39004"},"modified":"2016-04-04T12:18:25","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T16:18:25","slug":"toledo-to-hold-spring-football-game-april-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/04_05_2016\/toledo-to-hold-spring-football-game-april-9","title":{"rendered":"Toledo to hold spring football game April 9"},"content":{"rendered":"

Toledo will hold its annual Blue and Gold Spring Scrimmage Saturday, April 9, in the Glass Bowl. Kickoff is set for 1 p.m., and admission is free. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Rocket players and coaches will sign autographs after the game in the West Concourse at approximately 2:30 p.m.<\/p>\n

\"web<\/a>Prior to the contest, UT will hold a football clinic for youth in eighth grade and younger from 11 a.m. to noon. Check-in for the free clinic will begin at 10:40 a.m. Pre-registration is required. Registration forms for the youth clinic can be found online at utrockets.com<\/a>. Call J.J. Ruppert at 419.530.5433 for more information.<\/p>\n

There also will be activities like face-painting, corn hole and football toss for kids in the West Concourse of the Glass Bowl from noon to 1 p.m. on game day, while the Rockets are warming up on the field.<\/p>\n

First-year Head Coach Jason Candle’s squad returns 15 starters and 48 letterwinners from last year’s 10-2 team. Eight starters are back on offense, four on defense and three specialists. Among the returnees are six players who have earned All-Mid-American Conference honors at some point in their respective careers: senior running back Kareem Hunt, senior offensive lineman Storm Norton, senior safety DeJuan Rogers, senior wide receiver Corey Jones, senior defensive lineman Treyvon Hester and junior running back Terry Swanson.<\/p>\n

Toledo will start its season Saturday, Sept. 3, at Arkansas State. UT’s home opener is one week later, Saturday, Sept. 10, vs. Maine. <\/p>\n

For season ticket orders, call 419.530.GOLD (4653) for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

See you at the Blue and Gold Spring Scrimmage! The contest will take place Saturday, April 9, in the Glass Bowl. Kickoff is set for 1 p.m., and admission is free. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":310,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,5],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39004"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39004"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39050,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39004\/revisions\/39050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}