It all comes down to this! A battle of the Northeast! Hershey with a big upset over the juggernaut Hawaii State Hawks. And the defending champions come up just short against the ECC Champion Hallows. 


I created the National Championship logo to feature Chicago imagery from their flag as well as the famous-bean as a football. Good luck to both teams! 


 

Congrats to our Final Four teams. And of course I forgot to change the dates. So it should be 11/23

Thank you everyone for another great AltCAA season. Here are this year's Alt Americans! RB Ashton Jeanty is our first 2x Alt American. 



Congratulations to the Hawaii State Hawks and the Hallows Headless Horsemen for their conference champions this year. This is the second conference title for the Hawks but in a different conference this year.


Congrats to Threshers running back Ashton Jeanty for becoming the first RB to win this award in the modern era. 


Now onto the 2024 BOWL SEASON. We begin with the Avocado Bowl. The Hawaii State Hawks will take on Minnesota A&M this week. The Hawks are the defending Avocado Bowl champions after last year's victory over Hallows. Minnesota A&M is going bowling for the third time in three. This is the first time that they are not playing in KC for the Harvest Bowl.



This year's top-seeded team are the ECC Champion, Hallows Headless Horsemen. They will gallop into Washington DC to take on Wichita A&M. WAM is playing in their third straight bowl game...previously having won 2 Beacon Bowls. 



Next up is the Harvest Bowl. This game will feature the defending National Champion Johns Island Angels and the ever-underrated but always dangerous Bucks of Michigan Institutional. While Michigan Institutional didn't win the natty last year they did win last year's Harvest Bowl. 


Finally our 4-5 match up is a unique rematch of last week's Keystone Clash between Pennsylvania Commonwealth and the Hershey Wildcats. This is the Big Blue's third straight bowl game but have yet to win one. 



After this week we will head to the North Star Bowl and the Beacon Bowl as our semi-final games. I look forward to everyone's uniform reveals for the week. 
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Traditional look as always for The Commonwealth against conference foe Ohio A&M. Need to put together a run to join the playoff chase. 

Additionally, PCU will always be known as the Big Blue but we are starting the process of finding a nickname for our athletic programs. Welcome to ideas for this extremely old, Benjamin Franklin founded university.

Welcome everyone to the start of the 5th AltHL Season!

One element that we had voted on during the offseason was the addition of minor league players. With that said, the mechanics of implementing that has been wonkier than expected. Therefore we are going to make some moves to ensure that this season is not bothered in any way. 

1. A MINOR PAUSE We are going to push the roll out of the Minors until next year - at that point we will have the bugs worked out. Before we decide to go down that road we will have another vote to engage the voice of all owners. 

2. WHAT'S NEXT? Not many people have added minor league players so far...so this transition will not be difficult. We will be eliminating the minor league spots on Fantrax. I will be adding two roster spots to everyone's rosters so that teams who leveraged draft capital this year can keep 2 minor leaguers if they would like to. There are not many teams who have more than 2 minor leaguers at this time so this should be minimally invasive. Other teams can use those spots to add waiver wire players - you're welcome.  If you would like to move minor league players to one of those two spots please email Gritty at althockeyleague2020@gmail.com by Sunday, October 13. At that point I will add the roster spots and move those minor league players to their correct spots. 

Once again sorry for the way that this rolled out - we had some Fantrax issues that knocked us off of our desired plan. If you have any questions let me know! Have a great season everyone. 



ALSO if you are interested in submitting designs for this year's events we are accepting them now. We are having our All Star game in Alaska and our Legacy Classic in Halifax this year. Submissions will be due next Wednesday, October 16.