The Central Michigan Football Team accepts the Trophy for winning the 1974 NCAA Division B Championship.
In preparation for the 1974 NCAA Division II Championship game, a telegram from President Gerald R. Ford was read to the Central Michigan football team.
On the first play of the game, CMU fullback Dick Dunham charged for a 68-yard touchdown run taking the lead for the Chippewas.
CMU walked over Delaware in the championship game, 54-14, at what was then the Camellia Bowl in Sacramento, California.
“We started the year with a loss to Kent State,” Dunham said at a team reunion in 2014.