Monmouth College Athletics

For David Allison, Monmouth College was more than just the school he attended for three years and the college where he taught biology for 34 more. It’s the place where he grew up. As a youth, he rode his sled down the big hill behind Wallace Hall and sneaked into football games to avoid the nickel admission fee.

Little did Allison know at that time that he would be asked to attend many MC sporting events free of charge – first as an athlete on the Fighting Scots’ football and track teams and, after he had joined the faculty in 1962, as a game filmer and public address announcer. Still active as the voice of Fighting Scot men’s basketball when Monmouth began playing on the remodeled court in the Huff Athletic Center, Allison’s association with MC athletics has lasted more than half a century.