“Hendrix College President J. Timothy Cloyd will create a committee to consider the return of intercollegiate football at the college, a sport that has been absent from Hendrix since the 1960 football season.

Hendrix is presently one of three schools in its athletic conference – the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference – to not have a football team. If implemented, Hendrix would join nine other football-playing schools in the conference and become the only NCAA Division III football program in Arkansas.

The committee, consisting of approximately 15 people, will be headed by Chuck Chappell, a professor of English at Hendrix since 1969 and a 1964 graduate of Hendrix College. Composed of alumni, students, faculty and staff, the committee will conduct an extensive study to determine the financial feasibility, along with student and alumni interest in the program. The process is expected to take a year, and the college’s Board of Trustees would ultimately have to approve the implementation,” according to a news release from Director of Media Relations Mark Scott.