BEVERLY, Mass. — The first Grinold Chapter New England Division III Football Coaches poll of the 2022 season has been released, and Endicott College leads a group of four Commonwealth Coast Conference teams in the poll.

The Gulls received 10 of 11 first place votes to top runner-up Trinity College by 21 points in the poll, and Middlebury sits in third place. Plymouth is fourth and Salve Regina and UMass Dartmouth tie for fifth in this week's rankings.

The poll is rounded out by Tufts, the University of New England, Springfield, and Wesleyan.

The New England Division III Football Poll is presented by the Jack Grinold/Eastern Massachusetts Chapter of the National Football Foundation, which also serves as the title sponsor of the weekly Gold Helmet Awards presented by the New England Football Writers Association throughout the season.

A panel representing all five New England Division III playing conferences will serve as voters in this year's poll, and rankings will be released each Monday afternoon through November 14th. Members of this year's voting panel are Nat Clark (Husson), Kevin Gilmartin (Salve Regina), Mike Lichten (University of New England), C.C. Grant (Coast Guard), Ken Johnson (MIT), Chris Robertson (WPI), Jack Cosgrove (Colby), Jeff Devanney (Trinity), Jay Civetti (Tufts), Steve Croce (Anna Maria), Andrae Murphy (Dean), Tom Kelley (Framingham), Jeremy Cameron (Massachusetts Maritime) and Mark Robichaud (UMass Dartmouth). 

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