DUBUQUE— Spreading the ball around to its offensive talent, the Central College football team secured a 38-21 win on the road at the University of Dubuque Saturday afternoon.
Six touchdowns and three turnovers forced in the first half by the Central College football team propelled it to a 59-14 romp over Simpson College Saturday afternoon.
Filling out a schedule with non-conference games, which is something almost every Division III head coach needs to do, presents a variety of challenges. Greg Thomas looks at it through the lens of one unusual non-conference game in this week's Around the Nation.
PELLA—An 89-yard touchdown catch by Ryan Neu (fifth year, wide receiver, West Des Moines, Valley HS) in the third quarter swung the game in favor of the Central College football team in a 35-10 win over California Lutheran University Saturday.
PELLA, Iowa - Seven touchdown strikes helped keep the shine on an occasionally unsteady performance as the Central College football team put a bow on the home season with a 56-22 runaway over Buena Vista University Saturday.
PELLA, Iowa - Saluting its 21 seniors, the Central College football team makes its final home appearance of the season Saturday with an American Rivers game against Buena Vista University.
WAVERLY, Iowa—Quarterback Hunter Hoffman (sophomore, Pecatonica, Ill.) threw for 267 yards but it was a one-dimensional Central College football attack and a bid for title contention was turned away by No. 3-ranked Wartburg College Saturday.
PELLA, Iowa - For Central College to remain in the American Rivers football race, the Dutch must do what no other team has done since 2018 and that's defeat Wartburg College in Waverly.
PELLA, Iowa - Unleashing a blizzard of touchdowns, the Central College football team erupted for 51 points in two periods in overwhelming Nebraska Wesleyan University 72-0 on a windy Saturday at Ron and Joyce Schipper Stadium.
PELLA, Iowa - The offensive potential the Central College football team hinted was possible surfaced in a big way with seven touchdown passes and 552 yards total offense Saturday, overwhelming the University of Dubuque 55-16
DECORAH, Iowa - Like so many that preceded it, career football win No. 150 for Central College coach Jeff McMartin Saturday was a textbook performance.
DUBUQUE, Iowa—In a season filled with flashy offensive numbers from a young squad, it was the Central College football defense that was able to secure a gritty, bone-chilling 24-21 victory in the season finale Saturday at the University of Dubuque.
PELLA, Iowa—It was perhaps the sign of a good day for the Central College football team Saturday at windswept Ron and Joyce Schipper Stadium when Luther College's opening kickoff made an abrupt U-turn and bounded backwards 5 yards.
PELLA, Iowa-No. 24 Central College's resilient second-half effort pushed No. 20 Wartburg College to the brink before the No. 24 Dutch surrendered a last-minute touchdown in a 35-28 homecoming football defeat Saturday.
PELLA, Iowa - After two seasons as defensive coordinator at Lakeland University (Wis.), Mitch Shepherd has been named defensive coordinator for Central College’s defending American Rivers champion football team.
Blaine Hawkins, who led Central to the national quarterfinals and was named D3football.com Offensive Player of the Year, learned on Friday afternoon that he had won the 2021 Gagliardi Trophy.
Three quarterbacks, one wide receiver and a safety make up the five finalists for the 2021 Gagliardi Trophy, an award presented by Jostens to the most outstanding football player in NCAA Division III.
WHITEWATER, WIS.—This dizzying ride of a Central College football season, with each week's performance seemingly surpassing the last, finally came to a halt in the frosty chill of a December afternoon in southern Wisconsin Saturday with a 51-21 NCAA Division III playoff loss to the No. 3-ranked University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Saturday, but not before etching still more remarkable numbers into the record books.
PELLA, Iowa—Making its first NCAA Division III quarterfinal round appearance since 2007, the Central College football team will search for a win Saturday in a place where few visitors have found one.
PELLA, Iowa- Already the author of one of the best offensive seasons in NCAA Division III history, Central College quarterback Blaine Hawkins punctuated it Saturday with one of the tradition-rich program's most memorable finishes.
PELLA, Iowa—It's a playoff rematch but the Central College football team hopes it's not a repeat when Wheaton College (Ill.) visits Saturday for a second-round NCAA Division III playoff game.
PELLA, Iowa-Bethel University (Minn.) threw some of the season's biggest blows at the Central College football team Saturday but quarterback Blaine Hawkins answered with seven touchdown passes and yet another record day in a 61-35 first-round NCAA Division III playoff victory.
PELLA, Iowa - The first NCAA Division III playoff game promises to be the season’s stiffest challenge for the undefeated Central College football team.
November13,2021
STORM LAKE--Central capped its 17th unbeaten season by blitzing Buena Vista 65-6 Saturday.
PELLA, Iowa—The championship that a pandemic denied in 2020 and that 15 of last year's Central College seniors returned to claim was decisively secured with a 56-7 football triumph over the University of Dubuque Saturday before an approving Legacy Day crowd.
PELLA, Iowa - The last team to defeat the Central College football squad in a regular-season game is the opponent Saturday as the Dutch look to clinch an outright American Rivers title.
Central passes by Dubuque for football victory
October 26, 2024DUBUQUE— Spreading the ball around to its offensive talent, the Central College football team secured a 38-21 win on the road at the University of Dubuque Saturday afternoon.
