• Building a program in the U.P.
    October 20, 2022
    Mike DuFrane is the fourth coach to try to kick-start the football program at Finlandia, which started in 2015 and has won just five games. In his second year, DuFrane, who won a Stagg Bowl as a Warhawk defensive lineman, is beginning to see the growth at D-III's smallest school with a football program.
  • DuFrane gets next crack at kick-starting Finlandia
    March 04, 2021
    The young program at Finlandia has almost had more head coaches than wins in its five-season tenure, but the fourth head coach in the program's history is Mike DuFrane, who started on a national title team at Whitewater and has coached at Carthage, Dubuque and Marietta among others.
  • UMAC adds Finlandia for 2021
    October 02, 2020
    With the Upper Midwest Athletic Conference facing the potential loss of its automatic bid, the conference has turned to Finlandia. The program has won just two countable games in the past four seasons, including two winless seasons in the MIAA.
  • Smallest school still trying to build team
    September 12, 2018
    Typically schools in their fourth year of football get to celebrate a large senior class and often experience a lot of success. But Finlandia played just four countable games last year, has had constant roster turnover and went through two coaches this offseason alone. Brian Lester catches up with a work in progress.
  • Finlandia changes head coach again
    April 20, 2018
    Finlandia, which has struggled to get its Division III football program off the ground, has changed coaches for the second time this offseason, as Robert Boss is out and Travis Wiltzius has been named to the role on an interim basis.
  • Meet the new Boss at Finlandia
    November 08, 2017
    Rob Boss will be the head coach at Finlandia next season when the Lions move into the MIAA for football.
  • Finlandia finds a home
    May 26, 2017
    The number of independents in Division III football is dwindling away, as Finlandia will become an affiliate member of the MIAA in football in 2018.
  • Sights and sounds from Finlandia's first football game
    September 07, 2015
    Division III football came to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan for the first time when Finlandia took the field on Saturday. And after a shutout loss to Alma, the Lions have some work to do. Here's a look at the scene and coach Tim Driscoll's postgame reaction.
  • Hail Mary: It's good to be back!
    September 05, 2015
    Cortland has definitely put last year's early-season struggles behind it, while Alma got off to a fast start at Finlandia, Western New England beat a crosstown rival and Illinois Wesleyan appears on the upswing. The Week 1 roundup.
  • Finlandia adding football in 2012
    September 14, 2009
    Finlandia, a Division III school in the upper peninsula of Michigan, is adding football in 2012, D3sports.com has learned.