North Tama was discounted early and often ahead of the 2021 football season. After going 2-6 in the first season of head coach Taylor Wurth’s tenure, the Redhawks were picked to finish fifth in Class A District 3 and not be much of a factor come playoff time. Indeed, a turnaround of the ...
Preston Pope has no illusions. He isn’t very tall, nor is he the fastest guy on the field. Since his youth playing days in the Marshalltown Football League, Pope knew how he fit in with his peers. “I’ve always been a little bit thicker than everybody else,” he said. Stocky or ...
One of the most prolific dual-threat quarterbacks in Class A football for the last two seasons was honored as the District 5 Offensive Player of the Year, as Gladbrook-Reinbeck senior Hunter Lott collected his league’s top postseason award. Lott was a two-time, first-team all-district ...
DES MOINES — The Marshalltown area football teams were unable to advance to the UNI-Dome this fall, but a number of local preps were honored with selection to the Iowa Newspaper Association’s annual all-state football teams. Gladbrook-Reinbeck, which qualified for its eighth-straight ...
ST. ANSGAR — As a brisk wind blew dry the tears lingering on John Olson’s face, a team other than his own was celebrating a state quarterfinal victory. For the first time in four years, the Gladbrook-Reinbeck football team was stopped short of the UNI-Dome as the No. 7 Rebels were handled ...
FAIRBANK — A blast of arctic weather hit the state just in time to give Friday’s opening round of the Iowa State Football Playoffs an almost professional playoff atmosphere, as the sub-freezing temperatures felt more like January than late October. That cold weather couldn’t cool down ...