CEDAR FALLS — Before the Humboldt football team emerged from an emotionally-drained locker room and went their separate ways on Friday afternoon at the UNI-Dome, head coach Derrick Elman and his staff requested one last moment of undivided attention with them behind closed doors. Elman ...

CEDAR FALLS — Derrick Elman hasn’t stopped smiling since his Humboldt football team locked up a spot in the Class 3A state championship game here last Saturday night. And it’s not just because Elman and the Wildcats will now be playing for the title on Friday at the UNI-Dome versus ...

CEDAR FALLS — The early moments of Humboldt’s state semifinal game here on Saturday night followed a familiar pattern. Thankfully, so did the conclusion — just in time to rewrite recent history. The top-seeded and second-ranked Wildcats prevailed in a tug-of-war with No. 5 Mount Vernon ...

CEDAR FALLS — The no-frills Humboldt football team takes its show on the road and back to the UNI-Dome Saturday night, as the top-seeded Wildcats face No. 4 Mount Vernon in a Class 3A state semifinal. Kickoff is set for 7 p.m. Head coach Derrick Elman’s blue-collar squad may not be ...

CEDAR FALLS — It had been 446 days since Bishop Garrigan head football coach Marty Wadle gathered his players and deliver a post-game speech following a loss. Even such a span of time between defeats wasn’t long enough to ease the pain of this one. Leading late in the fourth quarter ...

CEDAR FALLS — Marty Wadle had already put together a Hall of Fame football career well before Bishop Garrigan made the move down to the eight-player level four years ago. But the legendary leader of the Golden Bears’ program has proven the head coach’s incredible ability to adapt and ...