IWC Tigers Play Kohawks
for Old Threshers Trophy!
MOUNT PLEASANT – Opening the home portion of
their 2010 schedule, the Iowa Wesleyan College
football team starts a difficult three-game
stretch against ranked teams with a matchup
against Coe College Saturday evening at
Mapleleaf Stadium.
The Tigers will take on a Kohawks team ranked
12th in the D3football.com NCAA Division III
preseason poll and will face their visitors in
the first-ever Old Threshers Bowl. The game is
taking place during the weekend of the annual
Midwest Old Threshers Reunion in Mount Pleasant,
and IWC and Old Threshers have partnered this
year for a game that will include the two teams
playing for the first-ever Old Threshers trophy.
Coe was one of the surprises of the Iowa
Conference and all of NCAA Division III last
season and had one of the best seasons in school
history. The Kohawks were predicted to finish
seventh in conference but instead finished
second and advanced to the second round of the
Division III playoffs, capping the year with a
10-2 record. Head Coach Steve Staker was named
conference coach of the year and also received
the Liberty Mutual Division III National Coach
of the Year award.
Coe has an experienced team returning this
season and has been ranked in the top 20 in most
preseason polls of NCAA Division III, including
18th by The Sporting News and 20th by USA Today.
The Kohawks return last year’s Iowa Conference
MVP in Brad Boyle, a junior quarterback who
threw for 2,639 yards and 19 touchdowns last
year and also rushed for 337 yards and 15
touchdowns. The offense returns a total of 10
starters, including all five offensive linemen.
The defense returns defensive lineman Frank
Weymiller, who as a freshman last year was named
Honorable Mention All-American and ranked among
the nation’s leaders in sacks.
Though the two schools are separated by little
more than an hour, this is only the seventh
meeting ever between Coe and Iowa Wesleyan. The
Kohawks lead the series 4-2 and won the last
meeting back in 1985 by a 42-21 score in IWC’s
season opener. That matchup capped a run of four
straight years when the two teams played,
splitting four games from 1982-85. The teams
first met in 1915, with Coe pasting the Tigers
by a 69-0 score.
Saturday’s game will be broadcast on the radio
and online in both the Mount Pleasant and Cedar
Rapids areas. KILJ 105.5 FM in Mount Pleasant
will provide an IWC broadcast of the game, with
John Kuhens handling the play-by-play. The game
will also air in Cedar Rapids on KMJM AM 1360,
with Coe College announcer Jerry Kiwala calling
the game.
For more information regarding the IWC football
program or any of the Tiger athletic teams,
contact sports information director Adam
Glatczak (319-385-6306 phone; 319-385-6384 FAX;
aglatczak@iwc.edu e-mail) or log on to IWC's
athletics Web site at www.iwc.edu/athletics.


