The Central Dutch football team represents Central College in

college football College football is gridiron football that is played by teams of amateur Student athlete, student-athletes at universities and colleges. It was through collegiate competition that gridiron football American football in the United States, firs ...

at the

NCAA Division III NCAA Division III (D-III) is the lowest division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in the United States. D-III consists of athletic programs at colleges and universities that do not offer athletic scholarships to student- ...

level. The Dutch are members of the

American Rivers Conference The American Rivers Conference (A-R-C) is an intercollegiate athletic conference that competes in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III. From 1927 until August 9, 2018, it was known officially as the Iowa Intercollegia ...

(ARC), fielding its team in the ARC since 1923 when it was named the Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (IIAC). The Dutch play their home games at Ron and Joyce Schipper Stadium in

Pella, Iowa Pella is a city in Marion County, Iowa, United States, with a population of 10,464 at the time of the 2020 U.S. Census. Founded by immigrants from the Netherlands, it is forty miles southeast of Des Moines. Pella is the home of Central Colleg ...

. The stadium was known as Kuyper Stadium from 1977 to 2005. Their head coach is

Jeff McMartin Jeff McMartin (born November 21, 1967) is an American college football and track and field coach. He is the head football coach for Central College, a position he has held since 2004. McMartin was the head men's and women's track and field coac ...

, who took over the position for the 2004 season.

Conference affiliations

* ''Unknown'' (1892–1893; 1903–1905; 1909–1916; 1920–1922) *

Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference The American Rivers Conference (A-R-C) is an intercollegiate athletic conference that competes in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III. From 1927 until August 9, 2018, it was known officially as the Iowa Intercollegia ...

(1923–2017; rebranded) *

(2018–present)

Championships

Conference championships

Central claims 32 conference titles, the most recent of which came in 2021. † Co-champions

Postseason games

NCAA Division III playoff games

The Dutch have appeared in the Division III playoffs twenty-two times with an overall record of 24–21.

List of head coaches

Key

Coaches

Year-by-year results

Notes

References

External links

* {{American Rivers Conference football navbox American football teams established in 1892 1892 establishments in Iowa