The Doane Tigers football team represents
Doane University
Doane University is a private university in Crete, Nebraska. It has additional campuses in Lincoln and Omaha. Established in 1872, Doane is the oldest private university in the state of Nebraska.
History
Doane College was founded on July 11, ...
in the sport of
American football
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.
History
The first
college football
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coach at Doane was
F.P. Reed, who led the team to a 1–1 record. Other coaches in its football history include Al Papik,
Tommie Frazier
Tommie James Frazier Jr. (born July 16, 1974) is an American former college football player who was a quarterback for the Nebraska Cornhuskers football, Nebraska Cornhuskers. He earned consensus College Football All-America Team, All-American ...
,
Matt Franzen
Matt Franzen is an American college football coach and former college athletic administrator. He is the head football coach for Hastings College, a position he has held since 2021. Franzen was the head football coach at Doane College in Crete, Neb ...
and current head coach Chris Bessler.
1905 Nebraska State College Football Champions. After defeating Bellevue College, the 1905 Doane College football team became the Nebraska State Football Champions. Considered a formidable team, in no small part due to their combined weight, the Doane team lost their subsequent game with University of Nebraska Cornhuskers, 43–5. The largest player on the Doane team was 220 pound, left guard, Claude LeRoy Farrow of Aurora, Nebraska.
From 1965 to 1969, the football team was unbeaten in 38 consecutive games. The streak ended with a loss to
Concordia College in the first game of 1970.
Doane's football team has participated in three
bowl games
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, winning two and tying one. The first was the 1950
Bean Bowl where they defeated
Colorado State College
The University of Northern Colorado (UNCO or UNC) is a public university in Greeley, Colorado, United States. It was founded in 1889 as the State Normal School of Colorado and has a long history in teacher education.
The institution has offi ...
by a score of 14–6. Doane then had back-to-back appearances in the
Mineral Water Bowl
The Mineral Water Bowl was an annual American NCAA Division II college football bowl game held in Excelsior Springs, Missouri at Tiger Stadium. Throughout its long history (1948 to 2019), the game was sponsored by the Quarterback Club, a civic ...
in 1967 and 1968.
They have qualified for the NAIA National Playoffs six times, most recently in 2016, and were semifinalist in 1972 and 1997.
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