Nebraska Wesleyan Prairie Wolves football


The Nebraska Wesleyan Prairie Wolves football team represents Nebraska Wesleyan University in college football at the NCAA Division III level. The Prairie Wolves are members of the American Rivers Conference, fielding its team in the ARC since 2016 when it was named the Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. Nebraska Wesleyan plays home games at Abel Stadium in Lincoln, Nebraska. The team's head coach is Brian Keller, who took over the position for the 1996 season.
Nebraska Wesleyan's athletic teams were known as the Coyotes in the early 1900s. The nickname was changed to the Plainsmen in 1933 and then to the Prairie Wolves in 2000.
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Conference affiliations

NAIA / pre-NCAA
NCAA

Championships

Conference championships

Nebraska Wesleyan claims 22 conference titles, the most recent of which came in 2000.
1911Nebraska Conference7–0N/AWilliam G. Kline
1912Nebraska Conference5–2–1N/AWilliam G. Kline
1913†Nebraska Conference4–3–1N/AWilliam G. Kline
1914Nebraska Conference7–1N/AWilliam G. Kline
1915Nebraska Conference6–3N/AWilliam G. Kline
1918Nebraska Intercollegiate Conference2–3N/AWilliam A. Norris
1920Nebraska Intercollegiate Conference6–2–24–0–1Ray B. McCandless
1921Nebraska Intercollegiate Conference8–35–0Ray B. McCandless
1925†North Central Conference6–0–23–0–1Clarence L. Dow
1931 Nebraska College Athletic Conference4–3–14–0–1John D. Waldorf
1932† Nebraska College Athletic Conference4–3–14–0–1John D. Waldorf
1934 Nebraska College Athletic Conference6–2–14–0John E. Roberts
1947†Nebraska College Conference7–1–15–1–1George "Bus" Knight
1963Great Plains College Association7–23–0Raymond Westover
1964Great Plains College Association7–13–0Raymond Westover
1976† Nebraska Intercollegiate Athletic Conference6–34–1Harold G. Chaffee
1983† Nebraska Intercollegiate Athletic Conference7–34–1Orson Christensen
1986 Nebraska Intercollegiate Athletic Conference7–35–0Orson Christensen
1988 Nebraska Intercollegiate Athletic Conference8–25–0Jim Svoboda
1989 Nebraska Intercollegiate Athletic Conference10–25–0Jim Svoboda
1990† Nebraska Intercollegiate Athletic Conference7–24–1Jim Svoboda
2000†Great Plains Athletic Conference8–36–2Brian Keller

† Co-champions

Postseason games

NAIA playoff games

The Prairie Wolves have appeared in the NAIA playoffs four times with an overall record of 1–4.
1988Jim SvobodaFirst roundEvangelL 14–45
1989Jim SvobodaFirst round
Quarterfinals		Chadron State
Wisconsin–La Crosse		W 46–43
L 0–29
1991Jim SvobodaFirst roundPeru StateL 20–41
2000Brian KellerFirst roundNorthwestern Oklahoma StateL 13–40

Bowl games

Nebraska Wesleyan has participated in one bowl game, and has a record of 0–1.
1946George KnightWill Rogers BowlPepperdineL 13–38