Iowa High School Football News

If it hasn't been obvious this fall, coaching high school basketball is a constant, yearly process of adjustment matching style to personnel.

The last time Hinton's Kole Vondrak was in the Akron-Westfield gymnasium wearing a wrestling singlet is probably one day he would like to forget.

Jacobson: This is North Dakota weather Cedar Falls, Ia. - For the Northern Iowa men's basketball team, despite a foot of snow on the ground, Wednesday was business as usual.

Temperatures outside were in the 20s, and a biting wind made it feel even colder in Happy Valley, but Joe Paterno was raring to go.

The attorney for a man accused of killing an Iowa high school football coach has waived his right to a speedy trial until February.

When it's the Southeast Polk Rams, it's goin' up - from deep. Head coach B.J Windhorst's Class 4A power demonstrated a simple lesson for the Ottumwa boys basketball team in its season opener on Friday night - A don't leave your feet.

A handy man reaches for a Swiss Army Knife when the job at hand requires a multipurpose tool.

The time was right for a couple area schools to switch their Class A 11-player football teams to the growing number of 8-player teams as enrollment numbers continue to decline in rural Iowa schools.

It was a disappointing season for coach Denny Muller and his 2009 Southeast Polk football team that posted a 1-8 record despite a record-breaking performance by senior quarterback Kody Ingle who set five individual career passing records.

A Solon running back has been named Iowa's Gatorade Player of the Year, for the second year in a row.

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Don Bosco of Gilbertville's Clay Welter passes by a swiftly filling trophy case every school day.

A The best and the brightest were awarded with some of the highest achievements over the weekend after the selection of the Iowa Newspaper Association's all-state prep football teams were announced.

Triumph, turnaround and tragedy. This high school football season will be remembered for a bit of each of those things.

This city loves to surprise you. Think Marshalltown is all about factories and smokestacks, pork processing and furnace manufacturing? Think again.

Before they starred in NFL stadiums, they took to the turf at the UNI-Dome in a two-day, mid-November treat for football fans throughout Iowa.

Class A championship game Southern Cal, Lake City 28, Mason City Newman 27 For the second consecutive year, Mustang quarterback Greg Meyer ran for a two-point conversion in overtime to clinch a state title.

Tim Tebow ran for a touchdown and threw for a pair of scores, as top-ranked Florida extended the nation's longest winning streak to 21 straight games with a 62-3 rout of Florida International at the Swamp.

Second-ranked North Fayette had all the credentials of a team spoiling for an upset.

Top-ranked Harlan's Michael Kaufmann threw for 187 yards and two touchdowns and added a rushing score in a 42-7 victory against No.