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5 unusual facts about Northwest Missouri State University


Chuck Broyles

Games between Pittsburg and its MIAA rival Northwest Missouri State University are played at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri.

Cullen Finnerty

In the National Championship match versus Northwest Missouri State University, Finnerty completed 12-of-19 passes for 172 yards and one touchdown, while rushing himself for 59 yards and two TDs on 14 carries in the win.

In the title match versus Northwest Missouri State University, Finnerty completed 15-of-33 passes for 225 yards and rushed for 115 yards on 22 carries for 340 yards of total offense, passing for one TD and running for another.

Gladden Dye

Gladden Dye was the 13th head football coach for the Northwest Missouri State University Bearcats located in Maryville, Missouri and he held that position for five seasons, from 1971 until 1975.

Vern Thomsen

Vern Thomsen was the 15th head football coach for the Northwest Missouri State University Bearcats in Maryville, Missouri, a position he held for five seasons, from 1983 until 1987.


Dave Fuller

Fuller tried his hand at coaching, first as the head football, basketball and baseball coach at Perquimans County High School in Hertford, North Carolina from 1940 to 1942, and then as an assistant football coach for the backfield at Northwest Missouri State Teacher's College in Maryville, Missouri in 1943.

Will Wagner

Will then transferred to Northwest Missouri State to serve as a graduate assistant for Mel Tjeerdsma.


see also

Uel

Uel W. Lamkin (1877-1956), president of Northwest Missouri State University