Head Coach: Steve Bell,
9th year
Phone: 309-457-2175
E-mail: sbell@monm.edu
Steve
Bell
brought an impressive resume as an offensive
coordinator to Monmouth College when he took over the reins prior to the
2000 season, and in 2005 the Scots won their first outright conference
title since 1972. In addition to his coaching duties, Bell
serves the college as a physical education instructor. He received his
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Steve Bell |
Assistant Coaches:
Chad Braun,
9th
Year
Dave Ragone,
9th year
Steve Elliott, 9th year
Derrick Johnston, 6th year |
Lyle Pierce, 5th year
Nate Johnson, 3rd year
Nate Palkovic, 1st year |
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CONFERENCE CHAMPIONS:
1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1931, 1932, 1934, 1971, 1972, 1976,
2005
MIDWEST CONFERENCE
SOUTH DIVISION CHAMPIONS
1987, 1988, 1989
NCAA TOURNAMENT QUALIFIER
2005
New football stadium
takes shape (See the pictures)
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MWC PERFORMER
OF THE WEEK |
Monmouth’s Tanney earns
award with record performance
Sept. 30, 2008
Monmouth College quarterback Alex Tanney (Lexington, Ill./Lexington)
tied the school record for touchdown passes last weekend and earned
the Midwest Conference Offensive Performer of the Week honor.
Tanney’s six touchdown passes in the Fighting Scots’ 41-20 win over
Carroll tied him with his older brother Mitch for the most TD tosses
in a single game. The sophomore signal-caller found a different
receiver for each of his scoring throws. Tanney, who leads the
conference with 16 touchdown passes in four games, completed 28 of
his 39 attempts for 317 yards and hit 10 different receivers en
route to the record-tying day as Monmouth stayed unbeaten and
improved to 4-0.
Mitch had set the standard for TD passes against arch-rival Knox in
2004.
Scots’ Shepherd returns
for Performer of the Week
September 24, 2008
 Monmouth College return specialist Matt Shepherd (Leesburg,
Fla./Leesburg) nearly tied a school record Saturday and was rewarded
with the Midwest Conference Special Team’s Performer of the Week
honor.
Shepherd returned the opening kick 99 yards en route to the Fighting
Scots’ 51-3 win over Beloit last Saturday. The sophomore’s long
return is second in Monmouth history only to Ray Brooks’ 100-yard
scamper against Carleton in 1951. The talented returner/receiver
netted 140 return yards on three kickoff returns and added another
23 yards on four pass receptions.
Through three games Shepherd is averaging more than 32 yards on
kickoff returns and more than 15 yards on punt returns for the
Scots.
Tanney earns MWC Performer of the Week honor
Sept. 15, 2008
The home opener for the Monmouth College football
team may have been soggy, but quarterback Alex Tanney (Lexington,
Ill./Lexington) found a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow and
earned the Midwest Conference Offensive Performer of the Week honor.
Tanney didn’t let a little thing like more than five inches of
rain in 24 hours deter him from passing for 244 yards and three
touchdowns in the Fighting Scots’ 47-2 win over Lawrence Saturday.
Playing on the rain-soaked grass field, the sophomore signal caller
completed 24-of-36 passes to nine different players, including a
24-yard scoring strike in the final minute of the first half to
propel the Scots to a 27-2 lead at intermission. His 195.5 passing
yards per game ranks him third in the conference.
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FOOTBALL LINKS
Monmouth
College's first official football game was played in 1888 against Knox College. Monmouth was
crowned "college champions of Illinois" in 1905 and repeated in 1906 when the team recorded
its first perfect season at 8-0.
Hall of Famer Francis "Jug" Earp, who would go on to play 11
seasons of professional football with the Green Bay Packers, dominated the Fighting Scot
offensive line in the early 1920s and the Warren Taylor-Keith Molesworth passing combination
of the mid-'20s was one of the finest the college has ever produced. Molesworth would later
play eight NFL seasons with the Chicago Bears.
Robert
"Bobby" Woll, one of the best all-around athletes ever to wear a Monmouth jersey and the only
person to have his football number (29) retired at the college, was the star during the
1931-33 seasons.
In 1981 the new football field was dedicated and named Bobby Woll Athletic
Field in honor of Woll's years of competition and coaching service at Monmouth. Following his
death in August of 1999, the football field was rededicated Bobby Woll Memorial Field.
The 1952 and 1953 squads featured the
rushing prowess of All-American tailback Ray Brooks.
The late '60s through the mid '70s saw
some of the most prolific
teams in school history featuring two of the best running backs to ever play at Monmouth in
Charlie Corle (1967-69) and Ron Baker (1972-75), who ended his career as the team's all-time
leading rusher with 3,642 yards.
The 1972 squad posted the best record of any Monmouth team to
that season,
winning the MCAC championship with a perfect 9-0 record.
Following a heartbreaking 3-0 road loss to
Coe in the infamous 1986 "Mud Bowl", the Scots won a school-record 26 consecutive regular
season games between 1986 and 1989.
The Scots advanced to the MCAC league championship game in
1987 and enjoyed a three-year run as South Division champions. Mark Reed, who quarterbacked
the 1987 divisional champion team, established an NCAA Division III national record that year
with 17 rushing touchdowns. Monmouth's first overtime game was ironically against archrival
Knox. The Scots won a thrilling 13-7 victory over their rivals in a 1991 snowstorm.
In 2005 the Scots
finished the regular season with a 10-0 mark and in doing so
captured their first conference title since 1976 and advanced to the
NCAA Playoffs for the first time in school history.
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