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Program History
Since its inaugural season of 1973, the Northwestern Eagles football program has experienced peaks and valleys of success, much like any other college football program. However, beginning in 2000, Northwestern emerged as one of the top small-college teams in the state and region. Posting a 25-4 record from 2000 to 2002, the Eagles were consistently ranked in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) Top 25 during that time period and appeared in the National Christian College Athletic Association (NCCAA) Victory Bowl in both 2000 and 2002.
Completing its 33rd year of existence with the 2005 season, the program has made tremendous strides since its first season in 1976 when Northwestern tallied a 1-6 record. Serving 15 years at the helm of the program, head coach Mel Boehland took Northwestern to a new level of competitive collegiate play from 1974-1988 as he earned a 77-56-1 career coaching mark covering the 1970's and 80's.
Perhaps few other individuals can compare to Chub Reynolds' contributions not only to the football program but to the entire Northwestern body. The Eagles head coach in both the 1989 and 1990 seasons, Reynold's testimony and impact on his players, assistant coaches, and others followers was life-changing. Battling cancer of both the hips and the lungs, Chub still dedicated his life to serving Christ through athletics and the players he was entrusted with. Though he spent a large portion of his coaching moments from a golf cart and was often carried by his players to and from the cart, he never complained but rather encouraged his players to the very end. In the fall of 1990, after defeating Martin Luther 51-0 just a few days earlier, Chub Reynolds passed away and went on to be with the Lord. The current football and baseball fields on campus are named in his honor and his legacy as his commitment to Eagle athletics has not been forgotten.
Jimmy Miller began a new era of Northwestern football in 1991 and after several years of struggling to put the wins on the board, he saw the fruits of his labor begin to blossom. The Eagles went 7-2 in 1995 and won the conference title as Miller also led the 2000 squad to an impressive 8-2 showing and the program's first NCCAA Victory Bowl championship.
The 2001 season brought about another new change to the Eagle coaching ranks as Kirk Talley took over the head reins. Very few small-college coaches experience the success that Talley has boasted at Northwestern, winning back-to-back Upper Midwest Athletic Conference (UMAC) regular season championships in 2001 and 2002 with undefeated league records, a north division title in the UMAC in 2003, and two more outright conference titles with undefeated league records in 2005 and 2008. Talley was selected the UMAC Coach of the Year in the 2001 and 2005 campaigns. Both the 2012 and 2014 seasons saw the Eagles notch eight victories, with 2014 being the debut of Northwestern's new Reynolds Field complex.
Over the course of Talley's 16 seasons at the helm of Northwestern football, the Eagles recorded a
112-51 68.7% overall record and berthed their first-ever National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Playoff appearance in 2016 - going 9-2 on the season. Northwestern's football program also recorded six National Christian College Athletic Association (NCCAA) Victory Bowl appearances in 2002, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2012 and 2015. Talley's lone Victory Bowl Championship came on Nov. 21, 2008 when the Eagles posted a 49-44 come-from-behind victory over Malone University. Talley's 2001 squad posted a 9-0 season record, the best single season performance in school history and the only undefeated campaign in program history. Talley, who picked up his 100th career win on October 10, 2015 in UNW's 21-13 victory at MacMurray, currently ranks first all-time in career winning percentage and career victories amongst Eagle football coaches.
Matt Moore became the head coach of the program in 2017 after a long stint of serving on Coach Talley's staff. Moore, a football alumni of Northwestern, is very familiar with the Eagle program as he led the Eagles' defense to many successful seasons under Coach Talley. Moore's squad posted a 6-4 record in his first season. In 2022, Moore's UNW squad won its final six games of the regular season to finish 6-4 and win the UMAC, putting the Eagles in the NCAA Division III Playoffs for the second time in program history.
COACHING HISTORY
Duane Christopherson
1973 | 1-6
TOTAL 1-6 (14.2%)
Mel Boehland
1974 | 4-4
1975 | 6-3
1976 | 5-4
1977 | 4-5
1978 | 6-3
1979 | 8-1
1980 | 6-3
1981 | 5-3-1
1982 | 5-4
1983 | 5-4
1984 | 7-2
1985 | 4-5
1986 | 5-4
1987 | 4-5
1988 | 3-6
TOTAL 77-56-1 (57.4%)
Chub Reynolds
1989 | 5-4
1990 | 5-4
TOTAL 10-8 (55.5%)
Jimmy Miller
1991 | 3-6
1992 | 3-7
1993 | 4-6
1994 | 6-3
1995 | 7-2
1996 | 3-6
1997 | 5-5
1998 | 4-6
1999 | 3-7
2000 | 8-2
TOTAL 46-50(47.9%)
Kirk Talley
2001 | 9-0
2002 | 8-2
2003 | 6-4
2004 | 6-5
2005 | 8-3
2006 | 7-3
2007 | 8-2
2008 | 9-2
2009 | 5-5
2010 | 1-8
2011 | 6-4
2012 | 8-3
2013 | 6-4
2014 | 8-2
2015 | 8-3
2016 | 9-2
TOTAL
112-51 (68.7%)
Matt Moore
2017 | 6-4
2018 | 5-5
2019 | 4-6
2020-21 | 1-1
2021 | 3-7
2022 | 6-5
2023 | 6-4
2024 | 7-4
TOTAL 38-36 (51.4%)
*Incomplete season
