The NorthCentralCol Cardinals win the NCAA Division III football title over mighty Mount Union for first-year coach Spencer, complete a 15-0 season
After a brief hiatus, the top prize in NCAA Division III football has returned to North Central College.
And the Cardinals finished off a perfect 15-0 season for rookie coach Brad Spencer, who had been a longtime assistant in the program and was a record-setting wide receiver at the Naperville school. by signing up you agree to our terms of service But Mount Union, which featured the nation's leading passer and leading points scorer, scored a pair of touchdowns in less than a 6-minute span in the fourth to close the gap to 21-14 with 3:34 to play.
North Central, which came into the game averaging 553.4 yards of total offense and 54.1 points per game, still piled up 429 total yards, well above Mount Union's national-best 192.4 total yards allowed average.
Greenfield's 3-yard run in the second quarter also gave North Central the new Division III single-season team rushing record at 5,188 yards.
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