St. John’s has earned the #1 seed in the West Region, but unlike the tournament’s other top seeds, their lofty perch doesn’t offer them a smooth path deep into the playoffs. In fact, the West Region is loaded with perennial football powers. The Central Dutch won their 30th IIAC title en route to [...]
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Maybe you’ve heard: the Tommies are coming to town and, for a change, they’re bringing a pretty talented football team with them.
The Tommies’ recent struggles against St. John’s are no secret. The Johnnies have won the last 11 meetings, 15 of the last 16, and haven’t lost to the Tommies in Collegeville since 1986. [...]
Following the dramatic conclusion of last week’s 16-14 homecoming win over Bethel, it’s understandable that there are numerous members of Johnnie Nation missing substantial portions of their finger nails. As you might have heard, Russell Gliadon atoned for a missed extra point that would have tied the game with less than two minutes remaining [...]
Though you wouldn’t know it from recent results, the Bethel Royals used to struggle just like everyone else in the MIAC against St. John’s. The Johnnies traveled to Arden Hills to take on the Royals for the first time in 1978 and came away with a 19-17 victory. While the scores were typically [...]
Week 4 against Gustavus has the makings for a letdown game for the Johnnies. They come off a long road trip to Moorhead that was successful, but did NOT shorten the injury report for St. John’s. This would be an easy game to overlook when you can see a potentially huge Homecoming game with Bethel [...]
Huge rushing performances are nothing new for the #23 Concordia Cobbers. True to form, they enter this Saturday’s MIAC-opening matchup with the #6 St. John’s Johnnies fresh off of a 194 yard, 4 touchdown ground attack in last week’s non-conference game against Valley City State.
But that’s nothing compared to the day the [...]
Each year when the Johnnies play the Cobbers I get nervous. I am thankful that the Johnnies were scheduled to make the trip to Jake Christensen Stadium in mid-September instead of mid-November when the cold wind howls across the flat prairie and the natural grass field has seen better days. All signs point to more of this fantastic mild [...]
For the four-year seniors on the 2009 St. John’s football team, the Wisconsin-River Falls Falcons might as well have been an MIAC team. For the fourth straight season, the Johnnies will take on the Falcons as part of their non-conference schedule and, while UW-River Falls hasn’t exactly been competitive in the ultra-tough WIAC conference, [...]
The 2008 St. John’s Johnnies’ football season was a fair litmus test to separate the optimists from the pessimists.
The glass-half-full crowd is quick to point out that the Johnnies made the NCAA playoffs for the 4th straight season and won the MIAC title over some of the stiffest conference competition they have faced in recent [...]
The Johnnies are traveling to Tom Pattison’s corner of Wisconsin for the third time in four years. He called the first two visits on the radio and will be doing so again on Saturday. How have the Warhawks looked in defending their 2007 title? What does he see happening in this game?