The Bluffton Beavers football program represents

Bluffton University Bluffton University is a private Mennonite university in Bluffton, Ohio. It is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission, with four programs that have earned programmatic accreditation: dietetics, education, music, and social work. The unive ...

college football College football (french: Football universitaire) refers to gridiron football played by teams of student athletes. It was through college football play that American football rules first gained popularity in the United States. Unlike most ...

as a member of the

Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference The Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference (HCAC) is an intercollegiate athletic conference affiliated with the NCAA's Division III. Member institutions are located in Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio. Founded as the Indiana Collegiate Athletic Confer ...

(HCAC), affiliated with the

NCAA The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a nonprofit organization that regulates student athletics among about 1,100 schools in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. It also organizes the athletic programs of colleges an ...

Division III In sport, the Third Division, also called Division 3, Division Three, or Division III, is often the third-highest division of a league, and will often have promotion and relegation with divisions above and below. Association football *Belgian Thir ...

. The Beavers' colors are royal purple and white. The games are played at Dwight Salzman Stadium, which seats over 3,000 spectators. They have produced four professional football players, as Elbert "Golden Wheels" Dubenion played for the Buffalo Bills of the American Football League in the 1960s and

Seth Burkholder Seth Burkholder (born December 17, 1982) is a former American football placekicker. Burkholder attended Bluffton High School, in Bluffton, Ohio, where he was a member of the football team. After his senior season, he moved on to Bluffton Unive ...

a 2006 graduate, played for the

Pittsburgh Power The Pittsburgh Power were a professional arena football team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The team belonged to the East Division of the American Conference (AC) in the Arena Football League (AFL). Founded in 2011, the Power ...

of the

Arena Football League The Arena Football League (AFL) was a professional arena football league in the United States. It was founded in 1986, but played its first official games in the 1987 season, making it the third longest-running professional football league in ...

in 2012. ''Jordan Burdue'' and ''Oscar Vazquez-Dyer'' 2012 graduates. Jordan played professional arena football for the Evansville Rage(2012) the Marion BlueRacers (2013-2015) the Western Michigan Ironmen (2016) Free Agent Workout with the Minnesota Vikings (2016) and The Biberach Beavers of the German Football League (2016-present). Oscar played professional arena football for the Evansville Rage (2012) Marion Blue Racers (2013) And has played in Serbia, Finland and Germany for the last 8 years!

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