The Northwestern Red Raiders football team represents Northwestern College in

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in the

National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) established in 1940, is a college athletics association for colleges and universities in North America. Most colleges and universities in the NAIA offer athletic scholarships to its stu ...

(NAIA). The Red Raiders are members of the

Great Plains Athletic Conference The Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) is a List of college athletic conferences in the United States, college athletic conference affiliated with the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA). Member institutions are located ...

(GPAC), fielding its team in the GPAC since 1992 when it was known as the Nebraska–Iowa Athletic Conference (NIAC). The Red Raiders play their home games at Korver Field at De Valois Stadium in

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. The school's head coach is

Matt McCarty Matt McCarty (born ) is an American football coach. He is the head football coach for Northwestern College (Iowa), Northwestern College in Orange City, Iowa, a position he has held since 2016. McCarty led the Northwestern Red Raiders football, Nor ...

, who took over the position for the 2016 season.

Conference affiliations

* Two-year college (1950–1954) * Tri-State Conference (1960–1980) * NAIA Division II independent (1981–1987, 1991) *

Tri-State Athletic Conference The Tri-State Athletic Conference was a short-lived intercollegiate athletic conference that existed from 1988 to 1990. The league had members, as its name suggests, in three states: Iowa, Nebraska, and Kansas. Football champions * 1988 – North ...

(1988–1990) * Nebraska–Iowa Athletic Conference / Great Plains Athletic Conference (1992–present)

List of head coaches

Key

Coaches

Year-by-year results

Notes

References

External links

* {{Official website, https://nwcraiders.com/sports/football American football teams established in 1950 1950 establishments in Iowa