Blog: A list of Nebraska High School Football teams (including head coach) that played 8-Man Football in the early 21st century. (07-29-24)

WE cheated a little here by looking at the year 2001, simply because the 8-Man schedules were listed per district in each class.

There are so many Hall of Fame head coaches here it’s like a Who’s Who of Nebraska 8-Man Football.

CLASS D-1

District 1-Adams Freeman (Craig Walz), Cook-Nemaha Valley (Tim Weber), Falls City Sacred Heart (Doug Goltz), Humboldt Table Rock (Mark Wollard), Nebraska City Lourdes (Andy Fedoris), Pawnee City (Jamey Boelhauer), Stella South East (Kyle Finke).

District 2–Cedar Bluffs (Mitch Egger), Lincoln Parkview Christian (Chris Moulton), Macy Omaha Nation (Ed Ross), Mee (Jon Dahl), Omaha Brownell-Talbot (Ron Scribner), Omaha Christian Academy (Tim Hamilton), .

District 3–Bancroft-Rosalie (Andy White), Clarkson (Jim Clarkson), although (Mike Speirs), Leigh (Steve Borer), Lutheran High Northeast (Norfolk) (Matt Steffan), Winside (Marland Erbst),.

District 4–Bruning-Davenport (Mark Rotter), Deshler (Terry Arnold), Diller-Odell (Mike Meyerle), Exeter Milligan (Dean Filipi), Friend (Jim Pfeiffer), Nebraska Lutheran (Waco) (Dan Ross),.

District 5–Cedar Rapids (Ryun Theobald), Humphrey St. Francis (Jeff Korus), Nebraska Christian (Central City) (Jeff Hower), Newman Forest (Bill Mimick), Palmer (Arlo Bockerman), Polk High Plains (Andy Vrbka).

District 6–Basset (Todd Hale), Flower field (Gary Walling), Hartington High (Blair Kalin), Niobrara-Santee (JJ Parks), Osmond (Chris Stodgill), Spencer-Naper (Ken Jensen), Stuart (Bob McEvoy).

District 7-Blue Hill (Mark Norvell), Clay Center (Rob Roos), Franklin (Steve Johnson), Harvard (Jeff Ashby), Kenesaw (Craig Schnitzler), red cloud (Andy Davenport), Shelton (Gale Dunkhas).

District 8–Anselmo-Merna (?), Arapahoe (Daren Hatch), Axe (Kent Ropers), Elm Creek (Stan Wissel), Overton (Glen Snodgrass), Nice to meet you (Ricci Westland), Wilcox-Hildreth (Vic de Jong).

District 9–Curtis Medicine Valley (Jarrod Burke), Elwood (Kevin Mahlberg), Eustis Farnam (Travis Brouilliette), Maxwell (Chuck Humphrey), Maywood (Scott Johnsen), Stratton-Trenton (Gene Mohr), Wauneta/Palisade (Jim McKinney).

District 10-Big Springs/South Platte (Tim Cooper), Chapel (Doug Moran), Crow’s Valley (Casey Walker), Dalton Leyton (Tom Coviello), Hyannis (Chris Krause), Potter-Dix (Mike Mitchell), Rushville (Brent Ehlers).

CLASS D-2

District 1–Dawson-Verdon (Bill Noord), Johnson-Brock (Brett Davis), Lewiston (Neil Woofter), Omaha Central Christian (Chuck Kuhns), Sterling (Arlo Wusk), Waterloo (Darin Ahrens).

District 2-Benedict (Lynn Jurgens), Daykin Meridian (Randy Jess), Dorchester (Terry Smith), Giltner (Randy Schultz), Kampong (Jerry Eickhoff), McCool Cross (Brad Beyke), shuffle (Gary Filipi).

District 3–All (David Uldrich), Beemer (Pettigrew Button), Coleridge (Ken Swanson), Clever trick (Ron Lund), Newcastle (Bart Kneifl), Walthill (Doug Mogenson), Wine notch (Ron Rojfes).

District 4–Elba (Harlan Pfomey), Greeley (Dennis Hurlbert), Lindsay Holy Family (Rusty Rautenberg), Prague (Gary Brown), Rising city (?), Spalding/Spalding Academy (Troy Kleffner), Saint Edward (Rich Lemburg).

District 5-Clearning water (Rod Brummels), Elgin High (Carlie Wells), Humphrey Hoog (Jake Nelson), Orchard (Dan Sich), Elgin Pope John (Mark Koch), Greengreen (Kevin Randa), Wausa (Lue Graesser).

District 6-Butte (Steve Colfack, Rooms (John Miller), Ewing (Jim Crilly), Lynching (Jeff Hart), O’Neill St. Mary’s (Tony Allen), Spring view (Mike Stephan),

District 7–Ansley (Mike Sørensen), Loomis (Denis Reese), North Loup/Scotia (Zane Jong), Sergeant (?), Silver lake (Keith Crowe), Sumner-Eddyvile–Miller (Scott Franzen).

District 8–Arnold (Andy Schwartz), Call away (Ken Rigler), Mullen (Mike Brown), Dunning sand hills (Reggie Smith), Stapleton (Rex Hannah), Thedford (Charlie Curnyn).

District 9–Bartley Twinvallei (Mark Norvell), Culbertson (John Kershaw), Hayes Center (Jim Cole), Madrid Cornland (Mike Brown), Paxton (Doug Babbit), Wall (Jerry Brown).

District 10–Cody Kilgore (Duke Wain), Harrisburg (Kenny Hessler), Harrison (?), Hay sources (Pat Ningen), Guest post (Tony Jones), Minate (Chad Berens).