Athletics: Football

William Jewell Football is a long-standing tradition up on the hill. WJC was the first NAIA football program to win over 500 games. Our goal is to establish William Jewell as one of the top NAIA football programs in the country. We will do this with young men who are quality student-athletes of high character.

William Jewell College has a proud academic and athletic heritage as well as first-class facilities, including Patterson Field/Greene Stadium, a new Sprint-Turf all-weather football game complex.

Since joining the Heart of America Athletic Conference in 1973, WJC has won eight HAAC Championships and has placed numerous players on the All-Conference and All-American teams. The football team is also proud of the work players do in the classroom. Five out of the last six years, they have been a part of helping William Jewell College men’s athletic teams earn the honor of The Heart of America Athletic Conference Commissioners’ Scholarship Award.  The award is handed out each year to a HAAC member school with the highest grade point average among the men's athletic teams.