The Newberry College football team has won numerous championships in its more than a century of intercollegiate success.
1924 - South Carolina Co-State Champions (8-2)
The Indians tied for the state championship with a 16-7 win over Wofford on Thanksgiving Day at the Spartanburg County Fairgrounds. They key win wrapped up an eight-win season under head coach Dutch McLean for a program which only had 24 wins in 10 previous seasons. The only loss to a state team was a 14-0 loss to Furman in the season opener. The scarlet and gray went on to defeat Erskine, The Citadel, Presbyterian, the Parris Island Marines and Wofford - allowing only 13 points in those games.
1940 - Little Four Champions (7-2-1)
The Indians won their only Little Four title in one of their highest-scoring years under head coach Billy Laval. It was only the second time in program history to that point that Newberry won more than five games in a year. On October 11, the Indians defeated Presbyterian 20-7 in Newberry to kick off the 3-0 record against the Little Four. A 32-0 shutout of Erskine in Due West on November 16 set up the championship game, which Newberry clinched by pounding Wofford 46-6 in Spartanburg. Newberry also defeated Carson-Newman, Lenoir-Rhyne, Oglethorpe and High Point in the season and allowed only 26 points in its seven wins and a tie.
2006 - South Atlantic Conference Champions / NCAA Division II Football Championship Second Round (11-2)
After a 51-year absence from the postseason, the Indians set a school record for wins in a season and advanced to the second round in their first-ever playoff appearance. Newberry won its first 10 games in a row to start the season, vaulting as high as No. 9 in the national polls. Wins over Edward Waters, Morehead State, Brevard, Elizabeth City State, Carson-Newman, Catawba, Mars Hill, Wingate and Tusculum started the season and a home win over Lenoir-Rhyne clinched Newberry's first SAC title since the conference began in 1975.
After being shut out at Presbyterian in the regular season finale, Newberry hosted Albany State in the first round of the NCAA Division II playoffs at Setzler Field, earning a 34-28 victory and advancing to the second round. The season came to an end in the second round of the playoffs with a tough 38-20 loss at North Alabama; the Indians attained a No. 12 final national ranking.
2008 - South Atlantic Conference Champions (6-4)
The Newberry squad barely missed out on the playoffs in 2008, still claiming a share of their second SAC title in a three-way tie for the crown that included Tusculum and Carson-Newman. After a loss to defending national champion Valdosta State to start the year and a tough road defeat in Texas at Midwestern State, the scarlet and gray closed the year by winning five of their final seven games. Newberry crushed North Greenville early before beating Carson-Newman in overtime, Catawba, Wingate and Lenoir-Rhyne. Interspersed were losses at Mars Hill and Tusculum. A 17-0 shutout victory at Brevard on the season's final day clinched Newberry's second league title in three seasons.
2016 - South Atlantic Conference Champions / NCAA Division II Football Championship First Round (10-2)
Newberry's magical 2016 season stands as one of the best campaigns in school history. The Wolves completed their first-ever undefeated South Atlantic Conference season with a dramatic, come-from-behind victory over Wingate before a national television audience on American Sports Network to clinch Newberry's third conference title and a postseason berth. The Wolves lost their first game of the season, a 42-28 setback against Florida Tech--but even that game contained a sign of things to come as Markell Castle's belief-defying, twisting, one-handed catch in the second quarter was the No. 2 play on SportsCenter's Top 10.
A 42-22 drubbing of visiting Virginia Union made the Wolves 1-1 before Raleigh Yeldell's bruising, 4-yard run with 1:04 to play at North Greenville sealed a win. Newberry won its next seven games by an average of 25 points before the regular season finale against Wingate. Tuskegee ended Newberry's season with a 35-33 win in Newberry's first home postseason game in 10 years. The team's 2016 accomplishments are nearly too many to name: Catawba game was broadcast nationally on ESPN3 as part of the Division II Football Showcase, Todd Knight was named SAC Coach of the Year, Yeldell finished ninth in Harlon Hill voting and was SAC and ECAC Offensive Player of the Year, 15 players were named all-conference selections, and the team was slotted No. 16 in the final AFCA poll.