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G-R FOOTBALL SEASON WRAP-UP

The Gladbrook-Reinbeck Rebels finished the 16-17 Football Season as the first undefeated Football Team in Gladbrook-Reinbeck school history! The Rebels also went down in the State of Iowa record books as the first Class A Football Team to play in three consecutive Class A Championship games! ...

Johannsen falls down, gets back up

CEDAR FALLS - Coming into Thursday's Iowa High School Class A State Football Championship game, 96.4 percent of Gladbrook-Reinbeck's completions went to a receiver not named Matt Johannsen. Having just three receptions through the Rebels' first 12 games of the season, the junior wide out just ...

Rebels reign again

CEDAR FALLS - For the first time since 2009, a team defended its state title at the Class A level.The second-ranked Gladbrook-Reinbeck football team used its best-in-the-state defense to fend off a late answer from No. 4 Bishop Garrigan to win its second-straight state title. It's the first ...

Defense drives Rebels, Golden Bears into title game

Points are expected to come at a premium when the two stingiest defenses in Class A collide in today's state championship football game.Second-ranked Gladbrook-Reinbeck, allowing a state-best 6.0 points per game, and No. 4 Bishop Garrigan of Algona, which has surrendered just 7.25 points per ...

Marching on No. 2 GR stops St. Ansgar to reach third-straight title game

CEDAR FALLS - The Gladbrook-Reinbeck football team has been so well-trained that doing the right thing at the absolute wrong time went unnoticed by the coaching staff.Thanks to defense that has become so synonymous with the Rebels' seven-straight trips to the playoffs, the untimely miscue was a ...

Potent passing attack a part of Rebels’ return to Dome

REINBECK - The past two years, the passing game of the Gladbrook-Reinbeck football has taken a backseat to the run game. Now as the Rebels embark on their third-straight trip to the UNI-Dome, it's the passing game's turn to take center stage.When No. 2 Gladbrook-Reinbeck heads into its ...

Meling 10th, Mustangs ninth

FORT DODGE The goal was to improve on last year's eighth-place team finish for the East Marshall boys' cross country team. And despite that not happening with a ninth-place finish in Class 2A at this year's Iowa High School State Cross Country Championships at Lakeside Municipal Golf Course, ...