Pictured is the Minot State Beavers 2025 team running out onto the field with head coach Ian Shields for their 100th season opener against Emporia State. With the start of the 2025 season, the Beavers football team faces their 100 year anniversary of when head coach C. E. Bublitz took the first Beavers team out onto the gridiron. The football program has survived a lot of ups and downs. The team has survived a lot of changes in coaching staff, field changes, conference changes and division changes. But through it all, they are still Minot State’s Beavers.
Throughout their 100 years, the Beavers football team has earned an impressive overall 415 games won, 329 games lost and 30 games tied. The Beavers have been led by more than 20 different head coaches over their 100 years of play and are currently headed by Coach Ian Shields. They played in three different divisions during their history, the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, NAIA Division II and the National Collegiate Athletic Association in Division II. The Beavers were members of the North Dakota College Athletic Conference, the Dakota Athletic Conference and were briefly an independent Division II team until they joined the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference of which they are now a part.
Head coach Dave Hendrickson still holds the record for most wins as head coach with 57. The Beavers have already kicked off their 100th season in their away game against Emporia State. Their home opener and homecoming will be against Concordia-St. Paul on Saturday, Sept. 13. Having just come off the heels of the Beavers’ best NCAA season, the Beavers have high expectations to meet.