{"id":3240,"date":"2007-09-02T13:07:50","date_gmt":"2007-09-02T18:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inside.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=3240"},"modified":"2017-02-13T18:59:58","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T18:59:58","slug":"augsburg-to-celebrate-10th-anniversary-of-1997-football-championship-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2007\/09\/02\/augsburg-to-celebrate-10th-anniversary-of-1997-football-championship-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Augsburg to celebrate 10th anniversary of 1997 football championship season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3241\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2013\/05\/97anniversary.jpg\" alt=\"97anniversary\" width=\"200\" height=\"194\" \/>Augsburg will be celebrating the 10th anniversary of the football team\u2019s<\/p>\n<p>1997 Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference championship season<\/p>\n<p>this year. An anniversary celebration will be held during the Auggies&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>season-opening game against Northwestern-Roseville on Sept. 8 at 7 p.m. at Edor Nelson Field.<\/p>\n<p>The Auggies went 10-2 in 1997, reaching the second round of the NCAA Division III national playoffs. It marked just the second conference championship in football for the Auggies; the first was in 1928.<\/p>\n<p>Also at the Sept. 8 Northwestern-Roseville game, Augsburg will formally<\/p>\n<p>retire the No. 30 jersey of former wide receiver Scott Hvistendahl.<\/p>\n<p>Hvistendahl currently serves as an assistant coach at Northwestern.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Hvistendahl was one of the top receivers in NCAA Division III history<\/p>\n<p>during his career at Augsburg (1995-98), earning multiple All-American<\/p>\n<p>honors and winning the Gagliardi Trophy as Division III\u2019s outstanding<\/p>\n<p>player in 1998. He caught 285 passes for 4,696 career receiving yards,<\/p>\n<p>breaking the NCAA all-divisions record for receiving yardage, then held<\/p>\n<p>by NFL legend Jerry Rice, in the final game of his career in 1998.<\/p>\n<p>Hvistendahl currently stands third in Division III history in career<\/p>\n<p>receiving yardage, sixth in career receptions and 20th in career receiving<\/p>\n<p>touchdowns (40). He still appears in 16 different record categories<\/p>\n<p>in the Division III record book. Among NCAA players in all divisions,<\/p>\n<p>Hvistendahl currently stands sixth in career receiving yardage and 21st<\/p>\n<p>in career receptions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Augsburg will be celebrating the 10th anniversary of the football team\u2019s 1997 Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference championship season this year. An anniversary celebration will be held during the Auggies&#8217; season-opening game against Northwestern-Roseville on Sept. 8 at 7 p.m. at Edor Nelson Field. The Auggies went 10-2 in 1997, reaching the second round of the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[12,1098],"class_list":["post-3240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-1997-minnesota-intercollegiate-athletic-conference","tag-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7434,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3240\/revisions\/7434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}