Maryville (Tenn.) football headlines
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Scots Close Season with Setback to #22 Trinity Texas
November 15, 2025MARYVILLE, Tenn. - Maryville College closed its 2025 football season on Saturday afternoon, falling 31–14 to No. 22 Trinity (TX) at Lloyd L. Thornton Stadium. The Scots finish the year 7–3 overall and 4–3 in SAA play. -
They showed up, and so did Maryville
October 16, 2025In front of a huge home crowd, Maryville rose to the occasion and improved to 5-0, which is a far cry from the last time we wrote about them in Around the Nation. Greg Thomas visits with the Scots once again, when they are in much better spirits.
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Scots Have a Blast at Berry
November 23, 2024Maryville breached tons of new territory here Saturday in a 20-16 football victory against Southern Athletic Association tri-champ Berry.
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Great Scots lead Maryville to playoffs
November 21, 2024From the COVID year, to a 4-6 finish, to 5-5, 8-2, and 8-1 and a playoff spot, Maryville is ending is run in the USA South with a trip to the playoffs. Brian Lester has more in a Road to the Stagg Bowl feature.
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Best Regular Season Since 1978!
November 16, 2024Maryville completed a football coronation here Saturday at Honaker Field, polishing off its perfect final season in the USA South.
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Champions!
November 09, 2024Maryville clinched its first USA South Conference championship since 2018 with a week to spare, thumping Greensboro 47-7 on Saturday.
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Dominant Defense
November 02, 2024JACKSON, Miss. – If Saturday's game ends the short-but-sweet football series history against Belhaven, put it in the books as a three-game Maryville Scots sweep.
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Homecoming Block Party!
October 26, 2024Not even a mid-game rain shower could spoil the block party Maryville threw Saturday during its Homecoming football game against Methodist. The Scots blocked three Monarch punts and returned two for easy touchdowns in a 48-6 thumping before a huge crowd at Honaker Field/Lloyd Thornton Stadium.
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Alone at the Top!
October 19, 2024MARYVILLE – Don't look now but the Maryville Scots are alone at the top. Maryville ended five years of frustration Saturday with a resounding 44-16 victory against perennial USA South frontrunner Huntingdon. It was the most points scored by a Scots football team versus their Alabama rivals in the 20 all-time meetings of this series.
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Scots Stuff Panthers 38-10
October 05, 2024The Maryville Scots, after seeing last week's game against Brevard postponed because of Hurricane Helene, returned to the field Saturday at LaGrange and delivered a 38-13 thumping to the host Panthers.
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Bounce Back
September 21, 2024Smiles returned to the Maryville sideline Saturday after a big road victory – with the acknowledgment that the season starts for real next weekend. Maryville handled Southern Virginia 54-6 on Saturday, racking up 550 yards of total offense.
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Centre Kicks Late FG
September 14, 2024It took until the final play, but Centre evened the score for the Southern Athletic Association against Maryville this season with a walk-off 17-14 decision Saturday night in Kentucky.
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Senior Send-Off in Style!
November 11, 2023A season of accomplishment ended in superb fashion here on Senior Day Saturday as Maryville throttled Southern Virginia 48-10.
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Pick Party!
November 04, 2023Five was the number of the day after Maryville intercepted five passes and Bryson Rollins accounted for five touchdowns in a 49-14 thumping of North Carolina Wesleyan.
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Wrap: Maryville douses Blazers
October 28, 2023The Scots shut down the vaunted Blazers offense to win in OT, while Steve Johnson won his 250th game, Hamilton won in 5 OT, Wabash cruised against Wittenberg and more in games among teams outside the Top 25.
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Overtime Ambush!
October 28, 2023Maryville made it 2-for-2 in late-season games against big bad Belhaven, winning a classic old-school football game 20-7 in overtime here Saturday.
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Scots Enjoy ‘Home to Howee’ Spoils
October 21, 2023Maryville let its defense lead the way Saturday in a 26-6 victory over LaGrange in front of an overflow Homecoming crowd.
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Rollins Breaks Career Passing Mark
October 14, 2023Bryson Rollins during the game at Huntingdon broke the Maryville all-time passing yardage record, a mark that had stood for 38 years.
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Back on Track!
October 07, 2023Maryville returned to the win column Saturday with a satisfactory performance against Greensboro. The Scots evened their USA South record at 1-1 after scoring the first 35 points in a 35-7 victory against the Pride.
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Two-Point Heartbreak
September 23, 2023Brevard's Ethan Beamish found Adam Douglas in the back of the end zone for the two-point conversion to send Maryville to its first loss of the season Saturday night, 37-35 in three overtimes.
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Maryville flips the script
September 21, 2023The Scots started off last season as a hard-luck 0-3 team, but went on to win four of their last five, and are 3-0 to start this season as well. Brian Lester checks in on the excitement in Maryville.
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Best Win of the Season!
November 12, 2022Maryville bottled up a season's worth of narrow defeats and put together its most complete game in a 25-22 upset victory over Belhaven here Saturday.
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So you're telling me there's a chance
September 22, 2022Earlier this week, our feature stories focused on teams who have started off 3-0. But even teams who are 0-3 can still meet their goals of winning conference titles and automatic playoff bids. Greg Thomas talks to Maryville and Rose-Hulman in Around the Nation.
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Heartbreak City!
September 17, 2022Maryville dropped another home heartbreaker when undefeated Shenandoah struck for the winning touchdown with 24 seconds remaining.
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Fox named the 30th head coach at Maryville
January 25, 2021Ben Fox, offensive coordinator at Centre College in Danville, Ky., will be the next head football coach at Maryville College. Fox's has been a coach of nationally ranked offenses at two Division III schools and an all-conference quarterback and defensive back at another.
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Maryville suffers heartbreaking loss to Berry, 30-24, in home opener
September 02, 2017The Maryville College Fighting Scots suffered a heartbreaking loss to open the 2017 season on Honaker Field, as Berry College defeated MC 30-24.
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Maryville and Huntingdon Tied Atop League Preseason Football Poll
August 10, 2017(FAYETTEVILLE, NC) - Huntingdon College, under the direction of 14th-year Head Coach Mike Turk, and Maryville College, led by third-year Head Coach Shaun Hayes, tied atop the 2017 USA South Athletic Conference Preseason Football Coaches Poll. The Hawks and Scots shared last year's USA South championship but it was Huntingdon who earned the Conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Division III Tournament by way of its 28-24 win over Maryville during regular season play. The Hawks fell in the first round of the playoffs and finished with a 9-2 overall record while Maryville completed the 2016 campaign with an 8-2 overall mark. The USA South championship was the second consecutive for Huntingdon and the third for Maryville in its history.
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Maryville's Ethan Williams named Preseason All-American
August 02, 2017Maryville College's Ethan Williams has been named as a preseason All-American from D3football.com this week, becoming only the 5th Fighting Scot since 2000 to earn such an honor.
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Maryville wins thriller over Methodist, remain undefeated
October 03, 2015Displaying a sputtering offense and a gassed defense, it looked as if the streak would end for the Scots on Saturday evening, as they trailed Methodist University, 23-21, with only four minutes remaining in the ball game.
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Beyah, Kimball, defense leads Scots to first 3-0 start since 2007
September 19, 2015The Maryville College Scots moved to 3-0 for the first time since 2007 after defeating Emory & Henry, 30-13, for the first victory over the Wasps since 1999 in the 100th anniversary of the beginning of rivalry.
