Wabash College returns to Frank Navarro Field at Little Giant Stadium on Saturday for its final home football game of the 2026 season. The Little Giants face Kenyon College in a 1 p.m. North Coast Athletic Conference contest on Military Appreciation Day.
Wabash (4-4, 3-4 NCAC) looks to snap a four-game losing streak after opening the season with four consecutive victories. The Little Giants are 3-1 at home this season and have won 20 straight games against Kenyon. The Owls (3-5, 2-5 NCAC) enter Saturday’s contest following a 59-7 victory over Oberlin last weekend.
The Little Giants nearly erased a 28-point deficit in last Saturday’s 35-28 loss at Ohio Wesleyan. Wabash scored 21 unanswered fourth-quarter points and held the Battling Bishops scoreless over the final 15 minutes. The Little Giants finished with 408 yards of total offense, including a season-high 337 passing yards, but four interceptions led to 21 Ohio Wesleyan points.
Senior quarterback Brand Campbell came off the bench to throw for 218 yards and a touchdown while adding a rushing score. Luke Adams caught seven passes for 120 yards and a touchdown, while Keith Jackson posted career highs with eight receptions for 104 yards. Junior running back Cole Dickerson rushed for 69 yards and one touchdown on 21 carries.
Dickerson continues to lead the Wabash offense and ranks among the top running backs in NCAA Division III. He leads the NCAC and ranks 12th nationally with 12 rushing touchdowns and 21st with 855 rushing yards. Dickerson has scored 14 total touchdowns and averages 106.9 rushing yards and 132.4 all-purpose yards per game.
The junior moved into a tie for ninth place on the Wabash career rushing touchdown list with 24 following his score at Ohio Wesleyan. His 12 rushing touchdowns this season also tie for ninth on the Little Giants’ single-season list. Dickerson has rushed for 1,607 career yards, ranking 21st in program history.
Campbell also moved up the Wabash career passing charts last weekend. He enters Saturday’s game ranked seventh in school history with 5,103 passing yards and eighth with 44 touchdown passes. One more touchdown pass would move Campbell into a tie with Dave Broecker for seventh place with 45 career scoring throws.
Wabash ranks among the national leaders in several offensive and defensive categories. The Little Giants are 16th in Division III in third-down conversion percentage at 49.6 percent and 18th in fourth-down conversions at 69.2 percent. Wabash ranks second in the NCAC in both categories.
Defensively, Wabash ranks 21st nationally and second in the conference by allowing 254.8 total yards per game. The Little Giants lead the NCAC with 2.88 sacks per game and rank second in rushing defense, limiting opponents to 79 yards per contest.
Linebacker Carson Foxen leads Wabash with 51 tackles, while William Harris has added 46 stops and a team-high 7.5 tackles for loss. Dakota Johnson leads the Little Giants with five sacks, followed by Harris with 4.5 and Camden Singer with four. Gage Gulley has intercepted two passes, both coming against Washington University in St. Louis on Oct. 24.
Kenyon arrives in Crawfordsville following its highest-scoring performance of the season. The Owls forced three turnovers and limited Oberlin to 169 total yards in last Saturday’s 59-7 victory. Kenyon also owns road wins over Kalamazoo, 40-10, and Wittenberg, 17-13.
Sophomore quarterback Drew Morgan directs a Kenyon offense averaging 19.9 points and 221.4 yards per game. Morgan has completed 98 of 216 passes for 1,166 yards and 13 touchdowns with 12 interceptions. He threw four touchdown passes without an interception against Oberlin, completing 12 of 14 attempts for 100 yards.
Freshman wide receiver Max Heis leads the Owls with 29 receptions for 433 yards and seven touchdowns. He caught three scoring passes against Oberlin last Saturday. Junior Tyler Gladden has added 23 receptions for 264 yards and two touchdowns.
Kenyon’s defense allows 28.6 points and 304.9 yards per game but has produced 18 takeaways and 22 sacks. Senior defensive end Michael Kerr leads the Owls with 10 tackles for loss, including four sacks, along with three forced fumbles and three fumble recoveries. Senior Matthew Ehrenreich has a team-best five sacks.
Sophomore defensive back Andrew Pohlman leads Kenyon with 45 tackles and three interceptions, while senior linebacker Sam Finnerty has recorded 44 tackles.
Wabash owns a 20-1 advantage in the all-time series against Kenyon and has won 20 consecutive meetings since a 7-0 loss in the programs’ first game on Nov. 7, 1942. The Little Giants are 10-0 against the Owls in Crawfordsville and 15-0 in NCAC competition.
Wabash defeated Kenyon 46-12 last season in Gambier, Ohio. The Little Giants scored 23 first-quarter points and built a 25-6 halftime lead. Campbell threw a 34-yard touchdown pass to Adams on Wabash’s first offensive play and added two rushing touchdowns. Tanner Crouch blocked a third-quarter punt that Samuel Poriah returned 22 yards for a touchdown. Wabash limited Kenyon to 173 total yards while recording five sacks and two safeties.
The Little Giants won the last meeting at Little Giant Stadium by a 38-0 score in 2024.
Wabash concludes its regular season Nov. 14, against DePauw University in the 132nd Monon Bell Classic. The rivalry game will be played at Scheumann Stadium on the Ball State University campus in Muncie, Indiana, with kickoff scheduled for 1:07 p.m.
