Waukon football team rides season-high aerial assault to 46-16 District 4 win at Oelwein

The Waukon football team traveled to Oelwein Friday, September 28 to play what many may consider a “trap” game, with the traditionally-troubled Husky program having won just two games in its previous six seasons combined and in search of its first Class 2A District 4 victory after coming off a 54-0 district-opening loss to a single-loss Waterloo Columbus team the previous week, with the Indians staring at that same Columbus team next on their schedule. This season’s Huskies, however, have already equaled the win total of their last six seasons and battled the football Tribe to an even first quarter before the Indians found their bearings and rattled off 38 unanswered points on the way to a 46-16 Waukon victory.

“All week we had told the kids Oelwein had some really good individual players, and they have improved as a team,” Waukon football coach Chad Beermann said. “Their initial success was with one of the hardest passes to complete on a high percentage, the fade route, a ball thrown deep and outside. If you can complete that throw, you can get big chunks of yardage, but it is hard to do consistently. We held them to 21 yards rushing, and we have to live with some of those deep passes, understanding those are tough yards to count on.”

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