ORANGE CITY, Iowa – Northwestern College and the National Football Foundation (NFF) & College Football Hall of Fame will jointly honor 2025 College Football Hall of Fame inductee Coach Larry “Bubb” Korver with an NFF Hall of Fame On-Campus Salute, presented by Fidelity Investments®. The Salute will take place on Saturday, August 30 as part of Northwestern’s season opener against Waldorf.
Tickets for the game are available now at nwcraiders.com/tickets. The game and halftime ceremony will be streamed live on the GPAC Network.
Korver will be honored at halftime of the game, which kicks off at 6:00 p.m. Football alumni and supporters of Northwestern are invited to attend a reception from 1–4 p.m. at Prairie Winds Event Center, with a brief program scheduled for 2:00 p.m. Snacks, soft drinks and a cash bar will be available. This is a come-and-go event, but please RSVP to alumni@nwciowa.edu.
“Larry “Bubb” Korver transformed a young and struggling Northwestern College program into a national powerhouse during his 28-year tenure, leading the Red Raiders to two NAIA National Championships and multiple-postseason runs,” said NFF President & CEO Steve Hatchell. “We are thrilled to honor him at Korver Field at De Valois Stadium as a member of the 2025 NFF College Football Hall of Fame Class.”
During the NFF Hall of Fame On-Campus Salutes, each member of the College Football Hall of Fame Class will return to his respective school to accept a Hall of Fame plaque that will stay on permanent display at the institution.
NFF On-Campus Salutes began with the inaugural College Football Hall of Fame Class in 1951.
Northwestern’s first representative in the College Football Hall of Fame, Korver led the Raiders to two national titles (1973, 1983), compiled a record of 212-77-6, and earned a postseason berth 11 times. His teams were runners-up in 1972, 1979, and 1984 and reached the semifinals three additional times. Korver received NAIA Coach of the Year honors in 1973 and 1985 and is currently 11th on the NAIA’s all-time coaching wins list.
While at Northwestern, Korver developed and prepared student-athletes to not only become great players but also encouraged them to make an impact as husbands, fathers and leaders. He coached 32 NAIA All-Americans, won a conference title in 1994 and was inducted into the NAIA Hall of Fame in 1990.
Prior to his coaching career, Korver graduated from Northwestern in 1954 when it was still a junior college and continued his academic and athletic career at South Dakota State University where he received his bachelor’s degree. With the Jackrabbits, he earned First Team All-Conference honors in football and was team MVP in both football and basketball.
THE 2025 CFB HALL OF FAME CLASS INDUCTION
The 2025 class includes Montee Ball (Wisconsin), Gregg Carr (Auburn), Blake Elliott (Saint John’s [MN]), Greg Eslinger (Minnesota), Terry Hanratty (Notre Dame), Graham Harrell (Texas Tech), John Henderson (Tennessee), Michael Huff (Texas), Jim Kleinsasser (North Dakota), Alex Mack (California), Terrence Metcalf (Mississippi), Haloti Ngata (Oregon), Steve Slaton (West Virginia), Darrin Smith (Miami, FL), Michael Strahan (Texas Southern), Dennis Thurman (Southern California), Michael Vick (Virginia Tech), Ryan Yarborough (Wyoming), and coaches Larry Blakeney (Troy), Larry Korver (Northwestern College [IA]), Urban Meyer (Bowling Green, Utah, Florida, Ohio State), Nick Saban (Toledo, Michigan State, LSU, Alabama).
The 2025 College Football Hall of Fame Class will officially be inducted during the 67th NFF Annual Awards Dinner Presented by Las Vegas on December 9, 2025, at Bellagio Hotel & Casino. Please click here to purchase tickets.
Including the 2025 Hall of Fame Class, only 1,111 players and 237 coaches have been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame from the nearly 5.86 million who have played or coached the game during the past 157 years. In other words, less than two one-hundredths of a percent (0.02%) of the individuals who have played/coached the game have earned this distinction.
Fidelity Investments has served as the national presenting sponsor of the NFF Hall of Fame On-Campus Salutes since 2010. The salutes are one component of a multi-year initiative between the two organizations to celebrate the scholar-athlete ideal and a joint commitment to higher education. Fidelity is also the presenting sponsor of the NFF National Scholar-Athlete Awards, and it helped launch the NFF Faculty Salutes in 2011, which recognize the contributions of the faculty athletics representatives around the country.
