A quartet of Northwest Missouri State football players earned spots on the 2019 Don Hansen Football Committee All-America teams announced Monday.
Senior Spencer Phillips (Tabor, Iowa) earned second-team all-America honors. Juniors Blake Bayer (Albia, Iowa, Tanner Owen (Kearney, Missouri) and Parker Sampson (Kansas City, Missouri) each tallied honorable mention status.
The Don Hansen team carries out the legacy of long-time small college football advocate Don Hansen, who passed away at age 75 on Aug. 29, 2010. Hansen, from Brookfield, Illinois, started and published Don Hansen's National Weekly Football Gazette for three decades, selecting NCAA Division II All-America teams for the first time in 1988, Don Hansen's Football Gazette began selecting Division II All-Region squads in 2003.
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