MIAC FOOTBALL PLAYERS OF THE WEEK

MINNEAPOLIS – Augsburg College running back Tyler Maxwell (FY, Prior Lake, Minn.) was named Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Football Offensive Player of the Week, it was announced on Monday.

In his first collegiate football game (he missed the Auggies' season-opener on Sept. 3 due to injury), Maxwell tied three school records with a four-touchdown effort, rushing 22 times for 173 yards in Augsburg's 28-20 win over Hamline on Saturday. The Auggies rallied from a 14-7, first-quarter deficit with 21 unanswered points to claim the win.

His four touchdowns tied a single-game school record for both rushing touchdowns, tying a four-TD effort by Marcus LeVesseur in 2004 game against Carleton. The four-touchdown effort also ties the school record for both overall single-game touchdowns (tying five others) and points in a game (24, tying five others).

The 173-yard rushing effort is the most rushing yards in a single game for an Auggie since Nov. 12, 2004, when LeVesseur rushed for 181 yards on a school-record 41 carries in a 45-42 Augsburg win over St. Olaf in overtime at the Metrodome.

He scored all four Augsburg touchdowns in the game, with a 32-yard score in the first quarter, a two-yarder in the second quarter, a 41-yarder in the third quarter and a 25-yarder in the fourth quarter.

The win enabled Augsburg to keep "The Hammer," the traveling trophy between Augsburg and Hamline, for the second straight year. Since it was established in 2005, Augsburg has won six of the seven battles for the trophy. Augsburg has won eight of the last nine and 14 of the last 16 all-time meetings against Hamline.

Now 2-0 on the season, Augsburg travels to face St. John's this Saturday (9/24) at 1 p.m. in Collegeville, Minn.