Nathaniel Thornton

The Monmouth College football team scored 55 unanswered to stay unbeaten in conference play and knock off Beloit College 55-3 on Saturday. The Fighting Scots (5-1, 5-0) had touchdowns from seven different players in the home win. "We did what we need...

The Monmouth College football team scored the final 17 points and overturned a 14-point deficit to win at Cornell 38-28 on Saturday. The Fighting Scots (5-1, 5-0) got five touchdown passes from quarterback Brayden Deem (Andalusia, Illinois) who has thr...

The Monmouth College football team beat Grinnell College for a 10th straight time on Saturday, prevailing 49-7 in Iowa as Nate Thornton (Peoria, Illinois) tied the school record with four receiving touchdowns. The Fighting Scots (4-1, 4-0) built a 35-7...

The Monmouth College football team had multiple historic events on the field Saturday in a 52-6 lightning-delayed Midwest Conference win over Lawrence University. The Fighting Scots (2-1, 2-0) had their first ever point scored by a female when Mylee Ha...

The Monmouth College football team scored 31 unanswered points from the middle of the first quarter to the middle of the fourth quarter in a 34-21 road win over Chicago. The Scots (1-1, 1-0) scored four rushing touchdowns on the day to win the MWC open...

The Monmouth College football team began their season with a 38-24 home loss to No. 4 Wartburg on Saturday night under the lights at April Zorn Memorial Stadium. The Scots (0-1) racked up nearly 400 total yards against last year's national semifinalist...

The Monmouth College football team didn't score until the third quarter but they rallied past St. Norbert 21-14 to win their second straight Lakefront Bowl on Saturday. The Scots (9-2) scored the go-ahead touchdown with 34 seconds to play for their sev...

The Monmouth College football team put 11 players on the Midwest Conference First Team and five more on the Second Team as announced by the MWC on Tuesday. Senior center Derek Brown (Pekin, Illinois) was named Offensive Live MVP for the second straight...

The Monmouth College football team held on to win with a wild ending on Saturday as Tevin Baker (Kewanee, Illinois) blocked a field goal attempt in the final 30 seconds for a 16-14 win over Lake Forest. The Scots (7-2, 7-1) can clinch a share of the Mi...

The Monmouth College football team held Ripon College to less than 60 total yards and cruised to a 45-3 road win on Saturday. The Scots (5-2, 5-1) scored the final 38 points of the game and held the Red Hawks to three yards rushing for the contest. R...

The Monmouth College football team rolled up 574 yards and knocked off Cornell 43-6 on Saturday. The Scots (4-2, 4-1) scored 34 unanswered and shut out the Rams in the second half. Monmouth stopped Cornell on 4th and short on the 33 to gain possessio...

Monmouth College freshman football player Da'Von Patterson (Ponte Vedra, Florida) was named Midwest Conference Special Teams Performer of the Week on Monday.. Patterson touched the ball one time on Saturday and returned a kickoff 74 yards for a touchd...

The Monmouth College football team racked up 660 total yards and 70 points on Saturday in a 70-13 road win over Lawrence University. The Scots (2-1, 2-0) had touchdowns from eight different players, including four first-time scorers in the win. The f...

The Monmouth College football team dominated the second half en route to a 39-6 win over the University of Chicago in the Midwest Conference opener on Saturday. The Scots (1-1) led 18-6 at half and scored the final 21 points of the game while racking u...

Monmouth College junior Savannah Robinson (Delavan, Illinois) and senior Nate Thornton (Peoria, Illinois) both claimed Midwest Conference honors this week. Robinson named the Midwest Conference Volleyball Defensive Performer of the Week on Wednesday an...

The Monmouth College football team got within one possession in the fourth quarter but ultimately lost at No. 5 Wartburg 62-35 in the season opener on Saturday night. The Scots had career performances on offense from a number of players and totaled 499...

Playing in the first-ever Cousins Subs Lakefront Bowl, the Monmouth College football team took control of the game early and knocked off Concordia Wisconsin 45-20 on Saturday at Raabe Field. Devin Lawrence (Hawthorne, Florida) scored three touchdowns a...

The Monmouth College football team put 10 players on the Midwest Conference First Team and six on the Second Team as announced by the MWC on Tuesday. Senior center Derek Brown (Pekin, Illinois) was named Offensive Live MVP and senior Korbyn Personett (...

The Monmouth College football team kept their conference championship hopes alive with a 39-31 win over previously unbeaten Ripon College on Saturday. The senior day win forces a three-way tie in conference play with Monmouth, Lake Forest and Ripon all...

The Monmouth College football team suffered their first Midwest Conference loss of the season on Saturday with a 31-14 loss at Lake Forest. The Scots (6-2, 6-1) led 14-9 at half but ultimately lost to the Foresters (7-1, 6-1) for the second year in a r...

The Monmouth College Football team remained undefeated in Midwest Conference play with a 56-12 win at Cornell College on Saturday. The Scots are 6-1 overall, 6-0 in MWC and will travel to face defending champions Lake Forest next weekend. After forci...

The Monmouth College football team stayed undefeated in conference play with an empathic 64-0 home win over Beloit College on Saturday. The Scots (5-1, 5-0) scored 21 points in each of the first two quarters and quarterback Carter Boyer (Carthage, Illi...

The Monmouth College football team throttled Lawrence University 62-6 on Saturday as part of Homecoming Weekend at April Zorn Stadium. The Scots are now 3-1 on the season, 3-0 in Midwest Conference play. The Scots got the ball to start the game and sc...

The Monmouth College football team returned home with a 51-20 Family Weekend win over Illinois College on Saturday. The Scots are now 2-1 overall and 2-0 in Midwest Conference play heading into the bye week. The Blueboys scored on the first play from...

The Monmouth College football team cruised to a 48-0 win on Saturday in the Midwest Conference opener at Grinnell. With the win the Scots are 1-1 overall and they will host Illinois College at 1 p.m. next Saturday. The day got off to a rough start wi...

The first Monmouth College night football game at April Zorn Stadium ended at nearly 1 a.m. after a more than three-hour weather delay. Scheduled for a 7 p.m. kickoff on Saturday against Wartburg, lightning right before kickoff sent the game into a del...

The Monmouth College football team used a dominating second half to knock off the Ripon Red Hawks 31-21 on Saturday. Trailing 14-7 in the second quarter, the Scots scored 24 unanswered points, before giving up a late score, to move to 7-2 on the season...

The Monmouth College football team suffered their first regular season loss to a Midwest Conference opponent since 2014 with a 24-10 home loss to Lake Forest on Saturday. The loss drops the Scots to 6-2 overall and 6-1 in conference play while the Fore...

Nathaniel Thornton of Peoria, is a member of the Monmouth College Fighting Scots football team. The Scots will look to extend their four-game winning streak against Cornell College for Homecoming o...

Nathaniel Thornton of Peoria has made the Dean's List at Monmouth College for the spring semester. To qualify for the Dean's List, students must take at least three academic credits and have a GPA ...