Craig Fobbe
  • Title:
    Student-Athlete
  • Previous College Sports Played:
    Football
  • Graduating Class:
    2006
  • Induction Class:
    2015
Bio

Craig Fobbe, a 2006 Morningside graduate, was a four-year starter at quarterback for Morningside's football team from 2002-05. He graduated as the most prolific passer in Morningside history with school-record career totals of 851 completions in 1,504 attempts for 11,623 yards and 89 touchdowns. Fobbe is also Morningside's career record holder with 11,693 yards total offense. Fobbe owned three of the top four single-season passing yardage totals in Morningside history at the time of his graduation.

He was a two-time first-team All-Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) selection, the GPAC Co-Player of the Year as a junior in 2004, and the GPAC Player of the Year as a senior in 2005. Fobbe was a NAIA honorable mention All-American as a junior and a second-team All-American as a senior.

Fobbe helped lead the Mustangs to an 8-3 record in 2004 and their first-ever post-season appearance in the NAIA Championship Series. His best season came in his 2005 senior campaign when the Mustangs posted a 12-1 record to set a school record for victories, won their first-ever GPAC championship, and advanced to the NAIA Semifinals. Morningside won the GPAC with a perfect 10-0 record, including a 27-26 victory against the University of Sioux Falls to snap the Cougars' 40-game GPAC winning streak. 

Fobbe passed for a NAIA national record 4,885 yards as a senior and led the NAIA with averages of 375.8 yards passing and 375.0 yards total offense per game. Fobbe also set school records with 41 touchdown passes, a 61.6 percent completion rate, and 4,875 yards total offense. He passed for 453 yards and a school-record six touchdowns in a 58-7 win against St. Ambrose University in the opening round of the NAIA Championship Series and threw for a school-record 501 yards and set school records with 31 completions and 510 yards total offense in a 54-21 victory against Evangel University in the NAIA Quarterfinals.