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This play comes with a little helmet-to-ball contact

Sep 26, 2016

Yes, we agree, this has to be the play of the week. Cortland's pass tips off the hands of the Red Dragons receiver, off the head of Utica defender Matthew McCoy, into the arms of Dehstin Smart for an interception. Utica had more than enough magic to pull off the 24-13 upset of Cortland. It's the D3football.com Play of the Week.

We solicit video of top plays from every Division III football program and this was our top clip.

Week 4 Play of the Week finalists

Here are some great plays which deserved extra mention:


Fan vote winner: Spencer Wiersberg kicks a career-long 43-yard field goal on the final play of the game to lift McDaniel past Ursinus 30-27, snapping the Green Terror's 22-game losing streak. 
 

Freshman Kahlil Caracter came up big on Homecoming at Geneva, as he hurdled a defender and dove for the end zone to give Geneva a 21-7 lead in front of a crowd of 6,000. Geneva went on to win, 35-27.

St. Thomas gets pressure on the St. John's quarterback and defensive lineman Anthony King-Foreman gets a nice bounce and is off to the races, helping St. Thomas win 33-21 in front of an announced crowd of 16,514.


Jeremy Stephan's 64-yard TD run in Macalester's 34-0 victory over Grinnell comes with a pretty apt description on the broadcast, so we'll let them talk you through it.

You can see more nominated plays on our Week 4 highlights playlist below, and even more top plays on the D3sports.com YouTube channel.

Week 4 Play of the Week nominees

Use the forward and back buttons to scroll through the list below.

Sep. 3: All times Eastern
5:00 PM
Merchant Marine at Montclair State
6:00 PM
Millikin at Olivet
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6:00 PM
Wilkes at King's
7:00 PM
Bluffton at Ohio Wesleyan
7:00 PM
Wilmington at Wooster
7:00 PM
Westminster (Pa.) at Marietta
7:00 PM
Buffalo State at Brockport
7:00 PM
Gettysburg at Juniata
7:00 PM
Southern Virginia at UW-River Falls
7:30 PM
Chicago at Trine
8:00 PM
Belhaven at Millsaps
8:00 PM
Rockford at Beloit
Sep. 4: All times Eastern
6:00 PM
Randolph-Macon at Dickinson
6:00 PM
Mary Hardin-Baylor at Rowan
6:00 PM
Gallaudet at Albright
6:00 PM
Shenandoah at Methodist
6:30 PM
Alvernia at Keystone
7:00 PM
St. Lawrence at Norwich
7:00 PM
Lebanon Valley at Franklin and Marshall
7:00 PM
Case Western Reserve at Rochester
7:00 PM
Alfred at Hobart
7:00 PM
Bridgewater at Stevenson
7:00 PM
MIT at Nichols
7:00 PM
Hartwick at Misericordia
7:00 PM
Western New England at Springfield
7:00 PM
Delaware Valley at Ursinus
7:00 PM
Salve Regina at Mass-Dartmouth
7:30 PM
Catholic at McDaniel
Live stats
8:00 PM
Lakeland at Carthage
10:00 PM
Howard Payne at Pacific
Sep. 5: All times Eastern
TBA
Maine Maritime at Massachusetts Maritime
Live stats
TBA
Allegheny at Anderson
12:00 PM
New England College at Plymouth State
12:00 PM
Fitchburg State at Dean
Live stats
12:00 PM
University of New England at Coast Guard
12:00 PM
Muhlenberg at Moravian
Live stats
12:00 PM
Curry at Bridgewater State
12:00 PM
Maryville (Tenn.) at Heidelberg
12:00 PM
Eastern at Endicott
Video Live stats
12:00 PM
Hampden-Sydney at Wabash
Video Live stats
12:00 PM
Washington and Jefferson at Utica
12:00 PM
Ithaca at Johns Hopkins
12:00 PM
Illinois Wesleyan at Albion
12:00 PM
Cortland at Grove City
12:00 PM
WPI at RPI
1:00 PM
Lycoming at TCNJ
1:00 PM
Capital at Waynesburg
1:00 PM
Hilbert at St. Vincent
1:00 PM
Wittenberg at Washington and Lee
1:00 PM
Ohio Northern at Adrian
1:00 PM
Hope at Denison
1:00 PM
Western Connecticut at William Paterson
1:00 PM
Susquehanna at Union
1:00 PM
Morrisville State at Kean
1:00 PM
Calvin at Otterbein
1:00 PM
Kenyon at Kalamazoo
1:00 PM
Westminster (Mo.) at Manchester
1:00 PM
Framingham State at Husson
1:00 PM
Worcester State at SUNY-Maritime
Live stats
1:00 PM
Westfield State at Vermont State Castleton
1:00 PM
Chapman at Hardin-Simmons
1:00 PM
Alma at UW-Eau Claire
1:00 PM
Bethel at North Central (Ill.)
2:00 PM
Centre at Hanover
2:00 PM
Roanoke at Virginia-Lynchburg
2:00 PM
FDU-Florham at St. John Fisher
2:00 PM
John Carroll at Carnegie Mellon
Live stats
2:00 PM
Hiram at Oberlin
2:00 PM
Linfield at UW-Oshkosh
2:00 PM
Augsburg at UW-Stevens Point
2:00 PM
Carleton at UW-Whitewater
2:00 PM
Mount Mercy at Grinnell
2:00 PM
Concordia-Moorhead at Nebraska Wesleyan
Video Live stats
2:00 PM
Lawrence at Luther
2:00 PM
Mount Union at Wheaton (Ill.)
2:00 PM
Carroll at St. Norbert
2:00 PM
Macalester at Martin Luther
2:00 PM
Cornell at Coe
2:00 PM
Knox at Eureka
2:00 PM
Greenville at Lake Forest
2:00 PM
UW-La Crosse at St. John's
2:00 PM
Illinois College at Elmhurst
2:00 PM
Aurora at UW-Platteville
2:00 PM
Benedictine at Buena Vista
2:00 PM
Concordia-Chicago at Minnesota-Morris
2:00 PM
Hamline at Crown
2:00 PM
Central at Gustavus Adolphus
2:00 PM
Bethany at Sewanee
2:00 PM
Concordia (Wis.) at Ripon
2:00 PM
Wisconsin Lutheran at St. Scholastica
3:00 PM
Widener at Geneva
4:00 PM
Thiel at Alfred State
4:00 PM
Northwestern (Minn.) at Claremont-Mudd-Scripps
4:00 PM
Cal Lutheran at Pacific Lutheran
4:00 PM
Lewis and Clark at Puget Sound
4:00 PM
Willamette at Pomona-Pitzer
5:00 PM
East Texas Baptist at Lyon
6:00 PM
N.C. Wesleyan at Averett
6:00 PM
North Park at Franklin
6:00 PM
Guilford at Greensboro
6:00 PM
St. Olaf at Loras
7:00 PM
DePauw at Rose-Hulman
7:00 PM
Muskingum at Mount St. Joseph
7:00 PM
Apprentice at Christopher Newport
7:00 PM
Berry at Huntingdon
7:00 PM
Austin at Schreiner
7:00 PM
Simpson at Augustana
7:00 PM
McMurry at Southwestern
7:00 PM
UW-Stout at Dubuque
7:30 PM
Point at LaGrange
8:00 PM
Texas Lutheran at Trinity (Texas)
8:00 PM
Washington U. at Rhodes
8:00 PM
Wartburg at Monmouth
8:00 PM
Azusa Pacific at La Verne
8:00 PM
Simpson (Calif.) at Whittier
10:05 PM
Redlands at George Fox
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