Meet the Football Coach Who Knows Her Hail Marys

The tiny College of St. Scholastica plays Saturday in the first round of the NCAA Division III football playoffs. The upstart from Duluth, Minn., has only fielded a football team for eight years. But it has a secret weapon: a coach who might just be able to bring some divine intervention.

At 5:10 p.m., the bell tower on the St. Scholastica campus calls 70 Benedictine nuns to prayer — all except Sister Lisa Maurer. She's busy at football practice.

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