Gettysburg at Ursinus Game Notes
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Gettysburg at Ursinus – Saturday, Oct. 22, 2005 – 1 p.m.
THIS WEEK’S GAME: Saturday’s Centennial Conference (CC) game marks the 49th meeting between Gettysburg (2-4, 1-1 CC) and Ursinus (2-4, 0-2 CC) in a series that dates back to 1903. The Bullets hold a 28-16-4 lead in the all-time series and have won their last three match-ups with the Bears. In last year’s game, Joe Gossweiler ran for one touchdown and threw for another as Gettysburg posted its first shutout in 16 years with a 14-0 decision over Ursinus on Oct. 23, 2004 at Shirk Field at Musselman Stadium. The Bears’ last win in the series was by a 31-7 margin in Collegeville during the 2001 season.
LAST TIME OUT: Johns Hopkins wide receiver Anthony Triplin scored on an 80-yard touchdown reception and the 18th-ranked Blue Jays returned a blocked punt for another score to defeat Gettysburg 14-0 on Oct. 14 in Baltimore. Junior LB Harold Barton (Somerdale, NJ/Sterling) paced the Bullet defense with eight tackles and two sacks. In Collegeville, Ursinus was victimized by a 74-yard touchdown pass off a fake punt with 3:54 remaining, falling to Muhlenberg 21-14 last Saturday. Sophomore RB Frank Hales accounted for 142 yards from scrimmage (82 rushing, 60 receiving) and ran for two touchdowns while senior QB Vince Gallagher completed 22 of 40 passes for 213 yards in the loss.
AMONG THE OUTSTANDING: Senior TE Chris Halleman (Center Valley, PA/Southern Lehigh) and Harold Barton were named to the CC Outstanding Performers List for their efforts against Johns Hopkins last Friday. Hallaman set single-game career highs with four receptions for 91 yards against the Blue Jays while Barton recorded eight tackles, including four solo stops and two sacks.
MANY HAPPY RETURNS: Heading into this weekend’s action, senior DB Nathan Smith (Hanover, PA/Cooperstown Central [NY]) ranked second in Division III with an average of 34.9 yards per kickoff return, one-tenth of a yard behind national leader Marcus Washington of Bridgewater (Va.). Smith has three touchdowns among his 16 returns this season, matching the CC’s single-season record set by Muhlenberg’s Joshua Carter in 1999. Smith broke a tie with Carter for the CC’s career record for kickoff-return TDs (5) and needs one more to tie Division III records for a season (4) and career (6).
RUNNING WILD: Sophomore TB Tom Sturges (Ridgefield, CT/Ridgefield) battled his way to a game-high 82 yards against the Johns Hopkins defense. Sturges has carried 163 times for 781 yards this season and continues to lead the CC with 130.2 rushing yards per game. With four games remaining on the schedule, Sturges’ rushing total is already the highest by a Bullet since Paul Smith ran for a program-record 1,546 yards in 1999.
GETTING DEFENSIVE: After allowing more than 43 points per game against four non-conference opponents, Gettysburg has turned the tables in conference play, yielding only 31 points against nationally ranked foes McDaniel and Johns Hopkins in the past two weeks. Harold Barton leads the Bullet defense with 67 total tackles and ranks third in the CC and tied for 32nd in Division III with 11.2 tackles per game. Barton’s 7.5 solo tackles per game is tied for sixth in Division III. Nathan Smith is tied for sixth in the conference with 8.5 tackles per game.
MAKING AN ENTRANCE: Freshman DT Anthony Pastore (Garden City, NY/Garden City) recorded his first collegiate sack while making his first collegiate start last Friday in Baltimore. Pastore dropped Johns Hopkins quarterback Zach DiIonno for a four-yard loss on the Blue Jays’ first series of the game and finished with six tackles.
TAKE IT AWAY: Senior DB Daniel Silva (Lanham, MD/Eleanor Roosevelt) is tied with Nathan Smith and senior DB Jay Cage (N. Charleston, SC/Sterling [NJ]) for the team lead with six passes defended. Silva has caused three turnovers this season, making two interceptions earlier in the year and ripping the ball away from a Blue Jay receiver last Friday night to record a forced fumble and recovery. He is tied for fourth on the squad with 40 total tackles.
AT THE CONTROLS: Sophomore QB Hunter McMillan (Middletown, DE/Wilmington Friends) has completed 82 of 159 passes for 932 yards and five touchdowns this season. McMillan needs 68 passing yards to become the seventh Bullet since 1979 to eclipse the 1,000-yard mark in a single season. He ranks second in the CC in both passing yards per game (155.3) and total yards per game (152.8).
HANDS TEAM: Junior HB Dusty Green (Idaville, PA/Bermudian Springs) ranks fifth in the CC with 3.50 receptions per game and ninth with 39.5 receiving yards per game. Sophomore HB Shawn Hollingsworth (Chester, PA/Wilmington Friends [DE]) is sixth with 3.33 catches per game and seventh with 40.5 receiving yards per game. Junior WR Spencer Davidson (Dumont, NJ/Dumont) ranks sixth with 41.2 receiving yards per game.
ALL PURPOSE BACKS: Tom Sturges and Nathan Smith rank 1-2 in the CC in all-purpose yards per game. Sturges has accounted for 140.3 all-purpose yards per game while Smith is next at 103.3.
BULLET POINTS: Gettysburg leads the CC in both rushing offense (160.0 yards per game) and total offense (337.8) while ranking second in scoring offense (22.5 points per game)… The Bullets are looking to snap a nine-game road losing streak this Saturday. Gettysburg’s last road victory came in its last trip to Collegeville, a 14-3 win over the Bears on Oct. 25, 2003.
THE WORD ON URSINUS: Ursinus enters Saturday’s game hoping to snap a 20-game losing streak in conference play. The Bears’ last victory against a CC foe was a 40-28 win at Dickinson on the final week of the 2001 season. Senior QB Vince Gallagher threw for 213 yards in Ursinus’ 21-14 loss to Muhlenberg last Saturday. Gallagher has completed 70 of 145 passes for 764 yards and four touchdowns this season and needs 67 passing yards to reach 4,000 for his collegiate career. Sophomore RB Frank Hales rushed for 82 yards and two touchdowns, and also caught five passes for 60 yards against the Mules, earning a spot on the CC Outstanding Performers List. Hales ranks second on the team with 242 rushing yards, trailing junior RB David Ashworth (251 on a team-high 75 carries). Junior WR Josh Hannum is tied for seventh in the CC with 3.00 receptions per game, but ranks fourth with 15.4 yards per catch. He paces the Bears with 18 receptions for 277 yards and three touchdowns. Senior DB Adam Schmidt blocked two kicks and recorded six tackles against Muhlenberg. He ranks second on the team with 41 total tackles and is second in the conference with 11.5 tackles for loss. Schmidt and freshman DB DeVohn Butler are tied for the team lead with 4.5 sacks apiece. Sophomore LB Brian Hrynczyszyn leads the way with 56 tackles and ranks fifth in the conference with 9.3 tackles per game. Hrynczyszyn’s older brother Chris was a four-year starter on the Gettysburg defensive line from 2000-03. Ursinus ranks fifth in the conference in total defense (316.7 yards allowed per game) and sixth in total offense (262.7 yards per game).
COACH’S CORNER: Barry Streeter is in his 27th season as the head coach at Gettysburg, the longest coaching tenure in program history. He has posted a 134-130-5 record while guiding the Bullets to three CC championships and a pair of NCAA playoff victories. He ranks first among active CC coaches in both conference victories (72) and overall wins (134). Peter Gallagher has posted a 16-36 record in his five years at Ursinus. In 2001, Gallagher guided the Bears to a 6-4 mark, the best record for an Ursinus rookie coach since 1931. Prior to arriving in Collegeville, he served as the defensive coordinator at the University of Rochester and also enjoyed successful coaching stints at Dartmouth, Wagner and Georgetown.
STREETER ON HIS DEFENSE VS. JOHNS HOPKINS: “I felt that we had a shot at winning that game up until there were three minutes left. And the biggest reason was because of the defense – they played well and kept us in the game. We came up with some turnovers, we had some big stops and they didn’t get a lot of big drives.”
STREETER ON THE KEYS TO WINNING AT URSINUS: “We have to continue to play passionate, physical football on both sides of the ball. We have to continue to play good, tough defense and we have to pick up our pace on offense again, stay on the field, get some drives going and get in the end zone.”
STREETER ON THE CONFERENCE PICTURE: “Last year five teams tied for the conference championship. I’m sure all five of those teams didn’t think they were going to win a championship after two games. It’s been a few years since a team has gone undefeated in the league, so there’s a lot of football left to play before there’s a champion.”
Gettysburg at Ursinus – Saturday, Oct. 22, 2005 – 1 p.m.
THIS WEEK’S GAME: Saturday’s Centennial Conference (CC) game marks the 49th meeting between Gettysburg (2-4, 1-1 CC) and Ursinus (2-4, 0-2 CC) in a series that dates back to 1903. The Bullets hold a 28-16-4 lead in the all-time series and have won their last three match-ups with the Bears. In last year’s game, Joe Gossweiler ran for one touchdown and threw for another as Gettysburg posted its first shutout in 16 years with a 14-0 decision over Ursinus on Oct. 23, 2004 at Shirk Field at Musselman Stadium. The Bears’ last win in the series was by a 31-7 margin in Collegeville during the 2001 season.
LAST TIME OUT: Johns Hopkins wide receiver Anthony Triplin scored on an 80-yard touchdown reception and the 18th-ranked Blue Jays returned a blocked punt for another score to defeat Gettysburg 14-0 on Oct. 14 in Baltimore. Junior LB Harold Barton (Somerdale, NJ/Sterling) paced the Bullet defense with eight tackles and two sacks. In Collegeville, Ursinus was victimized by a 74-yard touchdown pass off a fake punt with 3:54 remaining, falling to Muhlenberg 21-14 last Saturday. Sophomore RB Frank Hales accounted for 142 yards from scrimmage (82 rushing, 60 receiving) and ran for two touchdowns while senior QB Vince Gallagher completed 22 of 40 passes for 213 yards in the loss.
AMONG THE OUTSTANDING: Senior TE Chris Halleman (Center Valley, PA/Southern Lehigh) and Harold Barton were named to the CC Outstanding Performers List for their efforts against Johns Hopkins last Friday. Hallaman set single-game career highs with four receptions for 91 yards against the Blue Jays while Barton recorded eight tackles, including four solo stops and two sacks.
MANY HAPPY RETURNS: Heading into this weekend’s action, senior DB Nathan Smith (Hanover, PA/Cooperstown Central [NY]) ranked second in Division III with an average of 34.9 yards per kickoff return, one-tenth of a yard behind national leader Marcus Washington of Bridgewater (Va.). Smith has three touchdowns among his 16 returns this season, matching the CC’s single-season record set by Muhlenberg’s Joshua Carter in 1999. Smith broke a tie with Carter for the CC’s career record for kickoff-return TDs (5) and needs one more to tie Division III records for a season (4) and career (6).
RUNNING WILD: Sophomore TB Tom Sturges (Ridgefield, CT/Ridgefield) battled his way to a game-high 82 yards against the Johns Hopkins defense. Sturges has carried 163 times for 781 yards this season and continues to lead the CC with 130.2 rushing yards per game. With four games remaining on the schedule, Sturges’ rushing total is already the highest by a Bullet since Paul Smith ran for a program-record 1,546 yards in 1999.
GETTING DEFENSIVE: After allowing more than 43 points per game against four non-conference opponents, Gettysburg has turned the tables in conference play, yielding only 31 points against nationally ranked foes McDaniel and Johns Hopkins in the past two weeks. Harold Barton leads the Bullet defense with 67 total tackles and ranks third in the CC and tied for 32nd in Division III with 11.2 tackles per game. Barton’s 7.5 solo tackles per game is tied for sixth in Division III. Nathan Smith is tied for sixth in the conference with 8.5 tackles per game.
MAKING AN ENTRANCE: Freshman DT Anthony Pastore (Garden City, NY/Garden City) recorded his first collegiate sack while making his first collegiate start last Friday in Baltimore. Pastore dropped Johns Hopkins quarterback Zach DiIonno for a four-yard loss on the Blue Jays’ first series of the game and finished with six tackles.
TAKE IT AWAY: Senior DB Daniel Silva (Lanham, MD/Eleanor Roosevelt) is tied with Nathan Smith and senior DB Jay Cage (N. Charleston, SC/Sterling [NJ]) for the team lead with six passes defended. Silva has caused three turnovers this season, making two interceptions earlier in the year and ripping the ball away from a Blue Jay receiver last Friday night to record a forced fumble and recovery. He is tied for fourth on the squad with 40 total tackles.
AT THE CONTROLS: Sophomore QB Hunter McMillan (Middletown, DE/Wilmington Friends) has completed 82 of 159 passes for 932 yards and five touchdowns this season. McMillan needs 68 passing yards to become the seventh Bullet since 1979 to eclipse the 1,000-yard mark in a single season. He ranks second in the CC in both passing yards per game (155.3) and total yards per game (152.8).
HANDS TEAM: Junior HB Dusty Green (Idaville, PA/Bermudian Springs) ranks fifth in the CC with 3.50 receptions per game and ninth with 39.5 receiving yards per game. Sophomore HB Shawn Hollingsworth (Chester, PA/Wilmington Friends [DE]) is sixth with 3.33 catches per game and seventh with 40.5 receiving yards per game. Junior WR Spencer Davidson (Dumont, NJ/Dumont) ranks sixth with 41.2 receiving yards per game.
ALL PURPOSE BACKS: Tom Sturges and Nathan Smith rank 1-2 in the CC in all-purpose yards per game. Sturges has accounted for 140.3 all-purpose yards per game while Smith is next at 103.3.
BULLET POINTS: Gettysburg leads the CC in both rushing offense (160.0 yards per game) and total offense (337.8) while ranking second in scoring offense (22.5 points per game)… The Bullets are looking to snap a nine-game road losing streak this Saturday. Gettysburg’s last road victory came in its last trip to Collegeville, a 14-3 win over the Bears on Oct. 25, 2003.
THE WORD ON URSINUS: Ursinus enters Saturday’s game hoping to snap a 20-game losing streak in conference play. The Bears’ last victory against a CC foe was a 40-28 win at Dickinson on the final week of the 2001 season. Senior QB Vince Gallagher threw for 213 yards in Ursinus’ 21-14 loss to Muhlenberg last Saturday. Gallagher has completed 70 of 145 passes for 764 yards and four touchdowns this season and needs 67 passing yards to reach 4,000 for his collegiate career. Sophomore RB Frank Hales rushed for 82 yards and two touchdowns, and also caught five passes for 60 yards against the Mules, earning a spot on the CC Outstanding Performers List. Hales ranks second on the team with 242 rushing yards, trailing junior RB David Ashworth (251 on a team-high 75 carries). Junior WR Josh Hannum is tied for seventh in the CC with 3.00 receptions per game, but ranks fourth with 15.4 yards per catch. He paces the Bears with 18 receptions for 277 yards and three touchdowns. Senior DB Adam Schmidt blocked two kicks and recorded six tackles against Muhlenberg. He ranks second on the team with 41 total tackles and is second in the conference with 11.5 tackles for loss. Schmidt and freshman DB DeVohn Butler are tied for the team lead with 4.5 sacks apiece. Sophomore LB Brian Hrynczyszyn leads the way with 56 tackles and ranks fifth in the conference with 9.3 tackles per game. Hrynczyszyn’s older brother Chris was a four-year starter on the Gettysburg defensive line from 2000-03. Ursinus ranks fifth in the conference in total defense (316.7 yards allowed per game) and sixth in total offense (262.7 yards per game).
COACH’S CORNER: Barry Streeter is in his 27th season as the head coach at Gettysburg, the longest coaching tenure in program history. He has posted a 134-130-5 record while guiding the Bullets to three CC championships and a pair of NCAA playoff victories. He ranks first among active CC coaches in both conference victories (72) and overall wins (134). Peter Gallagher has posted a 16-36 record in his five years at Ursinus. In 2001, Gallagher guided the Bears to a 6-4 mark, the best record for an Ursinus rookie coach since 1931. Prior to arriving in Collegeville, he served as the defensive coordinator at the University of Rochester and also enjoyed successful coaching stints at Dartmouth, Wagner and Georgetown.
STREETER ON HIS DEFENSE VS. JOHNS HOPKINS: “I felt that we had a shot at winning that game up until there were three minutes left. And the biggest reason was because of the defense – they played well and kept us in the game. We came up with some turnovers, we had some big stops and they didn’t get a lot of big drives.”
STREETER ON THE KEYS TO WINNING AT URSINUS: “We have to continue to play passionate, physical football on both sides of the ball. We have to continue to play good, tough defense and we have to pick up our pace on offense again, stay on the field, get some drives going and get in the end zone.”
STREETER ON THE CONFERENCE PICTURE: “Last year five teams tied for the conference championship. I’m sure all five of those teams didn’t think they were going to win a championship after two games. It’s been a few years since a team has gone undefeated in the league, so there’s a lot of football left to play before there’s a champion.”
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