Bullets Strike Early to Claim Little Brown Bucket
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Bullets Strike Early to Claim Little Brown Bucket
November 5, 2005
(Carlisle, PA)-- For the first time in 12 seasons the Gettysburg College football team will possess the Little Brown Bucket Trophy– presented to the annual game’s winning team since 1938. The Bullets also kept alive their shot at the program’s first CC title in 20 years.
Gettysburg (4-5, 3-2 CC) needs a victory at Franklin & Marshall next Saturday and a Johns Hopkins loss to McDaniel to tie the Blue Jays atop the final CC standings.
Tom Sturges ran for 140 yards and one touchdown, topping the 100-yard mark for the fifth time this season and became the first Bullet since 1999 to rush for 1,000 yards in a single campaign. Jesse Jeffers scored Gettysburg’s other touchdown on an 18-yard run and Josh Huson booted a 31-yard field goal to help the hosts build a 17-0 halftime lead.
Dickinson’s Matt Torchia (Kinnelon, NJ/Kinnelon) completed 18-of-33 passes for 255 yards and a 47-yard scoring strike to Arwin Gbolie (West Palm Beach, FL/Williston Northampton), who finished with a team-high five catches for 110 yards. Leading rusher Dwight Phyall (Westbury, NY/Friends Academy) ran for 36 of the Red Devils’ 62 yards on the ground.
Gettysburg went ahead to stay on its first possession, driving 42 yards on 11 plays before Huson knocked home a 31-yard field goal from the left hash to make it 3-0 with only 6 minutes, 19 seconds gone in the game. After Dickinson went three-and-out on its next possession, the Bullets struck again.
Starting quarterback Hunter McMillan was sacked for an eight-yard loss to start the series, but Jerry Jones ripped off a 10-yard run and Matthew Welsh made a sliding 11-yard catch to dig out of the second-and-18 hole.
Gettysburg set up for another field goal after the drive stalled at the Red Devil 18, but holder Mark Campo executed the fake by flipping a pass to Joe Fricchione for a first down at the 9. On the next play, Sturges scampered for his sixth touchdown of the year for a 10-0 lead. The Bullets made it 17-0 with a five-play, 59-yard drive early in the second quarter. Under center in place of McMillan, Campo found Spencer Davidson for 11 yards to the Red Devil 47. Jeffers then ripped off a 12-yard run, Sturges carried for 17 more and Jeffers finished the march with an 18-yard scoring run around right end with 10:20 left in the first half.
Dickinson’s only points of the day came on its first drive of the second half, taking only two plays. Torchia fired an 18-yard strike to Gbolie for a first down in Gettysburg territory, then found his favorite target again for a 47-yard catch-and-run that pulled the visitors within 17-7. The Red Devils had a number of chances to cut the deficit further, but the Bullet defense answered each time.
Nathan Smith led a host of defenders that swarmed Torchia on a failed fourth-and-1 attempt at the Gettysburg 22 with 28 seconds left in the third quarter. Dickinson marched for a first-and-10 on the Bullet 25 on its next possession, but a one-yard loss and three incompletions ended the threat. The Red Devils’ final drive ended with Smith knocking away a pass from Ryan Stearrett (Wilmington, DE/St. Elizabeth) on fourth-and-1 from the Gettysburg 21.
For the second straight week Andrew Ackley (Chalfont, PA/C.B. West) led all players with 16 tackles while Victor Johnson (Wayne, PA/Radnor) recorded two sacks among his eight stops. Sophomore punter Aren Johnson (Palmyra, PA/Lower Dauphin) averaged 38 yards per kick on seven attempts, including a long of 50.
The Red Devils return home for the season finale next weekend, hosting Ursinus College at 1:00 pm.
Boxscore
Bullets Strike Early to Claim Little Brown Bucket
November 5, 2005
(Carlisle, PA)-- For the first time in 12 seasons the Gettysburg College football team will possess the Little Brown Bucket Trophy– presented to the annual game’s winning team since 1938. The Bullets also kept alive their shot at the program’s first CC title in 20 years.
Gettysburg (4-5, 3-2 CC) needs a victory at Franklin & Marshall next Saturday and a Johns Hopkins loss to McDaniel to tie the Blue Jays atop the final CC standings.
Tom Sturges ran for 140 yards and one touchdown, topping the 100-yard mark for the fifth time this season and became the first Bullet since 1999 to rush for 1,000 yards in a single campaign. Jesse Jeffers scored Gettysburg’s other touchdown on an 18-yard run and Josh Huson booted a 31-yard field goal to help the hosts build a 17-0 halftime lead.
Dickinson’s Matt Torchia (Kinnelon, NJ/Kinnelon) completed 18-of-33 passes for 255 yards and a 47-yard scoring strike to Arwin Gbolie (West Palm Beach, FL/Williston Northampton), who finished with a team-high five catches for 110 yards. Leading rusher Dwight Phyall (Westbury, NY/Friends Academy) ran for 36 of the Red Devils’ 62 yards on the ground.
Gettysburg went ahead to stay on its first possession, driving 42 yards on 11 plays before Huson knocked home a 31-yard field goal from the left hash to make it 3-0 with only 6 minutes, 19 seconds gone in the game. After Dickinson went three-and-out on its next possession, the Bullets struck again.
Starting quarterback Hunter McMillan was sacked for an eight-yard loss to start the series, but Jerry Jones ripped off a 10-yard run and Matthew Welsh made a sliding 11-yard catch to dig out of the second-and-18 hole.
Gettysburg set up for another field goal after the drive stalled at the Red Devil 18, but holder Mark Campo executed the fake by flipping a pass to Joe Fricchione for a first down at the 9. On the next play, Sturges scampered for his sixth touchdown of the year for a 10-0 lead. The Bullets made it 17-0 with a five-play, 59-yard drive early in the second quarter. Under center in place of McMillan, Campo found Spencer Davidson for 11 yards to the Red Devil 47. Jeffers then ripped off a 12-yard run, Sturges carried for 17 more and Jeffers finished the march with an 18-yard scoring run around right end with 10:20 left in the first half.
Dickinson’s only points of the day came on its first drive of the second half, taking only two plays. Torchia fired an 18-yard strike to Gbolie for a first down in Gettysburg territory, then found his favorite target again for a 47-yard catch-and-run that pulled the visitors within 17-7. The Red Devils had a number of chances to cut the deficit further, but the Bullet defense answered each time.
Nathan Smith led a host of defenders that swarmed Torchia on a failed fourth-and-1 attempt at the Gettysburg 22 with 28 seconds left in the third quarter. Dickinson marched for a first-and-10 on the Bullet 25 on its next possession, but a one-yard loss and three incompletions ended the threat. The Red Devils’ final drive ended with Smith knocking away a pass from Ryan Stearrett (Wilmington, DE/St. Elizabeth) on fourth-and-1 from the Gettysburg 21.
For the second straight week Andrew Ackley (Chalfont, PA/C.B. West) led all players with 16 tackles while Victor Johnson (Wayne, PA/Radnor) recorded two sacks among his eight stops. Sophomore punter Aren Johnson (Palmyra, PA/Lower Dauphin) averaged 38 yards per kick on seven attempts, including a long of 50.
The Red Devils return home for the season finale next weekend, hosting Ursinus College at 1:00 pm.
Boxscore
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