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1999 NESCAC Football Media Guide 1999 New England Small College Athletic Conference SID Directory Amherst College Middlebury College Mailing Address: P.O. Box 5000 Mailing Address: Route 30 Amherst, Mass. 01002 Middlebury, VT 05753 SID: Sarah Lukaska SID: Brad Nadeau Office Phone: (413) 542-2390 Office Phone: (802) 443-5193 Office Fax: (413) 542-2527 Office Fax: (802) 443-2529 Home Phone: TBA Home Phone: (802) 388-6705 Press Box Phone: (413) 542-2023 Press Box: (802) 443-5524 Bates College Trinity College Mailing Address: 141 Nichols Street Mailing Address: 79 Vernon Street Lewiston, ME 04240 Hartford, CT 06106 SID: Adam Levin SID: Dave Kingsley Office Phone: (207) 786-6411 Office Phone: (860) 297-2137 Office Fax: (207) 786-6484 Office Fax: (860) 297-2312 Home Phone: (207) 783-7854 Home Phone: (203) 281-6775 Press Box Phone: (207) 786-6411 Press Box: (860) 987-6202/6203 Bowdoin College Tufts University Mailing Address: Office of Communications Mailing Address: Cousens Gymnasium Brunswick, ME 04011 Medford, MA 02155 SID: Jac Coyne SID: Paul Sweeney Office Phone: (207) 725-3254 Office Phone: (617) 627-3586 Office Fax: (207) 725-3003 Office Fax: (617) 627-3516 Home Phone: (207) 729-5109 Home Phone: (978) 658-3095 Press Box Phone: (207) 725-7532 Press Box: (617) 627-3504 Colby College Wesleyan University Mailing Address: Mayflower Hill Drive Mailing Address: Freeman Athletic Center Waterville, ME 04901 Middletown, CT 06459 SID: TBA SID: Brian Katten Office Phone: (207) 872-3769 Office Phone: (860) 685-2887 Office Fax: (207) 872-3053 Office Fax: (860) 685-2691 Home Phone: TBA Home Phone: (860) 344-1046 Press Box Phone: (207) 872-3360 Press Box: (860) 685-5309 Hamilton College Williams College Mailing Address: 198 College Hill Road Mailing Address: P.O. Box 676 Clinton, NY 13323 Williamstown, MA 01267 SID: Stephen Jaynes SID: Dick Quinn Office Phone: (315) 859-4685 Office Phone: (413) 597-4982 Office Fax: (315) 859-4117 Office Fax: (413) 597-4429 Home Phone: (315) 853-2195 Home Phone: (413) 458-5958 Press Box: (315) 859-4675 Press Box: (413) 458-2402/04 1 1999 NESCAC Football Media Guide What is the NESCAC? The New England Small College Athletic Conference Founded in 1971, the New England Small NESCAC institutions also believe athletic teams College Athletic Conference is a group of highly should be representative of the entire student body. selective liberal arts colleges and universities that Thus, admissions of financial policies are share a similar philosophy for intercollegiate athletics. consistent with the NCAA Division III policies that The conference was created out of a concern prohibit athletic scholarships and award financial aid for the direction of intercollegiate programs and solely on the basis of need. remains committed to keeping a proper perspective Starting in the fall of 1992, the ten football- on the role of sport in higher education. playing schools commenced a NESCAC-only eight The formation of game schedule. the NESCAC originated Since the eight-game with an agreement, first Among the Best in the schedule is one short for full drafted in 1955, among conference play, the teams Amherst College, Nation that do not meet during the Bowdoin College, The 1999-2000 U.S. News & World Report's regular season compete in a Wesleyan University rankings of the top U.S. colleges features 10 live scrimmage a week before and Williams College. NESCAC institutions among the top 25 "Best the first game. Along with these National Liberal Arts Colleges" while Tufts Despite not being able to four institutions, Bates University was ranked #29 in the ranking of compete in any form of playoff College, Colby Col- the "Best National Universities." competition, NESCAC football lege, Hamilton Col- squads have been successful lege, Middlebury Rank School Overall Score and some teams and players College, Trinity 1. Swarthmore College 100.0 have earned national recogni- College and Tufts 2 AMHERST COLLEGE 99.0 tion. In recent years, three University are the 3. WILLIAMS COLLEGE 97.0 players have made it into the sustaining charter 4. Wellesley College 95.0 National Football League. members. 5. MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE 92.0 Wesleyan graduate Jeff Connecticut 5. Haverford College 92.0 Wilner '94 (Green Bay Pack- College (which does 7. Pomona College 91.0 ers), Amherst alumnus Alex not sponsor football) 8. Carleton College 90.0 Bernstein '97 (Baltimore was added in 1982, 9. BOWDOIN COLLEGE 89.0 Ravens) signed free-agent bringing the 9. WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY 88.0 contracts after their collegiate conference’s member- 11. Davidson College 87.0 careers. Williams defensive ship to its current total 11. Grinnell College 87.0 tackle Ethan Brooks '96 was of 11 institutions. 13. Smith College 86.0 drafted by the Atlanta Falcons NESCAC mem- 14. Claremont McKenna College 85.0 and is currently on the St. bers believe intercolle- 14. Washington and Lee Univ. 85.0 Louis Rams' roster. giate athletic programs 16. Mount Holyoke College 84.0 The NESCAC's success should operate in 17. Vassar College 83.0 extends beyond the gridiron harmony with the 18. COLBY COLLEGE 82.0 as well. Williams has won educational mission of 18. HAMILTON COLLEGE 82.0 three of the first four Sears each institution. 18. Bryn Mawr College 82.0 Directors Cups awarded by For this reason, 18. Colgate University 82.0 the National Association of the presidents of 22. TRINITY COLLEGE 80.0 Collegiate Directors of Athlet- NESCAC schools set 23. BATES COLLEGE 79.0 ics, while Middlebury and conference policies and 24. Macalester College 78.0 Amherst also finished among assume ultimate 25. CONNECTICUT COLLEGE 77.0 the top five institutions. In responsibility for the 25. Barnard College 77.0 1998-99, the NESCAC operations of their 25. Colorado College 77.0 schools combined to win five respective athletic 25. Oberlin College 77.0 national championships. departments. 25. University of the South 77.0 2 1999 NESCAC Football Media Guide Final 1998 NESCAC Football Report TEAM STATISTICS Points Points Offensive Yards College W L T Scored Allowed Yards Allowed Amherst 5 3 0 156 141 2515 1869 Bates 17090235 2213 2952 Bowdoin 5 3 0 180 164 2395 2771 Colby 2 6 0 117 133 2193 2144 Hamilton 1 7 0 151 311 2655 3581 Middlebury 3 5 0 212 199 2678 2700 Trinity 2 6 0 153 225 2339 2667 Tufts 7 1 0 207 125 2263 2357 Wesleyan 6 2 0 289 230 3386 2880 Williams 8 0 0 313 76 3345 1837 FINAL RUSHING LEADERS Player (College) Cl. G Att. Yards Yd/Att TD Long Yds/GM Fred Storz (Williams) So. 8 206 1064 5.2 16 25 133.0 Tom Themistocles (Wesleyan) Sr. 8 162 871 5.4 13 43 108.9 Ryan Jarvis (Bates) Jr. 8 160 666 4.2 5 67 83.2 Thomas Keblin (Colby) Jr. 8 153 538 3.5 8 60 67.3 John Routhier (Tufts) Jr. 8 134 526 3.9 4 52 65.8 Bryan Sanchez (Middlebury) So. 8 99 518 5.2 3 86 64.8 Chris McCarthy (Hamilton) Fr. 8 120 507 4.2 4 53 63.4 Chris Houston (Bowdoin) Jr 8 133 479 3.6 4 38 59.9 John Pascucci (Wesleyan) Sr. 8 96 475 4.9 7 22 59.4 FINAL RECEIVING LEADERS Player (College) Cl. G Rec. Yards Yd/Rec TD Long Rec./GM A.J. Husband (Middlebury) Sr. 8 55 654 11.9 6 48 6.9 Matt Perceval (Wesleyan) Jr. 8 48 860 17.9 14 64 6.0 Matt Sigrist (Williams) Sr. 8 48 750 15.6 7 39 6.0 Jason Coulie (Bates) Jr. 8 46 553 12.0 2 42 5.8 Shawn Lyons (Hamilton) Sr. 8 44 389 8.8 1 35 5.5 Kelby Valenti (Hamilton) Sr. 8 41 498 12.1 2 37 5.1 Matt Hall (Amherst) So. 8 35 539 15.4 4 25 4.8 Sean Furey (Trinity) Jr. 6 28 465 16.6 2 45 4.7 Nate Moore (Wesleyan) Jr. 7 32 544 17.0 4 58 4.6 FINAL PASSING LEADERS Comp Eff. Player (College) Cl. G Att. Comp.Yards TD INT Pct. Rat. Sean Keenan (Williams) Jr. 8 201 117 1736 15 4 58.2 151.4 Brian Coates (Middlebury) Sr. 8 190 110 1431 13 7 57.9 136.4 Jake Fay (Wesleyan) Jr. 7 206 101 1660 16 8 49.0 134.6 Greg Wysocki (Trinity) Jr. 8 99 55 823 5 8 55.6 125.4 Dan Morse (Tufts) Sr. 8 148 73 993 10 2 49.3 125.3 Peter Honig (Amherst) So. 5 106 56 807 6 6 52.8 124.2 Hayes MacArthur (Bowdoin) Sr. 8 189 91 1441 12 12 49.1 116.4 Robbie Peters (Hamilton) Jr. 8 293 171 1764 9 7 58.4 114.3 Matt Bazirgan (Bates) Jr. 7 169 84 1005 3 3 49.7 101.9 Nathan Bradley (Colby) Sr. 8 210 88 1112 4 14 41.9 79.3 FINAL PUNTING LEADERS Player (College) Cl. G Punts YardsLong Avg. Punt Darren Ireland (Colby) Jr. 8 40 1480 52 37.0 Mark Olschefskie (Wesleyan) Jr. 8 34 1210 57 35.6 Greg Bemis (Hamilton) So. 7 38 1319 54 34.7 Howie Rock (Tufts) Fr. 8 37 1280 59 34.6 Gregg Wysocki (Trinity) Jr. 8 53 1814 60 34.2 Liam Flemming (Amherst) So. 8 50 1503 46 30.1 Jason Place (Bates) So. 8 59 1725 50 29.2 Notes: BOLD - Players returning in 1999 3 1999 NESCAC Football Media Guide 1998 NESCAC Football All-Star Team Offense Defense Quarterback: Dan Morse, Tufts Defensive Line: Greg Gottehimer, Amherst Running Back: Fred Storz, Williams Ryan Aldrich, Colby Tom Themistocles, Wesleyan Jim Davis, Hamilton Tight End: John Wilson, Tufts * Kevin Saxton, Bowdoin * Wide Receiver: Matt Perceval, Wesleyan ** Linebacker: Alex Niefer, Amherst A.J.