2017 Lycoming College Football Record Book Lycoming 200
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2017 College Football Hall of Fame Inductee Frank Girardi 2017 Lycoming College Football Record Book Lycoming 200 ..................................................................................................... 2-11 Individual Single-Season Records .............................................................75-83 MAC Century Team .........................................................................................12-14 Individual Single-Game Records ...............................................................84-88 Conference Champions.................................................................................15-19 Team Single-Season Records ......................................................................89-92 All-Americans by Organization ..................................................................20-21 Game-by-Game Results ............................................................................. 93-105 All-Americans by Year ..........................................................................................22 All-Time Postseason Results ...................................................................106-108 Awards & Honors .............................................................................................23-28 NCAA Tournament Single-Game Records .........................................109-110 Middle Atlantic Conference Awards & Honors .....................................29-35 vs. Nationally-Ranked Opponents/In the Polls .........................................111 All-Time Participants ......................................................................................36-48 Old Hat Trophy Game ........................................................................................112 Year-by-Year Records ......................................................................................49-50 Family Weekend ...................................................................................................113 Coaching Records .................................................................................................51 Homecoming ........................................................................................................114 Year-by-Year Statistics ....................................................................................52-57 Game-by-Game vs. Opponents .............................................................115-120 Year-by-Year Leaders ......................................................................................58-61 All-Time Records vs. Opponents ....................................................................121 Individual Conference Leaders .........................................................................62 David Person Field ..............................................................................................122 Team Conference Leaders ..................................................................................63 Dickinson Seminary Year-by-Year ..................................................................123 National Leaders ....................................................................................................64 Dickinson Seminary Game-by-Game Results ..................................124-126 Career Records .................................................................................................65-73 Lycoming 200 During the 2011-12 academic year, the Lycoming College athletic department releases a series of 200 key moments in the athletic program’s history in conjunction with the school’s bicenten- nial. Below are the moments that have to do with football from the list. 2. Rev. Edward J. Gray, may 1893 8. Clyde Bastian, 1911 Prep school and college athletics were both in a precarious spot at the end of the As a preparatory school, Dickinson Seminary’s main goal for its students was 19th century. Football was so violent a sport that in 20 years, President Theodore to get them into a four-year college. With a football program that enjoyed 14 Roosevelt felt the need to step in and he helped oversee the creation of uniform straight winning seasons from 1899-1913, the team was full of players that rules for the sport, helping pave the way for the NCAA. Knowing those dangers, moved on to storied collegiate programs. Jack Minds and Jim Reese left for the it may have been easy for the Seminary to not support its athletics teams, which University of Pennsylvania teams in the 1890s, as did Ed and Charley Young for in the 1890s included both baseball and football. Both sports were run by the Cornell. Clyde Bastian was a bit of a surprise when he moved into Seminary’s student-athletes, with student-managers offering much of the actual coaching. backfield for his senior year in 1911. The bruising back was the key cog in a 4-3 Still, it was hard not to see the benefit of interscholastic athletics, as the games season for the Seminary, while his work on the defensive line helped keep op- created excitement throughout the school. By 1893, Rev. Edward J. Gray was in ponents on their heels. At the end of the season, he headed out to Ann Arbor, his 19th of 31 years as president of the Seminary. With the excitement of a newly- where he joined the University of Michigan football team, earning letters in founded athletic association, Gray sought out land for the purpose of an athletic 1914-15, as the Sheffield, Pa., native was coached by the legendary Fielding Yost. field. In 1902, near the end of Gray’s tenure, he secured funding for a 1,000-seat grandstand at the football field, which is now the campus quad. 9. Alexander Brown Mackie, 1913-14 Another prominent alumnus of the football program from those early years was 3. Coach Forrest Craver, 1899 Alexander Brown Mackie. Although he played for just one season at the Semi- Like many schools that began athletic programs around the turn of the century, nary in football and basketball in 1913-14, Mackie played football at Ohio Wes- the sports at Dickinson Seminary were coached by the students themselves. leyan University and went on to become the most successful football coach in This, of course, led to inevitable problems. In fact, that first baseball team in the history of Kansas Wesleyan University. From 1921-37, he helped the team to 1890 had critics that believed the team could have been more successful if the a 72-40-14 record and five conference titles. Following his career as head coach “student-managers had chosen team members by talent rather than personal of the Coyotes, Mackie opened the Brown Mackie College with Perry E. Brown. friendships,” according to Holmes’ history of the athletic department. By 1899, The college has 27 centers throughout the country and an enrollment of more Forrest Craver, who taught Ancient Languages at the Seminary, was ready to than 10,000 students. help change that culture. Craver organized practices and scheduled games against teams outside of Williamsport. While he coached for just one year before 12. Monroe Hess, 1916-18 yielding to Professor T. Marshal West, the head of the Latin and Rhetoric depart- An important part of the offensive line from 1916-18, Monroe Hess was one ment, Craver’s influence on the football team was immediately felt, as he guided of the best players in the Seminary era. As a sophomore, he stepped onto the the team to a 3-1-1 record. team and immediately entered the lineup. By the next fall, he became one of the first two-year captains in school history, leading the team to a 6-3 mark as 4. Win over Mansfield, Oct. 12, 1902 a junior. A left tackle, Hess was listed by the Dickinson Union as someone who By 1902, the Seminary football team was well-established, having entered its “possessed the rare combination to win the game with love and respect for the seventh year of play. In 1901, the team finished 7-1, but the 1902 team, which other team…“Hessie” played and fought hard in all the games.” He also played went on to finish 6-2 overall, was the first to make heads turn around the state. baseball as a sophomore. On a mid-autumn Saturday, the Seminary travelled into the mountains and 14. Dr. John W. Long, 1921-55 came away with the first victory for any team at Mansfield State Normal School in six years. After making a goal-line stand on the opening drive, the defense During the 34 years that Dr. John W. Long served as president of Dickinson held its ground for the rest of the first half. After a second-half opening kickoff Seminary, Dickinson Junior College and Lycoming College, he guided the school return by George Grove to midfield, the team kept rolling down the field. Finally, through an immeasurable amount of changes. A baseball player that turned William Evans broke through the Mansfield line and he rushed 15 yards to the down a pro contract at the end of his time at Dickinson College to focus on work goal-line before the ball was stripped. However, Bobby Rich fell on the ball for within the church, Long was a lifelong fan of athletics. While his larger legacy lays the touchdown. A later score by Robert Stine sealed the 12-0 victory. Later in the in his vision to make the prep school a college, Long was the first to address one year, when Mansfield made a trip to Williamsport, the Seminary easily handled of the most critical needs for the athletic program – an adequate gymnasium. In the team, with Rich scoring four times by himself. fact, it was one of his first projects, as the cornerstone was laid on Nov. 3, 1923. His support for the athletic program didn’t stop