EAGLES FOOTBALL 2013 – GAME #3 NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY “EAGLES” VS. CHARLOTTE “49ers” Saturday, Sept. 14, 2013 – Kickoff at 12:00 p.m. Jerry Richardson Stadium – Charlotte, N.C. THE GAME 2013 NCCU Football Schedule North Carolina Central University “Eagles” vs. Charlotte “49ers” Date Opponent Time/Result Aug. 31 at Duke .................... (ESPN3) 0-45 L THE KICKOFF “Bull City Gridiron Classic” ...Wallace Wade Stadium Saturday, September 14, 2013 – Kickoff at 12:00 p.m. Sept. 7 Saint Augustine’s ........ OT2 23-20 W “Eagle Club Day” ..... O’Kelly-Riddick Stadium THE SITE Sept. 14 at Charlotte ......................12:00 pm Jerry Richardson Stadium (15,314 capacity/Turf) - Charlotte, N.C. Sept. 21 Towson ..............................2:00 pm ................................ O’Kelly-Riddick Stadium THE RECORDS Oct. 5 at Howard ..........................1:00 pm N.C. Central (1-1 overall, 0-0 MEAC); Charlotte (2-0 overall) Oct. 10 (T) South Carolina St. (ESPNU) 7:30 pm ................................ O’Kelly-Riddick Stadium MEDIA COVERAGE Oct. 19 Morgan State .....................2:00 pm Audio: NCCU Sports Network mobile app (iPhone, iPad, iPod, Android, Kindle Fire “Homecoming” ......... O’Kelly-Riddick Stadium HD); “GameCentral” at NCCUEaglePride.com (audio internet stream). Broadcast Oct. 26 at Savannah State .............2:00 pm starts at 11:30 a.m. (Chris Hooks, play-by-play) Nov. 2 Bethune-Cookman..(ESPNews) 12:00 pm ................................ O’Kelly-Riddick Stadium QUICK HITS Nov. 9 at Hampton ........................1:00 pm • The Charlotte 49ers are playing their inaugural season of football. Nov. 16 Norfolk State ......................2:00 pm • Saturday’s double-overtime victory over Saint Augustine’s marked the first college “Senior Day” ............ O’Kelly-Riddick Stadium head coaching win for NCCU interim head coach Dwayne Foster. Nov. 23 at North Carolina A&T ........1:00 pm • Charlotte has outscored its two opponents 99-14 (52-7 vs. Campbell; 47-7 vs. Chowan), including 41-0 in the first quarter and 38-0 after halftime. NCCU Ticket Office: (919) 530-5170 • NCCU has 11 student-athletes on its football roster that call Charlotte home: Ty NCCU Athletics Web Site: NCCUEaglePride.com Brown (LB), Allonte Tuppins (LB), DeMario Johnson (WR), Cameron Hughes (CB), Deyonta Wright (RB), Matthew Cornelius (P), Sayyid Muhammad (DB), Tommy HEAD COACHES Wallace (DL), Reginald Baker (RB), Kennedy Barkley (WR), and Daniel Rhodes (DL). North Carolina Central: Interim Head Coach ..................Dwayne Foster THE SERIES Alma Mater ....................Delaware State (1993) This will be the first meeting between NCCU and Charlotte, which is in its first season Record at NCCU .....................1-1 (1st season) of football. Career Record .........................1-1 (1st season) ABOUT NCCU FOOTBALL Charlotte: North Carolina Central University is in its third season of full NCAA Division I (FCS) Head Coach ................................Brad Lambert athletic competition as a member of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference. The Eagles Alma Mater .......................Kansas State (1987) Record at Charlotte .................2-0 (1st season) won back-to-back football conference championships and a Black College National Career Record .........................2-0 (1st season) Championship in their final two years in the Division II ranks (2005 and 2006) before starting the transition to Division I in 2007. During its storied gridiron tradition, NCCU MEDIA RELATIONS CONTACTS has produced 131 all-conference selections, 64 all-Americans, 40 NFL draft picks, 10 conference championships and two Black College National Championships. North Carolina Central: SID .................................................. Kyle Serba THE COACHES Office Phone ............................. (919) 530-7054 North Carolina Central: Dwayne Foster (Delaware State, 1993) joined NCCU in 2011 E-Mail [email protected] Web Site ........................NCCUEaglePride.com as assistant head coach, recruiting coordinator and offensive line coach, before being elevated to interim head coach prior to the 2013 season. Previously, he served as Charlotte: running backs coach at Prairie View A&M University (2005-10), tight ends and running SID ..........................................Tom Whitestone backs coach at Catholic University (2004), and offensive line coach at Bowie State Office Phone ............................. (704) 687-1022 University (2003). Foster made his name on the high school level in Washington, D.C., E-Mail ................................ [email protected] as the head coach of Archbishop Carroll High School from 1997-2003. At Archbishop, Web Site ............................ Charlotte49ers.com Foster received coach of the year honors by the Washington Catholic Athletic Twitter Talk: #NCCUfootball Conference Committee in 1998. Foster played college football at Delaware State University from 1989-93 and helped the Hornets capture two MEAC Championships QUICK FACTS during his freshmen and junior seasons before graduating in 1993. Foster is a member North Carolina Central University School: of the Black Coaches and American Football Coaches Associations, was part of the Location: Durham, NC 27707 NFL Minority Coaching Fellowship Program in 2010 with the Buffalo Bills and in 2012 Founded: 1910 by Dr. James E. Shepard with the Cincinnati Bengals, and participated in the NCAA Men’s Football Coaching Enrollment: 8,645 Academy in Indianapolis, Ind., in June 2006. Nickname: Eagles School Colors: Maroon & Gray Charlotte: Brad Lambert (Kansas State, 1987) is in his first season as a college head Stadium: O'Kelly-Riddick Stadium coach with the first-year Charlotte 49ers. Lambert spent 10 years as an assistant Capacity (Surface): 10,000 (Mondoturf) coach at Wake Forest, and also had coaching stints at Georgia and Marshall. He National Affiliation: NCAA Division I-FCS served as defensive coordinator for the Demon Deacons the last three years. He Conference: Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference served as linebackers coach and special teams coach at Wake Forest from 2001- Chancellor: Dr. Debra Saunders-White 2009. He served as secondary, linebackers, special teams and defensive ends coach Alma Mater: Virginia while at Georgia and a secondary and defensive ends coach at Marshall. A 1987 Athletics Director: Ingrid Wicker-McCree, Ed.D. graduate of Kansas State, Lambert was a four-year letterwinner who earned second- Alma Mater: George Washington team all-Big Eight honors as a defensive back in 1984. He was an Academic all-Big Athletics Dept. Phone: (919) 530-7057 Eight choice from 1984-86. Athletics Dept. Web Site: NCCUEaglePride.com Twitter: @NCCUAthletics LAST WEEK Facebook: Facebook.com/NCCUAthletics (NCCU 23, St. Augustine’s 20 - 2OT) North Carolina Central University scored a Ticket Office Phone: (919) 530-5170 touchdown in the final minute of regulation to force overtime, then made a 19-yard field goal in double overtime to beat visiting Saint Augustine’s University 23-20 FOOTBALL HISTORY inside O’Kelly-Riddick Stadium on Saturday (Sept. 7). NCCU (1-1) lit the scoreboard first with a 32-yard touchdown pass from senior quarterback Jordan Reid to senior First Year of Football: 1923 receiver Lamar Scruggs with 3:51 remaining in the third quarter. Reid was injured Overall All-Time Record: 435-363-30 on the play and could not perform his typical holding duties for the extra-point kick, NCAA Tourn. Record (Yrs): 1-3 (3 years - 1988, which ended up failing because of a bobbled snap. St. Augustine’s (0-1) answered on 2005, 2006 - NCAA Div. II) its next drive, using six plays to move 66 yards, capped by a 25-yard pass from A.J. Last Post-Season Opponent: Delta State Gilford to Herman Reaves at the 2:42 mark of the third quarter. The extra-point kick Result (Date): Lost, 17-24 (Nov. 25, 2006) by Michael Lima put the Falcons on top 7-6. The visitors extended their lead when Gilford found Brian Richards for a 6-yard touchdown connection with 6:18 left in the SPORTS INFORMATION fourth quarter. After two penalties on the extra-point try, the Falcons mishandled the Sports Information Director: Kyle Serba snap from center and could not get off a kick, keeping the score at 13-6. After the SID Office Phone: (919) 530-7054 NCCU defense forced a critical three-and-out, the Eagles took over on offense with SID Office Fax: (919) 530-5426 2:34 remaining in regulation at their own 46-yard line. After being sacked back to the SID E-Mail: [email protected] 40-yard line, Reid engineered a 10-play drive, completing 6-of-8 passes (including SID Mailing Address: 116 McDougald- one to himself on a deflected pass), capped by a fourth-down, rollout completion to McLendon Gym, Durham, NC 27707 Adrian Wilkins with just 29 seconds on the clock. Oleg Parent’s extra-point kick tied Radio Play-by-Play: Chris Hooks the score at 13-13 to force overtime. The Falcons struck first in overtime with a 25- Phone/Email: (919) 530-6017/[email protected] yard touchdown catch by Jermaine Jones from Gilford to move ahead 20-13. Needing a touchdown to extend the game, Reid completed a 13-yard pass to Marvin Poole, COACHING STAFF then the quarterback scrambled for 12 yards to the Falcons’ 4-yard line. On the next Interim Head Coach: Dwayne Foster play, Reid again found running room and the end zone to send the game into double Alma Mater (Year): Delaware State (1993) overtime. At the start of the second overtime, Gilford’s first pass was deflected and Record at NCCU (Years): 1-1 (1st season) nearly intercepted by NCCU linebacker Demontray Ryland. On the next play, Gilford’s Career Record (Years): 1-1 (1st season) pass was intercepted by freshman corner back Michael Jones, who appeared to be Football Office Phone: (919) 530-5315 heading for a game-winning touchdown, but was tackled two yards shy from the end zone. On NCCU’s possession, sophomore running back Idreis Augustus caught a Assistant Coaches: 14-yard pass from Reid and ran for seven yards to the 2-yard line to set up the game- Michael Bryant ............ Offensive Coordinator/QB winning 19-yard field goal by Parent. NCCU amassed 424 yards of total offense, John Morgan, Jr.