e 2017Wagner Seahawks Football Saint Anselm Hawks (0-0, 0-0 NE10) at Wagner College Seahawks (0-0, 0-0 NEC) Thursday, August 31, 2017 * 6:00 p.m. (EST) Wagner At a Glance Location: ............................................Staten Island, NY WAGNER-SAINT ANSELM SCENE-SETTER President: ..................................... Dr. Richard Guarasci For the second consecutive season, the Wagner College : ................................. Walt Hameline Seahawks will open up vs. the Saint Anselm College Hawks, Athletics Director under the lights at Hameline Field, with kickoff set for Head Football Coach: ......................Jason Houghtaling 6:00 p.m. In last year’s lid-lifter on September 1, 2016, the Record at Wagner: ................................... 7-15/3rd year Seahawks outscored the Hawks 28-6 in the second half in Overall Record: .................................................... Same breaking open a game that was tied 10-10 at halftime. Not Media Relations: .......................................John Beisser to be lost among the many offensive superlatives on this night was a virtuoso defensive effort turned in by the Beisser Office Phone: ..........................(718) 390-3227 Green & White, particularly in the second half. Beisser Email:[email protected] WAGNER ALL-TIME VS. NE-10 CONFERENCE Saint Anselm competes in the Northeast-10, a collegiate athletic conference affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)’s Division II level. Tonight’s game marks the 12th all-time meeting between Wagner and members of the NE-10 with the Seahawks holding a 6-5 record in these meetings. 2017 Schedule6:00 PM Saint Anselm 12:00 PM August 31 THE COACHES at Saint Francis U 1:00 PM September 9 JASON HOUTAGHLING - WAGNER at Columbia TBA September 16 at Western Michigan Jason Houghtaling (say it Ho-tal-ling) is in his third season as the head coach of the Seahawks and, at age 36, is the September 23 6:00 PM (Homecoming) third-youngest head coach in the FCS. He took over for Walt Hameline, who announced at the end of the 2014 Lehigh 1:00 PM September 30 at Duquesne* season that he would be stepping down as head coach while remaining as Seahawk athletic director. Houghtaling October 7 6:00 PM (7-15), who guided Wagner to a 6-5 record (4-2 in the NEC, third place) in 2016, was the Seahawks’ associate head Central Connecticut* 12:00 PM October 14 coach and offensive coordinator when the Green & White claimed a share of the 2014 NEC title (with Sacred Heart), Bryant* 12:00 PM October 28 and overall, has spent seven years as a Wagner assistant. In his final three seasons as offensive coordinator (2011, at Robert Morris* 1:00 PM November 4 2012, 2014), the Seahawks amassed a 16-6 NEC record with league titles in two of those three years. In 2014, the at Stony Brook 12:00 pm November 11 at Sacred Heart* Seahawks’ offense ranked No. 4 nationally in time of possession and did not commit a turnover in the final three November 18 games of the season. Houghtaling served as offensive coordinator at Cornell in 2013 before returning to Grymes Hill as associate head coach/offensive coordinator. # - Homecoming Bold - Home Games / * - NEC Game JOE ADAM - SAINT ANSELM All Times EST. Joe Adam is in his second season as the head coach of the Saint Anselm football program in 2017 after being named to the position on April 19, 2016. Adam brings more than 20 years of coaching experience with success at all levels of NCAA football, having been a part of two NCAA Division II National Championships, taken teams to bowl games and helped a program reach the NCAA playoffs for the first time in the school’s history. He earned his first-career win at Saint Anselm on Saturday, Oct. 22, 2016 when the Hawks cruised past Pace by a 42-7 score at Grappone Stadium. Adam also led the Hawks to a 28-17 victory over Merrimack on Senior Day the following week. ABOUT SAINT ANSELM COLLEGE WAGNER COLLEGE Saint Anselm, which competes athletically in the NCAA Division II classification as a member of the NE- Location: Staten Island, NY 10 Conference, is la four-year private college comprised of 1,914 students. Located on a hilltop overlooking Nickname: Seahawks Manchester, N.H., within an hour of the seacoast, Boston, the White Mountains, and New Hampshire’s Lakes Enrollment: 2,000 Region, was founded in 1889 by the world’s oldest religious order, the Benedictines—a Catholic order that has Founded: 1883 endured and thrived for more than 1,500 years. ABOUT THE HAWKS Saint Anselm went 2-9 on the season in 2016 and 2-7 in the NE10 Conference. The Hawks were picked ninth in the 10-team NE10 Preseason Poll. WAGNER-SAINT ANSELM: THE LAST TIME Quarterback Alex Thomson (Keyport, NJ/Keyport) passed for 176 yards and two touchdowns, in addition to SAINT ANSELM COLLEGE scoring on a 59-yard run, while running Denzel Knight (Rochester, NY/Salisbury School) rumbled for 147 yards Location: Manchester, NH and a score to lead Wagner to a convincing 38-16 victory over Saint Anselm The Seahawks outscored the Hawks Nickname: Hawks 28-6 in the second half in breaking open a game that was tied 10-10 at halftime. Not to be lost among the many Enrollment: 1,914 offensive superlatives on this night was a virtuoso defensive effort turned in by the Green & White, particularly Founded: 1889 in the second half. The only points allowed by the Seahawks following the halftime break came on the game’s very last play when Saint Anselm quarterback Yianni Gavalas tossed a 15-yard touchdown pass to Kyle Hill on fourth down as time expired. In the second half, the stingy Seahawk defense held the Hawks to just 166 yards from scrimmage. Linebacker Quintin Hampton (Moultrie, GA / Colquitt County), who began his collegiate career at FBS member Central Florida, led the Wagner defensive charge with a game-high 10 tackles, including seven solo stops while senior cornerback Tiquan Garner (Brookville, NY/ Long Island Lutheran) responded to his first start with nine tackles and two pass breakups. Also recording career highs in tackles for the Green & White were junior free safety Jesse Flaherty (Oceanport, NJ/ The Peddie School) and sophomore inside linebacker Santoni Graham (Arlington, VA/ Fork Union Military Academy) who recorded eight and five stops, respectively. 2017 Wagner Football Quick Facts General Information Head Coach Location: Staten Island, NY Jason Houghtaling (Binghamton, 2004) 3rd Year Founded: 1883 Assistant Coaches Enrollment: 2,000 Tony Brinson – Defensive Coordinator (Rhode Island, 1995) Nickname: Seahawks Rob Calabrese - Offensive Coordinator (UCF, 2012) Colors: Green (PMS 3308) & White Affiliation: NCAA Division I (FCS) Custavious Patterson – Wide Receivers (Morgan St., 2004) Conference: Northeast Conference (NEC) Stefon Wheeler - Offensive Line (Michigan St., 2005) Stadium: Hameline Field (3,300) Steve Ciocci – DL/Co-Special Teams/Recruiting Coordinator (Wagner, 2013) Surface: Field Turf Zamel Johnson - Defensive Backs /Co-Special Teams (Temple, 2013) President: Dr. Richard Guarasci (Fordham, 1967) Jim Munson –Defensive Assistant (Kean, 1989) Athletic Director: Walt Hameline (Brockport St., 1975) Vincent DiGaetano Defensive Assistant (Wagner, 1999 ) Athletic Dep. Phone: (718) 390-3433 Walter Kusmirek - Tight Ends /Fullbacks( Fitchburg St.,, 2013) Ticket Office Phone: (718) 420-4039 Doug Rigg - Inside Linebackers (West Virginia, 2014) Football History Garrett McLaughlin - Outside Linebackers ( Syracuse, 2012) First Year of Football: 1927 Sean Fitzgerald Running Backs ( UCF, 2012) Overall all-time record: 398-340-19 (.538) Joe Varga - Assistant AD for Athlete Performance (CCSU, 2006) Undefeated Seasons: 1960, 1964, 1967 Ryan Monaghan - Director of Football Operations (Wagner, 2017) Div. III National Champions: 1987 Tom Walsh - Equipment Manager (Rocky Mountain, 2015) Became FCS Program 1992 Football Office Phone: 718-420-4511 Became NEC Program 1996 All-time NEC Record: 69-72 (.489) Media Relations Team Information Asst. AD For Media Relations John Beisser 2016 Overall Record: 6-5 Office Phone: 718-390-3227 2016 NEC Record/Finish: 4-2/Third Office Fax: 718-420-4015 Starters Returning/Lost: 16/6 Cell Phone: 732-921-6744 Offense: 8/3 E-mail: [email protected] Defense: 8/3 Press Box Phone: (718) 420-4050 Lettermen Returning: 68 Website: www.wagnerathletics.com Lettermen Lost: 26 Newcomers: 77 THIS IS W AGNER C OLLEGE As tenacious as any Seahawk, Wagner College enjoys a bucolic perch atop Grymes Hill overlooking Manhattan and the other boroughs of New York City. Founded in 1883 as a Lutheran proseminary, Wagner has evolved to become an independent residential liberal arts college enrolling a capacity of over 2,000 students. The location of the College above the gateway to one of the world’s greatest financial and cultural capitals was the work of alumnus Frank Sutter who convinced the College’s Board of Trustees to relocate Wagner here from Rochester in 1918. In this, the Rev. Sutter and the trustees were extraordinarily prescient. Their wisdom provided Wagner with a distinct geographical advantage over all other all liberal arts colleges in the country. Wagner is New York State’s southernmost college and its 105 park-like acres represent the highest elevation on the eastern seaboard from Maine to Key West Florida. The College’s signature curriculum – the Wagner Plan for the Practical Liberal Arts – capitalizes on the best of a traditional, suburban, liberal arts classic college setting, most recently for a movie titled “School of college campus and the infinite array of educational opportunities Rock” starring Jack Black (Shallow Hal). The picturesque campus afforded by New York City. Students intern in the world’s leading was also used in a fall 2001 television series, The Education of Max financial institutions. They observe and experience diversity Bixford, starring Richard Dreyfus and as the site of a prospective from the sophisticateworkings of the United Nations to melting private military school in the HBO series, The Sopranos.