2008 CATAWBA COLLEGE FOOTBALL GUIDE CONTENTS Catawba Athletic Administration . 1 Head Coach Chip Hester . 2 Assistant Coaches . 3-5 Newcomer Profiles . 5 Season Outlook . 6-7 Player Profiles . 8-20 Shuford Stadium . .21 2008 Veteran Roster . 22 2008 Newcomer Roster . 23 Indians’ 2007 Statistics . 24-25 2007 Year in Review . 26-32 All-Americans and Pro Players . 33 Record Vs.All Opponents . 34 Year-By-Year Scores . 35-37 Individual Records . 37-38 Team Records . 39 Terence Crosby Travis Landrum Career Leaders . 40 Top Individual Seasons . Inside Back Cover 2008 SCHEDULE DATE OPPONENT LOCATION TIME AUG. 30 ST. AUGUSTINE’S SALISBURY 7:00 SEPT. 6 ELIZABETH CITY ST. SALISBURY 7:00 Sept. 13 at Livingstone Salisbury,NC 6:00 Sept. 27 at Mars Hill* Mars Hill,NC 1:30 Oct. 4 at Newberry* Newberry,SC 7:00 OCT. 11 CARSON-NEWMAN* SALISBURY 7:00 OCT. 18 TUSCULUM* (HC) SALISBURY 1:30 Oct. 25 at Wingate* Wingate,NC 1:30 NOV. 1 BREVARD* SALISBURY 1:30 Nov. 8 at Lenoir-Rhyne* Hickory,NC 7:00 BOLD CAPS DENOTE HOME GAMES * Denotes South Atlantic Conference games (HC) Denotes Homecoming Weekend Arthur Cromartie Melquan Fair CREDITS CONTACT INFORMATION HEAD COACH: This football yearbook is a publication of the Chip Hester (7th year, 47-20) ASSISTANT COACHES: Catawba College Sports Information Office. Matt Barrett, John Fitz, Calvin Hunter, D.J. Summers, Ben Hepler, Khanis Hubbard,Todd McComb, Bob Lancaster, Radell Lockhart, Derrick Lloyd EDITOR: Jim Lewis, Director of Sports Information FOOTBALL OFFICE TELEPHONES: (704-637-4558, 637-4479, 637-4454) ATHLETIC DIRECTOR: WRITTEN BY: Jim Lewis,Tim Readling and Dennis Davidson (704-637-4474) SPORTS INFORMATION: Tom Readling Jim Lewis (704-637-4720) TICKET INFORMATON: Peggy Mason (704-637-4474) PHOTOGRAPHY: Chuck Williams, Jim Lewis, STADIUM: Shuford Stadium (4,000) James Sipes and Curtis Fowler. COLORS: Blue and White Administration • 2007 SAC CHAMPIONS DR. W. CRAIG TURNER DENNIS DAVIDSON President Athletic Director Dr. W. Craig Turner became the 21st President of Dennis Davidson has been Catawba College in 2008. He came to Salisbury from director of athletics since May of Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas, where he 1996. He came to Catawba served as President for the past six years. College in July 1984 as director Dr. Turner joined the administration and faculty of of public information and Hardin-Simmons University in 1992, serving as Vice moved totally into sports infor- President for Academic Affairs and Professor of English from mation one year later. 1992 to 1996.He then became Executive Vice President and In 1991, Davidson was pro- Chief Academic Officer until he was named Chief Operating Officer in June 2000. Dr. moted to assistant to the athletic Turner then served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at HSU for a director, and in 1993, he was year before becoming the 14th President of Hardin-Simmons University on June 1, 2001. promoted to assistant athletic director for game operations,in addition to the sports During his tenure as President,HSU saw record enrollments (2,435 in the fall of 2007), information duties. record endowment and similar funds ($121.5 million in 2007), and surplus budgets. HSU Davidson oversees the entire athletic program at Catawba. He has also been finished the most successful fund raising campaign in its history in December of 2006,hav- responsible for securing athletic advertising and sponsorships and has had signifi- ing raised $49.7 million. The University successfully completed its Commission on cant roles in Catawba’s Sports Hall of Fame inductions, the South Atlantic Colleges reaccreditation in 2007, has been chosen as a Top Tier institution by U.S.News & Conference Spring Sports Festival and the year-end athletic ceremony. He is a mem- World Report for six consecutive years and a Best in the West institution by Princeton ber of the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) and was Review for five consecutive years. a member of the regional advisory committee for NCAA Division II football (2002- Dr.Turner was active in the Abilene,Texas,community,serving on the Boards of organ- 04). Davidson is currently the South Atlantic Conference AD liaison for baseball and izations such as United Way of Abilene, the Abilene Chamber of Commerce, Serenity women’s basketball. House,the Abilene Philharmonic,and the Abilene Humanities Council. He has also served Davidson was also highly involved in the planning of the Hayes Field House and on the Boards of the Association of Texas Colleges and Universities, the Independent Shuford Stadium reconstruction. He also has directed the highly popular Sam Moir Colleges and Universities of Texas, the International Association of Baptist Colleges and Christmas Basketball Classic since 1996. Schools, and the Consortium for Global Education, which he currently chairs. A former member of the College Sports Information Directors of America Dr.Turner came to HSU from Mississippi College in Clinton,Mississippi,where he was (CoSIDA), Davidson was chairman of the NAIA District 26 SIDs and the Carolinas Head of the English Department and Professor of English from 1985 to 1992. While there, Conference Awards Committee for three years (1986-89). He was voted by his peers he was chosen as “Teacher of the Year,”cited as “Scholar of the Year,”and elected President as District 26 SID of the Year for 1987-88 and 1992-93. of the Faculty.H is wife,Annette, served the Clinton Independent School District as a first Born in Statesville, but reared in Salisbury, Davidson graduated in 1977 from grade teacher. West Rowan High School, where he was a four-year letterman in baseball, earning Previously,he served as a tenured Assistant and Associate Professor of English at Texas All-North Piedmont Conference honors as a senior. A&M University from 1976 to 1985 and as a visiting instructor at Baylor University in 1974- Davidson earned a bachelor’s degree in English at Catawba in 1981, working as 1975. Dr.Turner earned the Doctor of Philosophy degree from Tulane University in British a part-time writer at The Salisbury Post during his college years. He actually began and American Literature in 1977, and earned two degrees from Baylor: the Master of Arts at The Post as a 16-year-old sportswriter in 1975. in English in 1971 and the Bachelor of Arts in English and History in 1969. He has edit- A member of Milford Hills United Methodist Church, Davidson is president of ed three books—The Poet Robert Browning and his Kinsfolk, Critical Essays in the Westside Pool Association. He is also a member of the PTA at Salisbury High American Humor, and Critical Essays in Eudora Welty—as well as having published School. more than two dozen scholarly articles, essays, and chapters in books. Since he greatly Davidson resides in Salisbury with his wife,Toni,a registered nurse at Lexington enjoys teaching, he tries to schedule a course every other year to stay active in the pro- Memorial Hospital. They have three daughters, Bethany (19), a sophomore at fession and in the classroom. Catawba, Katie (16) and Carrie (11). Dr.Turner and wife Annette have two grown children: Scott, a Development Officer for Texas Tech University, and Shannon Hays, an attorney, writer, and mother in Jacksonville, N.C. Shannon and her husband Mike, a Marine Corps Captain, have twin daughters, Madeleine and Peyton. Athletic Training Robert J. Casmus begins his eigh- Award and the Dan Libera Service Award from the Board of Certification. He is also a teenth year as head athletic trainer at two time recipient of the NC Athletic Trainers Association Trainer of the Year Award in Catawba College overseeing all athletic 2003 and 2008. health care services and the athletic drug A native of Sinking Spring, PA, Casmus earned a master’s degree in exercise and testing and education program. sports science from the University of Arizona in 1985. During that time, Casmus Casmus, along with assistant trainers worked as head athletic trainer at Palo Verde High School. He earned a bachelor’s Rob Dingle and Michael Eden, instruct degree in health education from Temple University in 1983 and during his time in the approximately 20 student athletic train- Pennsylvania area, Casmus worked as an athletic trainer for St. John Neumann High ers in the various educational compo- School and as a summer intern for the Philadelphia Eagles. In addition, Casmus com- nents of athletic training. They also pleted the Advanced Athletic Training Program at West Chester University in 1983 and supervise the students in the clinical is a certified EMT in the state of North Carolina. aspects as they care for Catawba’s Prior to his current position, Casmus was the head athletic trainer at Chowan athletes. College (1985-90). He also volunteered his services at the 1987 Pan American Games In 2007, Casmus was named the and was an intern at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in 1988. Casmus served on the NATA Division II College and University athletic training staff for the 1990 Olympic Sports Festival in Minneapolis, MN. Casmus Athletic Trainer of the Year. He is cur- was head athletic trainer for the United Football League exhibition game in Taipei, rently the District III Representative to Taiwan in July of 1994. He served as test site administrator and is currently on the prac- the NATA College and University Athletic tical examination developmental committee for the Board of Certification. Casmus Trainers Committee and also serves as served two terms as the District III Representative to the NATA Public Relations com- the District III Board of Director member to the NATA Research and Education mittee from 1998-2005.