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HARPER'S CAREER HIGHS
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Most Tackles/Game: 10 vs East Carolina (‘01) Most Solo Tackles/Game: 6 vs four opponents Most Assisted Tackles/Game: 4 vs three opponents Most Tackles for Loss/Game: 3 vs Southern Miss (‘01) Most Quarterback Sacks/Game: 2 vs Southern Miss (‘01) Most Fumble Recoveries/Game: 1 vs three opponents Most Pass Breakups/Game: 2 vs Houston (‘00) Most Blocked Kicks/Game: 1 vs Tulane (‘00)
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Miss State LA-Monroe Ark.State Army Sou. Miss East Carolina UAB Houston Tennessee Cincinnati Tulane
Q B FR PB Int/Yds 0/0 0 0 0/0 0/0 0 1 0/0 0/0 0 0 0/0 1/9 1 0 0/0 2/10 1 1 1/0 0/0 0 0 0/0 1/2 0 0 0/0 0/0 0 0 0/0 0/0 0 0 0/0 0/0 0 0 0/0 1/3 0 0 0/0
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TFLs 0/0 1/3 1/4 2/10 3/11 2/3 1/2 1/1 0/0 0/0 2/7
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AT 3 3 2 2 0 2 4 4 2 1 1
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Opponent Miss State UT-Chattanooga Sou. Florida Louisville Sou. Miss Houston East Carolina UAB Tennessee Army Cincinnati
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G AME -B Y-G AME R EVIEW Defense 9/3/01 9/8/01 9/22/01 9/29/01 10/6/01 10/13/01 10/20/01 10/27/01 11/10/01 11/17/01 11/24/01
Wide Receiver 6-3,190 Senior, 3L Pope HS Marietta, GA
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Sack 1-4 5-24 6-28
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HARPER'S STATISTICS UT AT Tot. FR Int TFL 23 23 46 1 0 3-6 49 24 73 2 1 13-41 72 47 119 3 1 16-47
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Tackles G/S 2000 11/9 2001 11/10 Totals 22/19
TRIPP HIGGINS
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Logged six tackles, one sack and one tackle for lost yardage in the first spring scrimmage ... Injured an ankle and missed the second scrimmage ... Battled through injury to appear in Blue-Gray game ... Had one tackle and one pass breakup in the spring game ... 1999: A walk-on candidate for a linebacker position ... Spent the fall of 1999 working with the defensive scout team ... Was redshirted in the fall while learning the Tiger defensive coverages and assignments ... Prep: Came to Memphis after a prep career at Wooddale High School in Memphis ... Lettered in football and basketball at Wooddale HS ... Played quarterback and safety at Wooddale ... Was an all-area selection in football as a junior ... Had a career best 201 yards passing and four touchdowns in a single game ... Rushed for a career high 175 yards in a single game ... Suffered a broken wrist early in his senior season ... Worked as a small forward on the Cardinal basketball team ... Played for coach Raymond Duke at Wooddale HS ... Born: 6/4/81 ... Is the son of Tonia Carter.
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Is expected to play a bigger role for the team this fall due to the new spread offense ... Worked as the “Y” receiver in spring drills and had eight catches for 161 yards in the spring scrimmages ... Was the second leading receiver in the spring of 2002 ... 2001: Lettered for his third consecutive season as a wide receiver ... Had two pass receptions in the season opener against Mississippi State ... Had one catch for 12 yards and his first career touchdown in the win over UT-Chattanooga ... Grabbed one pass for eight yards in the South Florida contest ... Played in seven games of the 2001 season ... Finished the season with four receptions for 13 yards and one score ... Had three pass receptions for 53 yards in the spring of 2001 ... Had a 12-yard touchdown catch in the final scrimmage of spring ... Has been two year regular at receiver ... 2000: Lettered while participating in all 11 games during the season ... Started the Houston and Cincinnati games ... Had at least one catch in all 11 games ... Opened the season with two catches for 17 yards against Mississippi State ... Had a season high three receptions for 42 yards against Southern Mississippi ... His three catches and the 42 yards against Southern Miss were both career high offensive totals ... Had one catch for 26 yards in the Cincinnati game ... The 26-yard reception against the Bearcats was a career long play for Higgins breaking the old mark of his 23-yarder against Southern Mississippi in 1999 ... Finished the 2000 season with 16 catches for 178 yards ... Was the team’s fifth leading receiver in 2000 ... Lettered previous season as the team’s punt returner and as a wide receiver ... Worked in the spring as a wide out with Ryan Johnson ... Had four pass receptions for 37 yards and one touchdown in spring scrimmages ... Caught a 10-yard pass from Neil Suber in the fourth quarter of the Blue-Gray game ... 1999: Earned his first letter as a Tiger appearing in all 11 games of the 1999 season ... Started the season as a wide receiver and later added the punt returner and kick returner duties ... Had his first career pass reception in the win over Tulane ... Caught a 13-yard pass for a first down ... Grabbed two passes for 33 yards in the Southern Mississippi game ... Finished the season with three receptions for 46 yards ... Had one kick off return for 28 yards in the win over UAB and had one return for 16 yards against Southern Mississippi ... Saw most of his playing time as the Tigers’ punt returner ... Took over the duties in the Arkansas State game ... Had one return for 10 yards against the Indians ... Had his biggest night as a Tiger when he returned eight punts for 46 yards and had a long return of 26 yards ... His eight returns rank as the second highest total ever by a Tiger player ... Returned seven punts a week later in the Tulane game ... Seven returns ranks him third on the single game list ... Finished the season with 25 punt returns for 141 yards ... His 25 returns ranks as the sixth highest total in school history ... A mid-semester signee for the Tigers in 1999 ... Graduated in May of 1997
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