November 9, 2012 • vs. Pittsburgh UConn Individual Leaders
Game #6 • October 6, 2012
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High Point Solutions Stadium • Piscataway, N.J. Connecticut (3-3, 0-1) No. 22/21 Rutgers (5-0, 2-0)
UConn Starters Offense WR 85 TE 94 LT 72 LG 69 C 50 RG 63 RT 77 QB 10 TB 25 FB 47 WR 31
Defense Davis DE 48 Griffin DT 53 Bennett DT 59 Greene DE 56 Bullock LB 3 Masters LB 33 Friend LB 28 Whitmer CB 5 Hyppolite S 16 Frank S 15 Williams CB 7
Williams Wirth Stephen Pruitt Moore Smallwood Johnson
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First Quarter RU - Kyle Federico 45 yd field goal 3:43 (7-17, 3:24) RU - Kyle Federico 31 yd field goal 0:28 (6-15, 3:09) Second Quarter UC - Chad Christen 19 yd field goal 2:39 (9-45, 4:33) Third Quarter RU - Mark Harrison 14 yd pass from Gary Nova (Federico kick) 9:09 (9-84, 4:44) Fourth Quarter RU - Wayne Warren 25 yd interception return (DeLouisa kick failed) 3:44
Rushing No Gain Loss Net TD Lg McCombs 12 34 2 32 0 10 McCummings 4 25 1 24 0 16 DeLorenzo 4 8 3 5 0 4 Passing Com-Att-Int Yds TD Lg Whitmer 14-32-4 191 0 22 McCummings 0-1-0 0 0 0 Receiving Davis Smith Griffin Punting Wagner
No Yds TD Lg 4 78 0 22 3 52 0 21 3 31 0 16 No Yds Avg Lg In20 5 173 34.6 62 3
Field Goal Attempts Christen 2nd 02:39 19 yds Good Christen 2nd 00:01 51 yds Missed
Defense UT-AT-TT TFL Sk Int Johnson 2-8-10 Moore 5-4-9 1.5 Smallwood 1-8-9 1.0 PISCATAWAY, N.J. - It just didn’t look like anything was improving on B. Jones 0-9-9 0.5 Saturday when the Huskies ran into 22nd-ranked Rutgers and absorbed a Total Participants (53): 4 Foxx, 6 Smith, 8 19-3 setback in their Big East opener. Wirth 2-6-8 1.5 1.0 Wreh-Wilson
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Phillips, 11 McCummings, 13 Christen, 20 Allen, 21 Williams, 22 Adams, 23 Lee, 29 Mack, 32 Ashiru, 34 Kenney, 36 Osiecki, 41 Steg, 43 McCombs, 44 DeLorenzo, 45 Norris, 46 Vann, 51 Willman, 52 Donohue 60 Samra, 65 Cruz, 67 Mueller, 73 Mateas, 80 Shortell, 84 Jones, 86 Wagner, 89 Delahunt 90 Campenni, 96 Parker 97 McBryde
Team Statistics UCONN FIRST DOWNS 17 Rushing 4 Passing 10 Penalty 3 RUSHING YARDS 53 Rushing Attempts 28 Average Per Rush 1.9 Rushing Touchdowns 0 Yards Gained Rushing 74 Yards Lost Rushing 21 PASSING YARDS 191 Com.-Att.-Int 14-33-4 Avg. Per Att. 5.8 Avg. Per Com. 13.6 Passing Touchdowns 0 TOTAL OFFENSE 244 Total offense plays 61 Avg. Gain Per Play 4.0 Fumbles: No.-Lost 1-1 Penalties: No.-Yards 3-20 PUNTS-YARDS 5-173 Avg. Yards Per Punt 34.6 Punt rets: No.-Yards 2-8 Kickoff rets: No.-Yds 2-27 Avg. Per Return 13.5 Int: No.-Yds 0-0 Fumble Ret: No.-Yds 0-0 Possession Time 27:13 Third-Down Conv. 6 of 13 Fourth-Down Conv. 0 of 1
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RU 17 7 9 1 123 35 3.5 0 134 11 157 18-27-0 5.8 8.7 1 280 62 4.5 3-1 10-80 6-185 30.8 1-8 1-57 57.0 4-58 0-0 32:34 5 of 14 0 of 0
The focus has been to improve the running game, but it was tougher early on when Whitmer and his teammates began the game without top running back Lyle McCombs, who sat for the first quarter for breaking team rules earlier in the week. Playing against a Rutgers team that leads the nation in rush defense, UConn wound up with 53 yards on 28 attempts, led by McCombs with 32 yards on 12 attempts. He came in averaging 90.4 yards per game. Despite all its offensive woes, which included five turnovers, the Huskies might have pulled off the upset if it had taken advantage of its opportunities. Shamar Stephen blocked a Rutgers field goal attempt in the second quarter, which led to the Huskies only points, a 19-yard field goal by Chad Christen. It was the first blocked field goal by UConn since 2004. The Scarlet Knights (5-0, 2-0 Big East) are off to their best start since 2006, and they avenged a bitter loss to the Huskies that ended last regular season and kept Rutgers from sharing the conference title. Jawan Jamison ran it 28 times and recorded his sixth straight 100yard game and Gary Nova hooked up with Mark Harrison on a 14-yard touchdown pass early in the third quarter. Warren put it away with 3:44 left in the fourth when he grabbed a pass down the middle from Chandler Whitmer, and then darted through would-be-tacklers toward the end zone. Warren pushed across the goal line with some help from his teammates. UConn benched McCombs for the first quarter. He finished with 32 yards on 12 carries and the Huskies (3-3, 0-1) were held to their worst scoring output since getting shut out by Louisville in the middle of the 2010 season. Rutgers has won six of the last eight meetings, but lost last year’s game 40-22. Linebackers Khaseem Greene and Steve Beauharnais were all over UConn’s runners, and the Huskies couldn’t keep Rutgers blitzes from forcing Whitmer to hurry his throws. Greene also had an interception late in the fourth quarter. Rutgers chipped away offensively with Jamison running tough against a defense that had only been allowing 74 yards per game on the ground. Nova rarely went downfield but finished 18 for 27 for 157 yards. The Scarlet Knights’ first drive of the second half was the best of the game for either team, an 84-yarder on nine plays, highlighted by Jamison’s 28-yard run and capped when Harrison slipped a couple of tacklers and reached into the end zone with 9:09 left to make it 13-3. Rutgers turned two first-quarter turnovers by UConn into two field goals by Kyle Federico in a span of 3:15. UConn put together one solid drive in the first half, going 43 yards on 10 plays behind the running of McCombs and backup quarterback Scott McCummings. The drive stalled inside the 5 and Chad Christen kicked a 19-yard field goal to make it 6-3.
2012 University of Connecticut Football Game Notes
Rutgers Individual Leaders Rushing Jamison Huggins Passing Nova Receiving Coleman Harrison Jefferson Wright Punting Doerner
No Gain Loss Net TD Lg 28 117 7 110 0 28 4 16 0 16 0 9 Com-Att-Int Yds TD Lg 18-27-0 157 1 19 No Yds TD Lg 6 71 0 19 4 33 1 14 3 23 0 16 3 11 0 14 No Yds Avg Lg In20 6 185 30.8 54 2
Field Goal Attempts Federico 1st 03:43 45 yds Good Federico 1st 00:28 31 yds Good Federico 2nd 07:12 50 yds Block Defense UT-AT-TT TFL Sk Int Greene 5-3-8 1 Beauharnais 4-4-8 0.5 Ryan 5-0-5 1 Waters 2-3-5 1.5 1.0 Cooper 1-3-4 0.5 1