Bloomsburg Huskies
Nine NCAA Playoff Appearances • 17 PSAC Championships 2013 Football Game Notes • #BUHuskies
##11 BLOOMSBURG HUSKIES 3-0, 1-0 PSAC east SEPTEMBER Sat. 7 STONEHILL............................W, 41-13 Sat. 14 at Edinboro..............................W, 47-35 Sat. 21 at Kutztown*............................W, 31-12 Sat. 28 LOCK HAVEN*......................3:30 p.m.
OCTOBER
Sat. 5 at Gannon.............................. 12:00 p.m. Sat. 12 MILLERSVILLE*....................3:30 p.m. Sat. 19 at East Stroudsburg*...............1:05 p.m. Sat. 26 CHEYNEY*..............................2:00 p.m. Thu. 31 SHIPPENSBURG*..................8:00 p.m.
NOVEMBER
Sat. 9 at West Chester*.....................1:00 p.m. Sat. 16 SLIPPERY ROCK...................1:00 p.m. * PSAC East contest
COACHING Head Coach..... Paul Darragh (Temple ‘85, ‘89) Bloomsburg Record....................3-0 (1st year) Overall Record...........................................Same RANKINGS AFCA Poll......................................................... #11 D2Football.com Poll....................................... #12
Lock Haven Bald Eagles 2--1, 1--0 psac EAST
SEPTEMBER Sat. 7 WEST VA. STATE.............W, 31-13 Sat. 14 at Clarion..............................L, 13-30 Sat. 21 CHEYNEY*........................ W, 12-10 Sat. 28 at Bloomsburg*.................. 3:30 p.m. OCTOBER Sat. 5 EDINBORO....................... 2:00 p.m. Sat. 12 at Shippensburg*............. 12:00 p.m. Sat. 19 at West Chester*............. 12:00 p.m. Sat. 26 MILLERSVILLE*.............. 1:00 p.m. NOVEMBER Sat. 2 E. STROUDSBURG*........ 3:05 p.m. Sat. 9 at Kutztown*...................... 1:05 p.m. Sat. 16 GANNON.......................... 1:00 p.m. * PSAC East contest
Lock Haven (2-1, 1-0 PSAC East)
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Date: Saturday, Sept. 28, 2013 Time: 3:30 p.m. Location: Bloomsburg, PA Stadium: Redman Stadium (4,775) Radio: WHLM 930 AM — Jim Doyle (play-by-play) Andy Ulicny (color) Webstream: bloomu.edu/huskytv #11 Bloomsburg (3-0, 1-0 PSAC East) Live Stats: BUHuskies.com
QUICK SIX -Franklyn Quiteh leads all of Division II with 194.3 yards rushing per game this season. -The Huskies now boast the PSAC’s all-time leaders in career rushing yardage (Franklyn Quiteh) and field goals made (Danny Fisher). -Bloomsburg is 3-0 for the third straight year. The Huskies seek their third consecutive 4-0 start with a win this week. -Huskies interim head coach Paul Darragh is the first Bloomsburg coach to win his first three games since Jack Yohe did so in 1952. A win on Saturday would make Darragh the first Bloomsburg head coach to start his tenure 4-0. -Bloomsburg has won eight straight vs. Lock Haven at Redman Stadium. The last Huskies home loss to Lock Haven came in 1992 when the Bald Eagles won 38-33. -The Huskies have scored 20 or more points in 16 consecutive games, the second longest streak in school history. The Huskies can tie the record of 17 straight set between 2000-01 on Saturday. TODAY’S MATCHUP Saturday’s game sees Bloomsburg welcome PSAC East newcomer Lock Haven to Redman Stadium with the nationally-ranked Huskies seeking to keep their record unblemished. Bloomsburg returns home for the first time since Week 1 when it opened the year in impressive fashion, dominating non-conference opponent Stonehill on the way to a 41-13 win. Lock Haven brings a 2-1 record to town, already securing its first two-win season since 2006. Despite the winning record, the Bald Eagles are allowing over 363 yards per game while gaining just 283 themselves. The largest difference between the two teams comes on the ground where Bloomsburg averages over 248 yards per game more than Lock Haven (359.7111.0).
THE HEAD COACHES The more things change, the more they stay the same might be the motto for the Huskies this COACHING Head Coach.......John Allen(James Madison ‘96) fall. Although longtime head coach Danny Hale Lock Haven Record.....................3-21 (3rd year) has retired, taking with him a 173-56-1 mark Overall Record...........................................Same during his tenure with the Huskies, the faces vs. Bloomsburg.............................................. 0-2 on the sideline remain very familiar with the majority of Hale’s staff remaining in tact. RANKINGS Paul Darragh takes over the role of interim AFCA Poll ....................................................N/A head coach this season after serving 16 years D2Football.com Poll......................................N/A on the Bloomsburg coaching staff as defensive
coordinator. Under Darragh’s leadership, the Huskies’ defense has ranked in the top half of the PSAC in total defense in seven of the past 11 seasons. Darragh has started his tenure as head coach with a 3-0 record, the first Bloomsburg coach to win his first three games since Jack Yohe did so in 1952. John Allen is in his third season at the helm of Lock Haven, working toward turning around the Bald Eagles program by already scoring two wins in a season for the first time in seven years. Allen led Lock Haven to snap its five yearlong losing streak when it defeated Cheyney, 15-7, in the season finale last fall. Lock Haven had a few narrow misses before the Cheyney win, dropping a 19-10 decision on the road at Mercyhurst and then watched Clarion score a game-winning touchdown with two seconds remaining on Homecoming. Prior to taking over at Lock Haven in March of 2011, Allen was the coordinator of player development at Penn State from 2008-11 and was also the head coach of the Berlin Thunder of NFL Europe and also spent three years as offensive coordinator for the Amsterdam Admirals, winning the World Bowl in 2005. LAST MEETING Because Lock Haven was a part of the PSAC Western Division until this year, the Huskies and Bald Eagles did not previously meet each year. As such, the last time the schools met in football was in the 2011 season finale at Redman Stadium when the Huskies closed out the year with a 34-3 victory on Nov. 12, 2011. Bloomsburg took a commanding 27-0 lead at halftime and never looked back behind 317 yards of rushing. Franklyn Quiteh ran for 120 yards while Lock Haven’s Brandon Brader carried 34 times for 122 yards.
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