Bloomsburg Huskies
Nine NCAA Playoff Appearances • 17 PSAC Championships 2013 Football Game Notes • #BUHuskies
##18 BLOOMSBURG HUSKIES 0---0, 0---0 PSAC
SEPTEMBER
Sat. 7 STONEHILL............................1:00 p.m. Sat. 14 at Edinboro........................... 12:00 p.m. Sat. 21 at Kutztown*............................1:05 p.m. 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) Bloomsburg Record......................................0-0 Overall Record...............................................0-0 vs. Stonehill........................................................0-0 RANKINGS AFCA Poll................................... #18 (preseason)
STONEHILL SKYHAWKS 0--0, 0--0 Northeast--10
SEPTEMBER Sat. 7 at BLOOMSBURG........... 1:00 p.m. Sat. 14 SAINT ANSLEM*............ 6:00 p.m. Fri. 20 at Assumption*.................. 7:00 p.m. Sat. 28 BENTLEY*......................... 6:00 p.m. OCTOBER Sat. 5 AMERICAN INT’L*........ 1:00 p.m. Sat. 12 at So. Conn. State*............ 1:00 p.m. Sat. 19 at New Haven*................... 1:00 p.m. Sat. 26 LIU POST*....................... 12:00 p.m. NOVEMBER Sat. 2 PACE*................................ 12:00 p.m. Sat. 9 at Merrimack*................... 1:00 p.m. Sat. 16 NE-10 Champ. Weekend......... TBA * NE-10 contest
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#18 Bloomsburg (0-0, 0-0 PSAC)
QUICK SIX
- Franklyn Quiteh opens the season needing 362 yards to set the school and PSAC records for rushing yardage in a career. He begins the campaign with 5,328 career rushing yards. - Saturday’s game marks the first game since the end of the 1992 season that the Huskies will play without Danny Hale as head coach. Hale retired in February. - Longtime defensive coordinator Paul Darragh takes over for his first game as interim head coach after 16 years on Hale’s staff. - The Huskies are 53-58-4 all-time in seasonopeners. - Kicker Danny Fisher needs five field goals and 19 kicking points to establish new PSAC records. - Bloomsburg returns 11 starters from last year’s NCAA Playoff team.
TODAY’S MATCHUP
Saturday’s game marks the second half of a twoyear home and home series with Northeast 10 Conference member Stonehill, a team Bloomsburg had never faced prior to last season. In the firstever meeting last August, the Huskies came away from Easton, Mass., with a 44-28 victory to open the 2012 campaign. The Skyhawks went on to finish 5-5 last year including a 3-3 mark in NE-10 play. The 5-5 record has been a common theme for Stonehill – the Skyhawks finished 5-5 in 2007, 2009, 2010 and 2012 in their search to end a long dry spell without a winning record. Stonehill’s last season with a record above .500 came in 1996 when the school went 8-2.
THE HEAD COACHES
The more things change, the more they stay the same might be the motto for the Huskies this fall. Although longtime head coach Danny Hale has retired, taking with him a 173-56-1 mark during his tenure with the Huskies, the faces on the sideline remain very familiar. Paul Darragh takes over the role of interim head coach this season after serving 16 years on the Bloomsburg coaching COACHING staff as defensive coordinator. Under Darragh’s Head Coach........ Robert Talley (Boston Univ., ‘91) leadership, the Huskies’ defense has ranked in the Stonehill Record.......................28-33 (7th year) top half of the PSAC in total defense in seven of Overall Record...........................................Same the past 11 seasons. vs.Bloomsburg.............................................. 0-1 RANKINGS AFCA Poll ....................................................N/A
Robert Talley begins his seventh year at the helm
Date: Saturday, Sept. 7, 2013 Time: 1:00 p.m. Location: Bloomsburg, PA Stadium: Redman Stadium (4,775) Radio: WHLM 930 AM — Jim Doyle (play-by-play) and Andy Ulicny (color) Webstream: bloomu.edu/huskytv Live Stats: BUHuskies.com
of the Skyhawks, owning a 28-33 record. Talley became the all-time leader in coaching victories at Stonehill in 2009 and has guided the team to four .500 seasons for the first time since the early 1990s and just the second time in program history.
LAST YEAR’S MEETING
Bloomsburg captured the first-ever meeting between schools with a 44-28 victory in Easton, Mass., to open the 2012 season. Stonehill grabbed the momentum early when Kevin Anderson ran the opening kickoff back for a touchdown. Bloomsburg stormed back, however, and looked as though it would turn the game into a rout, scoring the next 31 points unanswered for a 31-7 lead at halftime. Stonehill would eventually cut its deficit to just 10 points, though, at 38-28 with 10:38 to play before a five-minute Huskies drive resulted in a Danny Fisher 38-yard field goal pulled the lead to 41-28 and the Skyhawks would not threaten any further. The Huskies dominated on the ground, out-rushing Stonehill by a 369-33 margin. Franklyn Quiteh ran for 218 yards on 27 carriers including a 60-yard touchdown sprint in the third quarter. Quarterback Tim Kelly made his Huskies debut by going 16-for26 through the air for 197 yards and a score. Stonehill found success through the air after being forced to pass faced with a large early deficit. Quarterback Logan Meyer tossed for 370 yards and three touchdowns, but was also intercepted by the Huskies five times.
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