BLOOMSBURG (5-4, 3-3 PSAC East) vs SHIPPENSBURG (6-4, 4-2 PSAC East)
Saturday, November 5, 2016 (2:00 PM)
Redman Stadium - Bloomsburg, Pa.
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SERIES HISTORY
Shippensburg leads the all-time series, 45-35
Streak: Bloomsburg 2W

Last Meeting: September 26, 2015 at Shippensburg (Bloomsburg 17, Shippensburg 6)
First Meeting: October 6, 1917 at Bloomsburg (Bloomsburg 23, Shippensburg 0)
Largest Bloomsburg Win: September 10, 2005 at Bloomsburg (49-21)
Largest Shippensburg Win: October 25, 1941 at Shippensburg (42-0)

SENIOR DAY
Prior to the opening kickoff, the Huskies will honor their 17 seniors who will be suiting up for the final time, at home, on Saturday afternoon. They are: Jarell Boyd-Ross (Pittsburgh, Pa./Dickinson (N.J.)), Alex Dundore (Reading, Pa./Exeter ), Lawrence Elliott Jr. (Utica, N.Y./Thomas R. Proctor), John Garland (Hatfield, Pa./North Penn), Andrew Harris (Bethlehem, Pa./Whitehall), Nate Hoenl (Whitehall, Pa./Whitehall), Chad Hoffman (Drums, Pa./Hazleton), Vaughn Jones (Harrisburg, Pa./Susquehanna Township), Marquez Norford (Harrisburg, Pa./Susquehanna Township), Jesse Osborne (Medford, N.J./Shawnee), Joe Parsnik (Wilkes-Barre, Pa./Coughlin), Travon Pugh (Tobyhanna, Pa./Pocono Mountain West), Greg Rommel (Somerville, N.J./Immaculata), Tyler Szaflarski (Greencastle, Pa./Greencastle Antrim), Jerrin Toomey (York, Pa./West York), Will Wagner (Wernersville, Pa./Conrad Weiser), and Joe Wetty (Downingtown, Pa./Downingtown East).

FIVE THINGS TO WATCH
- Bloomsburg will be looking to clinch its 18th consecutive winning season when it hosts Shippensburg on Saturday. The Huskies are coming off of a 26-18 loss at Lock Haven last Saturday while the Red Raiders dropped a 24-21 double-overtime decision to Kutztown at home. The Huskies enter the game needing 19 points to reach 20,000 in program history.

- This will mark the 81st meeting in the all-time series between the two schools. The Red Raiders lead the all-time series, 45-35, but the Huskies have won two straight. Bloomsburg is 22-18 at home against Shippensburg.

- Bloomsburg has rattled off 17 consecutive winning seasons and 17 consecutive seasons of seven or more victories. The Huskies need one win to extend its streak of consecutive winning seasons and they need to win both to reach seven victories for the 18th straight year. Only Division I's Florida State (31), Virginia Tech (23), and Boise State (18); Division II's Northwest Missouri State (20); and Division III's Mount Union (28) have longer streaks in all of college football. Oklahoma has a streak equal to that of Bloomsburg's. Florida State (5), Virginia Tech (6), and Oklahoma (6) have not extended its streak this season.

- Senior Lawrence Elliott, Jr. is on several more milestone watches as he heads into Saturday's contest. He needs 90 rushing yards to move into the top ten on the school's all-time list and he needs 114 rushing yards to become the tenth player in school history to rush for 2,500 career yards. He also needs 97 all-purpose yards to become the fourth player in school history to reach 5,000 all-purpose yards for his career.

- Elliott, Jr. needs to average 106.5 yards rushing over the last two games to keep Bloomsburg's streak of 1,000-yard rushers alive. The Huskies have had a 1,000-yard rusher in each of the last six seasons and in 12 of the last 13 years. However, Shippensburg is 12th in the country in rushing defense (91.2) and next Saturday's opponent, IUP, is 52nd (130.8).

FROM THE ARCHIVES (by BU Archivist, Bob Dunkelberger)
- Even with the loss to Lock Haven on Saturday, the series has not been close for many years. One example of this is the fact that the 26 points scored by the Bald Eagles were the most in regulation versus the Huskies since 1993 - a game Bloomsburg won 35-32.  A second example is the 13-point Lock Haven lead after three quarters - the largest since 1982 when the Bald Eagles led by 14 after three periods on the way to a 14-0 victory.
 
- Saturday's game was first in program history to end in a 26-18 final.  In eight games all-time that Bloomsburg has scored 18 points, its record is now 3-5.  It was the 27th time the team has surrendered 26 points, compiling an 8-19 record. The very first game in program history was a 26-0 loss to the Wilkes-Barre Academy on October 22, 1892.
 
- The 18 points versus Lock Haven continued a scoring trend in road games for the Huskies. They have now scored in 109 consecutive contests on the road since a shutout at Millersville in 1998 and in 157 of 158 road games since the 1990 season. Before 1990, the longest consecutive game scoring streak away from home was just 23 - from 1946 to 1952. Bloomsburg has scored ten or more points in 58 straight on the road since the start of the 2007 season; in 107 of 109 since the 1998 Millersville shutout; and in 130 of 134 since 1994.  Before that year, the longest consecutive ten-plus point scoring streak on the road for the Huskies was just 11 in 1984 and 1985.
 
- Bloomsburg has now scored 19,981 points in 1,059 games in program history since that first contest in 1892.
 
- Since 1974, Bloomsburg's record at home has been 152-71-4.  Redman Stadium is the sixth field that Bloomsburg has played home games on in Columbia County since 1892.  The team's record at the previous five: Town Athletic Park (49-30-3 from 1892-1973), Normal Field to the north of Carver Hall (34-7 from 1896-1905), the first Mt. Olympus on campus that ran from the current site of Navy to Columbia halls (86-38-12 from 1907-1937), the second Mt. Olympus that is the current site of Bakeless and the Warren Student Services centers (39-28-2 from 1936-1964), and Berwick's Crispin Field (5-0 from 1948-1951). Bloomsburg's all-time record at home in 560 games is 365-174-21 (.671).
 
- The game with Shippensburg is the 81st in the series between the two schools, dating back to the first meeting in 1917 - a 23-0 home victory.  Bloomsburg's record in the previous 80 games is 35-45, with a mark of 22-18 at home and 13-27 on the road. The Huskies have won seven of the last eleven games played with the Red Raiders and are 12-9 since the 1995 season.

BY THE NUMBERS
9.5 - Quarterback sacks by Chris Gary (Philadelphia, Pa./Archbishop Wood) which is tops in the PSAC and is tenth in the country. Gary is on pace for 11.5 sacks. Larry Webster holds the school record with 13.5 in 12 games during the 2012 season
17 - Consecutive winning seasons
17 - Consecutive seasons of seven wins or more
18 - Rushing touchdowns by Lawrence Elliott Jr. (Utica, N.Y./Thomas R. Proctor) He ranks tied for first in the PSAC and tied for second in the country in that category
19 - Points short of scoring 20,000 points since the football program began in 1892 (1,058 games). The 5,000-point mark was reached in 1952 in game 414; the 10,000th point in 1987 in game 723; and the 15,000th in 2004 in game 909
19 - Players that have made their first start in a Bloomsburg uniform this season (Michael Allen (Oley, Pa./Oley Valley), Alex Annan (Phillipsburg, N.J./Phillipsburg), Jarell Boyd-Ross (Pittsburgh, Pa./Dickinson (N.J.)), TreVon Brown (New Oxford, Pa./New Oxford), Chris Dunford (Chester, Va./Thomas Dale), Duffy Gilhool (Upper Chichester, Pa./Chichester), Nate Hoenl (Whitehall, Pa./Whitehall), Vaughn Jones (Harrisburg, Pa./Susquehanna Township), Dexter Jordan (Wernersville, Pa./Conrad Weiser), Jake Klinger (Berwick, Pa./Central Columbia), Travis Krall (New Columbia, Pa./Milton Area), Tony Le (Larksville, Pa./Wyoming Valley West), Ryan Neher (Richboro, Pa./Archbishop Wood), Jesse Osborne (Medford, N.J./Shawnee), Chris Palubinsky (Ringtown, Pa./Shenandoah Valley), Travon Pugh (Tobyhanna, Pa./Pocono Mountain West), Scott Rucci (Drexel Hill, Pa./Upper Darby), Eric Schwartz (York, Pa./Central York), Osman Toure (Philadelphia, Pa./Academy Park))
30 - The Huskies have held the ball for fewer than 30 minutes in six of their nine games this season. Entering the year, Bloomsburg had only 10 games of under 30 minutes in the first three seasons under head coach Paul Darragh (36 games)
36 - Games under head coach Paul Darragh (45 total) that the Huskies' defense has recorded at least one sack
54.5% - Percentage of Bloomsburg's total offense that has been through the air this season. The 2009 season marks the last time a BU team had more passing yards than rushing yards in a single season (1,796-1,767)
61 - Bloomsburg is 61-15 when rushing for more than 100 yards in a game since 2009
65 - Rushing yards by Duffy Gilhool (Upper Chichester, Pa./Chichester) against East Stroudsburg - the most by a Bloomsburg quarterback since Tim Kelly (Camp Hill/Cedar Cliff) rushed for 66 yards in a 34-13 win over East Stroudsburg on November 1, 2014
90 - Rushing yards needed by Lawrence Elliott Jr. (Utica, N.Y./Thomas R. Proctor) to crack the school's top ten list in career yardage. Tom Martin (1985-87) is tenth with 2,476 career rushing yards
97 - All-purpose yards needed by Lawrence Elliott Jr. (Utica, N.Y./Thomas R. Proctor) to become the fourth player in school history to record 5,000 in a career
112 - Bloomsburg is 112-3 all-time when scoring at least 40 points in a game.  Bloomsburg has recorded a program-record of seven games with at least 40 points four times (2005, 2007, 2012, and 2013). However, the Huskies have reached the 40-point plateau only three times in the last 23 contests
115 - Consecutive games of scoring at least one touchdown
154 - Bloomsburg victories since the start of the 2000 season - fifth-most in Division II during the stretch
160 - Consecutive games of scoring at least one point
171 - Rushing yards needed by Joe Parsnik (Wilkes-Barre, Pa./Coughlin) to reach 2,000 for his career
174 - Bloomsburg victories with Paul Darragh on the staff (174-56, .757). Darragh joined the Huskies' staff in 1997 as the defensive coordinator
283 - Rushing yards by Bloomsburg in 35-14 win over East Stroudsburg - a season-high and the most since rushing for 309 against Lock Haven on November 7, 2015. It was the most in a regulation game since rushing for 291 against Cheyney on October 3, 2015
773 - Team rushing yards needed by the Huskies to reach 50,000 since the start of the 1999 season (when the consecutive winning streak and consecutive streak of seven wins or more began)
1,000 - Bloomsburg has had at least one 1,000-yard rusher in six straight seasons, 12 of the last 13, and in 14 of the last 16 years
1998 - The last time a Bloomsburg team has given up more total yards that it has gained in a season (4,069-4,045). This season, the Huskies have allowed 3,458 total yards and have amassed 3,330

UP NEXT
The Huskies will conclude the 2016 season on the road at IUP on Saturday, November 12. Kickoff from Frank Cignetti Field at George P. Miller Stadium is scheduled for 1:00 p.m. The Crimson Hawks are currently ranked 11th in the country and they lead the all-time series against the Huskies, 18-10. However, Bloomsburg has narrowed the gap in the series as it has won five straight between the two schools including a 20-16 victory at IUP on September 15, 2011 - the last time the teams met. The game will also be covered live on NewsRadio WHLM.