BLOOMSBURG (2-0, 0-0 PSAC East) at GANNON (2-0, 0-0 PSAC West)
Saturday, September 17, 2016 (12:00 PM)
McConnell Family Stadium - Erie, Pa.

GAME NOTES
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Gannon Depth Chart vs Bloomsburg (subject to change)

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SERIES HISTORY
Bloomsburg leads the all-time series, 3-1
Streak: Bloomsburg 2W

Last Meeting: October 5, 2013 at Gannon (Bloomsburg 38, Gannon 14)
First Meeting: November 8, 2008 at Gannon (Bloomsburg 38, Gannon 10)
Largest Bloomsburg Win: November 8, 2008 at Gannon (38-10)
Largest Gannon Win: November 7, 2009 at Bloomsburg (10-7 (OT))

FIVE THINGS TO WATCH
- Both teams enter Saturday's game with a 2-0 record. The Huskies earned a road win at Stonehill on September 1 and then won its home opener, 35-20, over Clarion last Saturday. Gannon has won games against Southern Connecticut State and Shippensburg. It is the seventh time in the last nine seasons that Bloomsburg has started 2-0.

- Bloomsburg has rattled off 17 consecutive winning seasons and 17 consecutive seasons of seven or more victories. Only Division I's Florida State (31) and Virginia Tech (23), Division II's Northwest Missouri State (19), and Division III's Mount Union (27) have longer streaks in all of college football. Boise State and Oklahoma have streaks equal to that of Bloomsburg's.

- Lawrence Elliott Jr. (Utica, N.Y./Thomas R. Proctor) was named the PSAC East Offensive Player of the Week after rushing for 134 yards and one touchdown in the win over Clarion. It was his second 100-yard effort this season and moved him to within 160 yards of reaching 2,000 for his career.

- Gannon's Karch Holland was named the PSAC West Special Teams Player of the Week. He produced four touchbacks in five kickoffs and booted a 31-yard field goal as time expired in the third quarter in the Golden Knights' 24-20 win at Shippensburg last Saturday.

- Chris Palubinsky (Ringtown, Pa./Shenandoah Valley) threw for 244 yards last Saturday - the most yards by a Bloomsburg quarterback in a game since November 15, 2014. Meanwhile, Gannon quarterback Zach Phillips is second in the PSAC in rushing (290 yards) and averages 9.4 yards per carry. He has also thrown for 249 yards and two scores through two games this season.

FROM THE ARCHIVES (by BU Archivist, Bob Dunkelberger)
- With the victory on Saturday, Bloomsburg now has an all-time record at Redman Stadium, which opened in 1974, of 150-70-4. It took the Huskies 20 years, and 103 games, to win the first 50 at home, reaching a record of 50-50-3 with a 29-17 victory over Kutztown in 1994.  It only took 60 more games to get to 100 all-time wins when Millersville was defeated 42-28 in 2005, with the team going 50-9-1 over that 60-game span. The Huskies are 50-11 in 61 contests since 2005 to reach 150 victories at the stadium. Since the program's first season in 1892, Bloomsburg has played home games on six fields in Columbia County: four on campus, the Town Athletic Park, and Berwick's Crispin Field, with a cumulative record of 363-173-21.
 
- The Huskies' 35-20 win over Clarion was the first time in 1,052 games in school history that a game ended with that score. It was the 22nd time Bloomsburg has scored 35 points, with a record of 21-1. The only loss came at Millersville in 1990 by a score of 40-35, after having led the Marauders 28-7 in the second quarter. The Huskies have surrendered 20 points in back-to-back games and 39 times overall, with a record of 14-25.  They lost the first 18 such games, but have gone 14-7 in them since 1967.
 
- Bloomsburg got off to a slow start in its first four games of 2015, scoring nine points in the first half of its games on three field goals and just 61 overall.  This year in two games the Huskies have already scored 38 points in the first half and 59 overall.
 
- The Huskies game this Saturday is the seventh in school history to be played on September 17.  In the previous six, Bloomsburg has a record of 3-3, going 1-3 on the road and 2-0 at home.  Four of the six have been against Lock Haven: losses on the road in 1977 and 1983, and wins at home in 1988 and at Lock Haven in 2005.  The two other games were a loss on the road to Wilkes in 1949 and a home win over California in 1994.
 
- The game with Gannon is the fifth in the series between the two schools, dating back to the first meeting in 2008. Bloomsburg has a 3-1 record in the previous four games, with a mark of 1-1 at home and 2-0 on the road. The Huskies have outscored the Golden Knights in the four games by a combined score of 126-58 - an average score of 32-15.

BY THE NUMBERS
10 - Players that have made their first start in a Bloomsburg uniform through the first two games of the year (Michael Allen (Oley, Pa./Oley Valley), 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), Jesse Osborne (Medford, N.J./Shawnee), Chris Palubinsky (Ringtown, Pa./Shenandoah Valley), Travon Pugh (Tobyhanna, Pa./Pocono Mountain West), Eric Schwartz (York, Pa./Central York), Osman Toure (Philadelphia, Pa./Academy Park))
17 - Consecutive winning seasons
17 - Consecutive seasons of seven wins or more (tied for fifth-most in all of college football)
30 - The Huskies are 21-6 under head coach Paul Darragh when having more than 30 minutes of possession time. It was the 27th time in 38 games under Darragh that the Huskies have 30 minutes or more time of possession
31 - Games under head coach Paul Darragh (38 total) that the Huskies' defense has recorded at least one sack. Bloomsburg was held without a sack against Clarion last Saturday
74 - Consecutive games of scoring at least 10 points in a game
108 - Consecutive games of scoring at least one touchdown
151 - Bloomsburg victories since the start of the 2000 season - fifth-most in Division II during the stretch
153 - Consecutive games of scoring at least one point
160 - Rushing yards needed by senior Lawrence Elliott Jr. (Utica, N.Y./Thomas R. Proctor) to join the 2,000-yard club in his career
171 - Bloomsburg victories with Paul Darragh on the staff (171-52, .767). Darragh joined the Huskies' staff in 1997 as the defensive coordinator
200 - Redshirt junior quarterback Chris Palubinsky (Ringtown, Pa./Shenandoah Valley) threw for 244 yards in last Saturday's win over Clarion. It was just the 11th time in 38 games under head coach Paul Darragh that a Bloomsburg quarterback threw for more than 200 yards in a game
453 - Rushing yards needed by redshirt senior Joe Parsnik (Wilkes-Barre, Pa./Coughlin) to join the 2,000-yard club in his career
1,000 - Bloomsburg has had at least one 1,000-yard rusher in six straight seasons and in 14 of the last 16 years
1,858 - 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)

UP NEXT
Bloomsburg will be back on the road next Saturday, September 24, when it travels to Cheyney University to open divisional play. The Huskies are 45-9-1 lifetime against the Wolves and have won the last 25 meetings between the two schools. Kickoff is scheduled for 1:00 p.m. and will be covered live on NewsRadio WHLM.