December 13, 2003
YOU CAN'T OUTRUN JUSTICE FOREVER:
Colgate 36, Florida Atlantic 24 (Associated Press, 12/13/03)
Chris Brown threw for 207 yards and three touchdowns and running back Jamaal Branch set three NCAA season records, leading Colgate to a 36-24 victory over Florida Atlantic on Saturday in a Division I-AA semifinal game.Brown also ran for a score and accounted for 285 of Colgate's 412 yards of total offense, helping the Raiders (15-0) extend their winning streak to 21 games.
Branch rushed 45 times for 130 yards and one touchdown. He eclipsed NCAA records for carries in a season (430), touchdowns (29) and I-AA rushing yards in a season (2,271).
Colgate will face Delaware on Friday in Chattanooga, Tenn., in the title game.
The Red Raiders move on despite the shenanigans of the college football powers, which, having not invited the best team in history to a bowl game, sent Colgate on the road despite their higher seed in the Tournament.
MORE:
Colgate's Tight End Also Catches A's (PETE THAMEL, 12/13/03, NY Times)
John Frieser's Colgate teammates call him Clark Kent because of his studious glasses, focused classroom demeanor and collection of Superman memorabilia.Posted by Orrin Judd at December 13, 2003 05:05 PMThe likening to Superman's alter ego fits because Frieser has two distinct identities at Colgate. One is as a sociology and anthropology major with a 3.69 grade-point average who always sits in the front of the class. The other is as a dominating all-Patriot League tight end who is likely to get a shot at playing in the N.F.L. next season.
"If there's a clone for what you want the student-athlete to be, it's him," Colgate Coach Dick Biddle said.
Frieser epitomizes the balance between academics and athletics that has made Colgate (14-0) a surprising participant in the semifinals of the Division I-AA playoffs. Colgate, which plays at Florida Atlantic on Saturday, is the first university from the nonscholarship Patriot League to reach the semifinals of the 16-team tournament.
Colgate's players must be able to compete academically on a campus where the average freshman SAT score is 1,336.
That places a premium on someone like Frieser, a 6-foot-5, 260-pound tight end who also flourishes in the classroom.
Well, at least the coming loss to Delaware will prevent any controversy over which Colgate team was the best in NCAA history.
Posted by: pj at December 13, 2003 06:52 PMOne suspects that Colgate has the Football Gods on its side.
Posted by: Mike Morley at December 13, 2003 08:22 PMpj:
Actually, my personal pick for the best Colgate squad of modern times would have gone undefeated had they not lost to Delaware in the final game of the season a number of years ago.
http://cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_iaa/patriot/colgate/yearly_results.php?year=1975
Posted by: oj at December 13, 2003 08:50 PMCompletely OT to the _substance_ of this entry, but not at all OT as to the _title_ of the article:
THE U.S. ARMY HAS CAPTURED SADDAM HUSSEIN!!!
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&e=1&u=/nm/20031214/ts_nm/iraq_dc
Posted by: Joe at December 14, 2003 07:48 AM