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BUCKNELL FOOTBALL HISTORYBUCKNELL FOOTBALLA CENTURY OF TRADITIONThe game bore little resemblance to what we now know as football, and even one of the school names has been changed. In November of 1883, a groupof students from Lafayette College journeyed west to play a group from the University at Lewisburg in the relatively new sport of football. The sport was sonew, in fact, that the majority of the dozen or so students from Lewisburg, who did not have a coach and had practiced only briefly, had never seen a gameof football before playing in one.The players from Lewisburg, whose school would be renamed Bucknell University in 1886, lost that first game, 59-0, and perhaps because of thatexperience, their school did not play another official game until 1887.Still, the seeds had been planted for a program that would grow into one of the most respected programs in the East by the 1950s, and will celebrateits 121st season in 2006.Scores of marvelous players have donned the Orange and Blue over the course of the 120 seasons of Bucknell football, and each season gives rise to newnames, new heroes, new legends.Here is a quick trip through the colorful tradition that is Bucknell football:18911924Still playing without a full-time coach, Bucknell gains its firstvictory ever with a 16-10 triumph over Lafayette. The Bison alsodefeat Cornell (4-0) and Penn State (12-10) on their way to a 6-2-1record. The team includes Andrew Wyant, who later goes on to playfor the legendary Amos Alonzo Stagg at the University of Chicagoand is a member of both the Bucknell Hall of Fame and the NationalFootball Hall of Fame.The team sets a then-school record for victories with an 8-2 mark andmeets Lafayette on October 18 in the first football game ever played inMemorial Stadium. WallyFoster, the captain of thatBucknell team, scores thefirst points in stadium history.19001931Christy Mathewson concludes his marvelous Bucknell footballcareer and begins a professional baseball career that ranks amongthe best of all time. A hard-running fullback and tackler, “Matty”also excels as a kicker and gains national attention with two fieldgoals against Army.Led by future NFL Hallof Famer Clarke Hinkle,Bucknell rolls to an unbeaten 6-0-3 record. TheBison’s undefeated markis tested in the final gameof the season, against alsounbeaten Fordham, but theBison prevail, 14-13, in a classic at the Polo Grounds.1918Bucknell records the first of its three undefeated seasons. En routeto a 6-0 record, the Bison are nothing short of dominant, outscoring opponents 236-7. The season ushers in a quarter-century ofprosperity, as Bucknell enjoys 24 winning seasons in the next 26years.1934Edward (Hook) Mylin leads the Bison to a 6-2-2 regular-season recordand a berth in the first Orange Bowl game, on January 1, 1935. Aftera two-day train trip to Miami for the game, Bucknell hammers theUniversity of Miami, 26-0.1951In the midst of a four-year stretch in which Bucknell goes 27-8, headcoach Harry Lawrence and his team finish perfect at 9-0, perhaps thefinest season in school history. The defense includes Little All-Americadefensive tackle George Young (long-time general manager of theBucknell’s 1899 football team — Christy Mathewsonis in the back row, third from the right.2006 Bucknell Football 98 www.BucknellBison.com
BUCKNELL FOOTBALL HISTORYNew York Giants), while the relentless offense averages 463.3 yardsper game. That breaks the Eastern record set in 1945 by a Davis- andBlanchard-led Army team.1989Bucknell’s newly-renovated stadium is rededicated in honor of ChristyMathewson. Much like the stadium’s namesake, Bucknell opens play inthe “new” facility with a victory, handing Dartmouth a 36-20 setbackon September 30.1960After opening the season at 2-2, Bucknell rolls past Lafayette, Lehigh,Colgate, Temple and Delaware — by a combined score of 107-14 — tofinish 7-2 and win its first-ever Lambert Cup. Quarterback Paul Terhesearns Little All-America honors.1995The Tom Gadd tenure begins at Bucknell, and the Bison finish 7-4. RichLemon becomes Bucknell’s all-time rushing leader on opening day.19641996Just four years after leading Bucknell to its first Lambert Cup title,head coach Bob Odell repeats that feat, as the Bison finish 7-2. Afteropening the season with a loss, Bucknell wins seven of the next eightgames, including a 21-14 season-ending win at Delaware. The Bisonsquad features Little All-America end Tom Mitchell, who would laterenjoy a fine pro career with Baltimore and San Francisco.Fittingly, Rich Lemon concludeshis remarkable career with aPatriot League title, as Bucknelloutlasts Colgate, 28-27, in theheart-stopping season finale. Thewin gives Bucknell its first football title in over 30 years. Lemongraduated with 4,742 rushingyards, nearly 2,100 more than theprevious record-holder.1968Sam Havrilak sets a Bucknell singlegame total offense record with 397yards against Colgate, a mark that stillstands. Havrilak, who would graduate with every Bucknell total offenserecord, later played with Tom Mitchellfor the Baltimore Colts.1997Bucknell’s all-time leadingrusher Rich Lemon.The Bison roll out to a 10-0 record before falling to Colgate in theirseason finale to finish 10-1. The 10 wins were the most in school history, and many came in thrilling fashion, as the Bison won seven timesby seven points or less.Sam Havrilak1978Ken Jenkins arrives at Bucknell, and over the next four years, develops into one of the finest players in Bucknell history. He would set aschool record with 1,270 rushing yards in 1980, and he later playedwith three NFL teams.1986Two years after formation of the league is announced, the ColonialLeague (later renamed the Patriot League) debuts with six members— Bucknell, Colgate, Lehigh, Lafayette, Holy Cross and Davidson. TheBison’s first-ever league game is one for the ages. Trailing Colgate inthe fourth quarter, 39-25, Bucknell rallies to take a 40-39 lead with 52seconds left, but the Red Raiders drive for a game-winning field goal attempt with four seconds left. After a bobbled snap from center, Colgatecompletes an impromptu pass play that nearly goes for a touchdown,but Bison defensive back Robert Hawkins drags down the receiver atthe 9-yard line on the final play of the game.2001Bucknell celebrates its seventh straight winning season, a first inBison annals.2003After the legendary Tom Gadd loses a long battle with brain cancer,Bucknell turns to Tim Landis as its 25th head coach. Landis quicklyresores the good fortunes of the Bison football program. After a 29/0-7 season in 2002, Bucknell finishes 6-6/4-3 to complete one ofthe nation’s best one-season turnarounds.2004Bucknell wins its final four games of the season for the first time since1975 to claim its first winning season since 2001 with a 7-4 record.2006 Bucknell Football 99 www.BucknellBison.com
BUCKNELL FOOTBALL HISTORYTHE TOP 10A LOOK AT THE 10 MOST SIGNIFICANT BUCKNELL FOOTBALL GAMESEVER PLAYED . . . AND THE ONE THAT WASN’TBy Brad TuftsStephen Taylor wasn’t able to observe a footballteam practicing as he made his way to Harrisburgearly in 1846 with the proposed charter for thefledgling University at Lewisburg, but even beforethe name of the school was changed in recognition ofbenefactor William Bucknell, the sport had been introduced on campus and gained some popularity.Today, the sport is a fixture on fall Saturdays,and its history is prominent in any accounting ofBucknell’s athletic heritage. The Bison gridiron story(did you know that the word “gridiron” derives fromthe manner in which the field was formerly marked?)includes many notable games, and we could probablyargue for the next 150 years as to which were themost significant.Before designating the 10 most significantgames, please permit a look back at some of themore noteworthy games played by Bucknell footballteams.In 1881, a group of students from Bucknell andState College (as Penn State was known in thosedays) played a game of football which, at one time,was recognized as the first contest in the sport byeither school, though now both schools say that itwas only an informal meeting.Bucknell’s first official football game cameagainst Lafayette on Thanksgiving Day, 1883, buta lack of student interest following that initialventure curtailed play for four years. In 1887, thesport returned to stay as Bucknell played its firsttwo official games with Penn State.Within another four years, Bucknell was playingregular schedules, and by 1895, the university hadits first head coach.The 1900 team finished 4-4-1, but gained national attention in an 18-10 loss to West Point. Allthe scoring for Bucknell came on two field goals by ahard-running fullback named Christy Mathewson.The New York writers covering the game spreadthe word about this talented athlete, whose 48-yardfield goal in that game was the longest in the countrythat year. Mathewson, who went on to become oneof the nation’s most admired athletes as a pitcherfor the New York Giants, liked football more thanbaseball, and if the National Football League hadexisted at the time, it is probable that baseball wouldhave been deprived of one of its greatest and mostfamous players.Bucknell originally played football on Loomis Field, now home of the University’s Gatewayresidences. In 1924, the Bison moved into what isnow Christy Mathewson-Memorial Stadium, andchristened the new field against Lafayette before acrowd of 15,000. Lafayette won the contest, 21-3,despite a 43-yard field goal by Bison captain WallyFoster to open the scoring.Late that year, Bucknellbeat Navy, 6-0, and Rutgers,12-7, to highlight the first ofthree seasons in which Bucknellwas coached by “Uncle Charlie”Moran, who had led CentreCollege’s “Praying Colonels” toa memorable upset of Harvard.The Bison finished 8-2 in 1924,which represented the mostvictories ever by a Bucknellteam.Moran’s 1925 team visitedPresident Calvin Coolidge in theWhite House while in Washington to play Georgetown, andthe Bison were rolling along The Bison of 1895 . their legacy endures more than aat 6-2-1 when they played at century later.the University of Detroit onThanksgiving Day. The Bison won that game, 7-0, phreys, the Bison won at Penn State, 14-0. It wasbut the flamboyant coach also had scheduled a game the last time that Bucknell would defeat the Nittanyat Dayton two days later. The travel and two games Lions, who rose to national prominence followingin three days were too much, and the weary Bison the end of World War II.dropped a 19-0 decision.In 1949, Bucknell finished 6-2, and both lossesThis was not the first time Bucknell encountered (to Temple and Gettysburg) were by one point. Getscheduling difficulties. The 1891 team, led by Hall tysburg scored the winning TD in its 34-33 win inof Famers Andrew Wyant and “Warhorse” Allen, the final 40 seconds.opened the season with a 16-10 victory at Lafayette,Bucknell closed out the 1950 season with fourbut then had to play Lehigh the following day and straight wins, which set the stage for the 1951suffered a 62-4 beating.campaign, in which the Bison rolled to a 9-0 mark.Future College Football Hall of Famer Carl The perfect season concluded with a 21-20 win atSnavely made his debut as Bucknell coach in 1927, Colgate and a 33-6 trouncing of Delaware in Memoand promptly posted a 13-7 win over Penn State, rial Stadium that led to a more than mild celebrationthe Bison’s first win ever in State College. His teams on campus.went on to beat the Nittany Lions for the next threeThe 1951 team boasted several All-East andyears, and then the future Big Ten power dropped Little All-America players, and the Associated PressBucknell from its schedule for three years.poll released on Nov. 20 listed Bucknell at No. 20Times do change.in the nation.In 1929, Bucknell completed its second 8-2In 1954, BU beat Lehigh, 48-46, in a wild affairseason in history with a 78-0 win over Dickinson. that produced the highest losing score ever by aIn that game, future college and professional Hall Bison opponent.of Famer Clarke Hinkle scored 50 points, still aOne of the great eras in Bucknell football beganBucknell record.in 1958 with the arrival of Bob Odell, and after aA 7-6 loss to Temple on Oct. 10, 1930 was 1-8 mark in that first season, Odell led Bucknell tonoteworthy, for it was the first regularly-scheduled a 15-8 Homecoming win over Rutgers in 1959. Thenight football game ever.following year, a shutout of Delaware capped a 7-2Bucknell went 6-0-3 in 1931 for its second of season and earned the first of two Lambert Cupsthree undefeated seasons, and the record included for Odell’s teams. The Bison reclaimed Easternseason-ending wins over two of the powers of the supremacy in 1964, winning the Lambert Cup withday, Washington & Jefferson (10-6) and Fordham a 7-2 mark.(14-13). The latter was played before a large crowdBucknell won the Middle Atlantic Conferenceat the Polo Grounds, where Christy Mathewson had title in 1965 with a 26-14 win over Delaware, andgained fame for the New York Giants.closed the season with a 22-14 win over Davidson.Edward “Hook” Mylin arrived on the scene in In that game, All-America Tom Mitchell was chasing1934 and led Bucknell to a 7-2-2 record that included the national record for career receiving, and coacha 13-7 win over Penn State and a 26-0 rout of Miami Carroll Huntress and his staff devised a formationin the Orange Bowl.designed to hit Mitchell with short passes while heIn 1938, the second season under Al Hum- was in the backfield. On the second attempt, a bad2006 Bucknell Football 100 www.BucknellBison.com
BUCKNELL FOOTBALL HISTORYBill Lane slashes his way through Villanovain 1936. The Bison’s 6-0 win killedVillanova’s Rose Bowl hopes.snap from center led to a big loss, and attempts atthe record were abandoned.Mitch Farbstein, a member of the Bucknell Athletics Hall of Fame, was captured in the pages of Lifeafter he led Bucknell to a 14-13 win over Gettysburgin 1971. That same year, the bruising fullback scoredfive touchdowns in a 33-0 win over Lafayette.A 39-yard field goal by Al Yuknus with 20seconds left gave Bucknell a 19-17 win at Daytonin the 1982 season opener, the Bison’s first visit tothe southern Ohio city since “Uncle Charlie” triedto win two games in three days in 1925. The gamewas also one of the hottest in Bucknell annals, asgametime temperature on the artificial surface wasYOU MAY NOT HAVEKNOWN THAT . Bucknell played George Washington at home on Oct.10, 1925, the day Christy Mathewson was buried inLewisburg. In his memory, there was no cheering inthe first quarter. Penn State dropped Bucknell from its football schedule for three years. It happened after the Bison beat theNittany Lions three straight times between 1927-30. The 1935 Orange Bowl game between Bucknell andMiami featured the first-ever college football photograph transmitted over the wire by the AssociatedPress.112 degrees.In 1987, back-to-back home games with HolyCross (a 48-10 loss) and Columbia (a 62-20 win)brought the national news media to Lewisburg indroves.The media came first to chronicle the FrankMerriwell-like heroics of the Crusaders’ GordieLockbaum, and then returned the next week asColumbia attempted to escape its collegiate-recordlosing streak.The Lions attempted an onside kick on theopening kickoff, but that failed, and Bucknell led28-0 by the end of the first quarter and the Lionswent on to their 37th straight loss.Lou Maranzana’s first season as head coachin 1989 included a very special afternoon, as theBison’s home stadium was rededicated to thememory of Christy Mathewson. Matty would havebeen proud, as the Bison that day beat Dartmouth,Maranzana’s alma mater, 36-20.The Tom Gadd era began in 1995, and the 7-4record included a dramatic 21-14 win at Colgate inthe first overtime game in Bucknell history.The drama of that contest, though, paled incomparison to the Bucknell-Colgate game in 1996,as the Bison and Red Raiders again played intoovertime, this time with the Patriot League title onthe line. In a game that will be long rememberedby all in attendance, Bucknell battled to a 28-27win when a Colgate two-point conversion pass inovertime was batted down by Brandon Little, whowould later earn All-America honors.Bucknell built on its championship season bywinning its first 10 games the following fall andcompiling a 12-game winning streak, the secondlongest in school history. In the process of postingmore wins than any other Bison team, Coach Gadd’scharges were nationally ranked and led the PatriotLeague in total defense for the third straight year.However, the memorable season and win streakcame to an end with a 48-14 loss at Colgate in a gamethat again decided the Patriot League crown.The Bison continued their winning ways in1999, turning in their fifth straight winning seasonwith a 7-4 record behind an offense that scored 320points — the third-highest single-season total inschool history. Quarterback Don McDowell turnedin one of his career-best performances to lead theOrange and Blue to a 21-16 victory at nationallyranked Colgate, while Jabu Powell stepped in atrunning back and led the Bison to their first win atPenn’s Franklin Field (23-16) in over 30 years.In 2001 the Bison made it seven straightwinning seasons — a first in the history of theprogram — while playing on their new state-ofthe-art FieldTurf.With their football fortunes reaching heightsnever before seen, the Bison were dealt a devastating blow when Gadd had to step aside in 2002 tobattle brain cancer. He lost that battle in March2003. Gadd tied the BU record for career coachingvictories with 48, achieving that figure faster thanany of his predecessors.Tim Landis succeeded Gadd in 2003, and quickly restored Bucknell’s recent tradition as a PatriotALL-TIME DIVISION I-AA .18.19.20.Yale.830Penn .781Harvard .774Princeton .763Fordham .722Dartmouth .638Lafayette .620Delaware .611Lehigh .609Cornell .602Dayton .579Colgate .567Northern Iowa .564Holy Cross .562Brown .550Bucknell . 546Drake .528Furman .529Villanova.525Butler .514League contender. The Bison finished in third placewith a 4-3 league record, just one year after finishing0-7. In his second season the Bison improved to 7-4and were 4-2 in the Patriot League to record theirsecond consecutive third-place finish.On the following pages are the 10 most significant Bucknell football games ever played, compiledin chronological order. There are certainly manymore games that deserve consideration, but wehad to make some tough choices. Let the friendlyarguments begin.BRAD TUFTS retired in the spring of 2000 after more than30 years as a member of the University’s athletic department staff.Quarterback Don McDowell helped the 1999Bison score 320 points as they turned in theirfifth straight winning season.2006 Bucknell Football 101 www.BucknellBison.com
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