Brown, URI Football Set for 102nd Governor's Cup Game - Under the Lights
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Brown, URI Football Set for 102nd Governor's Cup Game - Under the Lights
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Brown leads the all-time series 72-27-2, but URI won last season’s game 28-13 at Meade Stadium.
“This is a great rivalry. I’ve been a part of 24 of them. Now I’ve been a part of a state rivalry on the other side of a scholarship school with New Hampshire, played there back in the 70s and also coached there. So I saw it from a coaches side, I saw it from a players side and now I see it from the other side here at Brown after 24 years,” Brown head coach Phil Estes said during his Governor’s Cup press conference.
GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE -- SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLASTURI head coach Jim Fleming added, “One of the things that is extremely significant is that most football games, there is a win or a loss and there is nothing to take home. In this game, there is something tangible and that's the cup.”
Kick-off is set for 7 p.m.
Brown
The Bears enter the game with a record of 1-1 following a 45-28 loss to Harvard in their Ivy League opener last Saturday.
The Bears trailed Harvard 45-9 midway through the fourth quarter.
“I’ve never been angrier in my life. I’m sick and tired of the losses to Harvard and it puts a bad taste in my mouth. I just want you to know that that’s not Brown football. Brown football is a physical football team and if there is one thing that is going to happen on Saturday you're gonna see it laid out right there. We are playing football and we are going to play Brown style football. Just as we always have,” Estes said.
Brown Offense
The Bears offense averages 28 points and 337 yards per game through two games this season.
They are led by quarterback Nicholas Duncan, who has completed 28 of 52 passes for 238 yards and a touchdown this season. However, he has thrown three interceptions.
Livingstone Harriott leads the Brown running attack with 19 rushes for 60 yards while Jakob Prall has been Brown’s top receiver, hauling in 16 catches for 155 yards.
Brown Defense
The Brown defense has given up 34 points and 453 total yards per game this season.
The defense is led by senior defensive end Richard Jarvis leads the country by averaging two sacks per game, while his 2.8 tackles for loss per game is second in the country.
URI
“Regardless of what has happened in the lead-up to this game, anything is possible in a rivalry game. We have put a lot into our preparation, we are looking forward to playing a quality opponent,” said Fleming.
URI Offense
The Rams’ offense enters the contest averaging 19 points and 369 total yards per game.
Quarterback Tyler Harris has completed 70 of his 130 passes for 961 yards and six touchdowns on the season. However, he has also thrown 11 interceptions.
A key for the Rams offense will be running back Harold Cooper.
Cooper has piled up 557 all-purpose yards (185.7 per game) in three games against Brown for his career. In two of those games, he has had at least 100 rushing yards.
For the receivers, Aaron Parker has a receiving touchdown in six straight games for URI after his 75-yard touchdown catch last week against New Hampshire.
He has seven touchdown catches in his last eight games.
URI Defense
The Rams defense gives up an average 25.8 points and 417 total yards per game.
Sophomore Momodou Mbye leads URI with four pass breakups on the season, while defensive tackle Jose Duncan leads Rhode Island with four sacks.
RI Teams To Win National Championships
PC Basketball 1960-61 NIT
The Providence College Friars won the National Invitation Tournament(NIT) in 1961, defeating St. Louis 62-59 at Madison Square Garden in New York.
At this time, the NIT was considered to be the National Championship of College Basketball.
The Friars were led by Vinny Ernst and James Hadnot that season.
PC 1962-63 NIT Champions
The Friars won their second NIT Championship two years after the first one. Led by Ray Flynn, John Thompson Jr. and Vinnie Ernst, the Friars won 15 straight games to claim the title.
Providence finished the season with a 24-4 record.
URI Men's Sailing 1965
The URI Rams won their first small boat National Championship in 1965.
The Rams were led by Art Payne and Peter Greene, both of whom were from Rhode Island.
Photo courtesy of urisailing.org
URI Men's Sailing 1975
The URI Rams won their second small boat National Championship and also won the National team race that season.
Photo courtesy of urisailing.org
URI Men's Sailing 1977
The URI men's sailing team won the National Championship in small boat sailing in 1977.
The team was led by two time all Americans Gary Knapp and Ed Adams.
Photo Courtesy of urisailing.org
Brown Men's Crew '93
The Brown Bears won the triple-crown, winning the Eastern Sprints, the IRA and the National Championship.
Brown Men's Crew '94
The Bears repeated their triple-crown performance from the season before, once again winning the Eastern Sprints, the IRA and the National Championship.
The Bears went undefeated on the season.
Photo Courtesy of brownbears.com
Brown Men's Crew '95
Coach Scott Roop leads the Bears to a third straight IRA and National Championship.
Photo courtesy of Brownbears.com
PC Women's Cross Country
The 1995 Providence Friars won the programs first NCAA title. On the way, PC won their first BIG EAST and ECAC Championships.
Head Coach Ray Treacy was named NCAA Division I Women's National Coach of the Year, BIG EAST Men's and Women's Coach of the Year, Rhode Island Words Unlimited Women's Coach of the Year and NCAA District I Women's Cross Country Coach of the Year.
Brown Women's Crew '96
Under head coach John Murphy, the Brown women's crew team won the 1996 eastern Sprints, the IRA's and the Collegiate National Championship.
The team became the first women's crew to win the "Triple Crown" of collegiate racing.
Photo courtesy of Brownbears.com
Brown Women's Crew '97
Brown's varsity four team wins the first NCAA Championship by defeating the University of Washington on Lake Natoma in California.
The Bears finished third as a team overall.
Brown Women's Sailing '98
The Brown Women's Sailing Team won the College Sailing Women's National Championship in 1998.
The championships were held at Tulane University in New Orleans Louisiana.
Brown Women's Crew '99
Brown women's crew won the first NCAA Division I Championship in Brown University History by defeating the University of Virginia by a three-second margin at lake Natoma in California.
Brown also won the Eastern Sprint Championship and the Ivy Championship, setting a new course record in the process.
Photo courtesy of Brownbears.com
Brown Women's Crew 2000
Brown repeated as national Champions in 2000, beating the University of Washington by 3.9 seconds four points.
In addition, Brown's varsity and second varsity won the Eastern Sprint Championship and the IVY league Championship.
Both teams went undefeated on the season.
Brown Women's Crew '02
The Bears won their third National title in four years defeating the defending champion Washington by four points in Indianapolis.
Brown was the only school to qualify all of it's crew for the grand finals.
The Bears went undefeated during the regular season.
Brown Women's Crew '04
Brown won thier fourth title in six years on Lake Natoma in California.
The win made Brown the winningest program in NCAA Championship history.
Brown Women's Crew '07
Brown won their fifth National Championship in 2007 at Melton Hill Lake in Tennessee.
The Bears beat Ohio State and Yale who came in second and third place respectively.
Photo courtesy of taxref/flickr
Brown Women's Crew '08
The Bears won their sixth National Championship on Lake Natoma in California.
The Bears beat Washington by eight points and third place Cal by 14 points to repeat as champions for the first time since 1999-2000.
URI Women's Sailing 2011
The URI Women won the programs first National Championship in small boat sailing in the 79 year history of the program and hoisted the Gerald C. Miller Memorial Trophy at the Sperry Top-Sider/Intercollegiate Sailing Association Women’s National Championship.
The Rams won the title as a club team and were one of two club teams competing for the title. The other club team was Western Washington, who finished 17.
Photo courtesy of uri.edu
Brown Women's Crew 2011
The Bears won their seventh NCAA National Championship in 15 years under head coach John Murphy.
The Bears racked up 45 points in the final race and beat Stanford by five seconds.
The title was their first since 2008.
Photo courtesy of brownbears.com
PC Women's Cross Country
The Providence College Women's Cross Country team won the 2013 National Championship with 141 points.
Emily Sisson was the Friars top finisher as she finished in seventh place at Wabash Valley Family Sports Center.
This was Providence's first title win since 1995.
PC Hockey 2015
The Providence College Friars won the 2015 NCAA Ice Hockey National Championship, defeating Boston University 4-3 at the TD Garden.
The Championship is the first in the program's history and only the third NCAA National Title in Providence College History.
PC goatender Jon Gillies was named Most Outstanding Player.
