Rhode Island College Football Preview - November 12, 2016
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Rhode Island College Football Preview - November 12, 2016
Overall it has been a rough year for Bryant, Brown and URI, the teams are a combined 8-18 on the season following wins by Bryant and Brown last weekend.
URI has not played a game since losing 84-7 to James Madison two weeks ago, a loss that has brought into question the future of the program.
GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE -- SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLASTHere is this weeks Rhode Island College football preview:
Brown at Dartmouth, 12 p.m.
Brown defeated Yale last week at Brown Stadium and a win this week would get them back to .500 in conference play with one game to play. The last time the Bears finished with a .500 conference record was the 2012 season when they finished 4-3 in the conference.
On offense, the Bears are led by wide receiver Alex Jette, who has hauled in 45 catches for 481 yards and three touchdowns, while also returning punts. Jette has averaged 60 yards receiving per game and 5.6 yards per catch.
For much of the season, Brown has used two quarterbacks. But, it has been junior quarterback Thomas Linta getting the start over the last four weeks. Linda has completed 83 of 156 passes on the season, but has thrown seven interceptions compared to only four touchdowns.
Another player to watch on the Brown offense is freshman running back Livingstone Harriott who emerged last week with 92 yards rushing against Yale. The Brown running attack has averaged 127 yards per game so far this season.
On the defensive side of the ball, the Bears have had trouble stopping the opposing teams passing attack, giving up 209 passing yards per game.
To solve that problem, they will look to senior defensive end Richard Jarvis, who leads the Ivy League and is third in the country in tackles for a loss. Jarvis has three tackles for a loss of 14 yards last week against Yale.
Dartmouth
The Big Green are 4-4 overall and 1-4 in conference, that one win coming last week when they defeated Cornell 17-13 after trailing 13-3 in the fourth quarter. They are led by quarterback Jack Heneghan, who threw a the game winning touchdown pass to Charles Mack to get Dartmouth their first conference win last week.
Bryant at #15 Coastal Carolina, 2 p.m.
Entering this game, all eyes will be on Bryant quarterback Dalton Easton, who needs just 142 passing yards to break the program’s all-time passing record.
Turnovers have been an issue at times for the Bryant offense, and it could come up again this week as the Coastal Carolina has forced 21 turnovers so far this season.
Other than Easton, a major focus will be not he Bulldogs defense and if they can get pressure on Carolina quarterback Kenji Bahar. Due to injuries, Bahar is the seventh different player to take snaps at the quarterback position this season.
The Bryant run defense will be tested this week as well. Coastal Carolina averages 243 rushing yards per game, while the Bryant run defense is ranked 26th best in the country, giving up an average of 125 yards per game.
Carolina has rushed for at least 300 yards in each of their last two games.
URI at Elon, 1:30 p.m.
The URI Rams (1-8, 0-6) hit the road to face the Elon Phoenix (2-7, 1-5) for the first time ever on Saturday afternoon in North Carolina, two weeks after suffering their worst loss in program history, an 84-7 loss to James Madison.
URI has lost 23 straight road games dating back to 2013 and 10 straight games in conference. URI’s last conference win came October 10 of last season against Delaware. The Rams have not had more than one win in a season since 2013-14, when they had three.
One positive for URI has been junior running back Harold Cooper, who became the third player in Rams history with two kick returns for 90+ yards after returning a kick 99 yards for a touchdown against James Madison.
Defensively, the Rams will look to D.J. Stewart, who ranks fifth among CAA Football players with an average of 8.3 tackles per game, but overall the Rams defense has not been able to hold up.
On average, URI gives up just under 40 points, 200 pass yards and 230 rushing yards and 428 total yards per game. By comparison, the URI offense only averages 12 points per game.
The good news for the Rams is that Elon struggles in both of those categories as well. The Phoenix only average 12 points per game, while they give up 26 points per game.
A good opportunity for the Rams to get a win on the road and try to put the James Madison game behind them.
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.
