No, the above image is of Rob McLaughlin’s father, Joe McLaughlin sacking Dartmouth’s QB Tom Randolph on 09/04/1976. Joe went on to be a UMass Captain and lead UMass to the its first trip to the I-AA Championship in 1978. He also earned a Superbowl ring with [...]
Entries from June 2006
June 28, 2006
2006 Recruit OLB/DB Sam Besong
Joining the Minutemen’s 2006 recruiting class is Sam Besong a 6′0″ 210 pd Outside Linebacker/Safety from Brockton H.S.
The image to the left is from the Berkshire School. Besong is #23.
In 2005 Besong was a Rivals two star player and was recruited by Boston College, Rutgers, Syracuse and Virginia. His 2005 Boston Globe [...]
June 27, 2006
Miller, Koegel named in top of I-AA for 2006
Matt Dougherty of The Sports Network has finished his take on I-AA position profiles for 2006.
Named as the #2 Center in I-AA for 2006 was Alex Miller. He was named All-A10 First Team, College Sporting News I-AA All Star 2nd team and Don Hansen’s Gazette All Northeast 2nd team in 2005.
Named the #2 [...]
June 26, 2006
Two Senior I-AA writers take a look at the East
Since the news that the Colonial Athletic Association will assume control of A10 Football in 2007, there has been an intense amount of gassing on the various football message boards that the CAA will eventually break up into two separate leagues.
Dave Coulson, Senior Columnist for I-AA .org and Matt Dougherty of SportsNetwork.com discuss [...]
June 24, 2006
UMass Legend Clarence Brooks coaches for the Ravens
UMass legend Clarence Brooks is coaching for the Baltimore Ravens.
Check out his 30-year coaching history here . Impressive!
Brooks lettered for UMass in 70,71 and 72. He was a UMass captain in 1972.
He was First-Team All Yankee Conference in 1972 and was also All-East.
June 23, 2006
OOC Scheduling Part III
In posts of 06/17 and 06/18 we discussed OOC (out-of-conference) scheduling. I noted that Maine was at a disadvantage because they were only were playing 10 games this year.
Well, Maine has added a 11th game. They are playing Shaw University (DII) on 09/23/06.
This adds more revenue on season [...]
June 22, 2006
Doug Clark hits the Majors
Doug Clark was called the Majors by the Oakland A’s yesterday. See the CSTV article on the three former Minutemen now playing in the Majors.
His Oakland A’s bio page is here .
Clark played two sports during his time at UMass. Besides baseball, he was a premier WR for the UMass Football Team. He won letters [...]
June 20, 2006
UMass History. Game Program from UMass-Toledo 09/11/1976
The following images are scans from my 09/11/1976 UMass-Toledo Game program. I was there.
UMass won 28-14. I do not have a box score as my UMass press guides only go back to 1980.
Right Click on the image for a larger view. If the roster is not readable (blogger limits the size of the enlargement), [...]
