The Presbyterian College football team travels to Davidson Saturday, Sept. 29 for its final non-conference game of the season.  The game against the Wildcats at Richardson Stadium will kick off at 6 p.m.

Davidson comes in at 0-3 after falling to Marist, 21-34, in its last game.  The Wildcats own a 14-12-2 record over the Blue Hose, but have only met the Blue Hose on the gridiron once since 1988.  Davidson faced PC at Bailey Memorial Stadium in 2010, with the home team coming away with the 42-6 decision.

PC is 1-3 after falling to the Furman Paladins, 31-12 in its last game.  Down 21-0 at the half, the Blue Hose outscored the Paladins 21-7 in the second half but it was a little too late.  Furman's Hank McCloud did the most damage, scoring all three its TDs in the first half.

For the fifth year in a row, college football coaches nationwide will join together during Saturday's games in support of the Coach To Cure MD program. Head coach Harold Nichols and his staff, along with the Davidson coaches, is wearing Coach To Cure MD logo patches on the sidelines in support of the cause.

The effort has raised more than a million dollars to battle Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

Football fans can donate to Duchenne muscular dystrophy research by either going online to www.CoachtoCureMD.org or by texting the word CURE to 90999 (a $5 donation will automatically be added to your next phone bill).
 

Extra Points

• Presbyterian College heads to Davidson for the first time since a 38-0 loss to the Wildcats in 1967 ... The Blue Hose and Wildcats last met in 2010 with PC coming away with a 42-6 decision ... PC won the two meetings before that, 24-7 in 1987 and 24-16 in 1988 ...
• Davidson leads the overall series 14-12-2 ... PC's win in 2010 was later forfeited due to an ineligible player ...
• Highlighting the PC effort was Arthur Williams who finished with over 100 receiving yards for the first time in his career ... He had 119 yards and had a career-long 43-yard reception that helped PC set up its third score ... His 38-yard catch led the Blue Hose in their second TD of the game ...
• Tamyn Garrick was solid against Furman, throwing for a career-high 270 yards off a career best 20-of- 32 effort ...
• PC collected 270 passing yards against Furman, a season-high and most since recording 291 against Charleston Southern last season ... Few and far between, the time before that was the season-opening game against Wake Forest in 2010 where the Blue Hose came away with 292 ...
• Leading the Blue Hose on the ground in four games is Lance Byrd who is averaging 61.5 yards in 58 carries ... Arthur Williams paces the team in the air, having caught 16 passes for 199 yards for an average of 12.4 yards a catch ... Tamyn Garrick is 49-for-86 with three interceptions ... He has thrown for 561 yards with two TDs Michael Ruff owns the All-Purpose lead with 395 total yards, a 98.8 average per game... Donelle Williams leads the Blue Hose on the defensive side of the ball with 36 total tackles (19-17) ... He is followed by Cedric Byrd with 21 (15-6) in four games ... Bryson Brindle leads in sacks with 1.5 ...
• A couple of highlights against Vanderbilt included Joey Gilkey who caught a 29-yard reception in the second quarter, a career-long for the tight end ... Jordan Hallums also made his first career catch with a 21-yard reception in the first half, PC's second-longest pass of the day ... Chad Sanders also hit a career mark, with a 14-yard rush in the first quarter ...
• One notable stat from the 59-3 loss to Georgia Tech was a 91-yard fumble return by Branden Leston ... He recovered a fumble at the PC goal line and ran it back to the Georgia Tech nine-yard line ... Leston's return set a new Division I record for longest recovery, eclipsing a Chetyuane Reeder 78-yarder set in 2007 against Charleston Southern ...
• The Blue Hose recovered three fumbles, the most lost fumbles for the Yellow Jackets since giving up a trio in the 2010 Independence Bowl against Air Force ...
• Lance Byrd needed just 11 rushing attempts to reach 400 for his career, he surpassed that mark with 18 at Georgia Tech ... Michael Ruff reached a milestone on the team's first drive against Georgia Tech, hauling in a 19-yard reception to push him over 1,000 career receiving yards ... The Blue Hose wideout ranks third in PC's Division I history with 1,014 ...
• The 45-10 win over Brevard marked the first time the Blue Hose have won their season-opening game since a 10-0 victory over West Georgia in 2006, its last year in NCAA Division II ... The margin of victory, 35 points, was the largest since a 62-10 win over Chowan in 2007 ...
• Against Brevard the Blue Hose returned the game's opening kick-off for a touchdown, marking just the second time PC has scored off a kick return ...
• Demarcus Rouse recorded three rushing TDs in the game against Brevard ... his three TDs were not only personal records, but they tied PC's Division I single-game record for most rushing TDs, as well as most total TDs ... Rouse's 18 points is tied for first as well in most points ...
• Cedric Byrd ran back five punts for 33 yards against the Tornados ... the five punt returns broke PC's Division I record for most in a single game ...
• In a game of records, the four rushing TDs against Brevard is tied for second in PC Division I record books ...
• With Lance Byrd's 109 rushing yards against the Tornados he became the first PC player in Division I history to break the 2,000-career yard mark, finishing the game with 2,058 ... he is already the school's leading rusher ... With 2,503 yards he is just 399 yards from catching teammate Michael Ruff for the all-purpose yardage record ... Ruff has 2,902, just 98 from 3,000 ...
• Michael Ruff led off the 2012 season with a bang, returning the opening kick-off 92 yards for a touchdown ... It was the longest in PC's Division I history and the first score from the opening kick for the Blue Hose ... It was the second kick-off returned for a TD by PC in PC's Division I history ... Ruff finished with over 100 all-purpose yards for the game (109), earning him College Football Performance Awards National Kickoff Returner of the Week, as well as Big South Special Teams Player of the Week ...
• Patrick Morgano was named to the 2012 College Football Performance Awards Punter Award watch list ... A Big South All-Conference selection in 2011, Morgano was also named CFPA Positional Performer of the Week ... He averaged 40.7 punts in 2011 and put 21 of them inside the 20-yard line, with 10 of them over 50 yards in distance ...
• The Blue Hose were picked to finish fourth in the Big South in 2012 ... The top three pre-season picks all come to Clinton this season with Liberty coming to town Oct. 13, Stony Brook Oct. 27 and Coastal Carolina Nov. 10 ...

OH CAPTAIN
The Captains for the 2012 football season were announced at the end of preseason ... Lance Byrd, Cedric Byrd, Aaron Mayes and Shawn Armstrong were chosen by their fellow teammates to lead the team this season ...

MORE THAN PRIDE
For the first time since becoming a Division I member in 2007, the Blue Hose will be able to play for the conference championship and a spot in the NCAA FCA play-offs ... Since 2007 PC has been a provisional Division I member ... That changed on August 2, 2012, when the NCAA granted PC full Division I membership ...

HONOR
Five football student-athletes earned a prestigious honor this summer as they were named to the Honor Council ... Tamyn Garrick, John Hardy, Kaleb Griffin, J.J. Russell and Joe Wideman were chosen to serve on a panel consisting roughly of 55 members that ensure the integrity of all academic and student life affairs ... As a result of the Honor Code being a cornerstone of the PC community, students can trust one another and leave items unattended ... Professors can issue take home tests and can leave testing rooms unattended. In general, the Honor Code is one of PC's greatest assets and traditions ...

THIS DAY IN PC FOOTBALL HISTORY
The Blue Hose have played in 14 September 29th games dating back to an 8-7 tie to Clemson in 1933 ... PC is 6-7-1 in games on this day, the last coming in 2007 as the team beat North Carolina Central 24-27 ... The first two meetings on Sept. 29 were against Davidson ... PC won the first game in 1922, 8-7, but fell the next year to the same Wildcats, 0-3 ...

2007 - North Carolina Central, W 34-27
2001 - North Greenville, W 61-0
1990 - Wofford, L 15-41
1984 - Wofford, W 10-0
1979 - Wofford, L 21-23
1973 - Wofford, L 20-33
1962 - The Citadel, L 8-28
1956 - Wofford, L 12-27
1945 - South Carolina, L 0-40
1939 - Mercer, W 7-0
1934 - Mercer, W 7-6
1933 - Lenoir Rhyne, T 7-7
1923 - Davidson, L 0-3
1922 - Davidson, W 8-7

SHUTOUT
PC's record of 61 contests of non-shutout football was broken in the 58-0 loss at Vanderbilt ... the last time the Blue Hose were held scoreless was a 28-0 loss at Elon Sept. 16, 2006 ...

SEC COUNTRY
Vanderbilt marked the first SEC opponent for the Blue Hose in their Division I history ... PC will continue the streak in 2014 as the team will travel to Ole Miss ...

ON THE ROAD
Since moving to Division I in 2007, the road has not been kind to the Blue Hose ... In six seasons PC is 3-30 away from Bailey Memorial Stadium ... Some of the opponents PC has faced on the road include California, Wake Forest, Clemson, Old Dominion and Southern Conference powers Appalachian State, Furman and Wofford ... This season PC was at Georgia Tech and Vanderbilt ...

SMALLEST TO SMALLEST
Presbyterian College, with an enrollment of 1,200, is the smallest football-playing Division I school in the NCAA, as well as the Big South Conference ... When the Blue Hose traveled to Vanderbilt, which has an enrollment of 12,700, they faced the smallest school in the SEC ...

NEW LOOK
The Presbyterian College football team unveiled new blue jerseys this season after sporting new whites in 2011 ... The garnet jerseys made their debut in 2008 ... Below are short descriptions of the blue and white jerseys ... Combined with the blue, white and gray pants, the Blue Hose can choose up to eight uniform combinations.

Blue
Sleek, slimmer numbers on the front, back and sleeves of new blue jerseys are white with a maroon trim and are sewn on.  "Blue Hose" is written above the front number in white.  The sleeves are blue with a thick maroon stripe with a white trim running across it.  A subtle close-up difference is the maroon thread sewn along the neckline.  Part of the side panels of the jersey, as well as the rear bib, are mesh.

White
The white jerseys, introduced before the start of the 2011 season, have a mesh front with the "Blue Hose" sewn above the front number in blue.  The numbers, which are blue with a maroon trim, are imprinted on the front, back and the sleeves.  The sleeves are blue with a maroon trim at the shoulder.  The top of the sleeve is white, bordered by a maroon trim with the number in the middle.  The neckline is blue with a maroon stripe running through the middle.  "PC" is sewn in a white patch located at the front of the neck line.

Garnet
The garnet jerseys were introduced in 2008 and have a mesh front and back.  The neck line is trimmed in garnet, white and blue with a garnet patch at the front of the neck line with "PC" sewn in white.  The numbers are imprinted on the sleeves, front and back with "Blue Hose" sewn in white above the front one.  The sleeves are blue and garnet with a white trim, with the edge of the sleeves in blue, white and garnet.

RECORD WATCH
Several players are close to career milestones at PC ... With 18 at Georgia Tech, Lance Byrd reached 400 rushing attempts for his career, he has 434 currently ... He is already first on the list ... With 19 yards at Vanderbilt Michael Ruff eclipsed 1,000 career pass reception yards ...  he is just 196 from moving to second in that category ... He also needs five receiving TDs to become the PC Division I leader, and only 33 receptions to take the top spot ... His 13 total TDs is tied for third, just four away from the top spot ... With 99 total points, kicker Aaron Mayes is just 8 points from second in career total points scored ... Ruff has 77 kick returns, which is tops ... Justin Bethel may hold the career mark for interceptions but Antarius Terrell is closing in with four of his own ... Cedric Byrd is second on the pass breakup career list, just three from Bethel's 16 ...