University of Richmond Athletics
No. 1 Richmond Rips Towson, 42-14: Postgame Notes
Oct. 31, 2009
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Team Notes
• At 8-0, Richmond is of to its best start in the 127-year history of football. The Spiders started the 1985 season 7-0 and were 7-0-1 after eight games in the 1939 season. The `85 season ended 8-3 and the '39 season 7-1-2.
• With 17-consecutive wins, the Spiders own the longest active winning streak in the FCS, while their 11-consecutive road wins is the longest current streak in all of Division-I football. Both of those streaks stand as school records.
• The 17-straight wins also sets a record for longest winning streak in the history of Division-I football in the Commonwealth of Virginia. VMI held the previous record with 16-straight wins between 1919 and 1921.
• Richmond improved its record to 11-2 all-time when playing as the No. 1-ranked team and improved to 61-27 all-time when playing as a ranked team (30-5 since the start of 2007).
• Richmond surpassed the 30-point mark for the 36th time since the 2005 season and are 34-2 in those games, including 5-0 this season and 9-1 last year.
• After just one interception in the first four games of the season, the Spiders have picked off 11 passes over the last four.
• Richmond converted a season-best 61.5 percent of its third downs (8-of-13) and moved the chains on both of its fourth-down attempts.
• The team's two-point conversion was its second attempt of the season and first successful try since the Nov. 10, 2007 win at Delaware, 62-56, in five overtimes.
Individual Notes
• True freshman FB Kendall Gaskins scored a career-best three TDs in the game, including his first collegiate TD reception. His previous best was one rushing TD versus both Hofstra and Maine.
• Sophomore DB Tremayne Graham made his first career interception a pivotal one as he picked off Tommy Chroninger's pass and returned it 23 yards for a TD putting Richmond in control at 35-14 with 5:28 remaining in the third.
• Graham's interception was the Spiders 12th of the season and marked the second-straight game with an interception returned for TD. Versus UMass, senior NG Parker Miles returned one 15 yards for a score.
• Senior TB Justin Forte, who entered the game as the CAA's second-leading rusher, surpassed the 100-yard mark for the second-straight game and fourth time in his career. Forte gained 121 yards on 22 carries versus Towson (5.5 yards/rush) after 118 yards on 26 carries last week versus UMass.
• Forte averaged just 54.0 yards rushing over the Spiders first three games of 2009, but is averaging 115.2 over the last five. His career-best 152 yards versus VMI triggered the five-game surge.
• Senior TE William Bischoff caught his first career TD pass - a 10-yard strike from Ward that gave the Spiders a 13-7 lead in the second quarter. It was his only catch of the game.