The Great GAS Memorial Countdown... 16 Days!!!

[Tribe4SF]

W&M

#16 Steve Cluley
6'3" 220
Junior
Quarterback
Manasquan, NJ
Wall H.S.

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[The Cats]

Western Carolina





Utilizing the 2015 Preseason Football Roster, #16 is assigned to two players: Bobby Gibbs & Skyler Matheson


#16 Bobby Gibbs
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Class: Freshman
Hometown: Randleman, N.C.
High School: Randleman HS
Height / Weight: 5-10 / 195
Position: DB

2014 (Freshman): Redshirted.

Prior to Western Carolina: Was a three-year defensive starter for Randleman HS and a two-time All-Pac-6 Conference player ... Recorded three interceptions, had eight pass breakups, and made 35 total tackles as a senior ... Also scored three returns for touchdowns ... Averaged 23 yards on punt returns and 39 yard on kickoff returns, scoring on three returns for TDs .... Also contributed on the offensive side as a wide receiver and kick returner ... During his senior season, tallied 212 rushing yards on 20 carries with a touchdown, adding 161 receiving yards on 10 receptions with three scores.





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#16 Skyler Matheson
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Class: Incoming Freshman
Hometown: Robbinsville, N.C.
High School: Robbinsville HS
Height / Weight: 6-0 / 200
Position: QB

Prior to Western Carolina: Joined the WCU football team as a preferred walk-on ... Named All-Smoky Mountain 1-A Conference selection ... Threw for 93 yards, ran for 34 yards and a TD and made a team-high 12 tackles in the NCHSAA 1-A championship game earning game MVP honors ... Passed for 1,093 yards and eight touchdowns with 1,694 rushing yards and 22 TDs on th ground ... Led RHS with 181 tackles including 133 solo stops with 18 TFLs, five fumble recoveries and two interceptions ... Selected to the East-West All-Star game ... Also played basketball at Robbinsville High.

Personal: Is the son of David Matheson.Courtesy WCU Athletics Media Relations

[SFA 93]

#16 retired in honor of a fallen Lumberjack...

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LB:#16 Calloway "Cally" Presley Belcher

Walking through the Champions Room in the Stephen F. Austin Fieldhouse, you see everything you would expect to highlight what is important to the Lumberjack athletic department.

Conference championship trophies, game balls from prominent victories, posters of SFA’s All-Conference and All-American performers, and the 2010 Walter Payton Award, won by Jeremy Moses (http://www.sfajacks.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/jeremy_moses_288765.html) as the top player in the nation among FCS schools.

On the southeast wall hangs a framed #16 jersey with a chain link draped from the neck. And whether you are new to SFA or have been around the program for decades, that jersey is instantly recognized.

That jersey is Cally Belcher’s, SFA’s strongest link.

The framed memorial has come to symbolize everything SFA football stands for - toughness, passion, character and doing things the right way.

Those who knew Cally use the same words to describe the kind of man he was - humble, soft spoken, respectful, trustworthy.

But once those pads went on and Belcher hit the field, that persona quickly changed. He was known as one of the hardest hitters ever to play at SFA. His instinct in the defensive backfield and ability to make plays are still talked about.

“He was a coaches dream,” said former SFA assistant coach Gene Chizik to the Orlando Sentinel in 2000. ““He was the whole package, but he was a better person than a player.”

Belcher was a two-time All-Southland Conference honorable mention selection at defensive back for the Lumberjacks, racking up 190 tackles (including 139 solo stops) with four tackles for loss and five interceptions, starting all 33 games of his SFA career.

He came to be known as the heart of the Lumberjack football team, which may have seemed somewhat ironic considering Belcher grew up in Huntsville, not far from the campus of Sam Houston State, SFA’s biggest rival.

“He wanted to get away from home and make a name for himself,” said Cally’s mother Helen Belcher. “It was nice for us because he was still close enough for us to be able to see him play.”

Tragically, that career, and life, was cut far too short in the spring of 1994 when Belcher suffered a blow to the head during a practice on March 22nd making a tackle. He collapsed to the field and was rushed to the hospital where one week later, Belcher passed from a brain aneurysm.

The memory of Belcher continues to live on, however, as his jersey serves as a constant reminder as to what it truly means to be a Lumberjack.

“Number 16 was a football player’s football player,” former SFA head coach John Pearce wrote after his passing. “All the words we use to describe a player: character, determination, courage, leadership and the love of the game, can now be described in two words: Cally Belcher.

“I loved Cally Belcher and I am going to miss him. In 25 years of coaching, few, if any, players have ever represented his family, his teammates and his school better than Cally.”

As much of an impact as Belcher had on the program prior to that day, that impact has grown exponentially since.

In a symbolic gesture in 1993, Chizik, then SFA’s linebackers coach, suggested the team use a steel link of chain to signify its team unity, signifying that both a chain and a team is only as strong as its weakest link.

Following Belcher’s passing, that adage took on a new meaning as Cally was now referred to as the team’s “strongest link.”

That link has become one that has bound Belcher’s coaches and former teammates through the years. There is an annual banquet held at SFA and an annual family barbecue and washer tournament in Cally’s name allowing his former teammates and coaches to get together and reminisce.

Former teammates keep in touch with the Belchers, sending them Christmas cards and pictures of their children. Coach Chizik even named his only son Cally, saying that he wanted his son to embrace the qualities that made Belcher both the man and player he was.

Helen Belcher recalls how it was mentioned to her after the loss of Cally that it seemed as if he was the missing link. But she tends to view it a different way.

“It shows how strong of link it really was,” she said. “It has been the link holding the team together for 20 years."

One of the biggest signs of the influence Cally had on not only his team but the program as a whole came in the fall of 1994 when Belcher’s #16 was permanently retired prior to SFA’s game against Montana State.

There have only been three numbers retired in the history of Stephen F. Austin football. The first was #46, worn by former NFL head coach Bum Phillips. The second was #10, worn by Mark Moseley who was named the 1982 NFL Player of the Year with the Washington Redskins. Belcher’s #16 was the third.

Both Phillips’ and Moseley’s numbers have since been reinstated. Today, for the first time since the final home game of the 1993 season, the #16 jersey will return to the field at Homer Bryce Stadium one more time as the Lumberjacks honor the memory of Cally Belcher 20 years after his passing.

The player chosen to wear #16 is junior wide receiver Aaron Thomas (http://www.sfajacks.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/aaron_thomas_808369.html), who was awarded SFA’s Cally Belcher Award this past spring which annually recognizes an SFA player for their desire to succeed, determination and a love of the game - the attributes Belcher embraced.

“It’s very humbling and an absolute honor that I’m the one that gets to wear his jersey,” Thomas said. “I try to embrace the same qualities that he’s known for. He was relentless on the field but was also incredibly humble and the ultimate teammate. It will be different to wear another jersey other than 81, but I know for that whole game I’ll be playing not just for my team, but for something much bigger.”

For Helen Belcher, Saturday will be a bittersweet day. For one game, she will get to see that #16 jersey back on the field, something she has longed to see for 20 years now.

“It’s going to be very touching to see,” Belcher said. “Each game I’ve been to I’ve always searched for his number but it hasn’t been there. I’m excited to see it again.”

While the loss of a child is something a parent never truly gets over, Helen Belcher has talked about the positives that have come since that day, knowing the impact her son will forever have on the Lumberjacks.

“It has been difficult, but also very comforting,” Belcher said. “It has been nice to see what can come from a quiet, shy boy from Huntsville.”


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[UAalum72]

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#16 Donte Terry


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Position: Cornerback
Height: 6'1"
Weight: 178
Year: Freshman
Hometown: Philadelphia, Pa.
High School: MLK

HIGH SCHOOL: Three-year captain for the Cougars’ football team … Recorded six interceptions in his career … Named first-team All-Public as a senior … Recipient of the Coaches Award as a freshman.

PERSONAL: Born May 20, 1997 ... Son of Rashidta Richardson ... Intends to study physical therapy.

[bonarae]

Harvard #16:

16 Nick Burrello


Height:
5-11


Weight:
185


Year:
Sr.


Hometown:
Glen Ellyn, Ill.


High School:
Glenbard West


Position:
DB


Major:
Government


House Affiliation:
Pforzheimer



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at Harvard:
2014: Named to NFF Hampshire Honor Society ... Played in all 10 games ... Had a tackle at Georgetown ... Broke up a pass, had a quarterback hurry and made a stop vs. Columbia ... Recorded a tackle vs. Yale.

2013: Saw action in one game.
Background:
Two-year starter and senior captain … Two-time all-conference and all-area … Academic all-state as a senior … Team MVP … All-state and West Suburban Silver Conference Offensive MVP … Amassed 4,450 career all-purpose yards with 60 receptions for 1,116 yards, 197 carries for 1,789 yards, and 1,545 return yards while scoring 33 touchdowns.


16 Zach Schmid


Height:
6-0


Weight:
220


Year:
So.


Hometown:
San Diego, Calif.


High School:
Francis Parker


Position:
P


House Affiliation:
Dunster



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at Harvard:
2014: Saw action in two games.

Background:
Three-year letterwinner at Francis Parker … Two-time Coastal Conference Kicker of the Year …. Top 10 ranked punter in the National Camp Series … Selected for 2013-14 U.S. Army All-American team … News Tribune’s “Western 100: Top High School Recruits for 2014” … San Diego All-Academic Team selection … Five-time California finalist … Five-time San Diego winner of National History Day in the documentary category … AP Scholar with Distinction … Member of National Honor Society and California Scholarship Federation … Volunteered building homes in Tijuana.

ETSU #16:

Jajuan Lankford

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POS.
RB
HT.
5-9
WT.
178
YR.
Fr.
HOMETOWN
South Pittsburg, Tenn.
PREVIOUS SCHOOL
South Pittsburg HS



High School: Played four years of football at South Pittsburg High School … won the Class 1-A Mr. Football Award in 2013, and was a finalist for the honor in 2011 … was an all-state selection in both 2011 and 2013 … set his school’s single-game rushing record with 366 yards ... finished his career with 5,400 yards in total offense, along with 83 touchdowns. Personal: Born Feb. 3, 1995 … son of Toney and Tammy Lankford … major is business … played for high school coach Tim Moore.

[eiu1999]

EIU

16 Jeff Jones

Class: Freshman
Height: 6-5
Weight: 220
Position: Defensive Line
Hometown: Fairview Heights, Ill.
High School: O'Fallon TownshipHIGH SCHOOL: Played for coach Brandon Joggerst at O’Fallon Township HS... named first team All-Southwestern Conference… had six catches for 111 yards and one touchdown as a senior… also played defensive end forcing two fumbles and recording three sacks…

[dewey]

Here is #16 for the four time defending National Champions the North Dakota State University Bison.
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#16 RJ "Legendowski" Urzendowski
Position: Wide Receiver
Height: 5-11
Weight: 195
Class: So.
Hometown: Omaha, Neb.
Highschool: Creighton Prep HS


* 2014 MVFC Honor Roll

2014 SEASON (FRESHMAN): Caught passes in 12 of 16 games and made nine starts...Made 32 catches for 626 yards and five touchdowns…Second most receiving yards by a freshman wide receiver at NDSU behind Marques Johnson's 749 yards in 2002…Led the Missouri Valley Football Conference and ranked seventh nationally with 19.56 yards per reception...NDSU’s leading receiver in the playoffs with 12 catches for 271 yards and three TDs…Caught the game-winning 12-yard touchdown with 54 seconds left in the 27-24 second round playoff win over South Dakota State…Key receptions of 32, 13 and 33 yards on a six-play, 78-yard game-winning drive in the 29-27 win over Illinois State in the FCS championship...Had five catches for 100 yards in the title game...Four 100-yard receiving games including a season-high seven catches and 114 yards at Western Illlinois...Named to the MVFC Honor Roll.

HIGH SCHOOL: Three-year starter for Creighton Prep and head coach Chris Nizzi...Holds state records for career receptions (156) and receiving yards (2,592)...Selected as senior to first team Super-State and first team all-state...First team all-metro as a junior and senior... Career highs senior year with 70 receptions and 1,127 yards receiving...Caught 26 TDs over his final two years...Set a Nebraska Shrine Game record with eight receptions and his 112 yards receiving were seven short of the all-time mark...Class representative on football leadership council in 2012 and 2013...Member of National Honor Society...Participated in varsity baseball and track and field...Teammate of Bison quarterback Easton Stick.

PERSONAL: Majoring in construction management with a minor in business...Born May 7, 1996...Son of Joseph and Jane Urzendowski...Has two sisters, Devin and Brooke...Brooke plays tennis at Saint Louis University and cousin, Ryan, played baseball at Creighton University.

Here is an article from the Fargo Forum after NDSU won their 4th straight National Championship thanks to instrumental freshman WR RJ Urzendowski.
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16. Brock Jensen was a rarity in college football, a guy who had a chance to start four years at quarterback. That was the dilemma NDSU was in in 2010, when Jose Mohler was injured against Morgan State and the redshirt freshman from Waupaca, Wisconsin went into the lineup, and the rest as they say is history. Jensen is the greatest quarterback in Bison history, start first with his three national championships and his penchant for leading NDSU in the clutch. With his four years starting, he owns every meaningful NDSU passing record from passing yards, completions and touchdowns. He and Jeff Bentrim are the gold standard to which all future Bison quarterbacks will be measured.

Good luck with the upcoming season and in the classroom RJ.

9 days until the four time defending National Champions the North Dakota State University Bison go to Missoula and beat the University of Montana.

Go Bison!

Dewey

[mvemjsunpx]

Montana's true freshmen now have assigned numbers. Here's a retread…

Montana #16:

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Dalton Daum - WR
Freshman
6'1", 180 lbs.
Butte, MT
Butte HS


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[Gangtackle11]

16 Jackson Bradley http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/nova/sports/m-footbl/auto_headshot/11241345.jpeg





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Class:
Freshman



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Hometown:
St. John's, Fla.



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High School:
Bishop Kenny






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6-2 / 205



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Position:
QB



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Bishop Kenny High School: First team all-district ... First team All-Northeast Florida elite team ... Played in the North Florida All-Star Game ... Team won the district championship ... Threw for 2,755 yards and 34 touchdowns as a senior ... National Honor Society member.Personal: Oldest of three children of Paul and Joanie Bradley ... Born 8/2/96 in Jacksonville, Fla.