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Getting the edge Syracuse’s defense will need to contain Maryland quarterback C.J.Brown, who burned West Virginia with his arm and legs in a loss last week. See page 5

Wax poetic After Syracuse and Maryland tied 0-0 in 1935, then-Daily Orange sports editor Don Shea decided to write a poem instead of opting for traditional game coverage. See page 13

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PROTECTIVE SHELL

By Jacob Klingerasst.sports editor

Maryland fits in with Florida State and Clemson in Chuck Bullough’s mind — in team speed.

“Those are legitimate NFL-talent kind of guys,” the Syracuse defen-sive coordinator said.

The athletic advantages SU’s defense used to win its first game, and domi-nated its second with, are gone. A week after the Orange (2-0) held an opponent to three points, parts of the SU defense see themselves as underdogs against the unranked Terrapins they’ll host at 12:30 p.m. in the Carrier Dome on Saturday. They’ve watched a Maryland (2-1) team that both makes and extends plays, scrambles assignments and runs past less gifted opponents.

SU is out to prove it’s not one of those teams; or that if it is, it doesn’t matter. “We have the speed, we have the ability, we have the talent to match up

with anybody,” junior cornerback Julian W higham said. “And we’ll prove that this Saturday.”

Even if Syracuse covers Maryland’s receivers, most notably Stefon Diggs and Deon Long, through the end of their routes, the play is far from over. The run-ning ability of Terrapins quarterback C.J. Brown gives his receivers the chance

to break off plays and find their own space. Villanova quarterback John Robertson’s scrambling brought SU within a

25-yard field goal of losing its season opener. Robertson didn’t have Brown’s options, though.

“We know that they’re great players, we know that they can run, we know that they can run routes but we’re on scholarship too,” Whigham said. “And we can play and we expect to play with these guys.”

The 5-foot-7 Poppy Livers was Villanova’s top receiving threat. Brown has the second-best receiver in the Class of 2012 in Diggs in the slot and Deon Long — who W higham said he will cover — out wide, with W higham and Long both standing 6 feet tall. W ho covers Diggs will shift based on the

Orange defense looks to keep pace with Terrapins in toughest test yet

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RON THOMPSON, ISAIAH JOHNSON AND DYSHAWN DAVIS celebrate during Syracuse’s 37-point win against Central Michigan last Saturday. The Orange will have a tougher task when it faces wide receivers Stefon Diggs and Deon Long. They have propelled a Maryland offense averaging 36.7 points per game into Saturday’s game. logan reidsma staff photographer

We know that they’re great players, we know that they can run, we know that they can run routes, but we’re on scholarship too. And we can play and we expect to play with these guys.Julian Whighamsu cornerback

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Orange’s coverages, but the SU pass rush that wreaked havoc against an immobile Central Michigan team will look to make any matchup irrelevant.

A defensive line that’s growing to include Wayne Williams and Ryan Sloan allows Ron Thompson, who made five sacks against the Chippewas last Saturday, to play outside more. The Orange can pressure Brown, but catching him requires setting an edge to his pocket.

Senior linebacker Cameron Lynch points to the approximately 10 40-yard sprints Syracuse runs at the end of each practice as the base for SU’s ability to hurry Brown and Maryland out of Saturday’s game.

“We’ve played fast,” Lynch said. “We’ve played athletes from West Virginia, we’ve played athletes from Florida State. We’ve seen the fastest of the fastest.”

Whigham said the secondary carries an underdog outlook into Saturday’s game, partly from hype surrounding Maryland, but also from watching the Terrapins’ stars on game film.

It leaves him and the rest of the Orange defense with a point to prove in their first

full-field athletic test of the season. He and the other defensive backs do have to worry about the deep ball, and the SU pass rush will pursue a quarterback that can evade it and find an open receiver.

The Syracuse defenders said they think they have enough speed to shut down Mary-land’s high-speed weapons. But safety Durell Eskridge said that Syracuse also saw the best way forward as hitting the Terrapins before

they can run by them.Said Eskridge: “Put our hands on them. Just

watching them, I think they don’t like to really be touched.”

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CAMERON LYNCH forced a safety on Central Michigan’s Cooper Rush in last Saturday’s win. He’s averaged 11.5 tackles per game, which is the best in the ACC. Lynch said he credited the team’s defensive success to its physical preparation. logan reidsma staff photographer

We’ve played fast. We’ve played athletes from West Virginia, we’ve played athletes from Florida State. We’ve seen the fastest of the fastest.

Cameron Lynchsu linebacker


Shafer discusses QB Brown

C.J. BROWN ran the ball 18 times for 161 yards in Maryland’s 40-37 loss to West Virginia last Saturday. The Orange struggled when it faced Villanova’s John Robertson, also a dual-threat quarterback, in Syracuse’s season-opener. courtesy of maryland athletics

By Phil D’Abbraccio and Jesse Doughertythe daily orange

C.J. Brown carved up the West Virginia defense on Saturday and two plays stood out to Scott Shafer while he watched film of the Maryland quarterback.

The first was a scramble off a zone-read during which Brown used one block to split three Mountaineer defenders and run down the sideline for a score. The second was a blown coverage by West Virginia where a safety got caught with two speedy receivers running sim-ilar vertical routes.

Brown found the inside receiver for a touch-down. Different means, same result.

“C.J. has done a nice job seeing mistakes on defense and delivering the football to the right guy,” Shafer, SU’s head coach, said at his weekly press conference Thursday morning. “So we have to eliminate those mistakes and make them earn it.”

When Syracuse (2-0) faces Maryland (2-1) at 12:30 p.m. in the Carrier Dome on Saturday, Brown will be the second dual-threat quar-terback the Orange will face this season. In Week 1, Villanova quarterback John Robertson ran for 115 yards and threw for 199 yards and a touchdown in what ended in a 27-26 dou-ble-overtime SU win.

Now the Orange defense will square off with a quarterback that — if not faster and better in the air than Robertson — has a much

stronger offense around him. That puts the spotlight on the pass rush secondary, as well as Syracuse’s linebackers to set the edge and not let Brown extend plays and exploit cover-age breakdowns downfield.

“You can’t give them plays. When they’re talented, they’re going to earn plays. Make them earn all of them,” Shafer said. “If we got a guy in coverage and he’s hip-to-hip and their guy makes a great play then you go to the next play.

“The ones you can’t swallow are the ones where guys are wide open because you gave them one.”

In a 40-37 loss the Mountaineers last week, Brown ran 18 times for 161 yards, including a 75-yard touchdown run in the third. The first play Shafer mentioned.

In the air, Brown completed 19-of-35 passes for 241 yards, including an interception and 77-yard touchdown toss to Stefon Diggs. The second play Shafer mentioned.

And it will be up to the SU defense to keep the big plays off of Saturday’s film — a task that Shafer didn’t fully liken to slowing Robertson down.

“The schemes are different,” Shafer said.

“(Brown)’s a very good football player and any time he can hurt you. You know he really hurt West Virginia with both his feet and his arm.”

SU tight end Parris to return from knee injury this weekend, Shafer saysTight end Josh Parris will return to the field from his knee injury on Saturday when Syracuse hosts Maryland, Shafer said at the press conference.

“Josh Parris had a good week of practice,” Shafer said, “so we’re looking forward to get-ting him back on the field ... He’s ready to go.”

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You can’t give them plays. When they’re talented, they’re going to earn plays. Make them earn all of them.

Scott Shafersu head coach

Game-by-game rushing stats:Date Opponent Att. Yards TDsAug. 30 James Madison 7 61 3Sept. 6 at South Florida 10 -3 0Sept. 13 West Virginia 18 161 1

Game-by-game passing stats:Date Opponent Comp. Att. Yards TDs IntsAug. 30 James Madison 11 24 111 1 0Sept. 6 at South Florida 17 28 201 2 2Sept. 13 West Virginia 19 35 241 1 1

multi-facetedUMD quarterback C.J. Brown can beat defenses with his arm and legs. Here are his season stats.


SCOTT SHAFER jokingly asked the reporters in attendance at his weekly press conference on Thursday not to bring up Syracuse’s sea-son-opening 27-26 win over Villanova ever again. Then he asked if they could shake on the promise. logan reidsma staff photographer

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The junior had been day-to-day earlier in the week and his status for the game hinged on his performance in practice, Shafer said earlier in the week.

Parris was slotted to be the Orange’s start-ing tight end but suffered a knee cartilage injury and underwent surgery on Aug. 27. Kendall Moore and Jamal Custis have seen most of the snaps at tight end for SU while Parris has been sidelined.

Parris has 13 career receptions for 90 yards and a pair of touchdowns, one of which was the game-winning score against Boston Col-lege last year to clinch bowl eligibility.

Shafer added to the injury update that H-back Sean Avant, who suffered an upper-body injury, is still out.

Shafer asks for no further conversa-tion about Villanova gameShafer couldn’t shake everyone’s hand in the Iocolano-Petty Football Wing. That’s not to say he didn’t ask to.

“But let’s not talk about Villanova ever again,” Shafer said in the middle of his weekly press conference. “I know I brought it up first but let’s all agree to never talk about Villano-va again.

“Can we shake on it?”In anticipation of Syracuse’s matchup with

Maryland, Shafer was presented with a slice of recent program history. If the Orange beats the Terrapins it will be the first time an SU football team starts 3-0 since 1991.

The head coach wasn’t interested in that

statistic, and said that approaching a game with that mindset was the problem in an all-too-narrow 27-26 win over Villanova on Aug. 29. The Orange bounced back with a 40-3 win over Central Michigan last week, but it seemed that the close call with the Wildcats was fresh in Shafer’s head.

“That was part of our problem in that first

game. We were all diluted and we weren’t focused in on the five-second war of each play — each play is about five seconds long,” he said.

“... The best coaches get their guys honed in. I did a horrible job of that against Villano-va, and got to make sure we never make that mistake again.”

Shafer continually circled back to the “five-second war” on each play and the “6-inch battles” all over the field — a rhetoric he said isn’t going to change.

Said Shafer: “Coach speak is coach speak ‘cause it’s real.”

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PHIL D’ABBRACCIO syracuse: 36 maryland: 31

Stuffed shells

Syracuse and Maryland

will pack a lot of points

into this game, but the Orange’s defense

stands a little sturdier.

pregame playbook

beat writer predictions

JESSE DOUGHERTY syracuse: 24 maryland: 17

Turtle, turtle

The Terrapins start out

like a team ready to bury

the Orange, but Syracuse makes ends meet

and wins on a late fourth-quarter drive.

JACOB KLINGER maryland: 30 syracuse: 27

Snapback

Maryland’s outside

threats pull off one big

play too many for the Orange after losing a

shootout to West Virginia.

key players

sean hickeyl e f t tac k l eHT: 6’6 WGHT: 306 YEAR: SENIOR

stefon diggsw i d e r ec e i v e rHT: 6’0 WGHT: 190 YEAR: JUNIOR

cameron lynchl in e b ac k e rHT: 6’0 WGHT: 231 YEAR: SENIOR

yannick ngakouel in e b ac k e rHT: 6’2 WGHT: 250 YEAR: SOPHOMORE

syracuse

maryland

Syracuse hasn’t allowed a sack

through two games and Hickey,

who leads the Orange offensive

line in protecting Terrel Hunt’s

backside, has had a huge hand

in that. Hunt has relished with

time in the pocket, and that will

be important against SU’s first

power-conference opponent.

The senior linebacker has 23

tackles through two games,

including 3.5 sacks. He’ll have to

lead a defense against a Maryland

team averaging 37.7 points per

game this season, and will also be

partly responsible for setting the

edge against dual-threat Terrap-

ins quarterback C.J. Brown.

Diggs was an All-ACC

honorable mention selec-

tion last season despite

suffering a season-ending

left leg injury on Oct. 19. In

three games this season,

he has a team-leading 17

catches for 230 yards and

a touchdown.

Ngakoue, a linebacker, leads

the team with six tackles for

loss in three games. After Syr-

acuse rushed for 289 yards

during its win over Central

Michigan last Saturday he,

along with the rest of the Ter-

rapins’ linebacking crew, will

have their hands full.

last time they played

The Orange and Terrapins met in College Park, Maryland, on Nov. 9 last year. It was the last time the two football teams met as Atlantic Coast Conference foes, and Jer-ome Smith, Ryan Norton and the Syracuse defense led the Orange to the lopsided win. Smith ran in two touchdowns, Norton knocked in two field goals and the defense stymied a shorthanded Terrapins attack, which pushed SU to 5-4.

stats to know

we’re backStefon Diggs, Deon Long and Wes Brown all didn’t play against Syracuse last season due to injury, but are back for this matchup. The trio had 528 of UMD’s 1,235 total rushing and receiv-ing yards this season.

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The Terrapins rank in the Top 10 in punt and kick returns in the nation. Their 28.9 yards per punt return is third, and the 27.7 yards per kick return is ninth.

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difference a week makesSyracuse gave up 190 yards against Villanova in Week 1. Last week, the Orange capatalized on the absence of Thomas Rawls and held Central Michi-gan to 34 rushing yards.

C.J. Brown’s 161 rushing yards against West Virginia last Saturday was the second-highest single-game rushing total in school history.

161How many sacks SU has given up. Only three other FBS teams can boast that. 0

Cameron Lynch’s tackles per game, which is best in the ACC.

11.5they said it

big numbers by the numbers

Syracuse only has an all-time winning record against four of the 14 teams currently in the Big Ten: Maryland, Nebraska, Rutgers and Wisconsin.

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Knock the hell out of people, play physical, take shots. If you miss, miss, and turn it back to your buddy who can take the next shot. And get another guy there so he can take a shot.Scott Shafersu head coach

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By Jesse Doughertysports editor

When Syracuse beat Maryland in College Park, Maryland, last season, C.J. Brown was handcuffed.

But the quarterback, who will lead the Ter-rapins (2-1) into the Carrier Dome for a 12:30 p.m. date with the Orange (2-0) on Satur-day, was without Stefon Diggs and Deon Long in that game, which isn’t the case this time around.

“The hard thing is when you have two explosive receivers you can’t take one out. If they had a Randy Moss, you try to take him out,” SU defensive coordinator Chuck Bullough said. “But they have two guys, so you’ve just got to play your defense and get

some good pass rush and hopefully we get to the quarterback.”

Long broke both his tibia and smaller-size fibula while Diggs left the game with a broken fibula when Maryland lost to 34-10 at Wake Forest, but the takeaway was that Diggs and Long would both miss the rest of the season with left leg injuries.

That started two rehab processes that, in a handful of ways, Diggs and Long took on together.

Diggs has since returned to the slot and Long has resumed his role as the Terrapins’ primary deep threat as both re-establish them-selves as tough covers. Long caught a 41-yard pass in a season-opening win over James Mad-ison and Diggs caught a 77-yard touchdown pass in a loss to West Virginia last week.

To add another layer to UMD’s receiving corps, junior Marcus Leak caught two scores in a Week 2 win over South Florida.

“Stefon Diggs, I don’t know what kind of athletes that — but you know they’re there,” Syracuse junior cornerback Julian Whigham said. “That Long kid, you see him on tape, you know he’s good. We watch him like, ‘Oh, they’re supposed to be pretty good.’”

Whigham said on Tuesday that he’ll match up with Long on the outside while the Orange’s formation on a given play will dictate who’s covering Diggs. It’s a set of weapons Syracuse

SU secondary looks to defend UMD’s Diggs, Long

STEFON DIGGS is back to top form after suffering a season-ending left leg injury against Wake Forest on Oct. 19 last year. He now leads a receiving corps that will look to wreak havoc on a Syracuse secondary that has impressed so far. courtesy of maryland athleticssee receivers page 14

The hard thing is when you have two explosive receivers you can’t take one out. If they had a Randy Moss, you try to take him out. But they have two guys, so you’ve just got to play your defense and get some good pass rush and hopefully we get to the quarterback.

Chuck Bulloughsu defensive coordinator


Q&A: Former SU RB Drummond talks being coached by UMD’s EdsallBy Matt Schneidmanasst. copy editor

Maryland head coach Randy Edsall was a quarterback at Syracuse from 1976-79 before starting an 11-year coaching career with the Orange. Robert Drummond was a running back for Syracuse from 1985-88, and Edsall was SU’s running backs coach for parts of Drummond’s four years.

Here’s what Drummond told The Daily Orange about Edsall as a coach with the Orange.

The Daily Orange: What comes to mind when you think of Randy Edsall at Syracuse?Robert Drummond: The fact that he coached me when I was there at Syracuse. He basically was the type of coach, when I was a freshman, that got the most out of me by simply in prac-tice, teaching me how to maximize my practice time. Taking every play and no matter where I was at, running it into the end zone, always maximizing that effort in practice so when game time came around, it was natural.

The D.O.: How well was Edsall able to not only cater to your skills as a running back, but also the other running backs with different styles?R.D.: Being a freshman and not understanding what was going on and being involved in a starting job at a young age, it was a testament to him being able to get the best of my ability as a coach. We had four running backs, but him being able to go in there and get the best of my

ability and allow me to be all set as a freshman says a lot to the kind of coach he was.

The D.O.: What about his coaching style has enabled him to move up the coaching ranks?R.D.: The simple fact that he can get players and other coaches to buy in what he’s trying to sell. I’m a product of the Edsall tutelage at an early age so I understand what they believe in him and what he gets out of them in practice.

The D.O.: Do you have any specific memories of Edsall that stand out? R.D.: It was a short-yardage play and I remember we were backed up in our end zone and we were just practicing. Probably on the 5-yard line, I remember getting a handoff and running about five or 10 yards downfield and just stopped to turn around and come back. And Coach Edsall said to me, “Robert, what are you doing?” I’m like, “What are you talking about?” He’s like, “Get in the end zone, suppose you break a long run.” I was like, “Seriously?” He’s like, “Yeah.” So I turned it on and sprinted into the end zone but then I had to sprint all the way back and get ready for the next play. I prepared myself for games like that, where I would always sprint into the end zone no matter where I was at. It got me in great shape and it taught me the aspect of getting the ball in the end zone and doing the things to prepare and get you ready to play football.

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program guyRandy Edsall spent the first decade and change of his football career at Syracuse before becoming a head coach at Connecticut and now Maryland.

Randy Edsall Syracuse career:

1976-1979: Played quarterback

1980: Graduate assistant

1981: Graduate assistant

1982: Part-time assistant

1983: Offensive backfield/recruiting coordinator

1984: Tight ends/special teams/recruiting coordinator

1985: Running backs/recruiting coordinator

1986: Running backs/recruiting coordinator

1987: Defensive backs

1988: Defensive backs

1989: Recruiting coordinator/secondary

1990: Recruiting coordinator/secondary

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By Connor Grossmanstaff writer

The mob that was the Brophy College Prepara-tory football team came to a near standstill as dozens of heads turned in sync watching a football sail 50 yards toward the uprights from the foot of an unknown figure at midfield.

The kick came from Casey Skowron, start-ing left back on the school’s soccer team. It was only his third-ever kick on a football field, and shortly after, he nailed a 55-yard attempt.

Soccer was a life-long passion for Skowron. In his senior season at Brophy, the Broncos finished 23-1-2.

“Soccer was my whole life,” said Skowron, who is now a kicker for Arizona. “I knew no matter where I ended up going I was going to play soccer.”

Brophy head football coach Scooter Molander approached Skowron on the left back’s soccer coach’s recommendation, looking to solve his team’s kicking woes. An innocent on-field tryout unearthed a new application of a talent Skowron had long known he’d had: kicking a ball.

That talent, coupled with an ability to forget his failures, has molded him into a physically

and mentally ideal kicker on the Arizona foot-ball team in his second attempt of walking on. Now in his first season as starting kicker, the redshirt junior is tied for the third-most field goals for any Division I kicker.

“A soccer player has kicked thousands of balls in their life, so to them it’s just another kick,” said John Auran, director of football operations at Brophy. “For a football player, each kick is something that means so much that they get mentally blocked and put too much pressure on themselves.”

Skowron’s quick ascension seemingly came crashing down in only his third game, the 5A-I Arizona state quarterfinals, when he jogged onto the field to attempt a 46-yard field goal with less than 90 seconds left and Brophy down 13-12.

Six inches wide right.“ We all thought the kick was good,”

Casey’s father, Ted Skowron said. “I was hugging one of the assistant principals on the field celebrating.”

His career has shifted toward overcoming adversity since.

After being seriously recruited by lower-level Division II and III soccer programs, he chose to

national

Arizona’s Skowron jumps from soccer to D-I kicker

CASEY SKOWRON is third in the NCAA in field goals made, with seven through three games. But before he played football at Arizona he was a manager for the women’s soccer team. He was able to walk on after his freshman year. courtesy of arizona athletics

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time machine

Shea writes poem on scoreless Syracuse-UMD tie

Editor’s note: The article below is a repub-lished piece from the 1935 Daily Orange in which then-sports editor Don Shea wrote a poem about Syracuse’s season finale tie against Maryland.

•••With the field a rice plantation, and neither team a conflagration, Old Bill Orange and the Liners did their stuff. There were kicks and some line bucking, but for the most part it was muck-ing, and neither team appeared to have enough. Bucky Buckwaldt tried a kick when we were won-dering why not Vannie then, and at the end both coaches looked so wry. Yes so wry. Cause both wanted that ball game, just to keep a good coach name, but it all turned out so tame, with both teams scoring just the same. Or lack of same.

•••But the grid-marsh told the story and sapped all the glory, which should have fallen to the men of Piety Hill. Each back could use a dory, in that slipping, cozy, gory, mass of mud which didn’t even yield a thrill. Not a thrill. Nor a victory for Old Bill. Not for Bill in all that rain, which to Hanson was a pain, came a chance for Ray to tows that gooey ball. That was all. Gooey ball was the all to our fall.

•••To Big Jontos goes the back slap. He made Guck-eyson’s ears flay every time he heaved his body in the maw. And the Orioles will all sing, for the legislature to bring, a “Beware of Jontos” enactment—as a law. Even Meehan had to cling to Jontos as the best guard ever saw. (You’ll have to pardon the poor grammar, but that’s the only word fits in there.)

•••But it fell to Jimmy Nolan to send the ball arollin’ every time our backs were pressed against the goal. Good Old Jimmy at his pleasure, using line stripes as a measure, got off a pretty boot with lots of roll. Lots of roll. For a Maryland toll. So he finished in the limelight, even tho he was a muddy slight, and the presses all this morn his kicks extoll.

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Now we’ll talk about the broadcast, which we hope will be the very last to send this campus flying to the skies. It was “hi ya wife and John” or “hello Betty,” on and on. Why we didn’t even know who kicked that field goal try. Now it shouldn’t be that way, when the lads go ‘way and play, and we wonder when the school will be fair. Take the air on the square. We were fooled once, and twice, and we took it very nice. But this Turkey Day was thrice. Are we men or are we mice?

•••Now a word for Stanton Hemingway, who a real type of game did play, after Guckeyson smashed that hole for gain and gain. The big six footed blonde, of whom no coach seems so over-fond, was the answer to a coach’s prayer in all that rain. He plugged up that big gap, and was glad to take the rap, just to show the laddies that he was the real McCoy. His tackles were all clean, and tho he wasn’t mean, he showed up as a tough and rugged boy. Rugged Boy.

•••But, stop, it fell to the black haired Touch-ton, who’s supposed to be the blocking one, to really steal the show all afternoon. He sneaked the ball for several yards, which was not stacked into the cards, and grabbed a blocked punt like old Oscar F. Larfoon. (There never was an Oscar F. Larfoon, folks, but it fits in here perfectly. You don’t mind, do you?) His blocking was all up to par, and there was only that pass to mar, the clean slate of a perfect afternoon. But wait, don’t blame him yet. You know yourself the ball was wet. So next year he might be our major bet.

•••Two men fought their last Thursday, George and Ed went out the way, that real fighters like to end their job. They were fighters thru and thru, and, as you already knew, they’re the kind of men who click with every mob. Be it football, squash or chess, they are never colorless, have all the characteristics of the champ. Of the champ. So a final tribute due, before this fine grid pair is thru, we’ll label them the kings of our grid camp.

•••Which leaves nine men on the team which to Hanson brings a gleam, of the days when Nevins etc. bore the brunt. Jumping Joe and Walt Rekstis, Touchton, Nolan and Isseks, should all be here next fall, way out in front.

Reckmack, Webster, Novotny, and of course Bucking Albanese, will still be back to keep up Vic’s ground gaining wars. So the one thing left to do, before all this tripe is thru, is to pray their heads will get no larger than the scores.

THE 1935 SYRACUSE FOOTBALL TEAM finished its season with a 0-0 tie against Maryland in Baltimore. It was only the third meeting between the two teams. Afterward, the all-time series stood at 1-1-1. For some reason, then-sports editor Don Shea wrote a poem about the game. The Daily Orange probably won’t do that this weekend. daily orange file photo


forego those opportunities to follow in the footsteps of his older brother Matt, a club soc-cer player at Arizona. The younger Skowron attempted to walk onto the football team his freshman year, and despite believing he kicked well enough to make the team, he missed it.

He became the women’s soccer team man-ager the following year. There, he bonded with defender Autumn Lockwood, the daughter of cornerbacks coach David Lockwood. Skowron joked with Autumn Lockwood that she should talk to her dad about setting up a tryout, but Skowron said he quickly laughed off the idea.

She came to practice one day with all the tryout information for Skowron.

After a few days of going through a kicking routine at tryouts, Skowron was called into recruiting coordinator Matt Dudek’s office.

“Instead of giving me any kind of news he just started telling me all these differ-ent things we needed to do,” Skowron said. “Finally he stopped himself and said, ‘Oh, by

the way, congratulations. You made the team.’”Skowron wasn’t immediately thrust into

the limelight like in high school; it was almost the complete opposite. He would redshirt his sophomore season, sidelined the entirety of 2013 with groin and oblique injuries.

This season, Skowron’s name was finally atop the kicking depth chart. He stepped between the white lines in Arizona’s first game against UNLV for his first-ever field-goal attempt and promptly missed a 38-yard shot.

But Skowron nailed his next three attempts, including a 49-yarder.

“Casey is all about the next kick,” Auran said. “No matter how good or how bad things turn out, it’s always about learning from this kick and moving onto the next.

“He always showed exemplary mental toughness.”

Parents on the Skowron’s old soccer team coined the name “Ice Man” for him, refer-ring to his constantly flat-lined demeanor. His teammates and coaches heavily laud his work ethic and mental toughness.

The man who Skowron entrusts to per-fectly place each long snap, holder Drew Rig-gleman, has seen how Skowron carries himself more than anyone else has. From the more relaxed practice setting to setting up for a game-winning kick like he did against Texas--San Antonio, he stays the same.

“He has this laid back quality that doesn’t allow him to just get consumed by kicking,” Riggleman said. “He likes to keep things pretty relaxed but has a great work ethic to go with that.”

Now, soccer has been placed on the back-burner in his mind, something he’ll revisit when his football days are behind him.

Skowron is reveling in his new role this season, doing exactly what he planned on doing from the moment he walked on two seasons ago.

“It’s great to be in the position I am and to succeed,” Skowron said. “But it’s definitely something I’ve prepared for and I’m not sur-prised that I’ve been successful.”

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hasn’t had to account for this season, which will place a higher emphasis on the pass rush and secondary communication.

“You’re right, we haven’t played those type of receivers, but no matter who we play, that’s how we’re going to play,” SU safety Durell Eskridge said. “We’re going to come out tough, hard-nosed and physical and be ready to play with any receiver and put our hands on any receiver, no matter who they are.”

SU head coach Scott Shafer isn’t one to talk too much about any opposing player, let alone a pair of receivers. He’s been asked to draw comparisons between Brown and Villanova

quarterback John Robertson throughout the week, which has ended with him pushing the focus to the Terrapins as a team.

But Whigham did say that Shafer, a for-mer defensive coordinator, has been keen on planning for Diggs and Long, even if the head coach wants to keep that between him and his team.

“I mean you just state the facts, they’re good football players that have good numbers. You turn on the tape and you can see that,” Shafer said. “You know you need to get after those guys, but I haven’t talked about them too much more than that, the film won’t lie.

“Those guys are good players. We’ve got a hell of a task in front of us.”

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The Syracuse secondary has excelled so far this season, but will face its toughest test on Saturday. Maryland wide receivers Stefon Diggs and Deon Long are both back from injury, and will pose a significant deep threat against the Orange. sam maller staff photographer

Instead of giving me any kind of news he just started telling me all these different things we needed to do. Finally he stopped himself and said, ‘Oh, by the way, congratulations. You made the team.’Casey Skowronarizona kicker


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27 George Morris II RB

28 Antwan Cordy CB

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38 Cameron Lynch LB

39 Greg Tobias RB

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55 Marcus Coleman DT

55 Rob Trudo OG

56 John Miller C

57 Omari Palmer OG

58 Hernz Laguerre LB

58 Donnie Foster C

59 Aaron Roberts OG

60 Sean Hickey OT

63 Rony Charles DL

65 Jamar McGloster OT

67 Michael Lasker OT

68 Nick Robinson OG

69 Keith Mitsuuchi LS

70 Jesse Wolf-Gould OG

71 Alex Hayes OG

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4 Wes Brown RB

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5 Albert Reid RB

6 Deon Long WR

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33 Michael Washington DB

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