Nov. 5, 2005

Recap | Box Score | Quotes

• Duquesne, which has a non-conference game at Saint Francis (Nov. 19) remaining on the 2005 schedule, will enter next season with a 37-game MAAC win streak ... it is the longest active conference win streak among NCAA Division I-A and I-AA schools and ranks third all time behind Oklahoma (44 in the Big Eight from 1952-59) and Nebraska (39 in the Big Eight/Big 12 from 1992-98) on the all-time list for Division I-A and I-AA

• The victory also clinched Duquesne's 12th consecutive winning season and extended DU's series win streak to seven in a row over La Salle

• Duquesne has now won seven consecutive MAAC titles, including nine in the last 11 years (1995, `96, `99, `00, `01, `02, `03, `04, `05)

• Duquesne began the game without starting quarterback Scott Knapp (Pittsburgh, Pa./Perry Traditional Academy), who was nursing a shoulder that was injured on Oct. 22 at Marist and back-up Ben Palumbo (Canton, Ohio/McKinley) who injured an ankle last week at Iona

• True freshman Kevin Rombach (Harrisburg, Pa./Central Dauphin) who led Duquesne from a 10-0 deficit to a 31-17 win last week at Iona was nearly flawless, completing 12-of-15 passes for 207 yards and two TDs (6 and 31 yards) with no interceptions ... Rombach's efficiency rating stands at an astronomical 208.55 in two games

• True freshman receiver Travis Taltoan (West Chester, Pa./Henderson), who entered the game with nine catches for 71 yards, finished with 120 yards on seven catches including a 31-yard TD ... the reception and yardage totals were both career highs

• Jeremy McCullough (Bethlehem, Pa./Wyoming Seminary) finished with a game-high 90 yards on 14 carries ... the 5-9, 190-pound junior scored a career high two touchdowns (one and five yards)

• The Duquesne defense finished with 18 tackles for loss for a total of minus 103 yards

• DU had 80 yards on four interception returns

• Senior Michael Ford (Clinton, Md./Oxon Hill) picked off two passes to up his career total to 12 -- good for tied for fourth on Duquesne's career list ... his 41-yard return for a TD in the second quarter was his third career touchdown ... Ford's 265 career return yards trails only the 297 recorded by All-American - and current Cleveland Brown - Leigh Bodden set on 28 interceptions between 1999-02

• Middle linebacker Harry Carter (Lanham, Md./Eleanor Roosevelt) led Duquesne with a season-high 13 tackles to up his career total to 385 ... he needs eight tackles in DU's season finale at Saint Francis to pass Matt Fisher (1995-98) and move into the second spot on Duquesne's all-time total tackles list ... Carter added a career-high 3.0 sacks (for -27 yards) vs. La Salle

• Senior defensive end Antoine Bullock (Houston, Texas/Sugar Land Kempner) added three sacks to up his school record career total to 27.5 ... Bullock's 12.0 sacks this season are 0.5 behind the school single-season record of 12.5 set by Ryan Tolan last season

• Duquesne, which entered the year having used just three different starting quarterbacks in the previous 10 seasons (Dave Loya, Tony Zimmerman and Niel Loebig), has now had to use three different starting QBs in its last three games ... Scott Knapp, the season starter, has a shoulder injury that has kept him out of the last two games; Ben Palumbo, who started in place of Knapp at Iona, was injured in the first quarter of that game and Kevin Rombach, who replaced Palumbo at Iona and started vs. La Salle.