Oct. 17, 2014
CARLISLE, PA - The ninth-ranked Johns Hopkins football team scored the first 42 points of the game and rolled up 454 yards of total offense as the Blue Jays knocked off host Dickinson, 42-7, at Biddle Field Friday night. The win improves the Blue Jays to 6-0 overall and 5-0 in the Centennial Conference, while the Red Devils slip to 2-4 overall and 2-3 in the Centennial.
The Blue Jays wasted no time taking control as they led 7-0 after their first offensive play and 14-0 less than six minutes into the game. That lead swelled to 21-0 by the end of the first quarter and 28-0 at the half.
After the Blue Jay defense forced a quick three-and-out to open the game, Johns Hopkins senior quarterback Braden Anderson hit sophomore Bradley Munday deep down the middle on a 67-yard touchdown pass that gave the Blue Jays the quick seven-point lead.
Another three-and-out and the Blue Jays were set up at their own 45 with just over 11 minutes remaining. Six plays and just over two minutes later and junior Brandon Cherry doubled the lead to 14-0 with a one-yard scoring run.
The 14-point lead held until late in the first quarter, when Hopkins took over at the Dickinson 49 and again needed just six plays to punch it into the end zone. The Blue Jays covered 48 of the 49 yards on the ground with Anderson executing a perfect quarterback keeper and racing in untouched from 23 yards out to account for the 21-point lead at the end of the first quarter.
The Dickinson defense stiffened in the second quarter, but a well-executed fake punt by sophomore Matt Auran kept a drive alive midway through the period and Anderson scored on another keeper - this one around left end - to make it 28-0 at the half.
Any hopes for a Dickinson comeback were dashed on the opening drive of the second half as the Blue Jays methodically went 71 yards in eight plays to go up 35-0. Sophomore Stuart Walters covered the first 29 yards on two carries and Cherry went 23 on the next play to set the Blue Jays up in the red zone. Five plays later Anderson hit senior fullback Cesar Concepcion in the flat and he bulled his way to the pylon for the touchdown.
A 15-yard Will Nunn touchdown pass to Kyle Morgan for the Blue Jays and a 14-yard Ricky Klingerman touchdown run for Dickinson in the fourth quarter closed out the scoring.
Anderson accounted for four of JHU's six touchdowns on the night as he was 9-of-18 for 171 yards and the two touchdowns and also rushed for 64 yards and two scores. In all, Hopkins gained 259 of its 454 yards on the ground.
Junior Keith Corliss led the Blue Jays defensively as he posted 10 tackles in the win. Johns Hopkins forced three Dickinson turnovers, posted a pair of sacks and held the Devils to 248 yards of total offense. Most impressively, the Blue Jays held Dickinson's Cedric Madden to just 44 yards on 13 carries. Madden entered the game as the Centennial Conference's leading rusher as he was averaging 119.2 yards per game.
Johns Hopkins, which knocked off Dickinson for the eighth straight time, improves to 39-1 in its last 40 regular season games and gives head coach Jim Margraff his 173rd career victory. Margraff is now just one win shy of tying Eddie Hurt's record for most wins by a college football coach in the state of Maryland. Hurt won 174 games from 1929-59.
The Blue Jays will return to action next Friday night (October 24) when they welcome Gettysburg to Homewood Field. Kickoff is set for 7 pm.
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