Wednesday, November 12, 2003

JACOUBS HONORED AS ECAC SOUTHEAST OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK

CENTERVILLE, MA --- Moravian College freshman tailback Chris Jacoubs (Fair Haven, NJ/Rumson-Fair Haven HS) named the Eastern College Athletic Conference Division III Southeast Offensive Player of the Week for his performance last week.

Jacoubs ran for a school-record 319 yards and three touchdowns on 51 carries but Albright College rallied from a 24-14 fourth quarter deficit to a 28-24 victory in Middle Atlantic Conference action. Jacoubs broke James Evanko’s school record of 256 yards set on November 14th, 1953 against Wagner College. Jacoubs passed the mark on a 21-yard carry, his 39th attempt of the game, with 12 minutes remaining in the fourth quarter. Jacoubs’ 319 yards was the second highest single-game total in MAC history and leaves him just 28 yards shy of becoming the second running back in Moravian history to reach 1,000 yards in a single season and 77 yards short of Jim Joseph’s single season record of 1,048 yards. Jacoubs had four carries of over 20 yards in the game with nine attempts of over 12 yards and a long run of 46 yards on the second play of the game.

Jacoubs has also been named the MAC Offensive Player of the Week and the Division III Co-Offensive National Player of the Week by Don Hansen’s National Weekly Football Gazette.

Moravian has a 3-6 overall record this season and a 3-6 slate in the MAC. The Greyhounds will closeout the 2003 season with a non-conference game at rival Muhlenberg College on Saturday, November 15th at 1:00 p.m. at Scotty Wood Stadium in Allentown, Pennsylvania.