The 16th ranked Hobart College Statesmen released their 2015 roster and it seems like the success of the 2014 campaign did not go unnoticed. A large FY class as well as several interesting transfers from D3 to FCS level programs will report to preseason camp in just a couple of weeks.
The updated roster can be found here.
A look at the Class of 2019 is below (hometowns provided as listed):
#2 RB Tynard Barfield RB (Baltimore, MD)
#4 RB Joseph Barrocas (Miami, FL)
#12 CB Kiande Phillips CB (Orlando, FL)
#14 DB Sam Wheeler
#16 QB Anthony Pino
#18 QB Matt Woods (Latham, NY)
#21 WR Jake Henzes (Clarks Summit, PA)
#22 LB Bobbie Lewis (NY)
#27 FS Max Charlton (Burnt Hills, NY)
#30 LB Kiyon Brandford
#31 CB CJ Boleware (Bronx, NY)
#32 TE Nick Forti (Enterprise, AL)
#42 CB Matt Morgante
#45 LB Brandan Kahari (Lynn, MA)
#48 LB Aaron Louis (Stoneham, MA)
#49 LB Josh Ammon (Aldie, VA)
#50 LB Bryce Gioia (Hyde Park, NY)
#57 DE Joe DeGrood (Orchard Park, NY)
#58 DT AJ McFarlane
#65 DT Sean Moore (Bohemia, NY)
#68 OL Jonathan Koch (NYC)
#69 OL Micah Holloway
#70 OL John Deveney
#74 OL Will Eddy
#75 OL Chris Stedry
#76 OL Andrew Chait
#77 OL Patrick Cino (Holmdel, NJ)
#78 OL Nathan Webster (Corning, NY)
#79 OL Nick Marasco (Queensbury, NY)
#84 WR Malyk Daley-Pinkard (Geneva, NY)
#85 WR Brendan McCloskey
#90 DE Albert Smith
#91 DE Elijah Auringer
#93 PK Will Warne (Vancouver, WA)
These 34 student athletes make an impressive recruiting class, one that is focusing on key areas of future need (OL, RB and DL).
Bolstering this impressive FY class is a group of SO's that are either returning to the program or have transferred in from other schools, including:
#1 CB Gabe Smith (2013 D3football.com All American ST and All East DB)
#3 QB Shane Sweeney (via SUNY Albany)
#12 QB Tom Sydeski (via Stonehill College)
#96 PK Rio Schmidt (via Colby College)
Needless to say there is no shortage of incoming talent to push the upperclassmen and retuning lettermen in preseason camp.
Speaking of the roster, you may notice that certain players have similar numbers and/or returning starters have new ones. The main reason for this is a decision by the Football Program to return previously retired jerseys / numbers of HOF players back into retirement. Four jerseys / numbers had been "retired" by the Statesmen over it's 120+ history including:
#24 RB Mark Perkins '69
#33 RB Merle Gulick '30
#43 RB Don Aleksiewicz '73
#44 RB Rich Kowalski '76
The decade of the 1970's was a "golden age" for Hobart Football and a number of the alumni from that era raised concerns over the use of the retired jerseys in recent seasons. Although HC Mike Cragg did clear the initial reinstatement of the jerseys / numbers with each of the HOF players' respective families given the expanding roster over the past several seasons, it appears that going forward the Statesmen Athletics team will return these numbers back to the HOF.
Three Statesmen teams from this decade (1972-74) are recognized by the HOF as "Teams of Distinction", earning a record of 22-3-1 over that three year span. Coached by the late George Davis (see this story on Coach Davis and his life and contributions to Hobart College), these teams have some of the most active alumni and supporters of Hobart Football. You can join them every first home opener of the football season. I did last year and really enjoyed getting to know these great Statesmen, hearing and seeing (via 8mm film from the archives) the great stories and games from this era.
In the present day, the last recognition of this post will be to JR LB Marcus Jemison. In 2014 Jemison earned unanimous first team All-LL and D3football.com third All Eastern team selections. This preseason Jemison once again was cited by D3football.com as a second team All-American at LB.
A link to the All-American team can be seen here.
Finally, Hobart will open up their preseason camp on August 15th.
I'll be back later this week to further analyze the recruiting class, among other news.
Thanks for reading and go 'Bart!
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