Former Cedar Crest standout previews Saturday’s game against F&M
Franklin & Marshall will cap its football season on Saturday with a road trip to rival Gettysburg.
The winner will walk away with a .500 record for the season; the loser will finish 4-6 overall.
Gettysburg senior running back Nick McConnell will surely be a factor in the game, and will be a player F&M’s defense will most definitely need to be aware of.
The 2005 Cedar Crest grad splits time as the Bullets’ feature back. He has carried 104 times for 504 yards (second-most on the team) and he’s scored eight touchdowns (most on the team).
The former Falcons’ standout has enjoyed a solid senior season, just one season after a knee injury that cost him a good chunk of the 2007 season.
But McConnell, who was part of a two-man, 1000-yard backfield at Cedar Crest with current IUP standout Tobias Robinson, spent the off-season rehabbing, and returned with a vengeance for his senior season.
McConnell will also be honored on Senior Day, when Gettysburg (4-3 Centennial Conference, 4-5 overall) hosts F&M (3-4 Centennial Conference, 4-5 overall) on Saturday at 1 p.m.
I chatted with McConnell about his career at Gettysburg, about overcoming a pretty bad knee injury, about his days at Cedar Crest, and about this week’s big rivalry game against F&M.
You can listen to the interview by clicking on the ‘play’ button above.
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