The Game
«  Johns Hopkins (2-0) hits the road for the first time this season as the Blue Jays travel to Salisbury (1-1) to take on the Sea Gulls.  Kickoff is set for 2 pm.

A Look Back
«  Johns Hopkins improved to 2-0 on the year with a 20-14 win over Christopher Newport last Saturday night at Homewood Field.
« Salisbury jumped out to a 14-0 lead, but eventually fell to Muhlenberg, 29-17, in Allentown last Saturday.

The Facts
«  This is the 138th season of Johns Hopkins football.  JHU first fielded a team in 1882.
«  Johns Hopkins enters this week's game with an all-time record of 586-489-57 (.543).
«  Since the start of the 2010 season, the Blue Jays are 122-20 (.859) overall and 98-10 (.907) in the Centennial Conference.
«  Overall, JHU owns 15 Centennial Conference titles (all won since 2002) and has qualified for the NCAA Playoffs 11 times (all since 2005).

Poll Position
«  Johns Hopkins jumped one spot to number 13 in this week's D3football.com Poll.
« Since the D3football.com Poll debuted in 2003, this is the 139th time Johns Hopkins has appeared in the top 25.
« The AFCA Poll, the other official poll conducted at the Division III level, will debut for the 2023 season later in September.

It's Been a While
«  Johns Hopkins hosted Ithaca and Christopher Newport in its first two games of the season. This marks the first time since 1999 that JHU has opened a season with two straight home games.

Quick Out of the Gate
«  Johns Hopkins is 2-0 for the third consecutive season and the 16th time since 2001.
« A win this week would give the Blue Jays a 3-0 start to the season for the third straight year and the 15th time since 2002.

Road Openers
«  Johns Hopkins has won its road opener in each of the last three seasons and in 10 of the last 11 seasons.
« Ironically, the only time in the last 11 seasons that the Blue Jays didn't win their first road game of the season was in 2018, when they eventually advanced to the NCAA Semifinals.

Sweet September
«  Including last week's win over Christopher Newport and dating back to 2010, Johns Hopkins is now 47-4 in the month of September.
«  Also dating back to 2010, the Blue Jays are 23-1 at home and 24-3 on the road in the month of September.

Centennial-NJAC
«  This week's game is the second in a three-game run of games for Johns Hopkins against teams from the New Jersey Athletic Conference (NJAC).
« Starting this season, the Centennial Conference and the NJAC signed a scheduling a agreement that provides all teams in both leagues with three crossover games against teams from the other league.
« As chance would have it, Johns Hopkins drew the task of playing the three teams that ranked first (Salisbury), second (Christopher Newport) and third (Rowan) in the 2023 NJAC Preseason Poll.
« In week one of the crossover, the Centennial Conference won four of six games with one game (F&M-TCNJ) being lost to the weather.

On a Roll
«  Johns Hopkins is 108-8 in its last 116 regular season games dating back to late in the 2010 season.
«  The Blue Jays are 119-17 in their last 136 games overall since late in the 2010 season.
«  Dating back farther, Johns Hopkins is 185-45 (.804) since the start of the 2002 season, 191-48 (.799) since the start of the 2001 season and 196-53 (.787) since the start of the 2000 season.
« JHU is 196-53 (.787) in its last 249 games dating back to 2000.  In its previous 249 games (1973-99), the Blue Jays were 110-131-8 (.458).

Harvey Extends QB Streak at 12
«  Junior Bay Harvey got the start at quarterback in the season opener against Ithaca.  With the 27-17 victory over the Bombers, he extend a remarkable streak for Johns Hopkins starting quarterbacks that dates back 17 years to the 2006 season.
« Including Harvey's' win, 12 consecutive Johns Hopkins quarterbacks have won their first career start for the Blue Jays, a streak that started with Shane Kibbe's 21-14 win over Randolph-Macon early in that 2006 season.

Uggla Named to Allstate AFCA Good Works Team
«  Senior RB Spencer Uggla was named to the 2023 Allstate AFCA Good Works Team it was announced on September 12, 2023.
« Uggla is the fifth Johns Hopkins football player named to the team as he joins Jim Sanders (2005), Brian Nickel (2006), Tim Miller (2009) and Alan Gorny (2022).
« Uggla was nominated by Johns Hopkins officials for his work off the field, which includes volunteering at the Johns Hopkins Food Pantry and the Hopkins Neuro-Oncology Surgical Outcomes Lab.  In addition, he has been active with the "I Run 4 Michael" organization since 2015 where he has been paired with a young man named Daniel who has Down Syndrome and volunteers as an EMT with HERO (Hopkins Emergency Response Organization) on the Johns Hopkins campus.
« Uggla and the 22-man All-State AFCA Good Works Team will attend the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans at the end of this season.  Team members will complete community service initiatives and be honored on the field at the Sugar Bowl.

Andersson Makes it Two Straight
«  Senior DB Josh Andersson made it two straight Centennial Conference Defensive Players of the Week for Johns Hopkins as he was honored after the Blue Jays' 20-14 win over Christopher Newport.
« Andersson returned an interception 25 yards for a second-quarter touchdown to get the Blue Jays on the board, added two tackles and had the victory-clinching pass breakup in JHU territory on fourth down and less than a minute remaining in the
fourth quarter.
« Andersson's INT return for a score was the first for a Johns Hopkins player since Macauley Kilbane took one back 49 yards at McDaniel in 2021.

Instant Impact
«  Freshman Cole Crotty wasted little time making an impact on the Blue Jay football program as he shined in his career debut in the 27-17 win over Ithaca.
« Crotty had three receptions for a team-high 83 yards and two touchdowns in the win over the Bombers.
« Crotty's first career reception went for a 54-yard touchdown midway through the second quarter that gave the Blue Jays a 14-10 lead they would never relinquish.  He added a 27-yard touchdown catch late in the third quarter that pushed the lead to 27-10.
« Although some data is incomplete, there is no record of another freshman scoring two touchdowns in a season-opening game for Johns Hopkins dating back to 1972.
« Crotty added five receptions for 66 yards against Christopher Newport and now has eight receptions for 149 yards and two TDs on the year.

Record-Breaking
«  Senior Luke Schuermann set Johns Hopkins single-season records for tackles for loss (26.5) and sacks (14.0) last season.  He finished fourth in the nation in tackles for loss per game (2.4) and sixth in sacks per game (1.27).
« Through two games this season, Schuermann has nine tackles, 3.0 tackles for loss and 2.0 sacks to run his career totals to 125 tackles, 50 tackles for loss and 27 sacks.
« Schuermann is just the third player in school history to record 50 or more tackles for losses.

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