Sports Seasons Players Opponents

Southern Mississippi 34, Louisville 25

Nov. 17, 1984 – Away – Hattiesburg, Miss. – Attendance 15,904

	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	Total
Louisville	13	0	6	6	25
Southern Mississippi	7	17	10	0	34

Louisville Scoring Summary

Qtr	Time	Scoring Play
1st	09:21	Preston Gray 51-yard pass from Ed Rubbert (Phil Ellis kick), 7-80, 03:12
1st	01:06	John Adams 1-yard rush (Phil Ellis kick blocked), 7-48, 03:31
3rd	02:24	Bruce Armstrong 9-yard pass from Ed Rubbert (Danny Cerione kick missed), 9-73, 02:46
4th	01:11	Bruce Armstrong 14-yard pass from Ed Rubbert (two-point conversion failed), 5-35, 01:11

Team Statistics

	Louisville	Southern Mississippi
FIRST DOWNS	21	16
Rushing	7	11
Passing	12	3
Penalty	2	2
NET YARDS RUSHING	45	260
Rushing Attempts	27	48
Average Per Rush	1.7	5.4
Rushing Touchdowns	1	3
Yards Gained Rushing	88	309
Yards Lost Rushing	43	49
NET YARDS PASSING	303	101
Completions-Attempts-Int	31-48-4	6-18-0
Average Per Attempt	6.3	5.6
Average Per Completion	9.8	16.8
Passing Touchdowns	3	0
TOTAL OFFENSE YARDS	348	361
Total offense plays	75	66
Average Gain Per Play	4.6	5.5
Fumbles: Number-Lost	3-2	2-1
Penalties: Number-Yards	6-54	5-52
PUNTS-YARDS	4-152	5-215
Average Yards Per Punt	38.0	43.0
Punt returns: Number-Yards-TD	2-7-0	3-22-0
Average Per Return	3.5	7.3
Kickoff returns: Number-Yds-TD	4-68-0	4-60-0
Average Per Return	17.0	15.0
Interceptions: Number-Yds-TD	0-0-0	4-69-1
Fumble Returns: Number-Yds-TD	0-0-0	0-0-0
Possession Time	32:05
Third-Down Conversions	4-14	6-15
Sacks By: Number-Yards	3-23	2-15
PAT Kicks	1-3	4-4
2Pts Conversions	0-1	0-0
Field Goals	0-0	2-0

RUSHING
	No.	Gain	Loss	Net	TD	Lg	Avg
Ron Davenport	9	38	0	38	0	11	4.2
Willie Shelby	6	31	14	17	0	16	2.8
Leonard Sullivan	4	11	0	11	0	6	2.8
John Adams	2	4	0	4	1	3	2.0
Rodney Knighton	2	4	0	4	0	3	2.0
Ed Rubbert	4	0	29	-29	0	-1	-7.3
Totals	27	88	43	45	1	16	1.7

PASSING
	C-A-I	Yds	TD	Long	Sack
Ed Rubbert	31-48-4	303	3	51	2
Totals	31-48-4	303	3	51	2

RECEIVING
	TAR	No.	Yards	YAC	TD	Long
Preston Gray		4	84		1	51
Bruce Armstrong		7	74		2	15
Carl Williams		1	38		0	38
Ron Davenport		5	33		0	13
Junior Jones		3	26		0	20
Rodney Knighton		3	21		0	10
Danny Thomas		3	20		0	12
Leonard Sullivan		3	6		0	5
Willie Shelby		2	1		0	1
Totals		31	303		3	51

PUNTING
	No.	Yds	Avg	Long	In20	TB
Danny Cerione	4	152	38.0	48
Totals	4	152	38.0	48

RETURNS
	Punt No	Yds	Lg	Kick No	Yds	Lg	Int No	Yds	Lg
Eric Vaughn	2	7	8	3	55	23	0	0	0
John Adams	0	0	0	1	13	13	0	0	0
Totals	2	7	8	4	68	23	0	0	0

FIELD GOALS
Qtr	Time	Dist	Result

ALL-PURPOSE
	Rush	Rcv	KR	PR	IR	Total
Preston Gray	0	84	0	0	0	84
Bruce Armstrong	0	74	0	0	0	74
Ron Davenport	38	33	0	0	0	71
Eric Vaughn	0	0	55	7	0	62
Carl Williams	0	38	0	0	0	38
Junior Jones	0	26	0	0	0	26
Rodney Knighton	4	21	0	0	0	25
Danny Thomas	0	20	0	0	0	20
Willie Shelby	17	1	0	0	0	18
John Adams	4	0	13	0	0	17
Leonard Sullivan	11	6	0	0	0	17
Ed Rubbert	-29	0	0	0	0	-29

FUMBLES
Louisville – Ed Rubbert 2-1, Leonard Sullivan 1-1 Southern Mississippi – 2-1

Louisville Defense
#	Name	Solo	Ast	Total	Sacks-Yds	TFL-Yds	FF	FR-Yds	Int-Yds	BrUp	Blks	QBH
	Don Cosby	8	2	10	0.0-0	0.0-0	0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0
	Brian Miller	3	5	8	1.0-4	1.0-4	0	0-0	0-0	1	0	0
	Kirk Perry	4	3	7	0.0-0	0.0-0	0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0
	Anthony Copeland	2	2	4	0.0-0	1.0-4	0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0
	Todd Navarro	2	2	4	0.0-0	0.0-0	0	0-0	0-0	1	0	0
69	Benny Painter	1	3	4	0.0-0	0.0-0	0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0
	Calvert Cole	3	0	3	0.0-0	0.0-0	0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0
	Tim Chapman	2	1	3	1.0-10	2.0-15	0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0
	Mike Minogue	2	1	3	0.0-0	1.0-3	0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0
	Donte Wheat	2	0	2	0.0-0	0.0-0	0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0
	Doug Pritchett	1	1	2	0.0-0	0.0-0	0	0-0	0-0	1	0	0
	Matt Battaglia	1	0	1	0.0-0	0.0-0	0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0
	Bobby Jefferson	1	0	1	1.0-9	1.0-9	0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0
	Rodney Knighton	1	0	1	0.0-0	0.0-0	0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0
	Ron Marney	1	0	1	0.0-0	0.0-0	0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0
	Anthony Moss	1	0	1	0.0-0	0.0-0	0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0
	Dave Naimaister	1	0	1	0.0-0	0.0-0	0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0
	Chris Thieneman	1	0	1	0.0-0	1.0-12	0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0
	Spencer Wells	1	0	1	0.0-0	0.0-0	0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0
	Torrence Dickens	0	1	1	0.0-0	0.0-0	0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0
	Eric Givens	0	1	1	0.0-0	0.0-0	0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0
	Kevin Hatcher	0	0	0	0.0-0	0.0-0	0	1-0	0-0	0	0	0
	Totals	38	22	60	3.0-23	7.0-47	0	1-0	0-0	3	0	0

Louisville Participation

69-Benny Painter, John Adams, Bruce Armstrong, Matt Battaglia, Danny Cerione, Tim Chapman, Calvert Cole, Anthony Copeland, Don Cosby, Ron Davenport, Torrence Dickens, Phil Ellis, Eric Givens, Ernest Givins, Preston Gray, Kevin Hatcher, Bobby Jefferson, James Jones, Junior Jones, Rodney Knighton, Ron Marney, Brian Miller, Mike Minogue, Anthony Moss, Dave Naimaister, Todd Navarro, Kirk Perry, Doug Pritchett, Ed Rubbert, Willie Shelby, Leonard Sullivan, Chris Thieneman, Danny Thomas, Eric Vaughn, Spencer Wells, Donte Wheat, Carl Williams