April 21, 2003
EASTON, Pa. (www.lafayette.edu) - The 2003 Lafayette Maroon-White spring football game will be played Saturday, April 26 at Fisher Field. The scrimmage will begin at 1 p.m. and there will be no admission fee charged for this first-hand look at the 2003 Leopards under fourth-year head coach Frank Tavani.
Alumni, parents and friends of Lafayette football are invited to the 2003 Maroon Club / Friends of Lafayette Football golf outing on Friday, April 25 at Southmoore Golf Club in Bath, Pa. This event is a prelude to the Leopards' annual Maroon-White spring football game at Fisher Field on Saturday, April 26 at 1 p.m.
The scramble format event begins with lunch at 11 a.m., features a 12:30 p.m. shotgun tee-off, and concludes with a 5:30 p.m. dinner at the Southmoore Golf Club restaurant.
Foursomes are available for just $400, while individual players can enter for just $100. All proceeds will benefit the Lafayette Maroon Club and the Leopards' football program.
For more information, contact Fred Brown (610-330-5040) in Lafayette's alumni affairs office.
Lafayette returns 18 starters and three All-Patriot League performers in left tackle Kevin Moss (New York, N.Y./Simsbury) and the quarterback-receiver tandem of Marko Glavic (Pickering, Ontario/St. Mary Catholic) and John Weyrauch (Mountain Top, Pa./Crestwood).
Lafayette recorded the second-best turnaround among NCAA Division I-AA programs this past season. After finishing with a 2-8 overall record in 2001 and being picked seventh in the Patriot League's preseason poll, the Leopards improved by five victories to go 7-5 overall and 5-2 in the Patriot League for a third-place finish. Lafayette's only two league losses were to co-champions Colgate and Fordham, each by a margin of just one touchdown.
For the third straight year, Lafayette led the Patriot League in Verizon District II Academic All-Americans with five honorees. That raises the program's total to 31 Academic All-Americans in the past seven seasons and 16 in three seasons under Tavani.
