After a disappointing 36-57 loss against Colgate (4-3, 2-0 Patriot League) where they allowed 707 total yards of offense, the Georgetown football team (3-5, 0-2 Patriot League) looks to bounce back in this Saturday’s game on the road against the Lafayette Leopards (5-2, 1-1 Patriot League) in Easton, Pa. at 6 p.m.

“By no means are we pleased with the final result against Colgate,” said Head Coach Kevin Kelly. “Defensively we had a poor performance. We did some real nice things on offense and we hope to build on that going into another tough opponent against Lafayette.”

The Hoyas will look to focus all their energy now on the Leopards, who have won their last two games against Yale and Holy Cross, 20-10 and 30-13 respectively.  Lafayette will have vengeance on their minds this Saturday as Georgetown has won the last two meetings between these two teams by a combined seven points.

“Lafayette is a very a talented, well-coached football team,” said Kelly. “I’m sure a lot of the guys on their team have a big red circle on this date since we’ve come out on top in our last two meetings. This will be a big game for us and our guys will be excited to play up there on Saturday.”

On the offensive side of the ball, the Leopards are led by senior quarterback Andrew Shoop, who has completed 63.3 percent of his passes with nine touchdowns and two interceptions heading into Saturday’s matchup against the Hoyas. Shoop’s favorite receiving target is junior wide receiver Mark Ross who has a team-leading 46 receptions.

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Last Saturday, Georgetown Football beat Lafayette College 14-13 at the Multi-Sport Field and improved their record to 2-0.

Lehigh Valley Live, a website which which includes Lafayette sports in its coverage, has subsequently run possibly the most dramatic article we’ve ever seen in reference to Georgetown football, headlined “Lafayette College Staring into abyss of disaster after heartbreaking loss to Georgetown University.”

“Are we this bad?” author Brad Wilson bemoans in the post, which ran on Monday and is his third for the site about the loss. He then answers his own question, with a very sad “yes.”

Apparently, the Hoyas “represented the best chance for a leopard win.” However, Wilson did give our team, which, we’ll admit, is not historically stellar, a little bit of credit.

“Georgetown is improving,” he said.

“The Leopards, in short, teeter on a precipice of disaster,”  Wilson miserably continues. He also complains that his team looked so “limp, so lame, so soporific,” after a 42-6 season opening loss to North Dakota State.

Wilson goes on to blame the Leopard’s “lunatic schedule” and unsatisfactory coaching for the embarrassing, devastating loss.

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