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| Brian Ingram |
Redshirt freshman wide receiver Brian Ingram stole the show at the University of Delaware's annual Blue-White football spring scrimmage Saturday night at Delaware Stadium.
Ingram, a 6-4, 171 pound wide receiver from Stone Mountain, Ga., caught eight passes for 174 yards, including the game's only touchdown midway through the first quarter when he took a pass from sophomore Mike Connor and raced 85 yards down the right sideline for the Blue team.
The game wrapped up a month of spring practice for the Delaware football team and drew a larger than usual crowd in excess of 3,000. Much of the crowd was there to witness the Blue Hens' new spread offense that was publicly unveiled for the first time by new head coach K.C. Keeler.
Keeler was named Delaware's new head coach this winter after Tubby Raymond announced his retirement after 36 years as head coach, capping a Hall of Fame career that included 300 victories.
This year's spring game featured a new scoring system in which the defense, which was the White team, could score points based on causing turnovers and stopping the offense on downs. The White ended up with a 23-8 victory.
Connor, who became Delaware's first true freshman to start in 50 years this past spring, enjoyed a solid outing as he hit on 13 of 21 passes for 196 yards and one touchdown. Fellow sophomore Ian Hamilton, the only other quarterback in the Blue Hen camp, connected on 9 of 20 passes for 63 yards as the Hens passed for 259 total yards.
Also leading the offense was redshirt freshman running back David Goode, who rushed for a team-high 27 yards and caught four passes for 21 yards, and junior running back Antawn Jenkins, last year's leading rusher with 570 yards, who also picked up 27 yards on nine carries.
Defensively, linebacker Mark Moore had a team-high seven tackles, senior Dan Mulhern posted six tackles, and defensive tackle Brian Jennings had a sack and recovered a fumble.
May 6, 2002
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