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Chuck Dibilio Shares Ivy Freshman Record With Fourth Rookie Honor
November 01, 2011 | Football
Princeton freshman Chuck Dibilio broke his own Princeton freshman single-game rushing record last weekend against Cornell. In doing so, he earned his fourth Ivy League Rookie of the Week honor to match a league freshman record.
Dibilio rushed for 158 yards, which topped the previous record of 147, set three weeks earlier by Dibilio at Hampton University. He also scored Princeton's only touchdown on a 19-yard reception in the second quarter of a snow-filled 24-7 loss to Cornell.
Dibilio, who shared the weekly honor with Harvard's Zack Boden, has earned the honor four times this season, including three times in the last four weeks. The only other Ivy League freshman to earn the same honor four times is linebacker Alex Gross of Columbia (2007). The only player with more Ivy Rookie of the Week honors was Harvard's Elon Hu, but he did so as a sophomore during the 1994 season.
Prior to this season, no Princeton freshman had ever earned the honor three times in one season; the only two players to earn the honor twice was special teams standouts Taylor Northrop (1999) and Colin McDonough (2003).
Dibilio continues to post elite numbers during his first year of collegiate action. He currently ranks third in the Ivy League in rushing yards per game (99.1), though his 694 total rushing yards ranks second in the league behind only Dartmouth's Nick Schwieger (759). In league games only, which is how the Ivy League rushing champion is determined, Dibilio has the most rushing yards (441), and the second-best rushing average behind Yale's Alex Thomas.
With 694 rushing yards this season, Dibilio now has the third-best single-season rushing total among all Ivy League freshmen. He moved past Yale's Mike McLeod (689) last weekend, and he trails only Harvard's Clifton Dawson (1,187, 2003) and Brown's Marquis Jessie (823, 1993). Jessie's freshman year was the first that freshmen were varsity-eligible in the Ivy League.
Dibilio will make his first trip to Franklin Field this Saturday when Princeton takes on Penn Saturday at 1 p.m.