ELON, N.C. -- The Elon football team will make the short trek down Interstate 40 to Durham, N.C. to face North Carolina Central in a 6 p.m. game on Saturday night. The Phoenix and Eagles enter with identical 1-1 records and are meeting for the first time since 1996.
Site: Durham, N.C.
Stadium: O'Kelly-Riddick Stadium
Surface: Mondoturf
Capacity: 10,000
Radio: WPCM 920 AM – David Hibbard (play-by-play) and Taylor Durham (color)
TV: None
Series: Elon leads 7-3
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Did you Know?
• With its win on Saturday, Elon won its third consecutive home opener.
• Jonathan Conner’s 99-yard interception return for a touchdown against Concord was the second-longest INT return in school history.
• Elon is facing North Carolina Central for the first time since 1996 and for just the 11th time ever.
• Elon has had four consecutive winning seasons, a first for the program since a stretch of nine straight winning years from 1980-88.
Connections
• Seven Elon players will be meeting up with former high school teammates.
• Elon wide receivers coach Kevin Downing returns to his alma mater. Downing is a 2004 N.C. Central graduate where he played two seasons on defense before seeing his career cut short due to multiple knee surgeries.
The Coaches
• Elon’s Jason Swepson is in his first season as a collegiate head coach. He has gone 1-1 this season.
• N.C. Central’s Henry Frazier III is in his first year with the Eagles, but is a veteran collegiate head coach. Frazier enters this game with a 1-1 mark at N.C. Central and an overall record of 70-55 in his 12+ years as a head coach.
Did you Know?
• With its win on Saturday, Elon won its third consecutive home opener.
• Jonathan Conner’s 99-yard interception return for a touchdown against Concord was the second-longest INT return in school history.
• Elon is facing North Carolina Central for the first time since 1996 and for just the 11th time ever.
• Elon has had four consecutive winning seasons, a first for the program since a stretch of nine straight winning years from 1980-88.
Connections
• Seven Elon players will be meeting up with former high school teammates.
• Elon wide receivers coach Kevin Downing returns to his alma mater. Downing is a 2004 N.C. Central graduate where he played two seasons on defense before seeing his career cut short due to multiple knee surgeries.
The Coaches
• Elon’s Jason Swepson is in his first season as a collegiate head coach. He has gone 1-1 this season.
• N.C. Central’s Henry Frazier III is in his first year with the Eagles, but is a veteran collegiate head coach. Frazier enters this game with a 1-1 mark at N.C. Central and an overall record of 70-55 in his 12+ years as a head coach.
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