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2001 Hula Bowl Maui Player Rosters
North Roster - South Roster
2001 Player Profiles
R.J. Bowers RB - Grove City College
2000: Rushed for 1,733 yards...named to the AFCA's Division III All-America Team
for the second straight year...voted Presidents' Athletic Conference MVP for the
third year in a row...finalist for the Melberger Award (Division III Heisman Trophy
equivalent)...Gagliardi Trophy Finalist. Career: College football's all-time leading
rusher in all divisions with 7,353 career yards... broke seven other NCAA all-divi-sions
records: career points (562), career touchdowns (92), career rushing
touchdowns (91), consecutive 100-yard games (32), career 200-yard games (16),
career 100-yard games (35), career points per game (14.1)...in 1999, led Division
III with 2,098 rushing yards...AFCA All-America Team...Hewlett Packard All-American
First Team...Football Gazette All-American First Team...AP Little All-American
First Team...in 1998, ran for nation-high 2,283 yards and NCAA D-III
record 34 touchdowns...Burger King Coaches' All-America Team...Hewlett
Packard All-American First Team...Football Gazette Running Back of the
Year...Football Gazette All-American First Team...Division III record 206
points...ran for 1,239 yards in 1997. Personal: Played six years of professional
baseball, including five in the Houston Astros organization...selected by the
Astros in the 11th round of the 1992 draft and released by the Astros in April of
1997...business management major...born 2/10/74.
"When Coach (Chris) Smith told me I was headed to Hawaii I was shocked," said Bowers,
who was born in Honolulu on February 10, 1974. His dad, a former U.S. Marine, was
stationed there in 1973 and '74. "I knew I had a shot at a couple of all-star games, but I
wasn't thinking Hula Bowl. It will be awesome to play side-by-side with college football's
elite and also return to my birthplace for some fun in one of the most beautiful places in the
world. It's going to be a thrill," added Bowers. "I look at it as a reward for four years of hard
work." -
Grove City College Sports News
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