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Millersville and Kean Football · 1999–2002 · 26 entries
Millersville University Athletics · 1999 Football Outlook, last updated September 7, 1999
Millersville's printed 1999 Football Outlook enters the season after an 8–2 record and an undefeated conference run, seeking another PSAC Eastern Division title and an NCAA Division II playoff berth. In its linebacker preview the university states that redshirt freshman Nick Reynolds earned high marks from the defensive coaches during spring camp and would be in the mix that season. It is the earliest supplied official university evaluation of him, written before his breakout year.
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Evidence note: The page is a photograph of a printout taken from the historical university athletics website on October 17, 1999, not a presently live URL.
1999
No public link — held in the family's personal archive. Summary written for this site; it is not a reproduction of any original article.
An official box score from Nick's first college season credits him on a tackle for Millersville. It is the earliest located institutional record of his college play.
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With IUP leading 7–3 and threatening inside the Millersville 15 with a little more than ten minutes left, freshman defensive end Nick Reynolds stripped tailback Terrance Wilson behind the line of scrimmage; teammate Zellner recovered and returned the ball 74 yards to the IUP 6. Four plays later John Flamish scored from two yards for a 10–7 lead, and No. 15 Millersville held on to win 10–9 before 5,300 at Biemesderfer Stadium. The release credits Reynolds with 10 tackles, one of three Marauders in double figures, and calls the turnover the spark of the victory.
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Tackles
10
Fumble return
74 yards to the IUP 6
Final score
Millersville 10, IUP 9
IUP third downs
4-for-18
“Nick knocked the ball loose. All I had to do was pick it up and run.”
Sources differ — both readings kept
Wording of the tackle total
— 10 tackles — Millersville release, official PSAC citation and ECAC award notice
— 10 solo tackles — Sports of Delaware County profile, October 20, 1999
Both attributions are kept; the newspaper's wording is not treated as identical to the official total.
Where the fumble happened
— Threat at the Millersville 15, ball picked up at the 20 — Millersville narrative
— Stripped at the Millersville 20 — ECAC award notice
Complementary rather than conflicting: the strip came inside the Millersville red zone and the return began near the 20.
Evidence note: Nick forced the fumble and recorded the tackles; he did not recover or return the ball.
Evidence note: The supplied pages are photographs of the original printed release rather than a live university URL.
Evidence note: The win was Millersville's first over IUP since 1988 and its ninth straight home victory dating to 1997.
1999
No public link — held in the family's personal archive. Summary written for this site; it is not a reproduction of any original article.
The four-page story presents Millersville's 10–9 win over nationally recognized IUP as a regional statement that moved the Marauders to third in the Northeast Region playoff ranking. It expressly reports that defensive end Nick Reynolds was making his first start when he hit Terrance Wilson and forced the fourth-quarter fumble that Mike Zellner returned 74 yards to the IUP 6. The paper describes Reynolds as a special-teams standout who was humble and team-oriented and did not seek credit for the play.
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“Without that play, we wouldn't be celebrating.”
Evidence note: The historical printed address http://www.lancnews.com/newera_sports/muo180.htm appears on the supplied pages and may no longer be live.
Evidence note: Verified from three supplied pages of the original web printout; the Nick-specific facts appear on pages two and three.
1999
No public link — held in the family's personal archive. Summary written for this site; it is not a reproduction of any original article.
Millersville's printed PSAC Honor Roll names Nick Reynolds, defensive end, as Eastern Division Defensive Player of the Week for the IUP game, and the official PSAC Football Players of the Week page dated October 17, 1999 lists him as a freshman defensive end, 6-0, 230, from Newtown Square and Marple Newtown, crediting 10 tackles and the momentum-turning forced fumble. A separate ECAC/Budget Division II South release dated October 18, 1999 names him Rookie of the Week for the same game.
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PSAC East
Defensive Player of the Week
ECAC Division II South
Rookie of the Week
Tackles cited
10
Evidence note: Both honor pages are contemporaneous printouts supplied by Nick; the awards, positions, game and tackle total are expressly printed.
Evidence note: The clean one-page ECAC/Budget honor-roll printout, listing contact Steve Hagwell, is the strongest visual proof of the Rookie of the Week award.
1999
No public link — held in the family's personal archive. Summary written for this site; it is not a reproduction of any original article.
Rogul profiles a redshirt freshman from Newtown Square who moved from linebacker to defensive end at Millersville and was learning to rush the passer from the weak side. The story recounts the pivotal IUP fumble, reports 10 solo tackles, notes that he was named Division II Defensive Player of the Week, and says he was averaging a sack per game at that point. The continuation is also the principal contemporary documentation of the four-touchdown Academy Park performance.
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GPA, preceding semester
3.46
Major
Industrial technology
High-school sports noted
Track (shot put), wrestling, lacrosse
Evidence note: Verified from three supplied photographs of the complete dated profile.
Evidence note: The article's "10 solo tackles" wording is kept distinct from Millersville and ECAC sources reporting 10 total tackles.
1999
No public link — held in the family's personal archive. Summary written for this site; it is not a reproduction of any original article.
Millersville's printed overall defensive statistics for all games through November 13, 1999 credit No. 51 Nick Reynolds with 27 unassisted and 35 assisted tackles across ten games, six tackles for loss for 24 yards, five sacks for 23 yards and one pass breakup. He ranked second on the team in total tackles behind Lee Rizzotto's 108, tied for second in sacks and tied among the leaders in tackles for loss. This is the ten-game regular-season line, not the complete season including playoff games.
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Games
10 (regular season)
Tackles
62 (27 solo · 35 assisted)
Full season including playoffs
79 tackles
Tackles for loss
6 for 24 yards
Sacks
5 for 23 yards
Evidence note: Verified from a photograph of the official cumulative-statistics page; the later program figures include postseason play.
Evidence note: The corrected full-season 1999 total, including the two NCAA playoff games, is 79 tackles. The 62-tackle line remains the ten-game regular-season figure.
1999
No public link — held in the family's personal archive. Summary written for this site; it is not a reproduction of any original article.
The official playoff program for the Northeast Regional Semifinal at Biemesderfer Stadium lists Millersville at 8–2 and 5–1 in the PSAC East against 9–1 Shepherd, and prints No. 51 Nick Reynolds, DE, in Millersville's defensive starting lineup. Its defensive-leaders section credits him with 67 tackles, six tackles for loss and five sacks entering the game. Millersville won 21–14 and advanced to the regional championship against IUP.
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Starting lineup
No. 51, DE
Program figure
67 tackles · 6 TFL · 5 sacks
Result
Millersville 21, Shepherd 14
Sources differ — both readings kept
Season-to-date tackle figure in 1999
— 62 tackles — ten-game regular-season cumulative sheet, November 13
— 67 tackles — Shepherd semifinal program, November 20
— 71 tackles — IUP quarterfinal program, November 27
The 67 figure is retained as an intermediate program notation and does not override the regular-season total or the later combined figure.
1999
No public link — held in the family's personal archive. Summary written for this site; it is not a reproduction of any original article.
The official program for the National Quarterfinal and Northeast Regional Championship lists Millersville at 9–2 and IUP at 8–3, and again prints No. 51 Nick Reynolds, DE, in the Marauders' defensive starting lineup alongside the numbered roster and 1999 team photograph. Its defensive leaders credit him with 71 tackles, seven tackles for loss and five sacks entering the game. Set against the ten-game regular-season total of 62, that makes 71 the combined figure through the Shepherd playoff victory.
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Starting lineup
No. 51, DE
Season to date
71 tackles · 7 TFL · 5 sacks
Derived Shepherd line
9 tackles · 1 TFL
Evidence note: The nine-tackle Shepherd line is an arithmetic derivation from official cumulative endpoints, not a direct box score.
Evidence note: 71 tackles is the official season-to-date figure entering the quarterfinal, not automatically the final 1999 total; a post-IUP report is still needed.
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The Snapper (Millersville student newspaper) playoff extra — "We meet again," by Mike Pollis · November 1999
1999
No public link — held in the family's personal archive. Summary written for this site; it is not a reproduction of any original article.
The student newspaper's special playoff edition leads with "We meet again," previewing the national-quarterfinal rematch with IUP and recapping the 21–14 opening-round win over Shepherd. Its graphical "When I.U.P. has the ball" matchup independently places No. 51 Nick Reynolds, DE, freshman, 6-0, 230, in Millersville's starting defensive alignment.
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Evidence note: Verified from photographs of the original newspaper pages supplied by Nick.
1999
No public link — held in the family's personal archive. Summary written for this site; it is not a reproduction of any original article.
A printed 1999 statistics and weekly-awards page lists the Bear Bryant, Vince Lombardi, Trenchman, Triple Effort offense, Triple Effort defense and special-teams awards. Triple Effort recognized the best attitude, hustle and desire in the preceding week's practice, as voted by the players, with separate offensive and defensive recipients each week.
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“Best attitude, hustle and desire in preceding week's practice as voted by the players.”
Evidence note: The photographed page lists weekly winners through Bloomsburg and leaves the IUP row blank; it verifies the award's meaning but does not name Nick as a recipient.
Evidence note: Research target: the next weekly release after IUP, likely the West Chester follow-up, to see whether the blank row was later filled.
1999
No public link — held in the family's personal archive. Summary written for this site; it is not a reproduction of any original article.
A "Marauder Pride!" page dated November 20, 1999 at 1:00 p.m. at Biemesderfer Stadium — the Shepherd playoff kickoff — emphasizes preparation, visualization, persistence and one person's ability to make a difference. Preserved alongside it are a Vince Lombardi text titled "What it takes to be No. 1" and an integrity poem, "The Man in the Glass."
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Evidence note: The Lombardi page identifies its author; "The Man in the Glass" does not, so no authorship is assigned from the image.
Evidence note: These pages document material preserved with Nick's football archive. They do not establish that he wrote the texts.
1999
No public link — held in the family's personal archive. Summary written for this site; it is not a reproduction of any original article.
A photographed printed page titled "The Essence of Passion" presents passion as the source of achievement, perseverance and meaning, urging the reader to put heart, mind and soul into even the smallest acts. Nick preserved it among his football-era papers.
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Evidence note: The page identifies no author, publication, date or institution, and is not represented as text written by Nick.
2000
No public link — held in the family's personal archive. Summary written for this site; it is not a reproduction of any original article.
A contemporary game preview identifies sophomore defensive end Nick Reynolds as one of only three returning Millersville defensive starters. A companion Villanova release the day before names him again in the same role. Both are official university articles written at the time.
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Position as printed
Starting defensive end, No. 51
Returning defensive starters
3
1999 line in the program
67 total stops · 6 tackles for loss
Evidence note: The September 9, 2000 Villanova–Millersville game program lists Nick as the starting defensive end, No. 51, one of only three returning defensive starters, and credits him with 67 total stops and six tackles for loss in 1999. That is recorded here as the program's own printed line.
Evidence note: The program's 67-stop figure does not replace the official 1999 ten-game regular-season table (62 tackles, 6 tackles for loss for 24 yards, 5 sacks for 23 yards), which is published separately and unchanged.
Official game statistics from Millersville's 27–19 win credit Nick Reynolds with 8 total tackles (3 solo, 5 assisted), 1 tackle for loss for 2 yards, two half-sacks (1.0 sack total) for 2 yards and 1 forced fumble. The same sheet lists Shippensburg quarterback Chris Gicking at 9 of 27 passing for 110 yards with 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions, plus 5 rushes for 4 net yards, and shows Shippensburg sacked three times — Reynolds is credited with two half-sacks (1.0 sack total), and no play-by-play account of any individual matchup between the two has been located.
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Millersville's official football award-winners record names Nick Reynolds, defensive end, to the All-PSAC East Second Team for 2000. It is the university's own published honors archive.
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Villanova's official recap of its 51–14 home win over Millersville documents the afternoon Nick Reynolds and Brian Westbrook were on the same field: Reynolds lined up on Millersville's defense while Westbrook starred in Villanova's backfield. The official record credits Westbrook with 132 rushing yards on 13 carries, four catches for 79 yards, a 93-yard kickoff-return touchdown, four total touchdowns and 304 all-purpose yards. No play-by-play account is published here, so nothing is claimed about individual plays between the two players.
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A verified original Millersville statistical release dated October 14, 2000 records Nick Reynolds's defensive production six games into the season. Through those six games he is credited with 33 total tackles, 7 tackles for loss for 32 yards, 5 sacks for 25 yards and 2 forced fumbles. The figures are a dated in-season checkpoint published while the season was still being played, and this site presents them as exactly that. They are not final 2000 season totals, and no full-season 2000 statistical total is claimed anywhere on this site.
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Games covered
6 (through October 14, 2000)
Total tackles
33
Tackles for loss
7 for 32 yards
Sacks
5 for 25 yards
Forced fumbles
2
Evidence note: Read directly from the original Millersville athletics statistical release held in the family archive.
Evidence note: This is a six-game in-season checkpoint dated October 14, 2000, not a final-season total.
2000
No public link — held in the family's personal archive. Summary written for this site; it is not a reproduction of any original article.
A verified original Millersville athletics release describes a single defensive sequence against Mansfield. Nick Reynolds forced a fumble before the quarterback's arm moved forward, and teammate Jamaal Lee recovered the loose ball and returned it 30 yards. The release presents the play as an example of the defense's aggressiveness that afternoon and notes that Millersville finished with eight tackles for loss. The account here is summarized for this site; the release itself is not reproduced.
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Play
Forced fumble, recovered by Jamaal Lee
Return
30 yards
Team tackles for loss
8
Evidence note: Read directly from the original Millersville athletics release held in the family archive.
2000
No public link — held in the family's personal archive. Summary written for this site; it is not a reproduction of any original article.
Nick Reynolds received Don Hansen's National Weekly Football Gazette 2000 End-of-Season All-America Honorable Mention recognition at defensive line. The recognition followed the 2000 Millersville season, and the printed selection page lists him under HONORABLE MENTION, on the defensive side, in the defensive-linemen group, printed exactly as: Nick Reynolds, Millersville, So., 6'0, 230. The Gazette was the long-running national selection service for small-college football, and this site records the placement exactly as printed — honorable mention, not a first-, second- or third-team selection. The original page is held privately in the family archive; only a readable crop of the masthead, the honorable-mention heading, the defensive-line subheading and Nick's own printed line is published here.
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Don Hansen's National Weekly Football Gazette, 2000 end-of-season All-America honorable mention — masthead, section heading and Nick's printed line.
Selection
Honorable Mention
Timing
End of 2000 season
Side
Defense
Position
Defensive lineman
School
Millersville
Class as printed
So.
Height
6'0"
Weight
230 lbs
Sources differ — both readings kept
Class year printed beside the selection
— The Gazette page prints "So." — Nick Reynolds, Millersville, So., 6'0, 230.
— The honor itself is the 2000 end-of-season selection, which followed Nick's 2000 season at Millersville.
Both are kept as-is. The printed class field is reproduced exactly as the publication set it; the site does not silently correct it and does not restate it as fact.
Evidence note: Verified directly from the original printed selection page supplied by Nick; full-resolution inspection reads the class field as "So." The untouched original is preserved privately and is not published.
Evidence note: The recognition is the 2000 end-of-season All-America honorable mention, following Nick's 2000 season at Millersville, and the Gazette's own class field prints "So."
Evidence note: The placement is honorable mention following the 2000 season. Nick is not listed on the third team, and this site does not describe him as a third-team selection.
Evidence note: Three archive scans of this page exist. The primary scan and the two alternate scans are images of the same printed page and are not independent corroboration of the selection.
Evidence note: Only the masthead, headings and Nick's own printed line are published. The complete national selection list is not reproduced.
2000
No public link — held in the family's personal archive. Summary written for this site; it is not a reproduction of any original article.
Millersville's final 2001 defensive statistics credit Nick Reynolds, No. 51, with 36 solo and 31 assisted tackles across eight games, 11 tackles for loss for 51 yards, and seven sacks for 39 yards. A Kutztown box score from September 22, 2001 lists him as the starting defensive end. The totals are official; conference-leading claims for that checkpoint are not published here without the ranking sheet.
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Kutztown's official box score for its September 22, 2001 meeting with Millersville lists Nick Reynolds as a starter at defensive end wearing No. 51. The same official record credits him with five tackles, one tackle for loss and one sack in that game. It is a primary institutional document published by the host university and still reachable at its original address. The figures are a single-game line and stand apart from the official final 2001 season totals published separately here.
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Nick Reynolds has established that he was named a First Team Preseason All-American entering the 2001 season at Millersville University. The honor was a first-team placement, and it was awarded in the preseason, before that year's games were played. It is recorded here plainly as his own firsthand account of his playing record. No selecting publication is named in this record, and this site does not assign one.
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Honor
First Team Preseason All-American
Year
2001
Placement
First Team
Timing
Preseason
Evidence note: Separate from the verified 2000 Don Hansen's Football Gazette end-of-season All-America honorable mention. The two honors are distinct and are never combined on this site.
2001
No public link — held in the family's personal archive. Summary written for this site; it is not a reproduction of any original article.
A Delaware County Daily Times feature by correspondent Herm Rogul identifies Nick Reynolds as Millersville's other co-captain during the 2001 season, alongside Terrance Trogdon. Trogdon recalls the final high-school game the two played against each other, and Nick recalls telling him “I'll see you at Millersville” at the Senior Bowl and calls him one of his best friends at the university. Nick also recalls thinking he had 18 tackles in that Penn Wood game, and he explains that only six players remained from their original 33-man recruiting class. The article is summarized here rather than reproduced.
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Role
Millersville co-captain, 2001
Recruiting class
6 of 33 remaining
“I'll see you at Millersville.”
Evidence note: The live publisher headline carries the misspelling “He touoches the ball-another 14 yards”. It is retained only as source metadata and is not used as a headline on this site.
Evidence note: The recalled 18-tackle figure is Nick's memory of a single high-school game as quoted in 2001. It is not added to, and does not alter, the established 168-solo-tackle senior season record.
A verified full-page profile by correspondent Herm Rogul introduces Nick Reynolds of Newtown Square as a 6-foot, 245-pound Millersville linebacker and centers on his training method: sprinting while pulling a parachute for resistance to build speed and endurance. The piece traces his multi-position history on both sides of the ball and his persistence as one of only six players remaining from an original 33-man recruiting class. It also records what he wanted after football — to teach industrial technology and to coach. The summary is written for this site from the original printed page.
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Listed size
6-0 · 245 lbs
Position
Linebacker
Hometown as printed
Newtown Square
2001
No public link — held in the family's personal archive. Summary written for this site; it is not a reproduction of any original article.
Kean credits Nick with 78 total tackles, 18 tackles for loss for 96 yards, 12 sacks, two fumble recoveries and three forced fumbles in 2002, leading the team in tackles for loss, sacks and fumble recoveries. The 12-sack figure is Kean's current record-book credit and is the featured total. Kean's all-conference archive lists him for that season. New Jersey City University's own game report from October 19, 2002 called him Kean's most outstanding defensive player after nine tackles, five tackles for loss, two sacks and a forced fumble.
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Games
10
Total tackles
78
Tackles for loss
18 for 96 yards
Sacks
12
Fumble recoveries
2
Forced fumbles
3
Evidence note: Kean's all-conference archive lists Nick for the 2002 season. No team or designation beyond that listing is claimed here.
Summaries on this page are written for this site and are never a substitute for the original reporting or record. Items marked “Personal Archive — firsthand account” rest on family artifacts or Nick Reynolds's own recollection, and a published source or official record is added alongside them whenever one is located.
