2001 Cumberland vs. Jacksonville State football game
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{{Infobox college football game
| name = Cumberland vs. Jacksonville State
First Female Athlete to Play and Score in NCAA
| subheader =
| football_season = 2001
| visitor_name_short = Cumberland
| visitor_nickname = Phoenix
| visitor_school = Cumberland University
| home_name_short = Jacksonville State
| home_nickname = Gamecocks
| home_school = Jacksonville State University
| visitor_record = 0–0
| home_record = 0–0
| home_coach = Jack Crowe
| visitor_1q = 3
| visitor_2q = 0
| visitor_3q = 7
| visitor_4q = 0
| home_1q = 21
| home_2q = 10
| home_3q = 7
| home_4q = 34
| date = August 30, 2001
| stadium = Burgess-Snow Stadium
| city = Jacksonville, Alabama
| MVP =
| attendance = 11,312
}}
The 2001 Cumberland vs. Jacksonville State football game was a college football game between the {{cfb link|year=2001|team=Cumberland Bulldogs|title=Cumberland Bulldogs}} and the Jacksonville State Gamecocks played on August 30, 2001. The game was played at Burgess-Snow Stadium in Jacksonville, Alabama. Jacksonville State won the game by a score of 72 to 10. During the game, Ashley Martin became the first woman to play and score in an NCAA football game and the second woman to play and score in a college game in any division.{{cite web|url=https://static.espn.go.com/ncf/news/2001/0830/1246153.html|publisher=ESPN.com|title=Martin first female to play, score in Division I|date=August 31, 2001|access-date=May 15, 2011}}
Game play
Jacksonville State led the game beginning with Lorenzo Banks receiving a 33-yard pass from Reggie Stancil for a touchdown. Steven Lee kicked the first extra point to put the score 7–0. Martin would kick two more extra points in the first quarter alone and the first quarter ended with a score of 21–3. Jacksonville led the remainder of the game.
{{cite web|url=http://www.jsugamecocksports.com/custompages/Stats/Football/2001/jsu01.htm|publisher=Jacksonville State University|title=Cumberland Univ. vs Jacksonville State (Aug 30, 2001)|accessdate=May 15, 2011}}
The game ended in a final score of Jacksonville State 72, Cumberland 10.{{cite web|url=http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_iaa/ohiovalley/jacksonville_state/yearly_results.php?year=2000|website=College Football Data Warehouse|first=David|last=DeLassus|accessdate=May 15, 2011|title=Jacksonville State Yearly Results (2001)|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101213231709/http://cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_iaa/ohiovalley/jacksonville_state/yearly_results.php?year=2000|archive-date=December 13, 2010|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}
Aftermath
Prior to this game, female athletes at Duke and Louisville had come close to playing in a game but did not.{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/10/20/sports/woman-kicks-extra-points.html|work=The New York Times|accessdate=April 20, 2011|date=October 20, 1997|title=Woman Kicks Extra Points}} In 1997, Liz Heaston became the first female athlete to score in a college football game. In 2003, Katie Hnida became the first female athlete to score in a Division I-A bowl game.
Martin's success as a female athlete is considered a major milestone since the 1972 Title IX amendment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in the United States.{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=9VxIAAAAIBAJ&sjid=5wMEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4052,1432889&dq=cumberland+jacksonville+state+ashley+martin&hl=en|title=She Kicks, She Scores!|work=Toledo Blade|date=September 6, 2001|accessdate=May 15, 2011}}
See also
References
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{{Jacksonville State Gamecocks football navbox}}
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Category:2001 NCAA Division I-AA football season
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