2001 Georgetown Hoyas football team
{{short description|American college football season}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2023}}
{{Infobox college sports team season
| year = 2001
| team = Georgetown Hoyas
| sport = football
| image =
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| conference = Patriot League
| short_conf = Patriot
| record = 3–7
| conf_record = 0–6
| head_coach = Bob Benson
| hc_year = 9th
| captain = Brian Blankenship
| captain2 = Aaron Brown
| captain3 = Scott Pogorelec
| stadium = Kehoe Field
}}
{{2001 Patriot League football standings}}
The 2001 Georgetown Hoyas football team was an American football team that represented Georgetown University during the 2001 NCAA Division I-AA football season. In their first season in the Patriot League, the Hoyas finished last.
In their ninth year under head coach Bob Benson, the Hoyas compiled a 3–7 record. Brian Blankenship, Aaron Brown and Scott Pogorelec were the team captains.{{cite book |title=2017 Georgetown Football Media Supplement |chapter=All-Time Records |publisher=Georgetown University |location=Washington, D.C. |page=23 |accessdate=June 20, 2020 |url=https://guhoyas.com/documents/2018/6/27//2017_GU_FB_Media_Supplement.pdf}}
This was Georgetown's first year as a football associate member of the Patriot League; the university announced it would switch its football affiliation from the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference to the Patriot League in January 2000, but competed as a Division I-AA independent that season, and did not officially join its new league until 2001.
Despite playing a league schedule, Georgetown was able to arrange matchups with only six of its seven league-mates, missing Colgate. Half of the league consisted of teams the Hoyas had not faced in decades, or at all. Georgetown had scheduled Bucknell on its independent schedule in 2000, and had faced fellow Jesuit colleges Fordham and Holy Cross as non-league opponents almost every year since 1996. But before 2001, Georgetown had last faced Towson in 1970, Lafayette in 1937 and Lehigh in 1925. The matchup between Georgetown and Colgate in 2002 would be the first one ever.
Like most of the Patriot League, Georgetown played just 10 of its 11 scheduled games, after its September 15 matchup, against MAAC member Wagner, was canceled following the September 11 attacks.{{cite news |title=After Prodding, Correct Choice Finally Made |first=Mark |last=Blaudschun |date=September 14, 2001 |page=E6 |newspaper=Boston Sunday Globe |location=Boston, Mass.|via=Newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/59393901/2001-games-canceled/ }}
Georgetown played its home games at Kehoe Field on the university campus in Washington, D.C.
Schedule
{{CFB schedule
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| rankyear = 2001
| rankdivision = NCAA Division I-AA
| poll = The Sports Network
| September 1 | | #10 Lehigh
| Kehoe Field | Washington, DC | L 14 41
| 2,512 | {{cite news |title=Hoyas Stumble Against Lehigh in Their Patriot League Debut |first=Seth |last=Emerson |date=September 2, 2001 |page=D9 |newspaper=The Washington Post |location=Washington, D.C. |via=ProQuest}}
| September 8 | @ | Holy Cross
| Fitton Field | Worcester, MA | L 7 33
| 8,176 | {{cite news |title=HC Flips Over Victory |first=Shira |last=Springer |date=September 9, 2001 |page=D18 |newspaper=Boston Sunday Globe |location=Boston, Mass.|via=Newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/60567539/2001-georgetown-hc/ }}
| September 15 | | Wagner
| Kehoe Field | Washington, DC | Canceled
| September 29 | @ | Fordham
| Coffey Field | Bronx, NY | L 13 48
| 6,425 | {{cite news |title=Hoyas Are Smashed by Rams' Broken Record |first=Dan |last=Hickling |date=September 30, 2001 |page=D10 |newspaper=The Washington Post |location=Washington, D.C. |via=ProQuest}} Attendance figure in {{cite news |title=Saturday's Summaries |date=September 30, 2001 |page=C9 |newspaper=Daily Press |location=Newport News, Va.}}
| October 6 | | {{cfb link|year=2001|team=Duquesne Dukes|title=Duquesne}}
| Kehoe Field | Washington, DC | W 15 13
| | {{cite book |title=2017 Georgetown Football Media Supplement |chapter=Year-by-Year Results |publisher=Georgetown University |location=Washington, D.C. |page=27 |accessdate=June 20, 2020 |url=https://guhoyas.com/documents/2018/6/27//2017_GU_FB_Media_Supplement.pdf}}
| October 13 | | Davidson
| Kehoe Field | Washington, DC | W 26 24
| 1,765 | {{cite news |title=Hoyas Interception Cuts Short Davidson Rally |agency=Associated Press |date=October 14, 2001 |pages=14F, 15F |newspaper=The Charlotte Observer |location=Charlotte, N.C.|via=Newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/60601244/2001-georgetown-davidson/ }}
| October 20 | @ | Bucknell
| Christy Mathewson–Memorial Stadium | Lewisburg, PA | L 0 34
| 8,050 | {{cite news |title=Bison's Scoring Stampede Tramples Hoyas |first=Tom |last=Housenick |date=October 21, 2001 |page=D1 |newspaper=The Daily Item |location=Sunbury, Pa. |via=Newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/60602261/2001-bucknell-georgetown/ }}
| October 27 | @ | {{cfb link|year=2001|team=Marist Red Foxes|title=Marist}}
| Leonidoff Field | Poughkeepsie, NY | L 35 38
| November 3 | @ | {{cfb link|year=2001|team=San Diego Toreros|title=San Diego}}
| Torero Stadium | San Diego, CA | W 24 21
| November 10 | | Lafayette
| Kehoe Field | Washington, DC | L 17 37
| 1,786 | {{cite news |title=Georgetown Defenseless Against Lafayette, Still Winless in Patriot League |first=Seth |last=Emerson |date=November 11, 2001 |pages=D9, D10 |newspaper=The Washington Post |location=Washington, D.C. |via=ProQuest}}
| November 17 | | Towson
| Kehoe Field | Washington, DC | L 9 27
| 2,201 | {{cite news |title=Hoyas Can't Find Way to Get Past Towson |first=Peter |last=Brewingon |date=November 17, 2001 |pages=D12, D14 |newspaper=The Washington Post |location=Washington, D.C. |via=ProQuest}}
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