Doncaster Mustangs 14th May 2017

RAMSSUNDAY 14TH MAY 2017

VS. DONCASTER MUSTANGS

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CONTENTS American Football - The Basics

2. GUIDE TO THE GAME Teams score six points for a touchdown, three
for a field goal and, after a touchdown, can kick
Rules and the basics for one extra point or pass or run for two extra
points.
3. COACH’S COLUMN • The offence advance the ball down the field

A word from the Head Coach in a series of plays (‘downs’). Teams have
to gain at least 10 yards in four plays to
4-5. GAME PREVIEW keep possession and earn a new set of four
downs.
Find out more about today’s game • On each play the offence can choose to run
(by handing the ball off to a running back) or
6-7. PLAYER SPOTLIGHT pass (the quarterback throws to a receiver).
On fourth down teams will usually try to kick
QB Elizabeth ‘Lil’ Bush a field goal or punt the ball away.
• There may only be one forward pass per
8-9. 2017 SCHEDULE play. A forward pass cannot be thrown once
the ball has gone forward of its starting spot.
Results and statistics so far • Receivers must have control of the ball and
get at least one foot in the field of play to
10. GAME REVIEW have completed a ‘catch’.
• Defenders can also attempt to catch the ball
Read about our last game themselves. This is call an ‘interception’.
• On running plays, team-mates can block
11. DIVISION WRAP opposing defenders to create running lanes
for a ball carrier. However, they cannot block
What happened elsewhere defenders in the back or from behind

12-13. WHITE ROSE CHEER Referee Signals to look out for:
Here are a few signals that the head referee might use
Meet our cheer squad throughout today’s game to indicate what fouls have been
committed.
14. FROM YESTERYEAR
See how many you can spot!
A look back at the Rams history

15. AWAY ROSTER

16. RAMS ROSTER

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COACH’S COLUMN

What a difference a week made,
from our opening 3-0 loss against
the Newcastle Vikings to a 41-12 win
over the West Coast Trojans last time
out.

While those of you who were at
the Trojans game will agree it was
a significant improvement, we feel
there is still plenty more to come
and the coaching staff and players
have been working hard to get the
team nearer to where we want to be
over the last two weeks.
Today we welcome to John Charles
Stadium the Doncaster Mustangs,
who hold the same record of played
two, won one and lost one. After a heavy defeat in their first game of the season to the
Manchester Titans they came back and beat the Vikings last week.
This is the first time the Rams and Mustangs have faced off against one another for
a number of years, having been in different divisions or conferences, but the Rams
claimed the win last time we met. Both teams reached the play-offs last year and
Doncaster, like ourselves, will be eager to build on their last result to push for a return to
the post-season.
With a decent weather forecast for today both teams will be hoping to bring their A
game. With your support, we aim to continue where we left off in the last game by
bringing a hard-hitting defence and a free-flowing offence to the field as we aim to go to
2-1 on the season and keep the pressure on Manchester at the top of the table.

D Pawson

David Pawson,
Yorkshire Rams Head Coach

GAME

SEASON’S RECORD:

NFC 1 NORTH 1-1 FORM: L W

LAST MEETING PREMIERSHIP NORTH

20TH JULY 2014 6
30
DONCASTER MUSTANGS
YORKSHIRE RAMS

ONE TO WATCH

#87 - SPENCER WHYBROW

He may be in his mid-forties but Whybrow is still at the top of his game, whether it’s
leading the Wide Receiver corp on the field or as a coach
at training sessions, he is instrumental as a long-time
member of the Rams and the most experienced player.

Image courtesy of Aceheart Visual Media Also being involved with the Carnegie Chargers, who are
going from strength-to-strength, Whybrow has a positive
effect on any side he is involved with and this could
definitely be seen when he was brought back into the
starting line-up last time out.

LATEST RESULT NFC 1

23RD APRIL 2017 41
12
YORKSHIRE RAMS
WEST COAST TROJANS

PREVIEW

FORM: L W SEASON’S RECORD:

PREVIOUS MEETINGS 1-1 NFC 1 NORTH

28TH APRIL 2013: YORKSHIRE RAMS 6 - 28 DONCASTER MUSTANGS
1ST JULY 2012: YORKSHIRE RAMS 0 - 34 DONCASTER MUSTANGS
27TH MAY 2012: DONCASTER MUSTANGS 6 - 6 YORKSHIRE RAMS
31ST JULY 2011: YORKSHIRE RAMS 26 - 36 DONCASTER MUSTANGS
22ND MAY 2011: DONCASTER MUSTANGS 13 - 14 YORKSHIRE RAMS

ONE TO WATCH*Back to 2011 only

SAM FOULDS - #8

QB (and occasionally DB) Foulds comes into this game off the back of leading the team
to their first victory of the season against the Newcastle
Vikings.

Having thrown for a touchdown and run one in himself,
Foulds was instrumental in his teams performance last
week.

He was also shortlisted in Double Coverage’s Player of Above: Playing for the Hull Sharks at uni level
the Year awards last season.

NFC1 LATEST RESULT

7TH MAY 2017 12
7
DONCASTER MUSTANGS
NEWCASTLE VIKINGS

PLAYER

American football’s renaissance in the UK is going from strength
to strength – and increasingly, the game is proving popular with
women as well as men.

The Sapphire Series is going from strength to strength but with
only a short season available, Carnegie Chargers quarterback Lil
Bush became the latest player to seek further opportunities by
branching out into the men’s game.

Above: Lil playing for the Carnegie Chargers

Having joined the Rams roster this season, Lil took her first competitive snaps in our 41-
12 win over the West Coast Trojans last time out here at John Charles Stadium and led a
second-half scoring drive capped off by Keimar Stuart’s touchdown run.

“I came in as a real novice with not a lot of confidence in comparison to how I am in the
women’s league,” she says. “I could barely hold the football, because it’s loads bigger!”

“Now I’m at the stage where I feel settled, I feel I’m respected within the team, I’m pals
with the guys and I’m really happy with how it’s going. I’m loving it, the guys have been
absolutely great.”

And she is in no doubt how much her experience in black and gold, working in a
quarterback group also featuring American import Taylor Umland and the big-armed Dan
Haywood, has helped her development as a player.

“I think a lot of people have actually noticed this and it’s definitely from working with the
guys - and especially Taylor,” she says. “Taylor’s a big part of it - I won’t say it him too much
because he’s already really egotistical and I don’t want to make him feel that way any
more! I think I’ve definitely improved a lot over the last three, four months that I’ve been
working with the Rams. Even watching the game film over the Sapphire Series, I think you
can tell that I’ve supplemented my Sapphire with Britball.”

And there is plenty of time in which to do so, with the women’s season concentrated into a
frustratingly short stretch of time.

ELIZABETH ‘LIL’ BUSH
QUARTERBACK

SPOTLIGHT

“I think we spent four months just training, without any fixtures,” says Lil. “Then in eight
weekends, we play four of them and then we’re done for the season. We’re all sat on our
hands going ‘okay, there’s no more football’. You’ve got to pace yourself over that ridicu-
lous pre-season, so that you’re ready and intense for when the season starts but you don’t
blow everything out in that first game.

“It’s a real short, intense season and you’re playing two games in a day as well so, especial-
ly if you have a bad game personally or as a team, it means that you’ve got to bounce back
straight away – you don’t have another week’s training to fix it, you’ve got to get straight
back in there and do it.”

Lil is not the first woman to play in the BAFA National Leagues, and the trend is apparent
at university level as well – a recent BBC Three short, Zoe The Lady Linebacker, focused on
a player at Cardiff University and has been viewed almost 170,000 times on Facebook as
well as featuring on the BBC website. In the NFL, meanwhile, Jen Welter and Kathryn Smith
have worked in coaching positions with the Arizona Cardinals and Buffalo Bills respectively.

Welter is now coaching Australia’s women’s national team, who are heading to their first
World Championship in June. The Great Britain team are bidding to be there as well, with a
fundraising drive ongoing – check out https://www.gofundme.com/j8fq2-road-to-canada.

Lil says: “I didn’t know what to expect because there’s not another woman playing for the
team at the moment but I know there are women around in adult contact, even in our divi-
sion. The other QBs I’ve been working with, the coaches, they’ve been fantastic – it’s been
a great help for my own knowledge of football in general, and 11-a-side football as well.

“We play seven-a-side (in the Sapphire Series), the field is smaller, there’s no special teams,
and the games are two halves of 20 minutes. So it’s so different, but I think they’re differ-
ent in really good ways. Going from one to the other, you can appreciate the football in
both of them and also the differences you can exploit.”

If Offensive Coordinator Nathan Deeley calls on her this afternoon, look for number 19 to
put that into practice!

2017

DATE HOME TEAM AWAY TEAM

16TH APRIL YORKSHIRE RAMS 0 NEWCASTLE VIKINGS 3

23RD APRIL YORKSHIRE RAMS 41 WEST COAST TROJANS 12

14TH MAY YORKSHIRE RAMS DONCASTER MUSTANGS

4TH JUNE YORKSHIRE RAMS NEWCASTLE VIKINGS

11TH JUNE MANCHESTER TITANS YORKSHIRE RAMS

25TH JUNE DONCASTER MUSTANGS YORKSHIRE RAMS

1ST JULY YORKSHIRE RAMS MANCHESTER TITANS

16TH JULY MANCHESTER TITANS YORKSHIRE RAMS

23RD JULY WEST COAST TROJANS YORKSHIRE RAMS

30TH JULY NEWCASTLE VIKINGS YORKSHIRE RAMS

STANDINGS RECORD
2-0
TEAM 1-1
1 MANCHESTER TITANS 1-1
2 NEWCASTLE VIKINGS 1-1
3 YORKSHIRE RAMS 0-2
4 DONCASTER MUSTANGS
5 WEST COAST TROJANS

SEASON

STATISTICS

D Haywood 8/10, 59 yds; C Peel 19 yds; R Brooksby 11 yds; C Davies 5 rec, 26 yds; F Hasan
1 rec, 9 yds;
T Umland 7/18, 105 yds, 1 TD; D Haywood 3/6, 30 yds; K Stuart 80 yds, 2 TD; C Peel 32 yds, 1
TD; A Singh 20 yds, 1 TD; C Davies 9 rec, 119 yds, 1 TD; E Jackson 2 rec, 21 yds;

STATS LEADERS

PASSING: T Umland 8 of 24 for 105 yards; D Haywood 11 of 16 for 89 yards
RECEIVING: C Davies 14 rec for 145 yards, 1 TD; F Hasan 2 rec for 23 yards; E Jackson 2 rec
for 21 yards;
RUSHING: K Stuart 80 yds, 2 TD; C Peel 51 yards, 1 TD; A Singh 20 yards, 1 TD; R Brooksby
11 yards;
DEFENSE: T Broad 2 INT, 1 TD; C Lawton 2 INT; S Godward 1 Sack;

GAME REVIEW

The Rams will be looking today to build on the
momentum generated by a 41-12 win over the West
Coast Trojans last time out.

The Rams’ running back depth was on show at the
John Charles Stadium, with two touchdowns for
Keimar Stuart and one apiece from Chris Peel and
Amit Singh.

Above: QB Taylor Umland in action before the snap Wide receiver Christian Davies also found the end
zone while defensive back Tyler Broad added to his
personal highlight reel with a 100-yard interception
score.

An early 50-yard pick-up for Stuart banished memories of the Rams’ offensive struggles in
the season’s opening game against the Newcastle Vikings and set the team up in position
for Peel to score. Stuart then added another and though both conversion attempts failed,
the Rams had a healthy 12-0 lead.

West Coast pulled one back but Broad’s moment of magic made it 19-6 after the first
quarter and a long drive in the second set up a field goal to make it 22-6 at half-time.

Another Trojans score was cancelled out by Davies’ touchdown catch and Stuart, offensive
MVP on the day, added his second
touchdown before Singh made the most
of his only carry of the afternoon by
sauntering in for the Rams’ sixth score.

Broad and Chris Lawton finished with two
interceptions apiece, with Broad seeing
another cancelled out by a penalty flag.

Above: One of the many PAT attempts on a high scoring day

YORKSHIRE RAMS 41 - 12 WEST COAST TROJANS

DIVISION WRAP

With the season now well under way, keep up to date with how our rivals in NFC1 North
haved fared up to this point.

APRIL 23
DONCASTER MUSTANGS 0 - 41 MANCHESTER TITANS

It was a disappointing start to the season for today’s opponents as the Manchester Titans
got off to a flyer at Wheatley Hills.
After blocking a Mustangs field goal attempt and coming out on top of an early defensive
battle, the Titans took the lead when quarterback Sam Bloomfield hit Adam Bamber for the
first touchdown.
Luc Kinder’s touchdown and another from Bamber gave the visitors a 21-0 half-time lead
and Bloomfield threw a fourth TD early in the second half to James Newnes.
Running scores from Joe Nicholson and Ian Harrison finished the job while the Titans’
defence ended up with four interceptions.

MAY 7
DONCASTER MUSTANGS 12 - 7 NEWCASTLE VIKINGS

The Mustangs bounced back with a hard-fought win over a Vikings side who have shown
their defensive capabilities right here at John Charles Stadium already this season.
Trailing 7-0 after a sneak from Vikings quarterback Nick Whitehead on fourth-and-one
turned into an improbable 30-yard touchdown run, Doncaster were prevented from
punching the ball in from the two-yard line as the first half reached its end.
They got on the scoresheet early in the third quarter with a short touchdown catch by Joe
Powell, but still trailed after failing with a two-point conversion.
The decisive score, though, came when quarterback Sam Foulds kept the ball and rolled
out to the right sideline and into the corner of the end zone, with another failed two-point
conversion proving immaterial as the Mustangs’ defence forced a fumble to ice the game.

MANCHESTER TITANS 1 - 0 WEST COAST TROJANS (WALKOVER)
Sadly, last week’s other scheduled game was cancelled as a shortage of players forced the
Trojans to forfeit on the morning of the match.

The Titans’ under-19 team went ahead with their scheduled fixture, beating the
Merseyside Nighthawks 48-0.

WHITE ROSE

Keep an eye out on the Rams’ sideline in between the on-
field action today and you will see one of the new additions
to the gameday experience this season with our performers
from the White Rose Cheer team.

The group have been brought into the fold by Helena
Kontowtt, a key behind-the-scenes figure in the Rams set-up
as well as a performer and coach with White Rose, and we
asked her to give us some background on them.

“It started as a schools programme in local schools, it’ll be two years in September, and gradually
built up into the programme that it is now,” she said.

“We’ve got 150-ish athletes across a whole range of ages, right from ‘tinies’ which are as young as
three, all the way up to adult. We go from kids who’ve started a few weeks ago to adults who’ve
been doing it since they were little.

“Our coaches have coached and competed at Worlds, we’ve got a group of 10 coaches now all
coaching different programmes and tumble classes. We’ve got four days a week in the gym and
masses of teams.

“In the team that comes down to the games, the youngest is about seven, right up to the junior age
group - we might get the odd senior or adult coming down but mostly between seven and about
14.”

Regarding her own involvement, she continued: “I started when I was at Bradford University so I’ve
been cheerleading for coming up to six years now.

“I got into coaching last year when I joined White Rose Cheer and I coach a mini prep team, a youth
level one team and two stunt teams.

“My two full cheer teams do a two-and-a-half-minute routine every time they go to competition, my
stunt teams do a one-and-a-half-minute routine that is purely stunting.

“My stunt groups both came first at their first competition this season, and they came fourth and
fifth in the second competition – I’m currently starting to prepare them for their final comp in July.

CHEER

“The last competition was a national competition,
the first one was a regional. And the next one we’re
competing in Blackpool at a Nationals competition.”

Further success came with a first-placed finish for
Helena’s team in the first youth level one competition
of the season, while the mini prep team also opened
with a top-five finish.

Helena will not be directly involved with the cheer
team today but you will still find her on the sideline,
assisting offensive co-ordinator Nathan Deeley by
tracking the team’s play-by-play statistics.

She is also a regular at our training sessions, helping Above: Half time performance at our opening game of the
to coach the offensive line where her partner Ian season against the Newcastle Vikings
Lodge can be found at guard.

And let us not forget Helena’s most welcome contribution of all – away games would not be the
same without her home-made cakes and chocolate brownies!

GET INVOLVED

Do you or your child want to learn one of the fastest growing sports in the UK? On a
competitive level, cheerleading combines dancing, gymnastics and acrobatic stunts which helps
participants’ co-ordination, teamwork skills and self-confidence.

White Rose Cheer offers the opportunity to learn cheerleading in a safe, fun and inclusive
environment from coaches with over 10 years’ experience.

For more information, get in contact with White Rose Cheer through one of their accounts
listed here:

TWITTER: www.twitter.com/whiterosecheer1
FACEBOOK: www.facebook.com/whiterosecheer
WEBSITE: www.whiterosecheer.wordpress.com

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FROM YESTERYEAR

The Rams’ 2014 Rookie of the Year Elliot Jackson (#27) leaves Mustang defenders in his wake in a Rams 30-6 win

ON THIS DAY

14th May 2006
ASAP YORKSHIRE RAMS 0 - 20 BIRMINGHAM BULLS
The Rams struggled to get anything going on offence in this encounter with the
Birmingham Bulls, only amassing a total of 13 rushing yards in the entire game and being
forced to punt 8 times.
A strong defensive display by the Bulls was almost mirrored by the Rams kept the away
side to 6 points in the first half, this would only change on a Rams offensive mistake when
Quarterback Alex Fisher threw an interception to Brendan Cunnane who took it back for
the score. The 2-point conversion was successful leaving the home side trailing 14-0.
Bulls QB Stuart Ennis would then connect with Dave Winter on a 28 yard passing play to
put the game to bed in the 4th quarter.

Introducing our opponents for today, the Doncaster Mustangs:

It’s been a while since we’ve seen this Yorkshire derby and it’s usually a
close one to call!

Here’s how the Mustangs’ roster looks today:

1 AINSLEY CAWLEY WR 34 ANDREW JONES DB 67 OL
2 35 TOM PRICE LB 68
3 36 DL
4 37 69 DL
5 38 70 GAVIN LYONS DL
6 39 71 DL
7 TIM ADAMS 72 MARK ELLIS DL
8 SAM FOULDS DB 40 CALVIN PRITCHARD LB 73 SHAUN ARCHER DL
9 QB 41 74 JOE SHACKSHAFT OL
10 GRAHAM LIGHTFOOT LB 75 ALEX DONSKOY OL
11 42 ADAM HARVEY 76 GARETH BURNS WR
12 JOSH PHILLIPS QB 43 RB 77 ASHLEY DOLMAN WR
13 CHRIS SWINBOURNE 78 EVAN TOTIS
14 44 JONATHAN FARROW LB 79 NIALL HAMMOND-BLACKBURN WR
15 DB 45 80 PAUL OATES
16 PETE ROGERS DB 46 RICHARD DRANSFIELD 81 MATT BATE WR
17 82 WR
18 KIERAN RUANE 47 83 CURTIS OSARENMWINDA
19 48 DL 84 WR
20 STEPHEN GARTON QB 49 LB 85 ANDY COTTON
21 KRIS HEERAMUN 50 LB 86 SEAN WORDSWORTH
22 ALEX BINGHAM WR 51 JONATHAN DAVIES 87
23 52 RICHARD WELBURN LB 88 PAUL WESTON
24 ROBERT MILLS DB 53 JORDAN CARR OL 89
25 SAM BROUGHTON DB 54 DL 90
26 DAN HORROCKS RB 55 RYAN BARTRAM LB 91
56 TOM BURTON 92
27 DB 57 KEANU EBANKS
28 WR 58 LEWIS COBB OL 93
29 RB 59 94
30 95
31 60 WILL COOPER 96
32 61 97
33 62
63 DL 98
64 OL 99
65 ANDREW HOWARD
66 JEROME CRONIN

COACHING STAFF
HEAD COACH: PAUL WESTON
OFFENSIVE COORDINATOR: PAUL WESTON
DEFENSIVE COORDINATOR: ANDREW JONES AND CHRIS SWINBOURNE

www.doncastermustangs.com

Welcome to the home of your Yorkshire Rams for today’s game against
the Doncaster Mustangs!

Don’t forget to visit www.yorkshirerams.co.uk for stats and reaction
after the game.

1 CHRIS WINROW DB 34 67 OL
2 35 BRADLEY PERIGO WR 68 OL
3 RICH BROOKSBY RB 69
4 JAMES HUDSON RB 36 ALAN WALTON RB 70 JACK MARSHALL OL
5 CHARLIE GOUGH LB 37 EV PERIAL RB 71 GREG HODGSON OL
6 DAN HAYWOOD LB 38 LEWIS NETTLETON
7 QB 39 72 DL
8 RYAN MCCLUSKEY DL 73 OL
9 WAYNE SMITH 40 ADAM COWLEY DB 74 MIKE RICHMOND WR
10 CHRIS PEEL DB 41 JAMES LEWSLEY RB
11 ALAN STOCKDALE 75 ANTHONY DOCKERY
12 GARETH ROBERTS 42 DB 76 WR
13 TAYLOR UMLAND RB 43 JORDAN CHESHAM RB 77
14 MICK JONES FB 44 LIAM AUSTIN WR
15 RB 45 78 JOSH FEWBERT WR
16 MARK GAZE QB 46 WILL JOHNSON DB 79 PHIL GATENBY WR
17 KEIMAR STUART FB 80 CHRISTIAN DAVIES WR
18 ROSS HAMMOND 47 TOM LEE RB 81 JEFF QUARTEY DL
19 ELIZABETH BUSH 48 AMIT SINGH DL
20 JONATHAN WALTON DB 49 82 GARY BAILEY
21 CHRIS LAWTON RB 50 83 MOHAMMED ARFAN DL
22 DB 51 84
23 TYLER BROAD QB 52 LYSANDER CODE LB 85 WR
24 DB 53 86 FAHEEM HASAN LB
25 DB 54 ROBBIE CRUICKSHANK-SUTTON LB 87 SPENCER WHYBROW
26 STEWART HEGARTY 55 88 LEE HARGREAVES RB
DB 56 CHRIS BURT 89 TOM WHITE
27 ELLIOT JACKSON 57 90 ALEXANDER SAUNDERS
28 LUCAS KLUMB 58 CRIS BARLOW LB 91 SAM CLUTTERBROOK
29 ADAM BURRELL DL 59 IAN LODGE OL 92
30
31 RB 60 93
32 MATT FOX RB 61 94 STEVEN GODWARD
33 BILL WAKEFIELD RB 62 STEPHEN SMITH DL 95
OL 96 JONATHAN MAUDE
63 ROSS DIXON 97 EOIN BYRNE
64 98
LB 65 OL 99 LUKE JARVIS
DB 66 SIMMY RAYAT

COACHING STAFF
HEAD COACH: DAVID PAWSON
OFFENSIVE COORDINATOR: NATHAN DEELEY
DEFENSIVE COORDINATOR: RICHARD HANDBY

www.yorkshirerams.co.uk