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| Freese looks on in joy as he puts one just outside the uprights. |
Alumni Stadium -- With the hope of a losing record-shattering season, Superfans looked on in stunned silence as kicker Nate Freese, A&S '14, stepped up to the six-yard line in the final seconds of the Duke game. The world-renowned Blue Devils football squad had delivered an impressive surrender to Eagles quarterback Chase Rettig, A&S '14, when the team put their season's destiny in the legs of a surefire contender. With everything on the line, Freese misfired a beautiful spiral to the left goal post, ending the game but not the chance at being the first bottom-of-the-division team in history.
"Freese was really, superbly subpar out there," Rettig said. "He's the only guy on the team we can trust to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory."
The final score, 20-19 Duke, was also due in large part to Freese's earlier plays. Under great pressure to keep the team's streak going, he gave an errant extra-point kick in the first quarter.
The Eagles aim to continue their impressive run in a particularly difficult-to-lose match-up against the perennially unranked University of Massachusetts.
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