{"id":841,"date":"2016-02-08T16:22:38","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T21:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/08\/furman-defeats-davidson-47-5\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T14:59:54","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T19:59:54","slug":"furman-defeats-davidson-47-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furman-defeats-davidson-47-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman defeats Davidson 47-5"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4358\" style=\"width: 447px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/10.12-davidson2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4358\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4358 lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 437px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 437\/461;border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"10.12 davidson\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/10.12-davidson2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"461\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4358\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Richard Budd jumps for a lineout.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Furman\u2019s young team continued to improve Saturday as the Paladins posted a 47-5 victory over Davidson.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Played on a sunny clear day at Roberts Field, it took the Paladins 10 -12 minutes to find any rhythm. The Wildcats held the scrum to a draw and matched up well early on in ruck play. The Paladins, uncharacteristically, kept the ball fairly close in the first half and managed a 17-0 lead halftime.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">After some adjustment at halftime, the Furman team expanded the game and spread the field.\u00a0 With the Davidson team under growing pressure the Paladin trys came in bunches.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Throughout the young season the Paladins, composed of 13 freshmen, six sophomores, a junior and a senior, have struggled with field awareness and aggressive at the tacklepoint.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">But the team seemed to find its stride and way in the second half.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cWe were much more aggressive than I have seen all season,\u201d said Coach Roberts. \u201cWe spread the ball a lot today.\u00a0 In a 60-minute game, I think our wings had about a dozen running touches.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Roberts singled out forwards Sammy Hopgood (flanker) and Richard Budd (eight) for having exceptional games.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cBudd ran, straight and played mean,\u201d said Roberts.\u00a0 \u201cSammy is a freshman and really had a break-out game. He was all over the place.\u201dIncluding sevens, the Paladins have posted a 12-4 record this fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman\u2019s young team continued to improve Saturday as the Paladins posted a 47-5 victory over Davidson. Played on a sunny clear day at Roberts Field, it took the Paladins 10 -12 minutes to find any rhythm. The Wildcats held the scrum to a draw and matched up well early on in ruck play. The Paladins, uncharacteristically, kept the ball fairly close in the first half and managed a 17-0 lead halftime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":842,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,24,25,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrative","category-athletics","category-rugby","category-student-life"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}