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University of Pennsylvania Athletics

2012 Football

27 Dave Twamley

  • Height 5-11
  • Weight 190
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Princeton Junction, N.J.
  • Highschool West Windsor-Plainsboro South

Biography

Career Accolades: Three-time Ivy League champion (2009, 2010, 2012) ... 2012 second-team All-Ivy ... 2012 Philadelphia Inquirer Academic All-Area ... Played in 37 career games ... Finished with 146 tackles (103 solo), 5.0 tackles for loss, 14 passes defended, two interceptions, and a forced fumble.

2013 (lacrosse): Joined Penn lacrosse program for senior spring ... Played in 10 games, mostly as a defensive midfielder ... Recorded only point, an assist, in Ivy League win over Princeton (3/16) ... Had a caused turnover and a ground ball in win at Lehigh (3/5) ... Also had a GB vs. Villanova (3/9) and a CT vs. Yale (3/30).

2012: Second-team All-Ivy ... Philadelphia Inquirer Academic All-Area ... Led team with 43 solo tackles and finished second on the team with 63 total tackles ... Also second on the team with two interceptions ... Had five or more tackles in eight of 10 games ... Season-high nine tackles in Homecoming win over Brown (Oct. 27) ... Five tackles and first career interception in win at Princeton (Nov. 3) ... Had eight tackles and an interception in Ivy title-clinching win over Harvard (Nov. 10) ... Recorded six tackles and a forced fumble in win at Cornell (Nov. 17).

2011: Played in the first nine games before missing the season finale due to injury ... Finished the year with 31 tackles (24 solo), 2.5 tackles for loss and was second on the team with six passes defended ... Had a tackle in every game he played and recorded at least three in seven different games ... Season-high six tackles against Villanova (Sept. 24) and Princeton (Nov. 5). 

2010: Played in all 10 games ... Finished seventh on the team with 33 tackles ... Had a career-high 10 tackles (nine solo) and three pass breakups in win at Yale (Oct. 23) ... Also had five tackles apiece in wins over Brown (Oct. 30) and Harvard (Nov. 13).  

2009: Played in each of the last nine games, recording at least one tackle in eight of them ... Finished the year with 19 tackles ... Season-best five tackles in win over Bucknell (Oct. 10) ... Three tackles each against Princeton (Nov. 7) and Cornell (Nov. 21), and two at Columbia (Oct. 17).

West Windsor-Plainsboro South HS: Three-sport athlete in football, lacrosse, and indoor track ... Captain of 2007 and 2008 conference championship football teams ... Three-time first-team all-area and all-conference selection ... Team MVP in 2007 and 2008 ... Third-team all-state in 2007 ... Super 100 All-State Team in 2008 ... 2009 Sunshine Football All-Star Game MVP ... Three-time selection to all-state lacrosse team ... Three-time team MVP, all-conference and all-area selection in lacrosse ... 2008 and 2009 Conference Lacrosse Player of the Year.

Personal: Son of Teresa and Dave Twamley ... Sister, Kelly, played lacrosse at Delaware ... Cousin, Chris Crane, played football at Boston College and was signed by the Indianapolis Colts in 2009 ... Uncle, Steve, played football at Rutgers ... Father played football at Lebanon Valley College ... Enrolled in Wharton. 

Career Stats:

INTERCEPTIONS gno.yardstdlongavg/ravg/g
2009 800000.00.0
2010 1000000.00.0
2011 900000.00.0
2012 102120126.01.2
TOTAL 372120126.00.3
  
TACKLES guaatotaltflpdfffrblk
2009 8118190.00000
2010 10258330.03000
2011 9247312.56000
2012 104320632.55100
TOTAL 37103431465.014100

SINGLE-GAME HIGHS:
All-purpose yards: 12, at Princeton, Nov 03, 2012 
Interceptions: 1, at Princeton, Nov 03, 2012 ; Harvard, Nov 10, 2012 
Long interception return: 12, at Princeton, Nov 03, 2012 
Tackles: 10, at Yale, Oct 23, 2010 (9-1)
Tackles for loss: 1.5, Princeton, Nov 05, 2011 (1-0)
Fumbles forced: 1, at Cornell, Nov 17, 2012 
Pass breakups: 3, at Yale, Oct 23, 2010

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Historical Player Information

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    2009Freshman

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    2010Sophomore

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    5'11" 185 lbs
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    2011Junior

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    5'11" 185 lbs
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    2012Senior

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    5'11" 190 lbs
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