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2008 Football

42 Jay Colabella

  • Height 6-1
  • Weight 220
  • Class Senior
  • Highschool Harrison

Biography

   S-A-T     TFL-Yards    Sacks-Yards    FR/FF    INT-Yards
Career Totals    55-62-117    13.5-38              5.0-20             1/0          1-3

Jay was a 2008 co-captain as the defense finished fourth overall in the FCS ... Two-time second-team All-Ivy honoree ...     Started each of his final 20 games at Penn ... Played in all but three games in his four seasons ...     Second on the team in tackles in 2008 with 52 and also had four pass breakups – good for third on the team ...     Best outing came at Georgetown with a career-high 10 tackles, a tackle for loss and a pass breakup in the 27-7 win ... Had an interception against Lafayette and a blocked kick at Dartmouth in 2007 ...     Finished career with five sacks and 117 tackles, 55 of which were solo.

2007: Second-team All-Ivy ... Played all 10 games, starting at linebacker ... Finished fifth on the team with 46 tackles ... Had 6.5 tackles for loss and 3.5 sacks ... Picked off a pass against Lafayette (9/15) ... Had pass breakups at Villanova (9/22) and Dartmouth (9/29) ... Also had a blocked kick against the Big Green ... Put up six-tackle performances against Dartmouth, Yale (10/20) and at Harvard (11/10) ... Had 1.5 sacks at Villanova.

2006: Played all 10 games ... Made 16 tackles, including three for a loss, and had half a sack ... Had three stops against Lafayette (Sept. 16) ... Had one tackle against Villanova (Sept. 23) ... Recorded one tackle against Dartmouth (Sept. 30) ... Had two tackles against Columbia (Oct. 14) ... Recorded one tackle against Yale (Oct. 21) ... Tallied two tackles against Brown (Oct. 28) ... Recorded four tackles against Princeton (Nov. 4) ... Had one tackle against Harvard (Nov. 11) ... Recorded one tackle against Cornell (Nov. 18).

2005: Played in seven games ... Made three tackles ... Posted one solo tackle against Cornell (Nov. 19) ... Made one tackle at Brown (Oct. 29) ... Recorded one tackle against Yale (Oct. 22).  

Harrison HS: Four-time letterwinner in football and three-time letterwinner in lacrosse ... Captain of the football team ... Named to all-county, all-league, and all-section teams and second-team all-state as a senior ... Also received Class-A Most Valuable Lineman, Section 1 Most Valuable Back, Captain, Team MVP, and NYS Coaches Association all-state scholar athlete awards as a senior ... Named to all-league and all-section (honorable mention) teams as a junior ... All-league sophomore year ... All-league honorable mention as a freshman ... Member of conference championship teams all four years and state championship team sophomore year ... National Honor Society member.

Personal: Born Dec. 13, 1986 in White Plains, N.Y. ... Son of Elizabeth and Onofrio Colabella ... Enrolled in Wharton with a finance concentration.

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Historical Player Information

  • 46

    2005Freshman

    LB
    6'1" 220 lbs
    46
  • 26

    2006Sophomore

    LB
    6'1" 220 lbs
    26
  • 42

    2007Junior

    LB
    6'1" 220 lbs
    42
  • 42

    2008Senior

    LB
    6'1" 220 lbs
    42