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University of Pennsylvania Athletics

2011 Football

15 Jim McGoldrick

  • Height 6-0
  • Weight 180
  • Class Senior
  • Highschool St. Joseph's Prep

Biography

2011/Career Notes: Two-time Ivy League champion ... Played in 34 games over his career, including each of the last 33 ... Finished career with 65 tackles (51 solo), 2.5 tackles for loss, five pass breakups and a forced fumble ... Also served as a member of Penn's special teams ... Blocked a punt and recovered it in the end zone in the six-point victory over Dartmouth in 2009 ... His forced fumble came in the Ivy title-clinching game at Harvard in 2009 ... Had a tackle in each of the last nine games of his senior season ... His six tackles in the 2010 Homecoming victory over Brown were a single-game personal best ... Finished his junior season with a career-high 25 tackles. 

2010: Played in all 10 games ... Had at least one tackle in every game and finished the season with 25, including 1.5 tackles for loss ... Season-best six tackles in win over Brown (Oct. 30) ... Also had four tackles in win against Columbia (Oct. 16).

2009: Played in all 10 games for the Quakers in the defensive backfield and also excelled on special teams ... Blocked a punt and recovered it for a touchdown in the win at Dartmouth (Oct. 3) ... Had a season-best six tackles at Brown (Oct. 31) ... Forced a fumble in Ivy title-winning game at Harvard (Nov. 14) ... Finished with 18 tackles and was fifth on the team with three pass breakups. 

2008: Appeared in four games for Penn, including each of the final three ... Played special teams and defensive back ... Had three tackles on the year ... Two tackles—both solo—against Harvard (Nov. 15) ... One tackle in season finale at Cornell (Nov. 22). 

St. Joseph’s Prep: Four-year letterwinner in football and track and field ... Captain of both the football and track and field teams ... Part of the 2005 Catholic League football championship team that went 12-0 ... Was named team MVP?his senior year where he also won the Catholic League sportsmanship award and Catholic League scholar-athlete award ... Recipient of the St. Joe’s scholar-athlete award ... National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame Scholar-Athlete Award ... Member of the all-state team ... All-Catholic first-team ... Philadelphia Daily News all-city and all-Catholic first-team ...  Philadelphia Inquirer all-Southeastern Pennsylvania first-team ... Pennsylvania Football News Class AAAA all-state team ... John "Tex" Flannery Award winner ... Bill Keenan Sportsmanship Award winner.

Personal:
 Son of Mary and James McGoldrick ... Enrolled in Wharton.

Career Stats:

SCORING gtdrushrcvretpat2patfgtotalavg/g
2008 4000000000.0
2009 10100100060.6
2010 10000000000.0
2011 10000000000.0
TOTAL 34100100060.2

 

PUNT RETURNS gno.yardstdlongavg/ravg/g
2008 400000.00.0
2009 101461046.04.6
2010 1010000.00.0
2011 1000000.00.0
TOTAL 342461023.01.4

   

TACKLES guaatotaltflpdfffrblk
2008 42130.00000
2009 10126180.03101
2010 10205251.50000
2011 10172191.02000
TOTAL 345114652.55101

 

SINGLE-GAME HIGHS:
Points scored: 6, at Dartmouth, Oct 03, 2009 
Touchdowns: 1, at Dartmouth, Oct 03, 2009 
All-purpose yards: 46, at Dartmouth, Oct 03, 2009 
Punt returns: 1, at Dartmouth, Oct 03, 2009 ; Lafayette, Sep 18, 2010 
Punt return yards: 46, at Dartmouth, Oct 03, 2009 (1 returns)
Kick returns: 1, at Cornell, Nov 20, 2010 
Tackles: 6, Brown, Oct 30, 2010 (4-2)
Tackles for loss: 1.0, Brown, Oct 30, 2010 (1-0); at Villanova, Sep 24, 2011 (1-0)
Fumbles forced: 1, at Harvard, Nov 14, 2009 
Pass breakups: 1, 5 times
Blocked kicks: 1, at Dartmouth, Oct 03, 2009

 

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 37

    2008Freshman

    DB
    6'0" 180 lbs
    37
  • 37

    2009Sophomore

    DB
    6'0" 180 lbs
    37
  • 37

    2010Junior

    DB
    6'0" 180 lbs
    37
  • 15

    2011Senior

    DB
    6'0" 180 lbs
    15