Terps Name Captains For 1999 Football Season
9/1/1999 8:00:00 AM | Football
Sept. 1, 1999
COLLEGE PARK, Md. - Maryland head football coach Ron Vanderlinden announced five team captains for this year's Terrapin football team this week. Heading into Thursday evening's opening game at Temple, at Franklin Field in Philadelphia, senior captains for the Terps are Jermaine Arrington, Delbert Cowsette, Brad Messina, Peter Timmins and Jamie Wu.
Arrington returns to the Terps as the team's leading receiver from a year ago, hauling in 23 aerials for 366 yards.
Cowsette, meanwhile, is a preseason All-ACC selection who became a force at nose tackle late last season with 30 tackles in his last two games. Cowsette is the Terps' leading returning tackler and needs 104 stops this season to climb into the school's top 10 for career tackles.
Like Cowsette, a 22-game starter, Messina is a third-year, 21-game starter who anchors the Maryland offensive line. Messina holds down the left tackle position as one of four returning starters up front.
A consummate leader, Timmins has played three different positions during his Terrapin career before becoming a mainstay the last two years on the Maryland defensive front. An H-back on offense during the Terps' run-and-shoot days, Timmins played on both sides of the ball in 1997 before settling into a spot as Maryland's "rush end" in 1998. He garnered 84 tackles and posted a 32-yard intercepted fumble for touchdown against Georgia Tech at PSINet Stadium in Baltimore. Timmins has moved across the line to a defensive end position this season.
Also like Cowsette, Wu was an 11-game starter last season and also pursues a double-major academically during his fifth season with the Terrapin program. Wu helped anchor the right side of the offensive line last season alongside NFL free agent pick John Feugill and returns in 1999 to his post at right guard.
