I-AA FOOTBALL Delaware rolls past Colgate in title game

The Blue Hens routed the Raiders 40-0 for thier first I-AA title.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) -- Andy Hall led Delaware to its first NCAA Division I-AA title Friday night, throwing two touchdown passes to David Boler in the Blue Hens' 40-0 victory over Colgate.
Delaware (15-1) recorded the only shutout ever and biggest margin of victory in I-AA championship game history.
Delivers promise
Blue Hens coach K.C. Keeler delivered on his promise to compete for championships when he was hired two years ago. After all, he had plenty of experience playing and coaching in title games.
He was a starting linebacker in 1979 when Delaware won the Division II title, the school's only other championship.
While coach at Division III Rowan, Keeler's teams reached the championship five times but never won.
Keeler brought in some Division I-A transfers to give Delaware an immediate boost, and one of those was Hall, who left Georgia Tech in search of more playing time. Hall, a senior, was 12-of-20 for 183 yards and ran 12 times for 36 yards.
The Blue Hens continued the dominance they established in the playoffs, outscoring their previous three opponents 109-23.
Delaware led 20-0 at halftime after some early miscues by the Raiders (15-1) and added two more touchdowns in the third quarter to seal the victory.
Winning streak snapped
Colgate, playing in its first title game, had its 21-game winning streak snapped in the finale of a phenomenal season for the small liberal arts college in Hamilton, N.Y.
It is only the second nonscholarship team to make it to the championship game since I-AA was formed in 1978. The other was Lehigh, which lost to Eastern Kentucky in 1979.
The Raiders owed much of their success to running back Jamaal Branch, who set four NCAA rushing records this season and won the Walter Payton Award for the best offensive player in I-AA over two other finalists that included Hall.
But Branch couldn't do much to help Colgate in this game.
He was held to 55 yards on 20 carries. Delaware rolled up 348 yards of total offensive, while Colgate had just 157.
The Blue Hens were playing in their first championship game since 1982, when they lost to Eastern Kentucky, and looked right at home with a large contingent of fans wearing yellow and blue who braved the 30-degree temperatures and intermittent snow flurries.