A D-III college football RB just set the all-time record with 522 yards in one game originally appeared on The Sporting News.
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If someone told you that a running back had run for 522 yards, and you somehow believed that that could happen in a single game, you’d probably figure it happened on 40 or 50 carries.
That would be selling Montie Quinn well short. He just did it on 20 totes.
Quinn had an unfathomable Saturday while suiting up for Division III Curry College to set the new all-division rushing yardage record.
He ran the ball 20 times for that aforementioned 522 yards as Curry defeated Nichols College, 71-27.
That’s an average of 26.1 yards per carry.
He would’ve had even more if the end zone didn’t stop him with a touchdown on seven of those runs.
Six of his TD runs were insanely long:
- 85 yards
- 84 yards
- 78 yards
- 64 yards
- 58 yards
- 30 yards
The NCAA record for rushing yards in a game before this was 98 yards short of this. Samaje Perine once ran for 424 yards for Oklahoma.
Quinn put up a mark that will be very tough to ever top.
He’s in his fourth season at Curry College, which is in Milton, Massachusetts.
Quinn is from Stratford High School in Goose Creek, S.C., although he was born in New York City.
He’s a sport & recreation management major.
And now he’s an NCAA record holder.
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