SELINSGROVE, PA – After setting Susquehanna’s single-game rushing record with 227 yards, junior halfback Chris Ross is the team’s Gus Weber Crusader Player of the Week, sponsored by the Golden Corral Family Steak House along Routes 11 & 15 in Shamokin Dam.

Ross (Johnstown, PA/Westmont Hilltop H.S.) was previously named Middle Atlantic Conference Offensive Player of the Week after he carried 26 times and scored three touchdowns as the Crusaders defeated Juniata 45-14 in the team’s most recent game on October 4 at Lopardo Stadium.

His final carry of the day, a 6-yard scoring run in the fourth quarter, enabled Ross to break the Susquehanna single-game record of 226 yards set by Joe Palchak against Lycoming on October 26, 1970.

Ross is fifth in the Middle Atlantic Conference in rushing with 450 yards on 83 carries (5.4 average) along with four touchdowns. In his last 10 games dating to last season, Ross has rushed for 992 yards on 176 carries (5.6 average) while scoring seven touchdowns.

The Golden Corral will donate a check for $100 in the name of Ross to the charity of his choice during Friday's Quarterback Club luncheon at noon in the Shearer Weber Dining Room of the Degenstein Campus Center on the Susquehanna campus.

Through seven years of sponsorship of the Gus Weber Player of the Week award, Golden Corral has donated $6,000 to charity in the names of Susquehanna players.

The Player of the Week award is named after former Susquehanna University president Gustave Weber, who served as president of Susquehanna for more than 18 years and was a former standout player at Wagner College. He was an avid booster of Crusader athletics, and in particular the football team, which he coached for the final two games of the 1965 season.

The Crusaders (3-2 overall, 3-1 MAC) travel to Wilkes (3-2 overall, 2-2 MAC) on Saturday at 1 p.m.