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2015 MIT Football Roster

13 Chris McPherson

  • Position WR
  • Height 5-10
  • Weight 185
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Gaithersburg, Md.
  • High School Quince Orchard
  • Major Mechanical Engineering

Biography

2015: Played in and started all 10 games at receiver … NFF Hampshire Honor Society … Academic All-NEFC … caught 10 passes for 106 yards .

2014: Played in all 11 games … Academic All-NEFC … part of the regular rotation at wide receiver … career-high eight receptions for 116 yards and one score … season-high two catches for 25 yards against Salve Regina (9/27) … season-long catch of 28 yards at Curry (10/3) … grabbed a 15-yard TD pass at Endicott (11/1) that was the game winning score … matched his season-long catch with another 28-yard effort at Wesley (11/29) in the second round of the NCAA Playoffs.

2013: Played in all nine games as a receiver for MIT … Academic All-NEFC … totaled six catches for 124 yards and one score … one grab for a season-long 33 yards at Pomona-Pitzer (9/7) … catch for 32 yards against Curry (10/5) … pair of catches for 31 yards and a score against Nichols (10/18) … two more receptions for 28 yards at Coast Guard (11/16).

2012: Played in all nine games as a freshman … team’s primary place kicker … fifth on the team in scoring by converting on 29 of 31 PAT attempts … fourth in the NEFC in PAT percentage (.935) … 29 PATs was just three short of the MIT record for a single season … converted on his first 23 attempts of the season …hit on all four PAT attempts in three straight games against Curry (9/21), UMass Dartmouth (9/29) and Plymouth State (1/6) … also kicked off six times for an average of 44.2 yards.

Off The Field at MIT: Majoring in mechanical engineering … minor in management science … concentration in economics … also a member of the MIT lacrosse team … Summer Analyst with Ridgetop Research … Manufacturing Engineering Intern at Orbital Sciences … research with the MIT Nanophotonics and 3D Nanomanufacturing Lab … Lambda Chi Alpha.

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Historical Player Information

  • 13

    2012First Year

    K/WR
    5'10" 170 lbs
    13
  • 13

    2013Sophomore

    WR
    5'10" 170 lbs
    13
  • 13

    2014Junior

    WR
    5'10" 180 lbs
    13
  • 13

    2015Senior

    WR
    5'10" 185 lbs
    13