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# Albert led loaded backfield in Pinkerton football's win over Windham
- URL: https://www.nh-highschoolsports.com/albert-led-loaded-backfield-in-pinkerton-footballs-win-over-windham/
- Published: 2020-10-14T20:40:05.000Z
- Updated: 2020-10-14T20:40:05.000Z
- Description: Jacob Albert took some friendly fire after his first touchdown run last Saturday in Pinkerton Academy's 34-0 win over Windham. After dancing and cutting his way through the Jaguars' defense for a 25-yard scoring run, the sophomore turned around to celebrate with his teammates. The first one to reac
- Author: Joe Marchilena
- Tags: Division I, football, NH High School Sports Insider, Pinkerton, slider, Windham, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-08-18 04:44

Jacob Albert took some friendly fire after his first touchdown run last Saturday in Pinkerton Academy's 34-0 win over Windham.

After dancing and cutting his way through the Jaguars' defense for a 25-yard scoring run, the sophomore turned around to celebrate with his teammates.

The first one to reach Albert was junior tight end Anthony DeSalvo, who at 6-4 and 225 pounds, has seven inches and 85 pounds on his teammate. The pair jumped in the air to chest bump and Albert promptly found himself on the ground.

"It was one of the hardest hits he took in the game," Pinkerton coach Brian O'Reilly said. "That's the thing kids do now to imitate what they see in the NFL."

The celebration was the only impersonation Albert was doing against Windham. He was also making his coaches forget just how old he really is.

"I have to remember he's only a sophomore," O'Reilly said. "Based on the size of the school and the program, we don't normally play freshmen, and certainly not at running back. He started last year as a freshman.

"He has that uncoachable thing, he's just flat out fast. He's able to turn regular plays into excess-yardage plays."

Albert did it repeatedly against the Jaguars, rushing 17 times for 121 yards and two touchdowns. Outside of the two scored, seven of his other 15 carries went for first downs for Pinkerton (2-1).

That performance helped the Astros rush for 283 yards and five touchdowns on the day, as they averaged 5.1 yards per carry. David Clark (57 yards), Evan Willson (29 yards, touchdown) and quarterback Nathan Campos (11 yards, touchdown) have combined with Albert to give Pinkerton a deep and versatile backfield.

"We're very happy with the entire backfield," O'Reilly said. "The fullback is the key to our offense (but) we've got a four-back backfield."

Against Windham, the Astros turned a solid first half, going up 6-0 on the opening drive while rushing for over a hundred yards.

But Pinkerton was able to take control of the game on the first drive of the second half, needing just seven plays and 3:04 to go 74 yards and score on a 3-yard run by Campos.

Two plays later, a Windham fumble gave the Astros the ball at the Jaguars' 25-yard line, and two plays after that, Albert found the end zone for the first time.

"We changed blocking schemes at halftime for a couple of plays," O'Reilly said. "We turned more to the halfbacks. In the first half, we were getting all the rushing yards with the fullback, but that was 4-6 yards a carry. Similar plays with the halfbacks turned into eight, 10, 12 yards."

That's not just due to the halfbacks having a little more speed than the fullbacks, but also having a fullback blocking for them.

"When the fullback is carrying the ball, the halfback is blocking," the coach said. "(Wilson) or Jack Mackiernan, they're tough kids. They're both starting linebackers for us. We had a good mix in the second half."

Pinkerton's two touchdowns in less than 30 seconds made it a 20-0 lead for the Astros, and after the teams traded punts, things went from bad to worse for the Jaguars.

The Astros downed their punt at Windham's 2-yard line, but an 11-yard run by Joey DaSilva and an 11-yard completion from DaSilva to Keegan Parke got the Jaguars away from their own end zone.

But on the first play of the fourth quarter, DaSilva was picked off by Cole Yennaco, who returned it to the 11-yard line. On the next play, Albert scored to make it 28-0.

"The stat that holds truest, the team that wins the turnover battle almost always had the advantage of winning the game," O'Reilly said. "It's demoralizing to the team it happened to.

"They put up a tremendous battle in the first half. In fairness to them, they hadn't played a game yet. They'll get better."