NAVY MIDSHIPMEN

At Navy: Was impressive during spring drills ... enters the fall as the starting quarterback ... has the strongest arm among all the quarterbacks ... has good speed and size ... difficult to tackle ... has a great attitude and is always smiling ... one of the more popular players on the team ... one of the top recruiters among the players when a prospective student-athlete and his family is visiting campus ... has been impressive the last two years with the stirring speeches he gave to prospect families on why their sons should come to the Naval Academy ... a natural leader ... has struck up friendships with former NFL quarterbacks Shaun King and Doug Williams ... has a personal goal of becoming the President of the United States in 2040 after serving in the military and winning a Super Bowl ... writes a blog for navysports.com ... has earned one varsity letter.

2008: Played in seven of 13 contests, starting once ... was second on the team with eight touchdowns and was the team's third-leading scorer (48 pts) ... ran the ball 106 times for 495 yards, the team's third-leading rusher ... played his part in helping the Mids' rushing attack lead the nation in rushing for an unprecedented fourth consecutive season (292.4 yds/gm) ... completed nine of his 16 passes for 212 yards and a touchdown ... threw just one interception ... carried the ball once for two yards against Wake Forest in the EagleBank Bowl ... did not play in the Mids' 34-0 shutout over Army, as senior QB Kaipo-Noa Kaheaku-Enhada returned to the starting lineup ... earned his first collegiate start and led the Mids to a 16-0 victory over Northern Illinois ... it's the first shutout Navy's defense has pitched since Sept. 18, 2004, when the Mids beat Tulsa on the road, 29-0 ... it was the first time the Huskies have been shut out since 1999 against Iowa (24-0) ... became just the sixth Navy quarterback to rush for over 100 yards in his first collegiate start when he gained 124 yards on 25 carries and scored a touchdown ... it was his second career 100-yard rushing performance ... after leading the Mids back what seemed to be an insurmountable deficit two weeks prior, he nearly brought the Mids back against Notre Dame ... once again, down by 20 points, Dobbs led Navy to back-to-back touchdowns scored in just 18 seconds of one another ... Navy got the ball back and went for the game-winning score, but turned the ball over on downs ... carried the ball 13 times for 27 yards and a touchdown with 1:21 remaining in the contest ... completed two of his eight passes for 54 yards, including a 40-yard pass to senior Tyree Barnes which set up his one-yard TD run ... orchestrated Navy's 20-point fourth-quarter come-from-behind victory over Temple, including scoring the game-winning touchdown in overtime ... entered the game with under five minutes to go in the third quarter ... threw his first collegiate TD pass when he connected with senior T.J. Thiel for a 22-yarder with 9:16 to go in the game ... finished the game with 47 yards on 13 carries and a rushing TD ... completed five of his six passes for 87 yards, one touchdown and an interception ... was called upon in second quarter (8:47) of the SMU contest to replace an injured Jarod Bryant ... finished the game with 224 yards on 42 carries ... he is the first Navy quarterback to rush for 200 yards since Brian Madden carried the ball 33 times for 201 yards against Tulane on Nov. 10, 2001 ... he is only the fifth different QB who has topped 200 yards rushing ... the five QBs have recorded 200-plus yards nine times ... his 224 rushing yards are the 12th most by a Navy player in school history ... it's the fourth-most rushing yards by a Navy QB and the most since Chris McCoy ran for 268 (27 carries) against Kent State on Nov. 22, 1997 ... it is also the ninth most in the FBS this season, including the most by a quarterback ... he is the second Navy player to rush for 200-plus yards this season, joining Shun White who opened the season with a school-record 348 yards against Towson ... he is the 18th different QB in school history to break the 100-yard barrier and the second this season ... his four rushing TDs are tied as the second most in program history along with Kaipo-Noa Kaheaku-Enhada (vs. Eastern Michigan `06), Eddie Meyers (vs. Syracuse `81) and Gerry Goodwin (vs. Virginia `75) ... his 42 carries marked the first time since 1999 that a Navy player has carried the ball 40 or more times ... Brian Madden was the last with 41 carries against Army on Dec. 4, 1999 ... it's the third-most carries by a Navy player in program history ... carried the ball five times for 18 yards on his first drive, including a two-yard touchdown run with 5:31 remaining in the first quarter ... followed up with a five-yard score with 2:50 remaining in the first quarter ... recorded his third touchdown of the afternoon on a one-yard run with 9:49 left in the second quarter ... his fourth TD was a seven-yard scamper at 13:20 in the fourth quarter ... his 38-yard jaunt at 10:10 in the second quarter goes down as the longest of his career ... seeing action for the third time in his career, guided the Mids to their final scoring drive against No. 23 Pitt ... completed the first pass of his career, a 39-yard strike to sophomore receiver Mario Washington ... on the ensuing play, Dobbs ran the ball in from four yards out to score his first collegiate TD ... turned in 15 yards on five carries against the Panthers ... inserted into the game at Air Force after Jarod Bryant was shaken up at the end of the first half ... in just his second career appearance, Dobbs took the Mids from the 50 to the Air Force 31-yard line to set up a Matt Harmon 48-yard field goal ... made his collegiate debut in relief of starting QB Jarod Bryant in the Mids' season-opener against Towson ... rushed for 56 yards on five carries, including a 15-yard jaunt.

2007: Did not see any varsity action.

High School / Personal: A 2006 graduate of Douglas County High School, Dobbs attended he Naval Academy Prep School during the 2006-07 academic year ... a two-sport athlete, he earned four letters each in football and basketball ... basketball team was 72-15 over his final three seasons and won the region championship all three years ... as a senior, the basketball team posted a 27-3 record and played in the state championship game ... named All-State (Ga.) in basketball and honorable mention All-State in football as a senior ... threw 28 touchdown passes in 12 games as a senior ... full name is Clarence Ricky Dobbs ... born Jan. 31, 1988, in Atlanta, Ga. ... born on Super Bowl Sunday in 1988, which was the Super Bowl that Doug Williams became the first, and only, African-American quarterback to win a Super Bowl ... son of Clarence Dobbs Sr. and Barbara Cobb ... majoring in General Science.