JC Gaughan
Linebacker · 2018 · Colgate
On Oct. 20, 2017, North Pocono beat Honesdale 42-28 at Trojan Stadium. The Times-Tribune said J.C. Gaughan had 217 yards and five touchdowns on 21 carries, 168 of the yards after halftime, and four of the touchdowns in the second half. Honesdale led 21-14 at halftime. Gaughan’s 41-yard run gave North Pocono its first lead, 35-28, with 7:30 left, and his 60-yard run with 2:56 left made it 42-28. North Pocono was 6-3 and 3-1 in Division II.
A Sept. 20, 2026, Times-Tribune lookback, in the items from 10 years earlier, has him with three sacks in North Pocono’s 27-20 win over Delaware Valley in September 2016. Matt Craig rushed for 138 yards and three touchdowns and scored on an 86-yard kickoff return.
On Nov. 3, 2017, in a District 2 Class 4A quarterfinal at Trojans Stadium, North Pocono beat Pittston Area 48-15. Gaughan ran 21 times for 186 yards and four touchdowns. North Pocono rushed for 327 yards and had 431 total. The win put the Trojans in a semifinal against Berwick.
On Aug. 25, 2017, in a 42-19 win at Riverside, he had 112 yards on eight carries and four touchdowns. Colgate’s roster bio lists him as James Cawley Gaughan, from Scranton, a linebacker who lettered three years under Greg Dolhon and was a senior-year captain. It has his senior season at 93 tackles, and also 174 carries for 1,062 yards and 17 touchdowns, plus 13 catches for 256 yards and two scores. The career line on that bio is 174 tackles, 27 tackles for loss, and 17 sacks. North Pocono was 22-13 in his three varsity seasons and won the 2016 district championship. He was the linebacker in the 2018 Dream Game.
At Colgate the same bio has 22 games and 11 starts, a debut on Aug. 24, 2019, against Villanova, and a first start on Sept. 14, 2019, at William & Mary. Through the end of the 2020-21 season it lists 62 tackles, 34 of them solo, 5.5 tackles for loss, one sack, and three pass breakups. In 2021 he played nine games, with six solo tackles and four assists. He was a senior in 2022, a political science major, listed at 6-foot-1 and 200 pounds.