Matt Szczur said he just did what anyone who wanted to play for Andy Talley, the Villanova football coach, would do. Szczur registered for the National Marrow Donor Program, swabbing his cheek for a tissue sample in the spring. 'It's more of a requirement than him asking us,' said Szczur, a junior wide receiver from Erma, N.J. Szczur, whose last name sounds like Caesar, has become an offensive focal point for second-seeded Villanova (11-1), which is to play a second-round Football Championship Subdivision playoff game Saturday at home against New Hampshire (10-2). But he has also gained a lot of attention in a different way. It was determined in September that he was a match for a 13-month-old girl who has juvenile leukemia and needs a bone-marrow transplant. So, early next month, Szczur will provide marrow to her, first taking medication for a week that will increase blood-forming cells (and cause nausea, aching bones and swelling of the spleen), then donating stem cells in a procedure that takes four to six hours. 'One of my best friends has leukemia,' Szczur said, referring to a friend from high school who has since gone into remission. 'I'd do anything to help her out.' When Szczur learned he was a 1-in-60,000 match, he was told that he might undergo the procedure near the end of the football season, perhaps even during the playoffs. Because his spleen would be enlarged, he could not play football. He was fine with that. 'He's not thrilled to death with the attention,' said his father, Mark, a carpenter, 'but it's like I told him: 'You could get 1,000, 2,000, thousands of people to sign up for this. You got the potential of saving someone's life -- and not know anything about it.'' Szczur is the third donor match since Talley, who has coached at Villanova since the program was resurrected in 1985, started having his players tested in 1992. He was listening to a radio program in which the guest said bone-marrow donors were badly needed. 'I thought, we have 90 kids on the team, so we can get those people to test,' Talley said this week, 'and we can get other people to test, too.' Two hundred people at Villanova were tested the first year. Before the 2008 season, through the Fox Chase-Temple Bone Marrow Transplant Program, more than 1,000 football players, staff and students from nine Northeastern universities were tested. Included was Saturday's opponent, New Hampshire, which handed the Wildcats their only loss this season. Talley was asked if he could get 5,000 people to sign up this year. He got more than 8,000 from 27 colleges. Next year's registration goal is 15,000. Talley figures he will need to get about 30 more football programs from a larger area to register. The goal, Talley said, would be to have every college football program in the nation taking part. 'His goal down the road is really lofty,' said Sue Paprocki, the manager for Northeast recruitment for the National Marrow Donor Program. She added, 'As Andy grows this, with more and more college football teams, more and more students will want to step up to the plate and donate.' Twelve million people have signed up for the National Marrow Donor Program, she said, but finding a perfect match is difficult. Only 25 percent of siblings are matches, and an effort is being made to increase the ethnic diversity of the pool of registered donors. The program benefits when someone like Szczur is found to be a match. The 5-foot-11, 195-pound Szczur catches passes, returns kicks and, on occasion, runs Villanova's version of the Wildcat offense. He accounted for 238 all-purpose yards in a 38-28 first-round victory against Holy Cross: 55 rushing, 130 receiving and 53 on kick returns. Szczur also plays on the baseball team. He hit .681 as a senior at Lower Cape May Regional High School and was drafted in the 38th round by the Los Angeles Dodgers -- and also ran indoor track. He decided to go to Villanova, in part, because it offered him a chance to play baseball and football. Neither the NFL nor the major leagues are out of the question. 'Right now, it's football season, so all he cares about is football,' his father said. After the football season ends and before baseball season begins, Szczur will take a break and donate his bone marrow to a girl whose identity he does not know. As he explains it, blood will be taken from one arm, the stem cells will be filtered out, and the blood will be placed back in his other arm. 'My mom works in the prosecutor's office, and she was telling me the other day they're thinking about doing the same thing for the county we live in,' he said, referring to his mother, Kathy. 'Coach Talley is doing an awesome job, trying to get everyone in the country to do this.' 