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UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON FLYER FOOTBALL 11-TIME PIONEER FOOTBALL LEAGUE CHAMPIONS Contact: Doug Hauschild • [email protected] • Office: (937) 229-4390• Cell: (937) 272-4503 • Football Press Box: (937) 542-4093 GAMEDAY INFORMATION DAYTON GAME 2 DATE Saturday, Sept. 19 - 1 p.m. ET LOCATION DAYTON DUQUESNE Welcome Stadium -- Dayton, Ohio FLYERS vs DUKES MEDIA INFORMATION Radio -- NewsTalk1290WHIO (1-0, 0-0 PFL) (2-0, 0-0 NEC) Larry Hansgen & Mike Kelly A pair of unbeatens will face off Saturday in SERIES STUFF Live Stats, Audio and Video stream: University of Dayton football’s 2015 home • The football relationship between Dayton and DaytonFlyers.com opener. Dayton (1-0) will host Duquesne (2-0) at Duquesne dates back to 1920. 2015 SCHEDULE Welcome Stadium in a 1 p.m. ET kickoff. • Duquesne won the fi rst meeting, Dayton the next three contests in 1923, 1924 and, after a 77- SEPTEMBER The Flyers knocked off Robert Morris 27-24 year hiatus, the series resumed in 2001. behind great games by team captains Chris 5 @ Robert Morris W, 27-24 • The Dukes lead the series 7-5, and has won Beaschler (career-high 18 tackles), Danny Leach three of the last four meetings. 19 DUQUESNE 1 pm (93-yd. int return, PFL Defensive Player of the • Duquesne won last year’s meeting 33-13 26 KENNESAW STATE 6 pm Week) and Cory Stuart (team-high fi ve catches behind a 20-point second quarter in Pittsburgh for 91 yards and a TD). OCTOBER on Sept. 13. • The Flyers won the last game in Dayton 23-20 3 @ Stetson* 1 pm Duquesne is 2-0, and is coming off it fi rst-ever on Sept. 7, 2013, overcoming a 20-14 halftime 10 SAN DIEGO* 1 pm win at Bucknell. The Dukes have not trailed this defi cit. season and have not allowed any points until 17 @ Valparaiso* 2 pm • Seven of the last eight games have been the fourth quarter in their fi rst two games. decided by 10 points or less 24 BUTLER* 6 pm The Flyers were picked to fi nish second in the 31 JACKSONVILLE* 1 pm SCOUTING THE DUKES Pioneer Football League in this year’s poll of the NOVEMBER • Duquesne was predicted to fi nish second in league’s coaches. This is the 23nd season of the the Northeast Conference. 7 @ Morehead State* 1 pm PFL. UD’s 11 titles are the most in league history. • Freshman running back P.J. Fulmore has led 14 MARIST* 1 pm the Dukes in rushing in both games this season, Dayton fi nished 8-3 overall and 6-2 in the PFL 21 @ Drake* 2 pm and was named the NEC Rookie of the Week for in 2014. The Flyers fi nished tied for second in his 87 yards (11 carries, 7.9 avg.) vs. Bucknell. the Pioneer Football League and had their 37th * Pioneer Football League • Duquesne has a dynamic passing attack winning season in the last 38 years last year. Home Games in ALL CAPS led by three-year starting quarterback Dillon UD’s home fi eld is Welcome Stadium Buechel. The junior co-captain is 27 of 44 Times are ET and Subject to Change Rick Chamberlin is in his eighth season as UD’s head coach and returns 14 starters (seven (.614) for 331 yards and four TD’s, with no FLYER TALE OF THE TAPE offense, six defense, one specialist) from last interceptions and no sacks. The TD’s have gone Head Coach: Rick Chamberlin (UD ‘80) year. to four different receivers. Record at UD: 56-23 (8th year) Avg. Pts O/D: 27.0/24.0 Dayton is led by senior running back Connor PFL POWER Avg. Rushing O/D: 116.0/91.0 Kacsor, who is UD’s career record holder in • The Pioneer Football League is in its 23rd Avg. Passing O/D: 177.0/156.0 rushing yardage. A preseason All-American, season. The original (and now the only) Kacsor was the 2014 PFL Offensive Player of Division I strictly need-based football league DUKE TALE OF THE TAPE the Year after gaining 1,547 yards and scoring began with charter members Butler, Dayton, Head Coach: Jerry Schmitt (Westminster ‘83) 17 TD’s. Drake, Evansville, San Diego and Valparaiso. Record at DU: 63-47 (11th year) • UD’s 96-31 PFL mark is the best in PFL history. Avg. Pts O/D: 36.5/7.0 GOOD NEWS WORTH REPEATING Avg. Rushing O/D: 274.0/135.5 The Flyers enter the season with the fourth-best 600 CLUB Avg. Passing O/D: 185.0/155.5 winning percentage (.738, 124-41) in FCS football • The Flyers were the 11th NCAA FCS team (and PLAYERS OF THE WEEK since 2000 AND have produced the most football the fi rst west of the Alleghenies) to win 600 Off. -- Alex Jeske, Freshman QB Academic All-Americans (22) at any level of games in its football history in 2008. Def. -- Danny Leach, Senior S • The 16 members of the club, heading into the ST -- Jared Ruffi ng, RS Freshman RB competition in the same time frame. The top fi ve 2015 season are: Yale (884), Harvard (848), Scout (ST) -- David Di Silvestro, Fr. WR in winning percentage are North Dakota State Penn (830), Princeton (804), Dartmouth (676), Scout (D) -- Christian McDerrmott, Fr. LB (.845), Harvard (.799), Montana (.775), Dayton Scout (O) -- Adam Trautman, Fr. TE (.738), and San Diego (.698). Delaware (674), Lehigh (671), North Dakota Hammer -- Christian Searles, Soph. CB State (671), Lafayette (669), Dayton (649), STREAKING Northern Iowa (641), Cornell (633), North Dakota UD has not been shut out in a school-record 432 (625), Colgate (625), Holy Cross (613) and straight games, the best such active string in all Brown (.601). of college football. The last team to shut out the • Of the 600 Club members, Dayton has played Flyers was Marshall, 9-0, on Oct. 16, 1976. That the fewest seasons (106, nine fewer than is also the all-time FCS record. Northern Iowa’s 115). PFL Championships: 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1999 PFL Championships 2000, 2001, 2002, 2007, 2009, 2010, THE MAN AT THE TOP KACSOR NAMED TO STATS WATCH LIST CHRISTOPHER CLUB • Rick Chamberlin is now in his eighth season • Connor Kacsor has been named to the • Senior linebacker Christopher Beaschler had a in charge of the Flyer football program. His STATS, LLC Player of the Year Award Watch career-high 18 tackles at Robert Morris. record is 56-23. List. The award goes to the nation’s top • It was also the most tackles by a Flyer in a • He is third all-time in wins at Dayton, behind football player who plays in the NCAA single game in the last six years. two members of the College Football Hall Division I Football Championship Subdivision • He is currently the FCS leader in tackles per of Fame -- Mike Kelly (246 wins) and Harry • Kacsor is the only offensive player from the game (18.0) and solo tackles (9.0). Baujan (124). PFL named to the Payton Watch List this year. • He was one of seven players who were First • Chamberlin is also in his 41st season as He is the second Dayton player to be named Team All-PFL and First Team Academic All-PFL part of the Flyer football program. A Flyer All- to the watch list. Steve Valentino was named in 2014. American linebacker in his playing days, he in 2010. • He was second in the league in tackles per has been a part of 350 of UD’s 650 wins – 26 • Kacsor is everything you want in a game (10.1) last year. as a player, 268 as an assistant coach, and 56 running back. He is powerful (301 yards vs. • A 2015 team captain, Beaschler was named as a head coach. He has also been a part of Georgetown), fast (three TD’s of 50 yards or Preseason First Team All-PFL. 451 of UD’s 1,036 games. more vs. Morehead State), durable (47 carries • The Springfi eld, Ohio native is the 23rd vs. Davidson), dependable (65 of his 81 yards head football coach since the program began at Marist came in the fourth quarter with UD DANNY BOY in 1905. He is the fi rst of the 11 modern era protecting a lead) and clutch (four TD’s in fi ve • Team captain and senior safety Danny Leach coaches to have lettered for the Flyers, and OT’s at Davidson). was the fi rst PFL Defensive Player of the Week the second to be a graduate of the University after two interceptions, four tackles and a pass of Dayton (Pete Ankney was the fi rst when he JUST IN TIME JESKE break up in the Robert Morris win. coached in 1963 and 1964). • With the Flyers limited to 16 yards in their • His 93-yard TD return that in the second • Chamberlin, 59, had been on the Flyer fi rst six possessions at Robert Morris., Dayton quarter was UD’s third-longest ever. coaching staff for 29 seasons before being turned to redshirt freshman Alex Jeske to • He currently leads FCS football (tied) in named head coach. First as linebackers spark the offense late in the second quarter. interceptions (2.0) and passes defended (3.0). coach and then as defensive coordinator, • Jeske completed his fi rst three passes, and • He was one of three true freshmen to letter in Chamberlin helped mold the Dayton D’s for the game was 11 of 17 for 162 yards with 2012.