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2017 LEHIGH FOOTBALL - GAME 4 SCHEDULE/RESULTS LEHIGH MOUNTAIN HAWKS Sept. 2 No. 10/9 VILLANOVA L, 38-35 Sept. 9 at Monmouth L, 46-27 Sept. 16 YALE L, 56-28 SeSept. 23 PENN 12:30 SeptSept. 30 at Wagner 6:00 OcOct. 7 at Colgate* 1:00 OcOct. 14 GEORGETOWN* 12:30 OcOct. 28 at Fordham* 1:00 NoNov. 4 at Bucknell* 12:00 NoNov. 11 HOLY CROSS* 12:30 NoNov. 18 LAFAYETTE* 12:30 11-TIME PATRIOT LEAGUE FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSCHAMPION S *Pat*Patriot League Opponent 1993 • 1995 • 1998 • 1999 • 2000 • 2001 • 2004 • 2006 • 2010 • 2011 • 2016 PENN QUAKERS LEHIGH MOUNTAIN HAWKS (0-3) VS. PENN QUAKERS (1-0) Sept. 16 OHIO DOMINICAN W, 42-28 SEPT. 23, 2017 • 12:30 PM • GOODMAN STADIUM • BETHLEHEM, PA. Sept. 23 at Lehigh 12:30 Sept. 29 DARTMOUTH* 7:00 TV: Service Electric 2 Sports, PLN Oct. 7 at Cent. Conn. St. 1:00 Announcers: Steve Degler, Mike Yadush ‘93 and Al Di Carlo Oct. 14 at Columbia* 1:30 Radio: ESPN Radio of the Lehigh Valley (1230/1320/1160-AM) Oct. 21 YALE* 1:00 Announcers: Matt Kerr and Jim Guzzo along with ESPN Radio’s Oct. 28 at Brown* 12:30 Matt Markus and Tom Fallon Nov. 4 PRINCETON* 1:00 Internet Video: PatriotLeague.TV | Internet Audio: ESPNLV.com Nov. 11 at Harvard* 12:00 Nov. 18 CORNELL* 1:30 SETTING THE SCENE *Ivy League Opponent The defending champions of the Patriot League and Ivy League meet at Goodman Stadium as Lehigh welcomes Penn. The Mountain Hawks will try again to break their LEHIGH QUICK FACTS season-opening slide as they play the back end of consecutive games against Ivy League Location .............................. Bethlehem, Pa. foes. Lehigh dug itself an early 14-0 hole for the second straight week and was unable Founded .......................1865 by Asa Packer to recover in a 56-28 loss to Yale last weekend. Junior Brad Mayes threw for 304 yards Undergraduate enrollment ................5,080 and three touchdowns while seniors Gatlin Casey and Troy Pelletier and freshman Jorge President ..............................John D. Simon Portorreal all had 95-plus receiving yards, but the visiting Bulldogs racked up 566 yards Dean of Athletics ......................Joe Sterrett of total offense to hand Lehigh its third straight setback. Affi liation ...............NCAA Division I FCS Conference ..........................Patriot League KEY STATS Nickname .......................Mountain Hawks Historical Nicknames ................Engineers •Lehigh ranks second in the FCS in passing offense at 354.3 yards per game ......................................... Brown and White •The Mountain Hawks have scored on a long touchdown pass on the second play of the Mascot ...............Mountain Hawk (Clutch) second half in all three previous games this season. Colors .............................Brown and White •Lehigh has won 13 of the last 17 games versus Penn after the Quakers won 34 straight Stadium ........................Goodman Stadium against the Brown and White from 1890-1975. Capacity/Surface .. 16,000/Natural Grass First season of football .........................1884 All-time record ..........................688-591-46 THE LEADERBOARD PL Championships (Last)............11 (2016) Statistical Leaders ....................................................................................................2017 Stats NCAA Playoff Appearances (Last) ..13 (2016) PASSING .................................................................................................................354.3/game NCAA Championships .........1 (1977- DII) #4 Brad Mayes (74-118, 1,044 yards, 10 TD, 1 INT, 163.30 effi ciency) RUSHING ..................................................................................................................79.3/game #32 Dominick Bragalone (37 rushes, 143 yards, 3.9 avg., 2 TD) RECEIVING ............................................................................................................354.3/game follow lehigh football #3 Troy Pelletier (24 receptions, 297 yards, 2 TD) @LehighSports #8 Gatlin Casey (14 receptions, 203 yards, 5 TD) @LehighFootball TACKLES ..................................................................................................................55.0/game #19 Matt Butler (19 total tackles, 0.5 TFL, 1 forced fumble) /LehighAthletics #39 Keith Woetzel (18 total tackles, 2.5 TFL) /Lehighuniversityfootball @Lehigh_Sports IF LEHIGH WINS... •Lehigh would defeat Penn for the third straight year and improve to 14-4 in its last 18 @lehighsports meetings with the Quakers. •Lehigh would improve to 57-26-1 against members of the Ivy League since the forma- tion of the Patriot League in 1986. LehighSports.com •Lehigh would avoid starting a season 0-4 for the third time in the Andy Coen era. Lehigh Sports Communications• 641 Taylor Street, Bethlehem, PA • 610-758-3174 •LehighSports.com • @LehighSports • @LehighFootball GAME 4: LEHIGH VS. PENN • PAGE 2 media information OFFENSIVE COMPARISON The Lehigh Sports Communications offi ce Rush/Game Pass/Game PPG looks forward to handling your media requests Lehigh 79.3 354.3 30.0 throughout the 2017 football season. Should you Penn 302.0 257.0 42.0 seek additional information, please do not hesitate Height Weight to contact a member of our staff. Lehigh Offensive Line 6-4 298 Penn Offensive Line 6-4 282 Interview Policies Interviews may be arranged through the DEFENSIVE COMPARISON Sports Communications Offi ce to take place following a practice on Tuesdays and Thurs- Rush/Game Pass/Game PPG days or before practice on Wednesdays. Lehigh 291.7 240.3 46.7 There are no player interviews on Fridays. Penn 105.0 353.0 24.0 Players will not be available on game days Height Weight until after the contest. Lehigh Defensive Line 6-3 266 Penn Defensive Line 6-3 267 Post-game Interviews (home games) Post-game interviews for both teams are held at the end of every home contest in LEHIGH HEAD COACH ANDY COEN the Stadium House, located underneath the The 2016 Patriot League Coach of the Year, Andy Coen is in his 12th season as the head scoreboard. coach of the Lehigh football program. He holds a career record of 77-52 and now ranks second in school history in career victories. In 11 years as the Mountain Hawks leader, Credentials Coen has produced 122 All-Patriot League honorees, 23 All-Americans and 219 Patriot Requests for credentials should be made League Academic Honor Roll selections. Coen has led Lehigh to four Patriot League to Steve Lomangino. Please forward your Championships in 11 seasons. Coen was also named Coach of the Year in 2010 and is a request for credentials at least one week prior to the game. Whenever possible, media three-time fi nalist for the Eddie Robinson Award, fi nishing as high as sixth in 2011. credentials will be mailed. (Coach Coen’s complete bio can be found on page 14) Parking Passes PENN HEAD COACH RAY PRIORE Parking passes will accompany your media Ray Priore took over as the 22nd George A. Munger Head Coach of Football at Penn on credentials. Media parking is available in the A-Annex grass lot behind the Stadium House Dec. 1, 2014 and is in his third season as the Quakers’ head coach. Priore is in his 31st (scoreboard) at Goodman Stadium. season at Penn, where he has been a part of 12 Ivy League championship teams, includ- ing back-to-back 7-3 campaigns that resulted in Ivy League titles in his fi rst two seasons Weekly Football Media Luncheon as a head coach. He spent the previous 16 seasons as Penn’s defensive coordinator and Lehigh hosts a weekly football media lun- secondary coach. Priore is a 1985 graduate of Albany. cheon each Wednesday during the season, from 11:30-1:00 p.m. on the Goodman Cam- pus. Lunch is complimentary for attending THE SERIES media. Please contact the Sports Commu- Lehigh and Penn meet for the 60th time with the Quakers holding a 44-15 advantage. The nications Offi ce in advance if you plan on Mountain Hawks have beaten the Quakers in each of the last two seasons after the pro- attending. grams had previously not met since 2003. Lehigh and Penn met regularly in the 1960s, 70s, 80s and 90s. Lehigh has won 13 of the last 17 meetings dating back to 1975. These LehighSports.com teams fi rst met in 1885. All the latest information on Lehigh football and all 25 of Lehigh’s varsity sports, can be found at LehighSports.com, the offi cial web THE LAST TIME THEY MET site of Lehigh Athletics. Everything related to PHILADELPHIA (9/17/16) - Lehigh used a balanced all-around offensive attack led Lehigh football, including schedules, rosters, by senior quarterback Nick Shafnisky and a shutout from the defense in the second student-athlete and coach bios, news, game half to grab its fi rst win of 2016 as the Mountain Hawks topped defending Ivy League notes, the offi cial Lehigh football record book Co-Champion Penn 49-28 at historic Franklin Field. Shafnisky enjoyed arguably the fi nest and more can be found at LehighSports.com. all-around game of his career, accounting for 388 yards of offense and a career-best six Lehigh Sports Communications Staff touchdowns. His one yard run on the fi nal play of the fi rst half tied the game and set the Football SID: Steve Lomangino tone for a fi nal 30 minutes dominated by the Brown and White. Lehigh outscored Penn (Director of Sports Communications) 21-0 in the second half and held the Quakers to just 63 of their 387 total yards after half- Offi ce: (610) 758-3174 time. The Mountain Hawks rolled up 548 yards, with 231 on the ground and 317 through Cell: (917) 579-0976 the air. Shafnisky posted his fi fth career 300-yard passing game, completing 28-of-41 E-mail: [email protected] passes for 317 yards and three touchdowns, while adding 71 yards and three fi rst-half scores on the ground. Sophomore Micco Brisker’s six-yard touchdown run on the open- Secondary Contacts: Justin Lafl eur ([email protected]) ing drive of the second half put the Mountain Hawks in front for the fi rst time. Offi ce: (610) 758-6631 Cell: (610) 577-5222 Tim Geer ([email protected]) Derek Behrenshausen ([email protected]) 11-TIME PATRIOT LEAGUE CHAMPIONS • 1993 •1995 • 1998Experience • 1999 • 2000 • Lehigh 2001 • 2004 •Football 2006 •2006 •2010 2003 • 2011 • 2016 •11-TIME PATRIOT LEAGUE CHAMPIONS GAME 4: LEHIGH VS.