Wake Forest Football East Carolina (0-3, 0-1 C-USA) at Wake Forest (2-1, 1-0 ACC)
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Game #4 Sept. 20, 2003 Wake Forest Football East Carolina (0-3, 0-1 C-USA) at Wake Forest (2-1, 1-0 ACC) Groves Stadium (31,500) Winston-Salem, NC Kickoff 6:35 pm Wake Forest University Football At A Glance originally released Monday, Sept. 15, 2003 Television No broadcast. Location . .Winston-Salem, NC First Year of Football . .1888 Wake Wraps Up Three-Game Homestand with ECU Enrollment . .3,950 undergraduate All-Time Record . .368-553-34 Wake Forest will look to get back on the winning track when it Radio Broadcast by the Wake Forest ISP Sports Nickname . .Demon Deacons Head Coach . .Jim Grobe hosts East Carolina in the final outing of a three-game September Network, heard on 16 stations across Colors . .Old Gold & Black Record at WFU/Years . .15-12/3 homestand on Saturday, Sept. 20. Kickoff for the non-televised con- North Carolina and in Virginia. Full station Stadium . .Groves Stadium (31,500) Career Record/Years . .48-45-1/9 test is set for 6:35 pm at Groves Stadium. listing is on page 9 of this package. Voice Surface . .Natural Grass 2002 Record . .7-6 (3-5 ACC) The Demon Deacons (2-1, 1-0 ACC) suffered their first loss of the of the Deacons Stan Cotten calls the play- Conference . .Atlantic Coast Basic Offense . .I-Pro season last weekend when visiting Purdue held on for a 16-10 victory. by-play with former WFU great Ed Bradley President . .Dr. Thomas K. Hearn, Jr. Basic Defense . .3-3-5 The ECU Pirates (0-3, 0-1 Conference USA) are still looking for their serving as color analyst. Athletic Director . .Ron Wellman Letterwinners Returning/Lost .42/19 first win of the season after a tough opening stretch which included On the Internet Ticket Office Phone . .888.758.DEAC Starters Returning/Lost . .12/12 losses at Cincinnati and No. 2 Miami, as well as a home loss to West Virginia. For more information on the Pirates and the ECU-WFU series, With the purchase of a paid subscription, the radio broadcast can be heard live over see pages 7-8. Quick Notes the web via WFU’s athletics homepage: www.WakeForestSports.com. • Packing the House - Wake Forest football continues to set high Last Time Out: Boilermakers Stifle Deacs in Revenge Victory attendance marks at Groves Stadium. -- page 2 Purdue had plenty of motivation going into its matchup with WFU The Series last weekend, and it showed as the Boilermakers shut down the Saturday’s game will be the sixth meeting • Jim Grobe - The Deacons’ head coach has already accomplished Deacon offense and held on for a 16-10 victory before 29,853 fans at between WFU and ECU, and the second much in his first two years with the program. -- page 2 Groves Stadium. straight meeting in Winston-Salem. The After turning the ball over five times and missing three field goals Deacs lead the series 3-2 after defeating • Breaking Up Is Hard To Do - But not for Deacon defenders Eric in last year’s 24-21 Wake victory in West Lafayette, Purdue was 3-of- the Pirates in 2001 and ‘02. King and Quintin Williams, who are steadily climbing WFU’s career 3 in field goals this year and turned the ball over just once despite PBU chart. -- page 3 Records fumbling five times. WFU is 2-1, dropping its first game of the That one turnover, however, nearly cost Purdue the victory. WFU, year to Purdue, 16-10, in its last outing. • Making It Count - The Deacons have found a way to score on down six points, was forced to punt with 2:28 remaining in the game. East Carolina is searching for its first vic- eight of nine trips to the red zone this year. -- page 3 Return man Anthony Chambers fumbled the ball after being hit by tory of 2003 after losses to Cincinnati, longsnapper Jack Yates, and Riley Swanson recovered it at the Purdue West Virginia and Miami. • Plackemeier’s Punting - Wake Forest’s sophomore punter leads 25. The Deacs, however, were unable to take advantage. Boilermaker the ACC and ranks third nationally in punting average. -- page 4 Stuart Schweigert, who already had an interception in the game, tack- Rankings led Chris Barclay for a three-yard loss on 4th-and-1 to seal the Purdue WFU dropped out of the polls after check- ing in at No. 20/21 last week, but is • Bouncing Back - WFU’s streak of bouncing back after a loss will win. be put to the test for the first time this season. -- page 5 receiving votes in both major polls. East Wake Forest was held to just 56 yards rushing and 244 yards of Carolina is not ranked. total offense in the loss, as Purdue was 26-of-36 for 227 yards and • Studying The Opposition - Statistical comparisons, series history, one touchdown through the air. The Boilermakers also controlled the schedules, connections and an ECU scouting report. -- pages 7-8 The Coaches tempo of the game, as the Deacs had possession for just 24:33. Wake Forest head coach Jim Grobe owns a 15-12 mark in his third season with the • For The Media - Everything you need to know about covering Deacs Experience Offensive Lows Deacs. Entering his ninth season as a Demon Deacon football. -- page 9 Purdue was able to limit Wake Forest to some of its lowest offen- head coach, Grobe’s career record stands sive numbers since Jim Grobe arrived in 2001. The 56 total rushing at 48-45-1. • Depth Chart - The latest two-deep and start charts. -- page 10 yards are the lowest during this period, surpassing the previous low of East Carolina’s John Thompson is in his 140 rushing yards versus Georgia Tech in 2001. It is also the lowest • Season Recap - Game summaries and statistics. -- page 11 first season as a head coach, currently total since WFU recorded (-)2 yards rushing against North Carolina in with an 0-3 record. 2000. WFU’s 10 points were the fewest scored in the Grobe era, while WFU Football 2003 Schedule the 244 yards of total offense were the second-fewest behind 224 yards in a victory over Duke last season. 2-1, 1-0 ACC 8.30 at Boston College Chestnut Hill, MA W, 32-28 More Notes From The Purdue Game 9.6 #14/11 NC State Groves Stadium ABC W, 38-24 •The loss to Purdue halted a five-game win streak against non- 9.13 Purdue Groves Stadium ESPN L, 16-10 conference opponents, and is the first since last year’s season-open- ing loss at Northern Illinois. 9.20 East Carolina Groves Stadium 6:30 pm • It also marked just the second non-conference loss for WFU dur- 9.27 at Virginia Charlottesville, VA ABC 3:30 pm ing the Jim Grobe era. The Deacs now have an 8-2 record outside the 10.11 Georgia Tech Groves Stadium TBA league since 2001. 10.18 at Duke Durham, NC TBA • The loss also halted WFU’s win streak over Big Ten teams at 10.25 at Florida State Tallahassee, FL TBA three games. 11.1 Clemson Groves Stadium TBA • With a one-yard score versus Purdue, fullback Nick Burney recorded his third touchdown of the season -- doubling his career total 11.8 at North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC TBA entering the 2003 campaign. Burney scored a pair of TDs -- both also 11.15 Connecticut Groves Stadium TBA one-yard runs -- versus NC State the previous week. Marcus McGruder takes down Purdue’s 11.29 Maryland Groves Stadium TBA • Wake Forest is riding a streak of 60 games without being Jerod Void in one of his seven tackles. Game #4 • Wake Forest vs. East Carolina • News & Notes shutout, back to a 42-0 loss at Air Force in 1998. • After being blanked in the season-opening first quarter at Boston College, the Demon Head Coach Jim Grobe Deacons had scored in seven straight quarters before being shutout in the second half ver- Virginia ‘75 • 3rd season at WFU sus Purdue. • Purdue’s six-point margin of victory allowed that game to go in the books as the 17th Career: 48-45-1 • At WFU: 15-12 of 27 games in the Jim Grobe era at WFU decided by a touchdown or less. Now is his third season at Wake Forest, head football coach Jim Grobe has certainly elevated the level of WFU Garners First National Ranking In 10 Years Although it was a brief stay, Wake Forest made its first appearance in 10 years in the excitement and anticipation for Demon Deacon football. national top 25 rankings with its 38-24 win over then 11th-ranked NC State on Sept. 6. The With a 15-12 record during his time at WFU, Grobe is Deacs checked into the polls at 20th in the Associated Press listing and 21st in the in his ninth overall season as a head coach with a 48-45- ESPN/USA Today Coaches poll. 1 career record. Although the 16-10 loss to then-unranked Purdue dropped the Deacs out of the polls this In what many were calling a “rebuilding” year, Grobe week, WFU is still receiving votes in both. got the 2003 edition of WFU football off a 2-0 start, Before last week, Wake Forest had not been ranked since January of 1993, when it including a win over nationally-ranked NC State. The appeared in the final polls for the 1992 season. Following its win over Oregon in the 1992 Demon Deacons received a national ranking themselves following that victory, a first for Independence Bowl, WFU closed out the year ranked 25th by AP, 17th in the coaches’ poll.