2012 DEPAUW MONON BELL NOTES Game 10: Depauw Tigers (2-7, 1-5) Vs
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SERIES RECORD COACHES Robby Long, a 2002 University of Illinois graduate, is 7-3 in his second season as DePauw’s head coach. An assistant coach for the Tigers for five seasons, Long directed DePauw to a 7-3 overall mark last year including an SCAC co-title and the program’s first NCAA postseason appearance. Jayson Martin, a 2000 Kentucky State graduate, became Rose-Hulman’s interim head coach in early August, taking over for Steve Englehart who moved across town to Indiana State as its offensive coordinator. Martin is in his third year on the Engineers’ staff and served as the offensive coordinator in 2009. DEPAUW UPDATE 2012 DEPAUW MONON BELL NOTES Game 10: DePauw Tigers (2-7, 1-5) vs. Wabash Little Giants (7-2, 4-2) Saturday, November 10 • Hollett Little Giant Stadium • Crawfordsville, Ind. • 1:07 p.m. DePauw wraps up the 2012 football season follows with 64 stops, Cody Crook 60 and J.D. DEPAUW RADIO when it travels to Crawfordsville for the 119th Robinson 59. Michael McManis paces the squad WGRE (91.5 FM), the DePauw campus station, will gridiron clash with Wabash College in the an- broadcast the game live to West Central Indiana and with 4.5 sacks. online at: <www.wgre.org>. Ryan Foutty and Parker nual Monon Bell game. Kickoff from Hollett Paul Simon leads the Tigers with 38.4 yards Schwartz will call the action from the press box with Little Giant Stadium is set for 1:07 p.m. on Sat- per punt which is tied for 38th in Division III and Grant Walters reporting from the DePauw sideline urday, November 10. he’s landed 15 inside the opponents’ 20. Wagner and Caleb Lehman from the Wabash sideline. iP- DePauw is 2-7 overall and 1-5 in the North leads with 24.9 yards per kickoff return, while hone and iPad users can also listen to the game live Coast Athletic Conference after last Saturday’s Sansone averages 24.4. Sansone also averages by downloading the DePauw University App. 39-20 home loss to Denison. 13.8 yards per punt return and Wagner 6.2 Wabash, ranked 25th in the latest D3foot- TELEVISION ball.com Poll, is 7-2 overall and 4-2 in the WABASH RESULTS (7-2, 4-2 NCAC) For the sixth straight year and seventh time in the 9/8 at Hanover W 33 12 last nine seasons, AXS TV is delivering the game in NCAC following Saturday’s 31-16 home loss to Oberlin. 9/15 at Denison W 35 2 high definition to a national audience. Kenny Rice 9/22 ALLEGHENY (ot) L 17 20 Wabash leads the all-time series 56-53-9 calls the play-by-play with Paul Maguire adding 9/29 CARNEGIE MELLON W 54 28 color commentary. Brad Wochomurka (DePauw and the series is even, 37-37-6, in games played 10/6 at Wittenberg W 27 24 ’04) is reporting from the sidelines. since the Monon Bell entered the rivalry in 1932. 10/13 at Washington-St. Louis W 34 14 Wabash has won the last three meetings, but the 10/20 WOOSTER W 30 0 LIVE STATS schools have split the last four at Wabash. 10/27 at Ohio Wesleyan W 28 0 Live stats of Saturday’s game are available at: <http:// Saturday’s game also features two of the 11/3 OBERLIN L 16 31 www.sidearmstats.com/wabash/football/> winningest programs in Division III history as THE COACHES Wabash ranks tied for fifth all-time with 622 SCOUTING WABASH wins in 126 seasons, while DePauw is tied for Sporting a balanced offense of 202.9 yards on 20th with 546 victories in 125 campaigns. the ground and 203.1 through the air, Wabash averages 30.4 points per game. DEPAUW UPDATE Tyler Holmes leads the rushing attack with Justin Murray and Drew Seaman are splitting 128.3 yards per game and 6.3 yards per carry time at quarterback with Murray averaging 145.5 and needs just 102 yards to reach the 1,000-yard passing yards per game and Seaman 154.7. Each plateau. has topped the 200-yard plateau twice this year Senior quarterback Chase Belton rushes for with Seaman throwing for 322 yards against 56.1 yards each game and 5.6 each attempt with Kenyon. eight rushing touchdowns. Belton has completed Scott Srnka ................Coach ............Erik Raeburn just under 60 percent of his passes for 1,642 yards DePauw .................... School ....................Wabash Nikko Sansone is the team’s leading receiver Rhodes ’87 ............Alma Mater ........ Mt. Union ’94 with 38 catches, while Taylor Wagner follows with 15 touchdowns and five interceptions for a 2-5 (1st) ............Record at School ........46-9 (5th) with 33, Jackson Kirtley with 31 and Bobby Co- 151.25 passing efficiency. 2-5 (1st) ..............Career Record ....103-35 (13th) burn with 30. Sansone also paces the squad with Sean Hildebrand is the top receiver with 28 399 receiving yards, while Coburn leads with four catches for 468 yards and six touchowns, while SERIES INFORMATION touchdowns. Jon Laird follows with 26 receptions for 347 Overall ...................................... Wabash leads, 56-53-9 Armani Cato and Amen Galley combine to yards. In Crawfordsville ...................... Wabash leads, 27-25-5 average over 65 rushing yards per contest. Cato Defensively, the Little Giants rank 15th in In Greencastle ........................................ Tied, 26-26-3 earned NCAC Offensive Player of the Week Division III in rushing defense (85.3) and 19th Neutral site ....................................Wabash leads 3-2-1 Monon Bell Games ................................ Tied, 37-37-6 honors after rushing for a career-high 111 yards in scoring defense (14.6). Last meeting ........................ Wabash 45-7, 11/12/2011 on 21 carries with two touchdowns at Wooster. Nate Scola leads the way with 84 tackles, while First meeting ......................DePauw, 34-5, 11/22/1890 Defensively, Jack Quinn leads with 77 tackles AJ Akinribade follows with 78. Tyler McCullen Last in Crawfordsville ......... Wabash 47-0, 11/13/2010 including a team-high 9.0 for loss. Robby Schuler paces the squad with 8.5 sacks and Scola leads Last DePauw win in Crawfordsville .........2008 (36-14) Last Wabash win in Crawfordsville ............2010 (47-0) College Football’s Most Played Rivalries 2012 DEPAUW SCHEDULE Games Opponents Record First Last Sept. 8 ST. OLAF (7-2)............................L, 10-31 147 Lafayette-Lehigh 76-66-5 1884 2011 Sept. 15 *at Wittenberg (8-1) ........................L, 14-52 134 Yale -Princeton 74-50-10 1873 2011 Sept. 22 at Carnegie Mellon (6-3) .................L, 28-51 128 Yale-Harvard 65-55-8 1875 2011 Sept. 29 WASH.-ST. LOUIS (43-5) ..........W, 17-14 126 Williams-Amherst 71-50-5 1884 2011 Oct. 6 *OHIO WESLEYAN (8-1) ..........L, 22-26 126 Albion-Kalamazoo 87-35-4 1896 10/13/12 Oct. 13 *at Allegheny (4-5) ...........................L, 20-22 123 Bowdoin-Colby 68-46-9 1892 2011 Oct. 20 *KENYON (6-3) ..........................L, 19-21 123 Monmouth (Ill.)-Knox 63-50-10 1888 2011 Oct. 27 *at Wooster (2-7) ............................W, 27-16 122 Minnesota-Wisconsin 59-55-8 1890 10/20/12 Nov. 3 *DENISON (3-6) .........................L, 20-39 122 Coe-Cornell College 66-52-4 1891 9/8/12 121 William & Mary-Richmond 61-55-5 1898 2011 Nov. 10 *at Wabash (7-2) .............................1:07 p.m. 120 Missouri-Kansas 56-55-9 1891 2011 118 Wabash-DePauw 56-53-9 1890 2011 *North Coast Athletic Conference game 118 Texas-Texas A&M 76-37-5 1894 2011 118 Pennsylvania-Cornell 68-45-5 1893 2011 (Team leading series listed first) Source: NCAA Record Book 1 —— depauw.edu/athletics • twitter.com/DePauwAthletics • facebook.com/DePauwAthletics —— 1 with 14.5 tackles for loss. Austin Hodges is the was off the mark. The Big Red sacked DePauw five times. team leader with six interceptions. The Big Red had the ball near midfield on Houston Hodges averages 9.1 yards per punt their next possession and Paulus was trying REVIEWING THE 118TH MEETING return and 22.4 on each kickoff return, while to pick up a first down on a third-and-six, but Wabash turned all five DePauw turnovers into Cameron Sobleski ranks 10th in Division III with DePauw linebacker Jack Quinn forced a fumble scores and added a special teams touchdown to 40.3 yards per punt and has landed 15 inside the which Mitch Dwenger picked up at the DePauw keep the Monon Bell with a 45-7 win over the opponents’ 20. 45 and ran down the right sideline for a touch- Tigers at Blackstock Stadium. down. The PAT was blocked and the Tigers held The ninth-ranked Little Giants improved to COMPARING THE TEAMS (2012 NCAA rank) a 12-6 lead with 7:42 left in the half. 10-0 with the win, while the Tigers finished the Per-Game Category DPU WC Denison countered with a 7-play, 62-yard season at 4-5 for the first losing campaign since Scoring offense 19.7 (166) 30.4 (75) drive capped by Sam Fioroni’s 6-yard touchdown 1995. Rushing offense 85.0 (218) 202.9 (50) run and the Big Red extended the lead to 19-12 Wabash started with good field position on Passing offense 232.4 (75) 203.1 (111) Team Pass Efficiency 98.63 (204) 151.08 (41) on Paulus’ 20-yard scoring pass to Fioroni with its opening drive of the game after stopping Total offense 317.4 (167) 406.0 (64) 1:05 remaining in the half. DePauw on downs.