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2008 FOOTBALL NOTES Sports Information Contact: Bill Wagner • [email protected] 765-658-4630 (office) • 765-720-0213 (mobile) • 765-658-4708 (fax) Game 10: DePauw Tigers (7-2) at Wabash College Little Giants (9-0) Saturday, November 15 • Hollett Little Giant Stadium • Crawfordsville, Indiana • 1:06 p.m. DePauw travels to Crawfordsville on Saturday, Quarterback Matt Hudson paces the attack DEPAUW RADIO November 15, for the 115th meeting with Wabash with the nation’s fourth-best efficiency rating of WGRE (91.5 FM), the DePauw campus station, will College in the annual Monon Bell game. The Ti- 181.89. Hudson’s completed nearly 68 percent of broadcast the game live to West Central Indiana and gers bring a 7-2 record into the game, while Wa- his passes for 2,376 yards with 25 touchdowns and via the Internet at: <www.wgre.org>. Justin Weiner bash is 9-0 on the season. just six interceptions. and John Herrick call the action from the press box DePauw, on a three-game win streak, wrapped His top target is Kody LeMond with 59 recep- with Scott White and Tyler Archer reporting from up Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference play tions for 1,073 yards with 13 touchdowns. Wes the sidelines. last Saturday with a 28-12 home win over Rhodes. Chamblee is next with 23 catches, while Brock The Tigers will finish no worse than second in the Graham is third with 19. TELEVISION SCAC this season. The Little Giants’ rushing attack amasses over HDNet will deliver Saturday’s game in high definition Wabash finished North Coast Athletic Confer- 208 yards per game with Bobby Kimp averaging to a national audience. Kenny Rice will handle the ence play with a 7-0 conference record and the out- 66.6 with eight touchdowns. The Wabash offensive play-by-play with Rob Doyle (DePauw ’82) providing right title after a 63-0 win at Hiram last Saturday. line has allowed just five sacks this season which DePauw color commentary and Joe Emmick (Wabash ranks second in the nation. ’92) adding Wabash color. Ron Kruck will report from Wabash’s defensive numbers are equally im- the sidelines. AT STAKE Possession of the 300-pound Monon Bell goes pressive as the unit ranks fifth in scoring defense to the winner of Saturday’s game. DePauw regained by allowing just 11.9 points per game and sixth in LIVE STATS possession after winning last year’s game by a 24-21 total defense with only 243.7 yards allowed per Live stats for Saturday’s game are available at the fol- count on Jordan Havercamp’s 47-yard field goal as contest. lowing address: <http://www.wabash.edu/sports/ time expired. Wabash had won the previous two. Bryan Watson paces the team with 49 tackles, docs/footballstats/livestats/xlive.htm> while Jared Lange is next with 38. Lange leads the SERIES RECORD squad with 6.0 sacks and 12.0 tackles for loss. Ad- COACHING DEPAUW DePauw closed Wabash’s overall series lead to drian Frederick leads the team with five intercep- Head Coach ....................... Matt Walker, DePauw ’99 53-52-9 after last year’s win in Greencastle. DePauw tions. Overall, the Little Giants have returned three DePauw Record ............................ 21-8 (3rd year) holds a 36-34-6 advantage in games played for pos- interceptions for scores. Career Record ............................... 21-8 (3rd year) session of the Monon Bell. The Bell entered the Will Chamblee leads the squad with 32.1 yards Career Record vs. Wabash ................................1-1 series in 1932. A complete series listing and history per kickoff return which ranks fourth in the na- of the game is included later in the notes. tion. COACHING WABASH Head Coach ................Erik Raeburn (Mt. Union ’94) COMPARING THE TEAMS (2008 NCAA rank) DEPAUW UPDATE Wabash Record ................................ 9-0 (1st year) Category DPU WC The Tigers head into their final regular season Career Record ............................. 66-26 (9th year) Scoring offense 30.9 (48) 45.7 (4) game with a 7-2 mark and on a three-game win Career Record vs. DePauw ..............................0-0 Rushing offense 102.8 (190) 208.1 (35) streak. In addition to retaining possession of the Passing offense 304.8 (13) 267.7 (25) Monon Bell, DePauw is aiming for its second Total offense 407.6 (36) 475.8 (6) SERIES INFORMATION Team Pass Efficiency 152.43 (19) 180.19 (2) straight 8-2 season and third in the last five years. Overall......................................Wabash leads, 53-52-9 Scoring defense 27.3 (161) 11.9 (5) Quarterback Spud Dick has completed 66.5 Monon Bell Games ...............DePauw leads, 36-34-6 Rushing defense 144.9 (123) 79.9 (16) In Crawfordsville .................... Wabash leads, 26-24-5 Passing defense 219.6 (189) 163.8 (44) In Greencastle ........................DePauw leads, 26-24-3 Pass eff. defense 124.98 (159) 93.43 (15) At neutral site ............................... Wabash leads 3-2-1 Total defense 364.4 (161) 243.7 (6) Last meeting ......................DePauw 24-21, 11/10/07 Turnover margin -.22 (140) .78 (40) First meeting ...............................DePauw, 34-5, 1890 K.O. return average 17.7 (166) 27.8 (1) Last in Crawfordsville ................Wabash 23-20, 2006 Punt return average 7.7 (136) 6.6 (173) Last DePauw win in Crawfordsville ....... 2004 (14-7) Net punting 29.9 (130) 31.4 (93) Last Wabash win in Crawfordsville ......2006 (23-20) Team Tackles for Loss 4.8 (196) 6.6 (74) Team Pass Sacks 1.56 (154) 2.0 (84) Pass Sacks Allowed 1.33 (t62) .56 (2) DEPAUW SCHEDULE/RESULTS Sept. 13 ANDERSON (5-4) .................. W, 52-17 SCOUTING WABASH Sept. 20 *at Centre (6-3) ................................W, 27-14 Wabash enters Saturday’s game with a 9-0 re- Sept. 27 *SEWANEE (2-7) ...................W, 27-20 cord, ranked second in the coaches’ poll, third by Oct. 4 *at Millsaps (9-0) ............................. L, 13-55 d3football.com and on a 19-game regular season Oct. 11 BIRMINGHAM-SO. (3-6) ...... W, 31-21 home win streak. Wabash’s last regular season loss Oct. 18 *at Trinity (7-2) ................................ L, 32-45 at Little Giant Stadium was on November 13, 2004, Oct. 25 *COLORADO COL. (0-8) .....W, 37-34 (1ot) when DePauw took a 14-7 win. Nov. 1 *at Austin (5-4) ................................W, 31-28 The Wabash offense has put up prolific num- Nov. 8 *RHODES (3-6) ...................... W, 28-12 bers this season as it ranks fourth in Division III scoring offense with 45.7 points per game and sixth Nov. 15 at Wabash (9-0) (HDNet) .............1:06 p.m. in total offense with 475.8 yards per contest. 1 —— 2008 DePauw Football at Wabash College, November 15 • www.depauw.edu/ath ——1 percent of his passes for 2,669 yards with 23 connected with Bryan Mulligan for a 19-yard gain es which totaled 145 yards, while Marks hauled in touchdown passes and a 154.46 efficiency rating. to the Little Giants’ 43. seven for 97 yards for the fourth-best all-purpose The junior ranks 18th in the nation with 296.2 yards After a 6-yard completion from Dick to Mul- game in DePauw history with 278 yards. of total offense per game and is 20th in passing ligan, Marks caught an 8-yarder to the 29 and got Hudson completed 21-of-33 for 322 yards with efficiency. out-of bounds with 2.4 seconds left and set up the eight going to Russell for 151 yards and seven to His top receivers include Alex Koors with 50 game-winner. Brock Graham covering 50. C.P. Porter paced the catches for 865 yards and nine touchdowns fol- Following a scoreless first, Wabash struck first rushing attack with 27 yards on six carries. lowed by Bryan Mulligan with 48 catches for 471 as Hudson faked two handoffs and walked in from Pruitt and Tarren Collins each led the Tigers yards and four scores and Brayden Dahlstrom with the 1. Drew Oehler’s extra point made it 7-0 with with seven tackles, while Pruitt added two breakups 33 grabs for 382 yards. 13:25 left in the half. Wabash was called for offsides to his interception. Pynenberg paced the Little Gi- Jon Ellis paces the rushing attack with 71.7 on the ensuing kickoff and then kicked the ball ants with 19 tackles, while Thomas Bell and Rich yards per game with five touchdowns, while Der- out-of-bounds and DePauw started from the Little Lehmann each had 10. rick Karazsia follows with 35.6 per game. Giants’ 46. DePauw outgained Wabash 485-383 and held Tarren Collins leads the defense with 59 tack- Eight plays later the Tigers reached paydirt on a 38:29-21:31 time of possession edge. les followed by Ryan Preuss with 58, Kyle Sherer Dick’s 10-yard pass to Mulligan and Havercamp’s with 55 and Marc Hoeppner with 50. Tyler Doane extra point tied the score at 7-7 with 9:07 remaining Wabash 0 14 7 0 — 21 leads the team with 4.5 tackles for loss and Michael in the half. DePauw 0 7 6 11 — 24 McNelis paces the squad with 3.0 sacks. Hoepp- Wabash wasted little time in answering as C.P. Second Quarter ner, Stacy Crawford and Steve Valdiserri have two Porter scored on a 2-yard run with 6:29 left which W — Hudson 1 run (Oehler kick), 13:25 interceptions apiece. was set up by the previous play - a 38-yard pass D — Mulligan 10 pass from Dick (Havercamp kick), 9:07 W —Porter 2 run (Oehler kick), 6:29 from Hudson to Mike Russell.