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PURDUE ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS Mackey Arena, Room 2235 / 900 John R. Wooden Dr. / West Lafayette, Ind. 47907 GAME ONE Purdue opens 128th season with road game at Marshall Purdue at Marshall The game will be televised on Fox Sports 1 Sept. 6 at 3 p.m. ET Sunday, Sept. 6, 2015, 3 p.m. ET THE GAME TEAM COMPARISON Joan C. Edwards Stadium (38,016) • Purdue kicks off the 2015 season Huntington, W. Va. with a trip to Marshall, the sec- THE BROADCASTS ond-ever meeting between the schools. TV: Fox Sports 1 • The Boilermakers make their second Justin Kutcher, Play-by-Play trip to West Virginia, but the first Record* ................ 3-9 Record* .............. 13-1 to Huntington. Purdue won at No. Conference .....Big Ten Conference ......... USA Petros Papadakis, Analyst Pts/Gm* ..............23.8 Pts/Gm* ..............45.6 23 West Virginia 26-24 to open the Steve Hutchinson, Analyst Opp Pts/Gm* ......31.7 Opp Pts/Gm* ......21.0 1995 season. Rush Yds/Gm* ..157.2 Rush Yds/Gm* ..271.9 • The game is Purdue’s first Sunday Pass Yds/Gm* ...187.4 Pass Yds/Gm* ...287.3 RADIO: Purdue Sports Properties game since knocking off Syracuse Total Def/Gm* ..416.0 Total Def/Gm* ..357.1 51-0 at Ross-Ade Stadium in the Ret. Starters O/D ..8/8 Ret. Starters O/D ..6/5 Tim Newton, Play-by-Play 2004 season opener. The Boilermak- *Stats from 2014 *Stats from 2014 Pete Quinn, Analyst ers also opened the 2001 season RETURNING 2014 STAT LEADERS on a Sunday, winning at Cincinnati Kelly Kitchel, Sideline PASSING PASSING 19-14. Rob Blackman, Producer #12 Austin Appleby #10 Gunnar Holcombe • Purdue opens on the road for the 144-272, 1449, 10 TD, 12-21, 119, 0 TD, Scott Fenstermaker, Engineer second time in three years and 11 INT, 7 starts 0 INT, 0 starts fourth time in nine seasons. • Purdue is 1-4 all-time in games RUSHING RUSHING SIRIUS: Channel 84 played on Sept. 6, including a loss #23 Keyante Green #47 Devon Johnson XM: Channel 84 last year to Central Michigan. 27-199, 0 TD, 7.4 AVG 206-1767, 17 TD, 8.6 AVG • Prior to Purdue’s meeting against SCHEDULE/RESULTS RECEIVING RECEIVING Marshall in 2012, the last Confer- #33 Danny Anthrop #4 Deon-Tay McManus Date Opponent TV Result ence USA opponent the Boilermak- Sept. 6 at Marshall Fox Sports 1 3 p.m. 38-616, 4 TD, 68.4 YPG 26-422, 6 TD, 30.1 YPG ers faced was a 24-22 loss at Rice Sept. 12 Indiana State ESPNews Noon Sept. 19 Virginia Tech ESPNU 3:30 p.m. in 2011. Purdue opened with a win DEFENSE DEFENSE Sept. 26 Bowling Green TBA TBA against Middle Tennessee that sea- #4 Ja’Whaun Bentley #17 Taj Letman Oct. 3 at Michigan State TBA Noon son, though the Blue Raiders were 3.5 TFL, 3 FR, 1 INT, 76 tkls 4 INT, 0.5 TFL, 94 tkls Oct. 10 Minnesota TBA TBA members of the Sun Belt until 2013. THE SERIES Oct. 17 at Wisconsin TBA Noon • Purdue wide receivers coach Gerad Purdue is 1-0 all-time against Marshall. Oct. 31 Nebraska TBA TBA Parker returns to Marshall where he The Boilermakers beat the Thundering Nov. 7 Illinois TBA Noon held the same position for the Herd Herd 51-41 at Ross-Ade Stadium in Nov. 14 at Northwestern TBA TBA in 2011 and 2012. 2012. Nov. 21 at Iowa TBA TBA • Purdue is the first Big Ten team to Nov. 28 Indiana TBA TBA travel to Huntington, W. Va. POST GAME MEDIA INFO ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS • Sunday’s game is Purdue’s first on The Purdue locker room will remain closed Assoc. Director, Football ...... Matt Rector Fox Sports 1. following all football games. Media should ................................... [email protected] • Austin Appleby was named Purdue’s request players through Matt Rector of ......... 765-494-3196 (o); 765-237-1330 (c) starting quarterback on Aug. 25. the Purdue Athletics Communications staff Asst. Director, Secondary FB ...Matt Staudt He is Purdue’s fifth different season during the fourth quarter. ................................ [email protected] opening starter in the last five years. ......... 765-496-7842 (o); 765-414-1984 (c) • Marshall’s offensive coordinator, Purdue head coach Darrell Hazell and four Bill Legg, was Purdue’s co-offensive Website ........................PurdueSports.com select players will address the media in the coordinator in 2006 and 2007, after Facebook ......Facebook.com/PurdueSports designated media area. Assistant coaches coaching the Boilermakers’ offen- Twitter ..............................@BoilerFootball will not be available. Instagram .........................@BoilerFootball sive linemen from 2003 to 2005. #BoilerUp 1 2015 PURDUE FOOTBALL GAME NOTES - at MARSHALL MEDIA AVAILABILITY Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Saturday Sunday Monday 12:30 p.m. ET Noon - 12:45 ET After Practice No availability - Coach No availability GAME DAY No availability Head coach Darrell Coach Hazell press Coach Hazell and Hazell Radio Show at 3 p.m. ET Hazell in his office in conference and requested assistant 6 p.m. at Puccini’s Purdue vs. Marshall Mollenkopf teleconference in coaches and players (in-person only) All-American Dining (limit six players) Postgame Hall Coach Hazell and four requested 1:20 players in the Coach Hazell on B1G Friday interview area. Conference Call No availability After Practice Requested assistant coaches and players (limit six players) SUNDAY GAMES sive linemen from 2003 to 2005. THE DARRELL HAZELL FILE • Purdue is 6-6 in Sunday games and • Purdue starting quarterback Austin has won its last two. Appleby’s younger brother, Jake, is a Darrell Hazell was • Sept. 5, 2004 - West Lafayette, Ind. redshirt freshman on the golf team named the 35th head #25 Purdue 51, Syracuse 0 at Marshall. coach in Purdue • Sept. 2, 2001 - Cincinnati, Ohio football history on Dec. Purdue 19, Cincinnati 14 FIRST(S) AND 10 5, 2012. He signed a six- • Aug. 30, 1998 - Los Angeles • Purdue’s trip to Marshall is the first, year contract with the USC 27, Purdue 17 not just for the Boilermakers, but Boilermakers. Hazell is • Oct. 21, 1917 - West Lafayette, Ind. for a team in the Big Ten. in his third year at Chicago 27, Purdue 0 • Purdue’s Sunday game is its first in Purdue, after spending two seasons as • Nov. 19, 1916 - Evanston, Ill. 11 years (and one day). the head coach at Kent State. Northwestern 38, Purdue 6 • The game will be Purdue’s first to be Hazell (HAY-zull) was named the 2012 • Nov. 23, 1913 - Bloomington, Ind. televised on Fox Sports 1. Mid-American Conference Coach of the Purdue 42, Indiana 7 • Purdue’s game against Marshall Year after leading Kent State to arguably • Nov. 24, 1912 - West Lafayette, Ind. marks the first time the Boilermak- its most sucessful season ever, with an Purdue 34, Indiana 7 ers have faced a team that won 13 11-3 record and MAC East Division cham- • Nov. 17, 1912 - West Lafayette, Ind. or more games the previous year pionship. The 11 wins set a school record. Purdue 91, Rose Poly 0 since 2003 when the Boilermakers Prior to his time at Kent State, • Nov. 3, 1912 - Evanston, Ill. played Ohio State, which was com- Hazell spent seven seasons at Ohio State, Purdue 21, Northwestern 6 ing off a 14-0 season. where he served as an assistant head • Oct. 15, 1911 - Chicago • Paul Griggs ranked first in the coun- coach and wide receivers coach under Jim Chicago 11, Purdue 3 try last season in field goal percent- Tressel. Hazell has spent 28 years in the • Oct. 8, 1911 - West Lafayette, Ind. age on kicks of 50+ yards (min. 3 college coaching ranks, and has previous Wabash 3, Purdue 0 attempts). Griggs was 3-for-3. stints as Rutgers (2001-03), West Virginia • Nov. 25, 1906 - West Lafayette, Ind. • The Boilermakers return five starters (1999-2000), the U.S. Military Academy Illinois 5, Purdue 0 on the offensive line, and six guys (1997-98), Western Michigan (1995-96), who started at least seven games up Pennsylvania (1992-94), Eastern Illinois (1988) and Oberlin (1986-87, 1989-91). CONNECTING THE SCHOOLS front a year ago, for the first time Hazell graduated in 1986 from • Third year Purdue assistant coach since 1963, when Purdue had 11 Muskingum College with a B.A. in speech Gerad Parker spent two seasons different guys start on the line that communications and business. He was a coaching the wide receivers in season, after having 10 in 1962. three-time all-conference selection as a 2011 and 2012. After two seasons • D.J. Knox, No. 1, is making his first wide receiver and an All-American as a coaching Purdue’s tight ends, Parker career start at running back. senior. is back working with the wide • Purdue’s first road game of the A native of Cinnaminson, N.J., Hazell receivers. season, at Marshall, is 28 days earlier (born April 14, 1964) and Annmarie have • Purdue’s Director of Player Person- than last season’s first true road a son, Kyle. nel Mike Waugh, in his second year game (at Illinois, Oct. 4, 2014). with the Boilermakers, spent three • Six Boilermakers are scheduled to HAZELL’s HEAD COACHING RECORD years at Marshall where he earned make their first career starts for Year School Overall Conf. his master’s degree and was the Purdue (WR Domonique Young, TE 2011 Kent State 5-7 4-4 director of high school relations. Jordan Jurasevich, RB D.J. Knox, RE 2012 Kent State 11-3 8-0 • Marshall offensive coordinator Bill Antoine Miles, FS Robert Gregory, LS 2013 Purdue 1-11 0-8 Legg was Purdue’s co-offensive Ben Makowski).