Sports Information Bill Wagner, Director of Sports Information 702 South College Avenue Greencastle, IN 46135-0037 765-658-4630 (phone) • 765-720-0213 (mobile) • 765-658-4708 (fax) [email protected] • www.depauw.edu/ath DePauw University (6-3) Tigers travel to Wabash for 113th meeting; 75th for Monon Bell at DePauw concludes its 119th season of inter- Huff has a slew of talented receivers with Wabash College (7-2) collegiate play on Saturday, November 11, when Mike Russell leading the way with 51 catches for it travels to Crawfordsville for the annual Monon 962 yards and an 18.9-yard per catch average. His Bell Game at Wabash College. 12 touchdowns lead the team. Before sustaining GAME FACTS The Tigers take a 6-3 record into the 113th a season-ending injury, Geoff Walker caught 33 Saturday, November 11, 1 p.m. meeting with Wabash and 75th for possession of passes for 467 yards and five scores. Billy King Hollett Little Giant Stadium; Crawfordsville, Ind. the Monon Bell, while the Little Giants are 7-2. keys the rushing attack with just under 50 yards DePauw is coming off a 24-14 home win over per game and a 4.9 yard average. TELEVISION Austin as the Tigers finished 3-3 in the Southern Adrian Pynenberg leads the defense with 91 HDNet will carry Saturday’s game to a national Collegiate Athletic Conference and in no worse tackles including team highs of 13.0 for loss and audience. Kenny Rice will handle the play-by-play than third place. 6.5 sacks. Matt Kraft is next with 73 tackles fol- with Rob Doyle (DePauw ’82) providing DePauw Wabash finished North Coast Athletic Confer- lowed by Andy Deig with 60. Chad Peterman has color commentary and Joe Emmick (Wabash ’92) ence play with a 6-1 conference record and at least intercepted four passes this season. adding Wabash color. Kandace Krueger will report from the sideline. a share of the conference title after a 41-14 win at Denison. DEPAUW UPDATE The Tigers improved to 6-3 with Saturday’s DEPAUW RADIO AT STAKE win over Austin. In that game, DePauw scored all WGRE (91.5 FM), the DePauw campus station, will Possession of the 300-pound Monon Bell goes 24 points in the opening 17:27 and cruised to the broadcast the game live to West Central Indiana and to the winner of Saturday’s game. The teams have win. via the Internet at: <www.wgre.org>. Dan Lucero, exchanged possession each of the last two years Jeremiah Marks leads the Tigers’ rushing attack Abigail Oliver and Justin Weiner call the action from the press box with Steven Powell and Drew Wilson which marked the first time that had happened with 113.7 yards per game and broke the DePauw on the sidelines. since 1984. The last time it exchanged hands in single-season record of 1,009 yards set by Bart three consecutive years was also in 1984. Simpson in 1973. COACHING DEPAUW Freshman quarterback Spud Dick has com- Head Coach ....................... Matt Walker, DePauw ’99 SERIES RECORD pleted 56.9 percent of his passes with an efficiency DePauw Record ............................... 6-3 (1st year) Wabash took a 52-51-9 lead in the all-time series rating of 120.09. Bryan Mulligan is the leading Career Record .................................. 6-3 (1st year) after last year’s 17-14 win in Greencastle. DePauw receiver with 25 catches, while Marks has 18 fol- Career Record vs. Wabash ................................0-0 holds a 35-33-6 advantage in games played for lowed by David Araiza with 17 and Chris Gasbarra possession of the Monon Bell. The complete series with 16. COACHING WABASH listing is included later in the notes. Eric Lewis leads the DePauw defense with 77 Head Coach ................. Chris Creighton, Kenyon ’91 tackles with Dustin Hertel next with 71. Hertel Wabash Record ............................. 51-13 (6 years) SCOUTING WABASH leads the Tigers with a school-record equaling 14 Career Record ............................. 83-22 (10 years) Wabash opened the season with a loss at Frank- sacks and 23.5 tackles for loss. Hertel has forced Career Record vs. DePauw ..............................4-1 lin before rattling off four straight wins. A 19-17 four fumbles on the year and recovered three. defeat at Wittenberg likely kept the Little Giants Greg Sylvester and Jevon Pruitt each have in- SERIES INFORMATION from a second straight trip to the NCAA Division tercepted three passes for a defensive unit that has Overall .....................................Wabash leads, 52-51-9 III postseason. held opposing teams to a 93.06 efficiency rating. Monon Bell Games ...............DePauw leads, 35-33-6 Wabash enters the contest with one of the top In Crawfordsville .................... Wabash leads, 24-23-5 passing atttacks in the nation as Dustin Huff aver- In Greencastle .........................................Tied, 26-26-3 ages nearly 300 yards per game including a 179.7 At neutral site ...............................................Tied 2-2-1 efficiency rating. Last meeting .......................Wabash 17-14, 11/12/05 First meeting ...............................DePauw, 34-5, 1890 Last meeting at Wabash ............. DePauw, 14-7, 2004 Last Wabash win in Crawfordsville ........ 2002 (35-7) 2006 SCAC STANDINGS —— SCAC —— —— Overall —— School W L Pct. PF PA W L Pct. PF PA DEPAUW SCHEDULE/RESULTS Trinity 5 0 1.000 139 46 8 1 .889 248 83 Sept. 9 ANDERSON (1-8) ............. W, 25-13 Millsaps 5 0 1.000 144 54 6 3 .667 296 192 Sept. 16 HOPE (6-3) ....................... W, 23-14 DePauw 3 3 .500 128 129 6 3 .667 207 162 Sept. 23 *at Trinity (8-1) .........................L, 15-26 Centre 2 3 .400 74 99 5 4 .556 168 153 Sept. 30 at Chicago (3-5) .......................... W, 31-6 Rhodes 2 3 .400 60 99 5 4 .556 138 133 Oct. 7 *SEWANEE (2-7) ............. W, 31-24 Austin 1 4 .200 83 125 3 6 .333 107 207 Oct. 14 *at Rhodes (5-4) ......................... W, 27-6 Sewanee 0 5 .000 69 145 2 7 .222 158 253 Oct. 21 *at Millsaps (6-3) .........................L, 7-31 Oct. 28 *at Centre (5-4) .........................L, 24-28 SATURDAY’S GAMES (All times local) LAST WEEK’S SCORES (Home team ALL CAPS) Nov. 4 *AUSTIN (3-6) .................. W, 24-14 Centre at Austin, 1 p.m. Centre 41, LAGRANGE 10 DePauw at Wabash, 1:05 p.m. DEPAUW 24, Austin 14 Nov. 11 at Wabash (7-2) .............................1 p.m. Rhodes at Sewanee, 2 p.m. Millsaps 14, RHODES 6 (HDNet Telecast) Trinity at Millsaps, 2 p.m. TRINITY 21, Sewanee 7 1 —— 2006 DePauw Football vs. Wabash, November 11 • www.depauw.edu/ath ——1 COMPARING THE TEAMS (2006 NCAA rank) Marks currently ranks third in DePauw history with 234 career points. Dan Category DPU WC Ryan (1999-02) is the all-time leader with 248 and Johnathon Stigall (1995-98) Scoring offense 23.0 (90) 37.0 (13) is second with 246. In the win at Chicago, Marks broke Rich Bonaccorsi’s Rushing offense 139.2 (98) 134.1 (109) career rushing touchdown record and now has 38. Passing offense 151.6 (144) 300.9 (3) In career all-purpose yards, Marks ranks sixth with 3,091. Terry Dickey is Total offense 290.8 (135) 435.0 (10) the all-time leader with 5,240. Scoring defense 18.0 (78) 23.2 (145) Rushing defense 131.8 (117) 122.6 (93) MALLORY THIRD IN KICK SCORING Pass eff. defense 93.06 (38) 129.8 (169) Senior Tyler Mallory has booted 82 PATs and 16 field goals in his career for Total defense 280.3 (79) 338.4 (153) 130 points which ranks 12th overall and third among kickers behind Tom Turnover margin +0.7 (54) +0.9 (39) Downham’s (1984-87) 185 and Ben Murray’s (2000-03) 148. Mallory has con- K.O. return average 16.8 (162) 19.2 (88) nected on 87.2 percent of his career extra points and 57.1 percent of his field Punt return average 12.4 (26) 4.9 (203) goal tries. His 41-yarder against Centre was the longest of his career. Net punting 27.9 (175) 28.0 (172) TIGERS TOUGH IN SCAC STRONG IN OCTOBER and NOVEMBER Since beginning Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference play in 1998, the The loss at Millsaps snapped DePauw’s 17-game win streak in October Tigers have compiled a 37-16 record and shared conference titles in 2000 games. Since 1998, DePauw has posted a 30-5 October record and a 13-6 and 2005. In SCAC games, DePauw has posted a 20-6 home record and a November mark. 17-10 road mark. TIGERS POST 11TH STRAIGHT .500 SEASON IT’S ALL ACADEMIC The Tigers have assured themselves of an 11th straight .500 or better season Four DePauw players have been nominated for ESPN the Magazine Academic which extends the school record. DePauw has won 13 of its last 17 games All-America honors. They include Tyler Mallory, Alex Boucher, Michael and 19 of its last 24. Over the last three years, DePauw teams have compiled McNelis and Mike Sprengnether. The requirements for possible nomination a 21-7 record. include that the student-athlete have a minimum 3.20 cumulative grade point average and be a starter or key reserve. QUICK STARTS The Tigers have outscored the opposition by an 82-24 margin in the first DICK AMONG DEPAUW’S TOP FRESHMEN QBs quarter this season and have scored in the first quarter in seven of the nine DePauw freshman quarterback Spud Dick has totaled 992 passing yards this games.