On The Air Stetson Game Notes Television: None Internet Video: http://bit.ly/X2oAT5 GAME INFORMATION Live Stats: http://bit.ly/1ANtCjy Date: September 20 Radio: WSBB AM 1230 (New Smyrna Beach), WTJV AM 1490 (DeLand) Time: 2 pm WYGM AM 740 (Orlando) Location: Birmingham, Ala. Radio talent: Matt Musgrove (play-by-play), Steve Ostermann (color) Stadium: Panther Stadium Series: BSC leads 2-0 2014 Schedule & Results Last Game: BSC won 49-34 Date Opponent Location Time/Result STETSON HATTERS BSC PANTHERS Aug. 30 Warner Lakeland, Fla. W, 35-16 2014 Record: 1-2 2014 Record: 0-2 Sept. 6 Florida Tech Spec Martin Stadium L, 54-12 2014 PFL Record: 0-0 2014 SAA Record: 0-0 Sept. 13 Mercer Spec Martin Stadium L, 49-0 Head Coach: Roger Hughes Head Coach: Eddie Garfinkle Sept. 20 Birmingham-Southern Birmingham, Ala. 2 pm Career Record: 50-63 Career Record: 27-24 Oct. 4 Butler* Spec Martin Stadium 6 pm at Stetson: 3-11 (2nd year) Record at BSC: 27-24 (7th year) Oct. 11 at San Diego* San Diego, Cal. 5 pm Website: GoHatters.com Website: BSCSports.net Oct. 18 Jacksonville* Spec Martin Stadium 6 pm Twitter: @StetsonFootball Twitter: @BSCsports Oct. 25 at Davidson* Davidson, NC 1 pm Nov. 1 at Campbell* Buies Creek, NC 1 pm Nov. 8 Marist* (HC) Spec Martin Stadium 3 pm Hatter Headlines Nov. 15 at Morehead State* Morehead, Ky. 1 pm The Stetson football team returns all but two starters from the Nov. 22 Drake* Spec Martin Stadium 1 pm 2013 team. A total of 49 players who earned letters during the Hat- * Pionner Football League games ters’ return to football in 2013 are back on the squad this fall. The 2014 Stetson squad includes four players who redshirted last Pioneer Football League year along with two transfers who sat out in 2013. The roster also includes 20 returning players who did not see enough varsity ac- School Conf. Pct. STR All Pct. STR tion to earn a letter and 37 true freshmen. Jacksonville 1-0 1.000 W2 1-1 .500 W1 The 2014 season will see the Hatters play one additional game. Butler 0-0 .000 L1 1-1 .500 L1 Stetson played Mercer again this year, just as a non-conference Dayton 0-0 .000 W1 1-1 .500 L1 opponent. The Bears left the PFL after just one season to join the Stetson 0-0 .000 L1 1-2 .333 L2 Davidson 0-0 .000 L9 1-2 .333 L2 scholarship Southern Conference. Drake 0-0 .000 L1 1-2 .333 L1 The 2014 Hatters come from all over the country. Overall, there Morehead St. 0-0 .000 L4 1-2 .333 L1 are players from 22 states on the Stetson roster. The Hatters come Valparaiso 0-0 .000 L7 0-2 .000 L9 from as far away as Oregon and California on the west coast to Marist 0-0 .000 W5 0-3 .000 L3 Michigan and New York in the north. Campbell 0-0 .000 W1 0-3 .000 L3 The Hatters have just one player from the state of Alabama. DB Jeb San Diego 0-1 .000 L1 1-1 .500 L1 Boudreaux is from Mobile. He was a teammate at St. Paul’s of BSC More info: Pioneer-Football.org, @PFLNews linebacker Alex King. The Birmingham-Southern roster includes just seven players from Schedule/Results the state of Florida, most from the panhandle region. The trip to Birmingham this week will be the first trip into the Heart September 11 Valparaiso at William Jewell, 2 pm of Dixie since October 28, 1950. That year the Hatters visited what Charleston So. 34, Campbell 10 Princeton at San Diego, 4 pm is now known as West Alabama in Livingston and came away with September 13 Taylor at Butler, 6:30 pm a 28-26 victory. Duquesne 33, Dayton 13 September 27 All-time, Stetson has played six schools from the state of Alabama Jacksonville 35, San Diego 18 Jacksonville at Butler, Noon and hold a 9-7-1 record in those games. That includes a win over VMI 52, Davidson 24 San Diego at Marist, 1 pm SEC power Auburn in 1927. Western Illinois 38, Drake 13 Davidson at Princeton, 6 pm The Stetson coaching staff had a shakeup in the off-season. The Youngstown St. 44, Butler 13 Valparaiso at Campbell, 6 pm result is five new members to the staff. The newest Hatters coaches Georgetown 27, Marist 7 September 27 are Charles Huff (DL), Matt Diniak (RB), Tim Holt (OL), Jake Iodence Mercer 49, Stetson 0 Drake at Jacksonville, 1 pm (DB) and Jake Behrns (TE). They join returning coaches Tim Keating E. Kentucky 55, Morehead St. 13 Marist at Valparaiso, 1 pm (WR), Brandon Wright (LB), Brian Young (DC) and head coach Rog- September 20 Dayton at Davidson, 1 pm er Hughes, who also serves as offensive coordinator and QB coach. Morehead St. at Davidson, 1 pm Campbell at Morehead St., 1 pm The Hatters will spend a lot more time on the road in 2014 than Robert Morris at Dayton, 1 pm Butler at Stetson, 6 pm they did in 2013. Last year the team made five road trips with a Penn at Jacksonville, 1 pm total distance of 5,334 miles round trip. This year, with six road Stetson at B’ham Southern, 2 pm games, the Hatters will tally more than 8,300 miles on the road. Marist at Drake, 2 pm Notes Continued on Page Five Stetson at Birmingham Southern September 20, 2014 Hatter Notes Hatter Captains Hatter History Hard-hitting defender Glenn Adesoji has The Hatter football team has selected four The 2014 season marks the 50th overall moved from cornerback to “Dawg” safety captains for the 2014 season, QB Ryan Tentler, season of play for Stetson football. for the 2014 season. RB Mike Yonker, DB Donald Payne and DB Ryan Stetson began play in 1901, defeating the Cornernack Chris Atkins finished the 2013 Powers. Florida Agricultural College, 6-0, on Nov. season ranked fourth in the nation in in- Tentler has become the unqestioned lead- 22 (Thanksgiving Day) at the state fair- terceptions with six. He has one this year. er of the Stetson football team during his grounds in Jacksonville. Freshman Zach Allen is the furthest from two-plus years on campus. He provided The Hatters compiled a 155-128-27 (.543) home on the Stetson team. His home is the following assessments of his fellow mark in their history prior to the 2013 sea- Aloha, Oregon, is almost 3,100 miles from captains. son (2-9). Stetson’s DeLand campus. “Mike was a little shy to start with, but he Stetson participated in the 1951 Tanger- Freshman running back Harold Antor is coomes up with some great ideas.” ine Bowl, defeating Arkansas State, 35-20. the only Hatter from outside the U.S. An- The Hatters have claimed the Florida “Powers is the mediator. He is a good tor grew up in The Bahamas. state championship six times (1901, 1903, Chris Crawford returned to the Stetson speaker. 1905, 1906, 1907 and 1909). team after leaving the program following “Donald was more of an on-field captain The program had been halted thrice be- the 2013 season. Crawford had intended last year, but I have asked him to do more, fore, not competing in 1915, 1917-18 to transfer but, after months of soul search- to speak up more. He is doing that.” (World War I) and 1941-45 (World War II). ing, decided to return to Stetson. He was “Coach Hughes has handed the team over All four times that Stetson has missed a the Hatters leading receiver in 2013 with to us because it is our team. We get a lot season of play, the Hatters won their first 33 receptions, totalling 332 yards. more respect now than we did last year.” game upon the program’s resumption, Freshman quarterback Gaven DeFilippo, downing Rollins College in 1916, the who is one of four Hatters from Arizona, Florida Military Academy in 1919, Troy in comes from an athletically accomplished Head Coach 1946 and Warner in 2013. family. He has a cousiin who is an assis- Stetson football has produced 22 coaches tant coach with the Oakland Raiders and Roger Hughes and players who have been inducted into another cousin who recently retired as the the Stetson Athletics Hall of Fame, in ad- Director of Athletics at Boston College. Roger Hughes is the ninth different head dition to the 1927, 1938 and 1951 teams. Freshman offensive lineman Jared Glea- coach in Stetson football history. son is the nephew of Stetson University With Stetson’s 2013 win over Warner, the Associate VP Paul Gleason. nine Hatter head coaches have combined FCS Top 25 to go 7-2 in their debut contests. The Hatters have seven players on the SPORTS NETWORK (TSN) PRESEASON POLL roster from Volusia Country. That group Before coming to DeLand, Hughes al- ready had 10 years of head coaching ex- Rk Team (1sts) Rec. Pts Pvs includes Jake Ohlwein, Mitch Lane, Ethan 1. North Dakota State (146) 3-0 4010 1 Simpson, Austin Tyrrell, Taylor Dunn, Dev- perience, posting a 47-52 mark at Princ- eton from 2000-09. 2. Eastern Washington (15) 2-1 3865 2 on Jones-Stewart and Jonathan Strahl. 3. Southeastern Louisiana 2-1 3458 3 Dunn is the son of Stetson’s Hall of Fame Hughes’ Tigers shared the 2006 Ivy League title, going 9-1 overall and 6-1 in 4.