UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON FLYER FOOTBALL 11-TIME PIONEER FOOTBALL LEAGUE CHAMPIONS Contact: Doug Hauschild • [email protected] • Office: (937) 229-4390• Cell: (937) 272-4503 • Football Press Box: (937) 542-4093 GAMEDAY INFORMATION DAYTON GAME 4 DATE Saturday, Oct. 3 - 1 p.m. ET LOCATION Spec Martin Stadium -- DeLand, Fla. DAYTON STETSON MEDIA INFORMATION Radio -- NewsTalk1290WHIO FLYERS vs HATTERS Larry Hansgen & Mike Kelly Video -- ESPN3.com (3-0, 0-0 PFL) (1-2, 0-1 PFL) Evan Weston, Tyler Murray & Brianne Welch The University of Dayton football team will SERIES STUFF Live Stats, Audio and Video stream: begin the pursuit of the Flyers’ 12th Pioneer • Dayton and Stetson have only met once before. DaytonFlyers.com Football League championship Saturday when • The Flyers beat Stetson 49-20 in DeLand on 2015 SCHEDULE UD opens PFL play at Stetson. Game time in Oct. 13, 2013 in the Hatters’ fi rst season of their DeLand, Fla. is 1 p.m. ET. current edition of their football program. SEPTEMBER • Dayton scored on four of its fi rst 10 plays en Dayton (3-0) fi nished non-conference action 5 @ Robert Morris W, 27-24 route to a 28-0 fi rst-quarter lead. undefeated for the fi rst time since 2007. • Connor Kacsor had 22 carries for 128 yards 19 DUQUESNE W, 24-13 Stetson already has a PFL game under its belt, and three TD’s in the game. Chris Beaschler (7 26 KENNESAW STATE W, 31-27 and is 1-2 overall and 0-1 in the PFL. tackles) and Danny Leach (6) led the defense. OCTOBER • Stetson QB Ryan Tentler was 11 of 18 passing The Flyers came from behind for the third for 173 yards with two TD’s. In addition, the top 3 @ Stetson* 1 pm straight game to edge Kennesaw State 31-27 fi ve Hatter tacklers return from that game. 10 SAN DIEGO* 1 pm on Sept. 26 behind a second straight PFL Player of the Week performance by Connor Kacsor 17 @ Valparaiso* 2 pm SCOUTING THE HATTERS (229 yards, 3 TD’s). It was Kacsor’s second • Saturday’s game will feature a matchup 24 BUTLER* 6 pm consecutive 200-yard game, and sixth overall. between the PFL’s reigning Offensive Player 31 JACKSONVILLE* 1 pm of the Year (Dayton’s Connor Kacsor) and The Flyers were picked to fi nish second in the NOVEMBER Defensive Player of the Year (Stetson defensive PFL in this year’s poll of the league’s coaches. back Donald Payne). 7 @ Morehead State* 1 pm This is the 23rd season of the PFL. UD’s 11 titles • Payne was a First Team All-American in 2014, 14 MARIST* 1 pm to date are the most in league history. and led FCS football in tackles per game (14.5). 21 @ Drake* 2 pm Dayton fi nished 8-3 overall and 6-2 in the PFL • Even though injuries have impacted the in 2014. The Flyers fi nished tied for second in Hatters this year, 17 projected starters for * Pioneer Football League Saturday’s game played vs. Dayton two years Home Games in ALL CAPS the Pioneer Football League and had their 37th ago (including 10 who also started in 2013). UD’s home fi eld is Welcome Stadium winning season in the last 38 last year. • Quarterback Ryan Tentler has completed Times are ET and Subject to Change Rick Chamberlin is in his eighth season as 41 of 66 passes (.621) for 486 yards with two FLYER TALE OF THE TAPE UD’s head coach and returns 14 starters (seven touchdowns and three interceptions. Head Coach: Rick Chamberlin (UD ‘80) offense, six defense, one specialist) from 2014. • 19 different Hatters have receptions in 2015. Record at UD: 58-23 (8th year) Avg. Pts O/D: 27/3/21.3 Dayton is led by senior running back Connor PFL POWER Avg. Rushing O/D: 215.0/181.7 Kacsor, who is UD’s career record holder in • The Pioneer Football League is in its 23rd Avg. Passing O/D: 166.3/133.0 rushing yardage. A preseason All-American, season. The original (and now the only) Kacsor was the 2014 PFL Offensive Player of the Division I strictly need-based football league HATTER TALE OF THE TAPE Year after gaining 1,547 yards with 17 TD’s. He began with charter members Butler, Dayton, Head Coach: Roger Hughes (Doane ‘82) currently leads FCS in rushing (181.7). Drake, Evansville, San Diego and Valparaiso. Record at Stetson: 8-18 (3rd year) • UD’s 96-31 PFL mark is the best in PFL history. Avg. Pts O/D: 19.7/37.0 GOOD NEWS WORTH REPEATING Avg. Rushing O/D: 67.7/202.0 The Flyers enter the season with the fourth-best 600 CLUB Avg. Passing O/D: 222.3/247.0 winning percentage (.738, 124-41) in FCS football • The Flyers were the 11th NCAA FCS team (and PLAYERS OF THE WEEK since 2000 AND have produced the most football the fi rst west of the Alleghenies) to win 600 Off. -- Connor Kacsor, RS Senior RB Academic All-Americans (22) at any level of games in its football history in 2008. Def. -- Jack Crain, RS Sophomore LB ST -- Christian Searles Sophomore CB competition in the same time frame. The top fi ve • The 16 members of the club, heading into the Scout (ST) -- David Di Silvestro , Fr. WR in winning percentage are North Dakota State 2015 season are: Yale (884), Harvard (848), Scout (D) -- Griffi n O’Gara, Sophomore DE (.845), Harvard (.799), Montana (.775), Dayton Penn (830), Princeton (804), Dartmouth (676), Scout (O) -- Matt Tunnacliffe, RS Fr. WR (.738), and San Diego (.698). Delaware (674), Lehigh (671), North Dakota Hammer -- David Leisring, Freshman S State (671), Lafayette (669), Dayton (649), STREAKING Northern Iowa (641), Cornell (633), North Dakota UD has not been shut out in a school-record 434 (625), Colgate (625), Holy Cross (613) and straight games, the best such active string in all Brown (601). of college football. The last team to shut out the • Of the 600 Club members, Dayton has played Flyers was Marshall, 9-0, on Oct. 16, 1976. That the fewest seasons (106, nine fewer than is also the all-time FCS record. Northern Iowa’s 115). PFL Championships: 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1999 PFL Championships 2000, 2001, 2002, 2007, 2009, 2010, THE MAN AT THE TOP GROUND GAINER TO REALLY SERVE AND PROTECT • Rick Chamberlin is now in his eighth season • Already the career rushing record holder at • Offensive guard Patrick Nuzzolese is a in charge of the Flyer football program. His the Dayton, redshirt senior Connor Kacsor is volunteer fi refi ghter when he is home in Port record is 58-23. the reigning PFL Offensive Player of the Year. Washington, N.Y. on Long Island. He celebrated • He is third all-time in wins at Dayton, behind • He was a marked man at Robert Morris, with his fourth anniversary with his “other team” last two members of the College Football Hall 33 carries for 72 yards. Fifty-three of his yards April. of Fame -- Mike Kelly (246 wins) and Harry came in the second half. • He was nominated for the AFCA Allstate “Good Baujan (124). • Kacsor ran 40 times for 244 yards and three Works” Team. • Chamberlin is also in his 41st season as TD’s in the Duquesne win. After the Dukes • Nuzzolese is currently rehabbing a knee injury part of the Flyer football program. A Flyer All- took a 13-3 lead with 7:53 left in the third suffered during camp. American linebacker in his playing days, he quarter, Kacsor carried the ball 22 times for has been a part of 352 of UD’s 652 wins – 26 150 yards to lead the Flyers to the win. He was GOOD HANDS PEOPLE as a player, 268 as an assistant coach, and 58 PFL co-Offensive Player of the Week. • Senior captain Cory Stuart led UD with fi ve as a head coach. He has also been a part of • He was PFL Player of the Week again after catches for 91 yards in the RMU win. 453 of UD’s 1,038 games. running 40 times for 229 yards and three • Seven different players caught passes in the • The Springfi eld, Ohio native is the 23rd touchdowns in the win over Kennesaw State. season-opening win at Robert Morris. head football coach since the program began • He is the only player in FCS to have a pair of • In the Duquesne win, Jack Euritt (87 yards) in 1905. He is the fi rst of the 11 modern era 200-yard games and more than 40 carries in and Tyler Tumpane (41) led UD with fi ve coaches to have lettered for the Flyers, and a game (and he has two). receptions. the second to be a graduate of the University • He is currently fi rst in FCS football in rushing • Euritt leads the Flyers this season with of Dayton (Pete Ankney was the fi rst when he yards per game (181.6) 10 catches for 135 yards (13.5). Stuart are coached in 1963 and 1964). • He was fi fth in FCS football in rushing yards Tumpane are second (8 for 16.2 & 10.4) • Chamberlin, 59, had been on the Flyer per game (140.6) in 2014. • The Dayton receiving corps returned four coaching staff for 29 seasons before being • Kacsor was named a Preseason All- players with double-digit receptions last year. named head coach. First as linebackers American by Stats, LLC and Lindy’s.