GAME 5 F Oct. 5, 2013 TRUMAN FOOTBALL GAME NOTES 2013 Bulldog Schedule/Results First Great Lakes Valley Conference Title Pursuit Sept. Southwest Baptist (Mo.) W 40-37 Begins At Quincy For Bulldogs 7 Stokes Stadium GAME #5 Sept. Grand Valley St. (Mich.) L 31-15 Date: October 5, 2013 14 Allendale, Mich. Location: Quincy, Ill. Sept. Kickoff: 1:00 p.m. CDT William Penn (Iowa) W 24-23 21 Stokes Stadium Stadium: Flynn Stadium (Fieldturf) Family Night Quincy Truman Capacity: 4,000 Sept. Hawks Bulldogs Central Missouri (Mo.) L 44-23 28 Stokes Stadium 1-3; 0-0 GLVC 2-2; 0-0 GLVC GAMEDAY HASHTAG 2013 LEADERS 2013 LEADERS #TSUGAMEDAY Oct. Quincy (Ill.) 1 p.m. Rushing Rushing Quincy, Ill. Fans and media are encouraged to use the 5 King, 216/4TDs (54.0/g) White 427/3TDs (106.7/g) hashtag #TSUGAMEDAY when posting or fol - lowing social media related to Saturday’s game Oct. William Jewell (Mo.) Passing Passing 1 p.m. and all Truman Athletics games. 12 Liberty, Mo. Lonergan 905/6TDs Schottel 529/5TDs Receiving Receiving MILESTONE WATCH Oct. McKendree (Ill.) 2 p.m. Dickens 16/356/3TDs Grier 24/271/2TDs 56 - Receiving yards by Dallas Grier for 2500 Stokes Stadium for his career. 19 Homecoming Defense Defense 73 - Rushing yards by Garrett White to reach Camp 36 TTL 2.0 TFL Zoda 44 TTL Oct. 500 for the season. Missouri S&T 1 p.m. Onike 25 TTL 1 INT Abbate, 25 TTL 7.0 TFL 26 Stokes Stadium 89 - Kick return yards by Tremaine Millender for 1000 for his career. Nov. Kentucky Wesleyan 1 p.m. 2 Owensboro, Ky. Media Coverage: Radio: The Bulldogs can be heard on 104.7 FM with Brad Boyer (pbp), Ryan Nov. Myrehn (color) and Hank Janssen (sidelines) with the pregame show beginning ap - Saint Joseph’s (Ind.) 1 p.m. proximately 50 minutes prior to kickoff. The broadcast is streamed for free over Cen - 9 Stokes Stadium tralMoInfo.com Video: Their is a pay-per-view webstream available through America One for all Nov. Indianapolis (Ind.) 3 p.m. home games 16 Indianapolis, Ind. Stats: Available at TrumanBulldogs.com All times listed as Central The Series: Despite a tradition-rich rivalry that the Bulldogs and Hawks share in a majority of sports, the two football teams have met just three times in the past. The first meeting was the only loss handed to the Bulldogs in the 1951 season finale. The Hawks won 43-12 at home as Truman finished 7-1-1 in Red Wade’s first season on the sideline. The two teams played a home and home series in 2001 and 2002 that was domi - nated by the Bulldogs. Truman outscored the Hawks 120-21 in the two games and put up nearly 1000 yards of total offense. The 2001 game at Quincy was a 51-7 victory while the 2002 contest in Kirksville was decided 69-14. The Hawks have spent the majority of their years on the gridiron as a member of the NAIA while Truman has been an NCAA Division II member since the subdivision School Conf CPct. Overall Pct. Streak formed in 1973. McKendree 1-0 1.000 2-1 0.667 W1 Indianapolis 0-0 0.000 3-1 0.750 W1 Saint Joseph's 0-0 0.000 3-1 0.750 W2 The Match-Up: Truman State 0-0 0.000 2-2 0.500 L1 The Bulldogs and Central Missouri Mules battled for three quarters on Saturday Missouri S&T 0-0 0.000 1-3 0.250 L1 night with Truman entering the final 15 minutes down 20-16 with the football. An errant Quincy 0-0 0.000 1-3 0.250 W1 snap on a punt that led to a safety and three straight Central touchdowns led to a 44- Ky. Wesleyan # 0-0 0.000 0-4 0.000 L4 23 Truman loss. William Jewell 0-1 0.000 1-3 0.250 L2 Truman is led offensively by junior running back Garrett White, senior wide receiver GAME 5 F Quincy @ Truman F Oct. 5, 2013 TRUMAN FOOTBALL GAME NOTES Page 2 Dallas Grier and senior quarterback Conrad Schottel. White is averaging 106.8 yards per TRENDS UNDER NESBITT game and a 7.1 yards per carry average while Grier has caught 24 passes for 271 yards. Schottel has completed 55% of his passes for 529 yards and five touchdowns. Defensively, redshirt freshman Austin Zoda leads the team with 44 total tackles while .........................................2013 ..All Yrs junior Matthew Bell is second with 32 total stops and has one of the team’s three intercep - Overall ................................2-2 ....14-23 tions. Home ..................................2-1 ......8-12 The Hawks cracked the win column for the first time in 2013 with a 36-7 non-conference Away ...................................0-1 ......6-11 victory over Lindenwood-Belleville on Saturday afternoon. Wide receiver Justin Dickens Conference .........................0-0 ......7-21 earned GLVC Offensive Player of the Week honors after hauling in seven catches for 190 yards including an 86-yard touchdown reception and a 52-yard TD strike from quarterback Grass ..................................0-0 ........3-0 Nick Lonergan. Turf .....................................2-2 ....11-23 Quincy was second in the GLVC in time of possession at nearly 34 minutes per game while first in redzone offense at 91.7% going 11-of-12. Lonergan is fifth in the league in Leading After 1st Qtr ...........1-0 ........8-3 total offensie at 220.5/game and Dickens is third in receiving yards at 89.0. Tied After 1st Qtr .................0-0 ........3-8 The Coaches: Trailing After 1 Qtr ...............1-2 ......3-12 Gregg Nesbitt is in his fourth season as head coach of his alma mater. Nesbitt has gone 4-7 in the three previous years for an overall record of 14-23. Nesbitt’s teams were 7-21 in Leading at Half ...................1-0 ......10-1 MIAA games the past three seasons and are 6-11 away from Kirksville. Tied at Half .........................0-0 ........2-0 Tom Pajic guided the Hawks to a 3-8 record in his first season on the sidelines in the Trailing at Half .....................1-2 ......2-22 Gem City. The Hawks allowed 32 points per game while scoring 18.5 per contest. Quincy was 3-5 in GLVC play last year and return eight all-conference players led by second team selections, running back LaDarion Shelby and Justin Dickens on offense and defensive Leading After 3rd Qtr ..........1-0 ......11-2 players Tyler Reidl and Zach Vath. Tied After 3rd Qtr ................0-0 ........0-1 Trailing After 3rd Qtr ...........1-2 ......3-20 What’s Hot: • Truman is 540-387-34 (.580) all-time since 1900. The .580 winning percentage is the best by any NCAA I Football playing school in the state of Missouri. Next highest is North - Overtime Games ................0-0 ........0-0 west Missouri State at (.565). • The Bulldogs are ranked fourth in Division II in kick returns averaging 30.8 per. When Scoring First .............2-0 ......12-8 Tremaine Millender is third with his 40.0 yard return average, while Aaron Hartfield is 15th When Opp Scores First ......0-2 ......2-15 with a 31.9 return average. • Truman has had five kick returns go for over 50 yards through the first four games. Millender has a 100 and 54 yard return, Harfield has a 68 and 59 yard return and Garrett Largest Halftime Lead ............2 .........33 White has a 52 yard return. Eight kick returns take up the 15 Truman plays that have gone Largest Halftime Deficit ........10 .........46 for over 30 yards. • Jacob Lamp is 10th in Division II with a 44.0 yard punt average and the Bulldogs are Scoring 20+ Points .............2-1 ......13-7 sixth in net punting average with a 41.3 mark. Just two of the 16 punts by Lamp have been Scoring 30+ Points .............1-0 ........7-2 returned for a total of two yards. • The Bulldogs are 10th in the nation in fewest penalties per game at 4.5 for 40.7 yards. Scoring 40+ Points .............1-0 ........4-1 • The Truman defense did not gain a turnover in Saturday’s loss against Central Missouri Allowing 20+ Points ............2-2 ......6-22 which broke a string of 33 straight games the Truman has forced a turnover. The Bulldogs Allowing 30+ Points ............1-2 ......4-18 have forced a turnover in all but three games since Kellen Nesbitt took over as defensive Allowing 40 + Points ...........0-1 ......0-10 coordinator in 2010. Decided by 3 or less ...........2-0 ........4-3 • Garrett White is second in the GLVC in rushing yards with 427 and 106.8/game. White is averaging 7.1 per carry and is on pace to become Truman’s first 1000 yard rusher since Decided by 10 or less .........0-0 ........3-1 Jerard Leverson ran for 1012 in 2003. • Dallas Grier moved into third place all-time in Truman receptions and receiving yards Rush for < 200 yds .............1-2 ....10-22 following Saturday’s game. Grier passed Fontaine Walker in receptions and now has 185 Rush for > 200 yds .............1-0 ........4-1 for his career with eyes on second place Rich Otte’s 206 catches from 1989-1992. Grier’s Pass for < 200 yds ..............2-0 ......8-11 2,444 yards receving moved him past Russell Evans’s total of 2,387 from 1983-86. He is 450 yards away from Otte’s career yards for second place.