Tufts Game Notes

77th Meeting

Tufts University Jumbos (4-0)

Vs.

Williams College Ephs (2-2)

1:30 PM

Saturday, Oct. 20, 2007

Weston Field

Williamstown, MA

SERIES: Began in 1885. Williams leads the series 48-21-7. The last win for Williams came last season in Medford, 38-14.

The last win for the Jumbos came in 1986 when they prevailed 33-3 in Medford.

The Ephs have won 14 in a row over the Jumbos and are unbeaten vs. Tufts in the last 20 years (18 wins and 2 ties).

Both ties came in Medford: 1988 (14-14) and 1992 (10-10).

Tufts last win in Williamstown came in 1981, 9-6.

COACHES: The Ephs' Mike Whalen (22-6) is in his fourth year as the Williams head coach. Whalen was previously the Ephs' head wrestling coach from 1996 to 2003, and the offensive line coach for the same span, including the last three with years as offensive coordinator. Whalen is 3-0 vs. Middlebury.

Whalen guided the 2006 Ephs to the sixth perfect season in Williams history, extending the Eph win streak to 14 and earning NESCAC Coach of the Year honors. He was also the only New England coach to finish in the top 25 in Liberty Mutual's Coach of the Year program among coaches in all divisions of college football.

Whalen, a 1983 graduate of Wesleyan University, captained both the football and wrestling teams while earning All-New England and All-American honors three times. Whalen's football coaching resume also includes stops at Springfield, Penn, Lafayette, and Colgate
Whalen is 3-0 vs. Tufts.

Bill Samko is in his 14th year as the head coach at Tufts, where he has compiled an overall record of 49-59. Prior to coaching at Tufts Samko coached at the University of the South. In 20 years as a head coach Samko's overall ledger reads 84-86-1.

RADIO: The Williams College student station, WCFM (91.9 FM) will air the game live. To hear the game on the Internet on WCFM go to www.shoutcast.com and type in WCFM. Choose one of the streams based on the quality you want (56kbps for a dial up modem, 128kbps recommended overall for stability/fidelity), which will be opened in a music player like Winamp (recommended) or iTunes.

TEAMLINE: TEAMLINE is a pay to listen service. You can listen over your telephone or over the Internet to the game. To listen on the Internet go to the Williams Athletics web site at -- http://williams.prestosports.com/landing/index and click on the TEAMLINE logo at the bottom of the page. The Eph access code is: 0126.

To listen on your telephone dial 1-800-846-4700 and follow the prompts. The Eph access code is 0126.

STREAKS: Tufts is riding a 4-game win streak and the Jumbos have already equaled their win total from 2006.

Tufts improved to 4-0 last Saturday when they upset Trinity 16-10 at home.
The Ephs enter the game riding a 2-game win streak, after defeating Bates at home 31-26 and downing previously undefeated Middlebury on the road last week, 30-22.

AWARDS: The Jumbos Andy Henke was named the New England Div. II-III Coca Cola Gold Helmet winner last week for his role in the win over Trinity.
Henke, a junior safety, recorded eight tackles and recovered a key fumble in the win.

CLIMBING THE CHARTS:
Eph QB Pat Lucey is hitting on 63% of his passes this season and he entered the season with a completion % of .687 all but assuring him of the top spot on the Eph passing list ahead of Mike Bajakian '96 (.619). Bajakian is currently the offensive coordinator and QB coach at Central Michigan University.

Lucey (330) is only the 2nd Eph QB to have 300 completions in a career. Joe Reardon '04 tops the list with 499.

Lucey needs 321 yards to move past Sean Keenan '00 (4,192) into 2nd on Eph passing yards list.

Lucey will become the 3rd Eph QB behind Joe Reardon  (817) and Sean Keenan '00 (515) to record 500 pass attempts when he throws his sixth pass on Saturday.

Lucey is third all-time in TD passes with 29 behind Reardon (38) and Keenan (34)

Season records within reach of Lucey are:

Most completions one season – 149 by Joe Reardon; Lucey has 104.

Pass attempts one season – 265 by Sean Keenan; Lucey has 165

BY THE NUMBERS …

987 – games played by Williams in football

599 – All-time wins by Williams (599-341-47, .631), 5th best all time in Div. III

451.8/274.0 – Total Offense per game Ephs/Jumbos

351.5/309.8 – Total Defense per game Ephs/Jumbos

287/140.2 – Passing yards per game Ephs Pat Lucey/Jumbos Matt Russo

217.8/205.2 – Passing yards allowed per game Jumbos/Ephs

176.8/74.5 -- All purpose yards per game Ephs Kevin Flynn/Jumbos Will Forde

164.8/133.8 – Rushing yards per game Ephs/Jumbos

133.8/104.5 – Rushing Defense per game Ephs/Jumbos

117.8/65.7 – Rushing yards per game for Ephs Brian Morrissey/Jumbos' Chris Guild

38/32 – Tackles by Ephs Trevor Powers/Tufts Andy Henke

30.5/12.5 – Scoring Defense per game Ephs/Jumbos

13/5 – Sacks by Tufts/sacks by Williams

8/3.75 – Catches per game Ephs Ryan Powell/Tufts David Halas

+5/-6 – Turnover margin for Tufts/Williams

4/2 – Interceptions by Tufts Tom Tassineri/Ephs Jordan O'Reilly, Tim Batty and Sean Milano

3/1.5 – Sacks by Tufts Stephen Albertine and Peter Christiensen/Ephs Nick Fersen

Starting Lineups