43rd Meeting

Williams College Ephs (3-2)

vs.

Hamilton College Continentals (2-3)

1:00 pm

Saturday, October 25h

Steuben Field

Clinton, NY

SERIES: Began in 1900. Williams leads 35-7. Ephs have won the last eleven in a row over the Continentals. Last win for Williams over Hamilton was last season at Weston Field, 34-9.

Last win by Hamilton over the Ephs came in 1996, 16-13, in Clinton.

COACHES: The Ephs' Mike Whalen (29-8) is in his fifth year as the Williams head coach, during which time his teams have never finished worse than 6-2. 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 years as offensive coordinator.

In 2007 Whalen guided the Ephs to a 6-2 record after the Ephs dropped two heartbreakers to open the season.  He also led the 2006 Ephs to the sixth perfect season in Williams history, extending the Eph win streak at the time 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 4-0 against Hamilton.

Steve Stetson is in his third year of his second stint as the head coach at Hamilton, where he has compiled an overall record of 15-29-1.

Prior to returning to Hamilton, Stetson coached at the Division I-AA Boston University, Hartwick College, and the University of New Hampshire.

RADIO - INTERNET:  The Williams College student station, WCFM (91.9 FM) will air each game live. To hear the game on the Internet on WCFM go to 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 by contacting TEAMLINE.

WATCH GAME on INTERNET: the link below will only become active just about game time and it is from an end zone camera... click here.

LISTEN to the GAME on INTERNET: go to the Eph football page on TEAMLINE.
 
The Eph access code is: 0126.
 
Telephone: dial 1-800-846-4700 and follow the prompts. The Eph access code is 0126.

LIVE STATS: You can view Live Stats of this game on Saturday by clicking here.

STREAKS: Williams currently has an eleven game win streak over Hamilton

CLIMBING THE CHARTS:

Brian Morrissey is now 4th all-time in scoring for the Ephs since 1973 with 160 points, as his three touchdowns against Middlebury earlier in the year were good enough to pass Brendan Fulmer '07 (153 points).

Morrissey is now over 2,000 yards for his career, making him just the 5th Eph back since 1973 to accomplish the feat.

He needs 467 yards to become the all-time leading rusher, which works out to 155.6 yards a game.  Morrissey is currently averaging 114.0 yards per game, good for second in the NESCAC.

The all-time Eph leading rushers since 1973 are as follows:

Fred Storz '01 -- 1st -- 2,644
Tim Crawley '05 -- 2nd -- 2,391
Mike Hackett '04 -- 3rd -- 2,371
Jamall Pollock '96 -- 4th -- 2,181

BY THE NUMBERS ...

25.8/15.8-- Points per game for Ephs and Continentals 

19.2/18.0-- Points allowed per game for Ephs and Continentals

246/208-- Passing yards per game for Ephs and Continentals

194/229-- Passing yards allowed per game for Ephs and Continentals

144/105-- Rushing yards per game Ephs and Continentals

119.4/80.8-- Rushing yards allowed per game for Ephs and Continentals

+6/+3-- Turnover margin for Ephs (1st in NESCAC) and Continentals

111-- Yards receiving per game for Ephs' Nick Caro (Best in the NESCAC)

7.25 - Receptions per game for Continentals' Scott Kleinklaus (Best in NESCAC)

114/76-- Yards rushing per game for Ephs' Brian Morrissey (2nd in the NESCAC) and Continentals' Mark Snickenberger (3rd in NESCAC)

Starting Lineups