78th Meeting

Williams College Ephs (3-1)

vs.

Tufts University Jumbos (2-2)

1:30 pm

Saturday, October 18th

Ellis Oval

Medford, MA

SERIES: Began in 1885. Williams leads the series 49-21-7. Williams won last season at Weston Field, 34-13.  The victory was Williams' 600^th win all-time. 

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

The Ephs have won 15 in a row over the Jumbos and are unbeaten vs. Tufts in the last 20 years (18 wins and 2 ties).

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

COACHES: The Ephs' Mike Whalen (29-7) 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 Tufts.

Bill Samko is in his 15th year as the head coach at Tufts, where he has compiled an overall record of 51-61. 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 87-91-1.

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: Jumbocast is carrrying the game live -- 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 a 15-game win streak over Tufts.

CLIMBING THE CHARTS:

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

With his 161-yard performance last Saturday, Morrissey passed 2,000 for his career, becoming the 5^th Eph back since 1973 to accomplish the feat.

He needs 574 yards to become the all-time leading rusher, which works out to 143.5 yards a game.  Morrissey is currently averaging 115.8 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 ...

30.5/26.8-- Points per game for Ephs and Jumbos  

19.8/19.2-- Points allowed per game for Ephs and Jumbos

281/207-- Passing yards per game for Ephs and Jumbos

215/229-- Passing yards allowed per game for Ephs and Jumbos

150/182-- Rushing yards per game Ephs (2^nd in NESCAC) and Jumbos (1^st in NESCAC)

114.5/71.8-- Rushing yards allowed per game for Ephs and Jumbos

590-- Total offense last week for Ephs (new school record)

+7/-2-- Turnover margin for Ephs (1^st in NESCAC) and Jumbos

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

218-- Yards receiving last week by Caro (new Eph record)

131/116-- Yards rushing per game for Jumbos' Will Forde (Best in the NESCAC) and Ephs' Brian Morrissey (2^nd in the NESCAC)

6/102/2 - Receptions, yards, and TDs for Ephs' Ryan Powell last year against the Jumbos

160/153-- Pass efficiency rating for Jumbos' Anthony Fucillo (Best in NESCAC) and Ephs' Patrick Moffitt (2^nd in NESCAC)

2 - Number of interceptions by Ephs in win over Jumbos last year

12 - Number of interceptions by Eph defense this year (Best in the NESCAC)

Starting Lineups