CWRU vs CMU game has a few nice story lines....

1. Case Seniors have the most wins in school history with 38.  They currently also have the best winning % at .884 (38-5).  A win would keep them at #1 a loss would drop them behind the 1983-1986 group who is at .875 (31-4-1).

2. A CMU loss would end CMU's long streak of consecutive non-losing seasons.

3. A CMU loss would mean a last place finish for CMU.  They have only once before finished last in the UAA (2002 finished in a 4th place tie with Rochester at 1-3).

Looking at the Regional Ranking compared to the D3 Top-25, you notice that the #1 team in the East region (Alfred) is ranked 25th.  The only other East region team ranked in the top 25 is #3 Delaware Valley at 20th.  This would lead me to think there will be some cross region shuffling again this year with a North or South Region team heading East, and possibly a West region team heading to the North.  Currently the West reion has 6 of the top 10 teams in the D3 poll.  So that is a strong possiblilty.

Also congrats to Whalen for tallying his 100th career TD (81 passing, 19 rushing). 

Quote from: blue4now on October 20, 2009, 01:08:35 PM
since freshman didnt see the field in the 80's. 

Alot of freshman played back in the early 80's:

QB Fred DiSanto was a 4-year starter at QB (in fact, he broke the school record for most passing yards in a season his freshman year, and improved on that each of his next 3 years: 1981-884, 1982-1024, 1983-1127, 1984-1407)

WR Tom Coniglio was a 4-time all conference pick and in his first game as a freshman in 1980, he set school records for receptions and receiving yards in a game that would stand until 2002 (receptions) and 1997 (yards).  He led the team in receiving as a freshman.

TE Dave Stuczynski led the team in receptions (25) and yards (507) for an amazing 20.3 average (for a TE) per catch as a freshman in 1982.

DB Ron Stepanovic was a 4-time all-conference (2-Time PAC 1982, 1983 and 2-Time NCAC 1984, 1985) as well as the only 4-Time All-American in school history.

LB Fred Manley led the team in tackles in 1981 with 113 as a freshman.

I actually think many freshman played in the early 80's as they rapidly progressed from a team that went 0-9 in 1980 and 1981, to a team that from 1982-1986 went 5-3, 8-1, 9-0, 7-2 and 7-1-1.

Any of the Wash U, CMU, and Chicago people have the stat for most wins in a 4-year period for their schools?  Would be interesting to compare.

Quote from: ADL70 on October 19, 2009, 10:36:29 PM
This year's seniors have the most wins, but Chapman's boys will still have the highest winning percentage.

Well the current Junior Class will have something to say about that (although they will have to do it without Whalen).  They are currently .931 (27-2) compared to the 1983-86 Class with .875 (31-4-1)

Congrats to Case's senior class (2006-09), who became the all-time winningest class in school history on Saturday. Their 4 year mark in now 32-7.  They passed the seniors from 1983-86, who were 31-4-1.

In a  somewhat embarrassing stat, Coach Debs (35-19) is looking to tie Jim Chapman (36-7-1) for most wins in CWRU history.  36 wins is not that much, but hopefully Coach Debs will be around for a while and extend that record out.

Last year Case seem under ranked in the Regional Polls and received a #2 seed (thanks to a week 10 Wabash loss).  Otterbein will drop, and at least one team from the North should get moved to a different region.   We will see, we need to take care of WashU first.

Also: Case needs 28 points to break last years record for points in a season (409 in 12 games).  The per game record is 37.1 from 2002 (currently they are at 42.4).  Additionally, Dan Whalen should break Eli Grant's total offense in a career record.  Grant had 6,792 passing and -134 rushing for 6,658.  Whalen has 6,045 passing and 536 rushing for 6,581 (77 yards behind).

Chicago has a chance to deliver CMU its first losing record in Lackner's tenure!!!

I agree, the record that says the most is 19-1 over the last two seasons!!!

The Alumni House tailgate is a pretty good deal like you said, I have been there before and they do have it for all home games.

Also, they 3 headed monster at tailback (Meyer, Deitmen, Bush) for CWRU is putting up pretty stout numbers:  154 carries for 804 yards and 9 TDs.

Additional records to keep an eye on over the next few weeks:
Rec TD's: Nicely 8 (Record: 12 by David Kallevig and Mike Imburgia)
QB Rating: Whalen 162.2 (Record: 170.8 by Eli Grant)
Interceptions: Bott 6 (Record: 8 by John Polivka and Tom Olsavsky)

Quote from: PoppaN on November 05, 2008, 06:25:37 AM

so did Weber kick a lot of field goals that season ?  How many of his points were FGs and XPs ?

Weber's Career: 92 PAT, 22 FG for 158 points, his best season was 1984 with 36/38 PAT and 9/14 FG for 63 points.

The 158 points is a record for kicking points for CWRU (Coffey is at 147), as are the 22 FG (Coffey is at 18).

If the offense stays as powerful, Coffey would have an outside chance of passing Brandon McDowell for most career points (308: 51 TDs, 1 2 PT)


Also, Whalen is now only 23 yards from passing Leskiewicz for 2nd place in Career Passing Yards.

Hopefully the rain holds off on Saturday as that would have to be considered an advantage for CMU, as they hardly pass anyways.

Go Spartans

Congrats to Sam Coffey for breaking the career extra point record.  He now has 93, the old record was 92 (Mike Weber 1983-85).  One of the older records left in the books for CWRU.  The field goal record will be his shortly as well.

Academic Bowl this week!  Go Spartans!

Nice CWRU stat fact:

With his 260 yards, Whalen passed Fred DiSanto for 3rd place in career Passing Yards in school history.

1. Eli Grant 6,792
2. Nick Leskiewicz 5,815
3. Dan Whalen 4,647
4. Fred DiSanto 4,442

If you notice, Shaun Nicely is also not ranked.  For some reason he was not credited with a game played vs Rochester and only is listed with 2 games played??  I believe he started, but made no receptions in the downpour (Case only attempted 6 passes).  Actually, Case only lists 14 starters for that game for some reason.

I am pretty sure the criteria is playing in 75% of your teams games.  So after he plays the next game he will have played in 3 out of 4 games and be ranked at that point.

Also, it has been might quiet on here from the Carnegie Mellon point of view.  I guess a 1-2 start will do that though!!