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Saturday, 6:05 p.m.

RADIO: Live on WVPO 840 AM and redzonemedia.com. Chuck Seese, the 2009 PSAC Heaslip Media Award recipient, is in his 23rd season as the voice of the Warriors, with Bob Brittain in his 11th year providing the color commentary. Pre-game begins at 5:30 p.m.

THE MATCH-UP: East Stroudsburg University plays on the road for the 200th time under head coach Denny Douds as the Warriors travel to West Chester for their PSAC East opener. Both teams enter with 1-2 records and are coming off strong performances last week. ESU was three minutes and one play away from an upset of No. 21 California but fell 22-19, and West Chester knocked off undefeated Slippery Rock, 20-13.

ROAD WARRIORS: For decades, the Warriors have been well-schooled - road trips begin and end behind Koehler Fieldhouse. ESU teams are 108-88-3 (.550) in road games under Douds, and 65-41-1 (.612) in road conference games. Douds is 6-12 at West Chester's Farrell Stadium but won in his last trip there, a 21-20 victory in 2009 when the Warriors overcame a 20-7 second-half deficit behind QB Matt Marshall and an impressive career debut from then-Fr. TB Kendrick Williams, who ran for 50 yards on the go-ahead drive.

GET IT STARTED: ESU is 22-15 in conference openers under Douds, 9-9 on the road, and 5-5 against West Chester. The Warriors have dropped their last two PSAC East lid-lifters - 35-31 vs. West Chester in 2010 and 38-14 at Shippensburg in 2009. Before that, they were 7-2 in PSAC East openers from 2000-08.

RECORD APPROACHING: Denny Douds (Slippery Rock '63), who holds the PSAC record for career wins with a 230-156-3 record in his 38th season as head football coach at ESU, is approaching the Division II record for most games coached. Douds will coach his 394th game on Oct. 22 vs. Millersville and become the Division's all-time leader. His current number, 389, is 86 more than the second-most in PSAC history. Including 68 games as an assistant coach under Charlie Reese (1966-73), he has coached in 457 of the 757 games - 60.4 percent - in program history. Douds is second among active Division II coaches and seventh among all active coaches in career victories. He has led the Warriors to nine PSAC titles and four NCAA Playoff appearances. For more on Coach Douds, please see page 12 of the game notes.

Bill Zwaan (Delaware '79) has a 66-35 record in his ninth season as head coach at West Chester. He guided Widener to a six-year record of 54-14 from 1997-02 and has a career mark of 120-49. Zwaan has led the Golden Rams to five NCAA Playoff appearances and three PSAC East championships in his first eight seasons at WCU.

NCAA RANKINGS: R-Sr. QB Ray Wagner, last week's Division II leader in passing yards, is 7th in this week's rankings with 320.3 yards per game and 12th in total offense with 327.7 yards per game.

Wagner has two top single-game performances in DII with a 321.5 pass efficiency and 16.8 yards per play in the season opener vs. Pace. His 375 yards, all in the first half, are tied for 14th. His 97-yard TD pass to R-So. WR Robert Bleiler vs. Pace is the longest play in DII this season.

Wagner was 13-for-20 vs. Pace and set school records for passing yards (375) and TDs (6) in a half and single-game pass efficiency. The 321.5 rating is the 3rd-highest in Division II since 2008.

He was 26-for-51 for 323 yards at IUP and joined Matt Marshall as the only ESU QB's to throw for 300 yards in their first two career starts. He was 24-for-44 for 263 yards last week vs. California. Wagner's 961 passing yards in his first three career starts are a school record, and are third for an ESU QB in the first three weeks of a season:

1,188, 2005, Jimmy Terwilliger - 325, 317, 546
1,178, 1996, Damian Poalucci - 527, 472, 179
961, 2011, Ray Wagner - 375, 323, 263

200/HALF: Wagner has thrown for 200 yards in a half in all 3 games this season - 375 vs. Pace (1st), 206 at IUP (1st) and 201 vs. Cal (2nd).

KEEPING A CLEAN SHIRT: ESU's veteran offensive line, which has combined for 121 career starts, ranks 3rd among the 63 Division II schools who have attempted at least 100 passes in the lowest percentage of sacks allowed (1.6 percent, 2 in 123 attempts).

Wagner hasn't been sacked in 115 attempts this year. In his career, he has thrown 178 passes and has been sacked 5 times. Both sacks this season came in the 4th quarter vs. Pace with Wagner out of the game.

REED RANKS #3 IN PSAC: So. WR Dusty Reed is 3rd in the PSAC and 11th in Division II with 109.3 receiving yards per game, including his first two career 100-yard receiving games:
• Pace - 5 catches, 136 yards, 2 TDs (70, 5); also 1 rush for 14 yards
• IUP - 4 catches, 86 yards
• Cal - 7 catches, 106 yards; also 1 rush for 6 yards

FIRST TO 50: Reed enters the WCU game with 47 career catches and can match Anthony Carfagno as the fastest player to 50 catches in ESU history. Carfagno caught his 50th pass in his 15th game in 2003.

An All-State tailback at Delone Catholic, Reed moved to wide receiver as a freshman and was one catch short of Carfagno's freshman record of 32 receptions. He had 377 yards and 6 TDs last season and enters this weekend with 705 receiving yards and 9 TDs.

FAST START FOR BLEILER: R-So. WR Robert Bleiler was 6th in the PSAC in receiving (108.5) last week but missed the Cal game due to injury. Bleiler had 3 catches for 172 yards and 2 TDs, from 44 and 97 yards, vs. Pace and had the most yards on 3 catches in school history. He had 7 catches for 45 yards in week 2 at IUP. Bleiler caught 12 passes for 147 yards as a redshirt freshman last season.

HITTING 100 TOGETHER: Bleiler and Reed were the second set of ESU teammates to have their first career 100-yard receiving games in the same game (vs. Pace) and the first since Ernie Siegrist (192) and Scott Benoit (161) at Millersville in 1982.

ALL-AROUND GUY: Jr. TB Kendrick Williams became the 29th player in Coach Douds' 38th season to reach 2,000 career all-purpose yards - finishing his 21st career game with 2,008 yards.

Williams ranks 5th in the PSAC and 26th in Division II with 165.7 all-purpose yards per game this season with at least 150 yards in every game.

Pace - 9-101 rushing, 3-74 KR, 175 all-purpose yards
IUP - 13-17 rushing, 4-55 receiving, 3-100 KR, 172 all-purpose yards
Cal - 20-94 rushing, 5-36 receiving, 1-20 KR, 150 all-purpose yards
Season - 42-212 rushing, 9-91 receiving, 7-194 KR, 497 all-purpose yards

Against Cal, Williams was the first Warrior with 20 rushes and 5 catches since Zach Krise at Gannon in 2009 and just the fifth in 389 games under Coach Douds.

MR. OFFICIAL, NO FLAGS, PLEASE
ESU ranks 1st in the PSAC and 4th in Division II in fewest penalty yards per game (27.3) and 2nd in the PSAC in most penalty yards on its opponents (91.7).

STOP IN THE RED ZONE
The Warriors' defense leads the PSAC and is tied for 3rd in Division II in the red zone, holding opponents to 5-for-13 (38.5 percent) after Cal was 1-for-7 last week.

ESU is tied for 7th in the PSAC in scoring defense despite ranking 15th in total defense thanks to its proficiency inside the 20. In the national rankings, ESU is tied for 50th in scoring defense and 125th in total defense.

All 3 of the Warriors' fourth-down stops this season have come inside the 20-yard line, including two at the 1-yard line, and both fumbles came at the 1-yard line.

ESU finished the 2009 NCAA Playoff season tied for 3rd in Division II with a 62% rate in the red zone.

PASS/RUN OPTION
ESU threw for 300+ yards in its first two games and has topped the 300-yard mark in more than 20 percent (83 of 389) of its games under Douds. The Warriors are 59-24 when they throw for more than 300 yards.

In the running game, the Warriors piled up 211 yards vs. Pace, improving to 76-6-2 when hitting the 200-yard mark. They have won 28 straight games when running for 200 yards, a stretch that goes back to 2000.

NEW STARTERS
R-So. FB Thomas Tippett, Fr. LT Pete Wolmart and Fr. WR Ray Dominguez all made their first career start vs. Cal. Wolmart started in place of R-So. LG Greg Blue and Dominguez replaced R-So. WR Robert Bleiler, who both missed the game due to injury.

WARRIORS KICKERS DO THEIR JOB
ESU kickers have made 16 of 17 field goals inside 40 yards since the start of last season. R-So. John Schubert has gotten the nod the first three games this season and is 4-for-5 inside 40 (4-for-6 overall) and 10-for-10 on extra points. Schubert's father, Eric, kicked in the NFL for the NY Giants, New England Patriots and St. Louis Cardinals.

So. Taylor Groff was 12-for-12 inside 40 yards as a freshman but may be a candidate for a medical redshirt after missing the first three games due to injury. Groff was 16-for-21 overall last season, setting the school record for made field goals, and was one of two kickers in Division II to make a field goal in every game. Groff was named to the preseason Watch List for the Fred Mitchell Award, which will be presented to the nation's top kicker in Division II, III, NAIA or NJCAA.

SENIOR QB's STARTING SEASON OPENER
Ray Wagner and Matt Marshall were the first two seniors to start back-to-back season openers since 1980-81. Barry Kennedy was in his 3rd year as a starter in 1980, and Brian Marshall (Matt's father) started 8 games, including the season opener, in 1981.

ESU QB's TOP PSAC IN TOTAL OFFENSE
Wagner is 2nd in the PSAC and 12th in Division II in total offense, a category that ESU quarterbacks have dominated over the past decade. The Warriors' signal caller has ranked in the top 3 in the PSAC in total offense for 9 straight seasons and led the conference each season from 2002 through 2006.

EVERYBODY LOVES RAY
ESU's fifth-year senior quarterback came to ESU from Susquehanna Township HS (Harrisburg area), where he was a 3-year starter and was 2nd team All-State after leading his team to the Mid-Penn AAA championship and a 10-2 record as a senior. He threw for 1,500 yards and 18 TDs and ran for 800 yards and 14 TDs in 2006.

WAGNER FEATURED ON NCAA.COM
Wagner's record-setting first career start was featured on NCAA.com's "Nine at Noon" on Wednesday, Sept. 7 as the No. 1 performance you might have missed from the previous week. His 6 TD passes were listed in a numerical rundown on usatoday.com's "Campus Rivalries" page.

RELIEF PITCHER
R-So. QB Nate Daniels was 5-for-7 for 81 yards and a TD in the 4th quarter vs. Pace. A 2nd team All-State (AAAA) selection from Muhlenberg HS, Daniels was the only QB in Berks County history to have two 2,000-yard seasons and had 4,724 career passing yards and 43 TD. At ESU, he is a member of the school's ROTC program.

WARRIORS YOUNG, DEEP AT RECEIVER
• 13 players have a caught a pass, all underclassmen
• 10 players caught a pass at IUP, the 4th time since 2010 and just the 6th time in school history
• 3 ESU receivers - R-Jr. Jordan Hallman, R-So. Robert Bleiler and So. Dusty Reed - have had a 100-yard receiving game in their careers, and Jr. TB Kendrick Williams had a 100-yard game in 2009
• Fr. Ray Dominguez stepped into the lineup vs. Cal and had 4 catches for 70 yards in his first career game

FAST STARTERS
ESU has scored on its first possession in 6 of its last 8 games going back to last season, including 5 TD's:
• Scored on first drive in 7 of 11 games in 2010
• Pace - missed FG on first drive, then scored 3 straight TD's
• IUP - scored only TD on first drive
• Cal - 1 first down, punt

IN THE FRONT ROW
ESU's offensive line returned intact this season and has combined for 121 career starts through last week.

R-Sr. C Dan Caffrey, a 2nd team All-PSAC East selection, has started all 37 games in his career at ESU and is also a four-year starter at long snapper.

R-Sr. LT Zach Sarginger (25 starts) started at his fourth different position - 11 at RG, 8 at LT, 5 at RT and 1 at LG - when he lined up at LG last week. He started the last 6 games at LT last season and started the first 2 games there this season. He was an Academic All-District selection in 2009.

R-Jr. RT Wrenton Wright II (25 starts) has made 20 starts at RT and 5 at LT. He started all 12 games at RT as a R-FR in 2009 and made 5 starts at both tackle spots in 2010.

R-Jr. RG Seve Rivers (23 starts) has started 18 games at LG and 5 at RG. He started all 11 games last season and 9 as a redshirt FR, missing the last 3 due to injury.

R-So. LG Greg Blue (11 starts) was a first-year starter at RG last season. He missed the Cal game due to injury and missed 2 games due to injury as a redshirt FR.

Fr. LT Pete Wolmart made his first career start and played in his first career game vs. Cal due to Blue's injury. He was 2nd team All-State as a senior at Randolph (NJ), where he played on a team that went 11-1.

BACK WHERE IT STARTED
Jr. TB Kendrick Williams returns to West Chester, where he burst onto the scene as a true freshman in 2009 with six carries for 50 yards on the game-winning TD drive in a 21-20 win in the 6th week of the season.

Maybe the most dramatic burning of a redshirt in school history was the start of a career that saw Williams reach 2,000 career all-purpose yards in his 21st career game last week. He was 2nd team All-PSAC East in 2010, running for 668 yards and 9 TD's and has run for 100 yards in 3 of the last 7 games. He tied the school record with 4 rushing TD's at Millersville last season.

Rushing - 265 carries, 1,316 yards, 13 TD
Receiving - 31 catches, 414 yards, 2 TD
Kick Returns - 11 KR, 278 yards
All-Purpose - 307 touches, 2,008 yards, 15 TD

DEERY HITS 90
Jr. TB Eric Deery ran for 92 yards in 16 carries vs. Pace, just missing the 100-yard mark for the 3rd time in his career.

He had two 100-yard games as a freshman in 2009, the first ESU freshman to hit 100 since 1997:
• 121 yards, 15 carries at Cheyney
• 102 yards, 18 carries vs. Millersville

Rushing - 127 carries, 564 yards, 2 TD
Receiving 16 catches, 92 yards

THE FULLBACKS
R-So. Thomas Tippett and So. Darius Jackson give the Warriors two veterans at fullback. Brent Jones ran for 7 TDs from the fullback spot the last 2 years.

Tippett made his first career start vs. Cal and had 3 catches for 14 yards. He had a 7-yard catch for his first career reception at IUP and played in 10 games on special teams and short-yardage offense as a redshirt FR.

Jackson had his first career rushing TD, a 1-yard plunge, vs. Cal and caught 2 TD passes as a freshman. He started 4 games and had 7 catches for 74 yards and 9 carries for 56 yards last season.

THE TIGHT ENDS
R-Fr. Steven Jones has 4 catches for 78 yards, posting 3 catches for 55 yards and a 31-yard TD vs. Pace and a 23-yard catch at IUP. He replaces 6th-year senior Matt Brown as the starter at tight end. Brown started 6 games and caught 9 passes last season. Jones was 2nd team All-State in La Salle College HS's AAAA state championship team in 2009.

R-So. Lukas Mason has played in 6 games, all 3 games this season and 3 last year.

WARRIORS OFFENSE IN 2010
QB Matt Marshall, WR Ed Kiser and WR Jeff Giglio are the three top players who are gone from last year's offense. Marshall ranks 3rd at ESU in total offense (7,057) and 4th in passing yards (6,403) and TD passes (61). Kiser had 57 catches for 860 yards in 2010, finishing his career with four straight 100-yard games, and ranks 8th with 2,109 career receiving yards. Giglio is 11th with 1,901 receiving yards and tied for 7th with 18 receiving TDs.

ESU threw the ball on 54.2 percent of its offensive plays last season, the 2nd-highest rate in school history behind Damian Poalucci's record-setting passing attack in 1996.

• 30+ pass attempts in 9 of 11 games (57 vs. Kutztown)
• 13 players caught at least 7 passes
• 10 players caught at least 10 passes
• 10 players caught a TD pass
• 8 players had at least 147 receiving yards
• 11 players caught a pass at Bloomsburg and 10 caught passes vs. Pace and Kutztown

TIME OF POSSESSION
ESU ranks 15th in the PSAC in time of possession, holding the ball for an average of 25:42 through the first 3 games. ESU was 15th of 16 schools in the PSAC in time of possession in 2010 (26:19) and held the ball for more than 30:00 in just two games.

TURNOVER MARGIN
ESU tied for 12th in the PSAC in turnover margin (-0.36) with 27 giveaways and 23 takeaways in 2010. The Warriors led the PSAC and tied for 7th in Division II (+0.83) in 2009.

ESU in 12 wins since 2009        +17
ESU in 14 losses since 2009     -13

PRESSURE DEFENSE
The Warriors have created 3+ turnovers in 14 of 26 games since the start of the 2009 season, when they led the PSAC and ranked 11th in Division II with 33 takeaways.

Since 2009:
ESU creates 2+ turnovers        11-5
ESU creates 0-1 turnovers       1-9

ESU forced 5 turnovers vs. Cal (2 interceptions, 3 fumble recoveries) in a loss for the second time since 2002. The Warriors recovered 5 fumbles in a 42-24 loss vs. C.W. Post in 2009.

ESU's defense ranked in the top 25 in Division II in 6 key categories in 2009. The Warriors improved their rank in just one category (QB sacks) in 2010.

COVER THAT KICK
ESU led the PSAC in kickoff coverage last season with an average drive start at the 26-yard line, aided by So. K Taylor Groff, who had 11 touchbacks on 65 kickoffs. His average of 17% more than tripled the average of 5% around the rest of the PSAC.

This season, the Warriors are in the middle of the pack - 7th in the PSAC - with an average drive start at the 32.2-yard line.

NET PUNTING
Fr. Jordan Bair takes over as the Warriors' punter this season and is 6th in the PSAC (38.9 yards) on 10 punts. He had a season-long 47-yarder at IUP.

ESU is 7th in the PSAC in net punting (32.3 yards) and is a regular among the Division II leaders, leading the nation with a 39.7-yard net in 2008. Nick Krut was a 1st team AP Little All-American with a 46.0-yard average, the best in DII.

The Warriors were 4th in the PSAC and 38th in DII in 2010 after ranking 128th in 2009.

WHO'S GONE ON DEFENSE
ESU lost its three All-PSAC selections (OLB Matt Freed, CB David Castillo, FS Herschel Thornton) and 4 of its top 5 tacklers from last year's team. Freed, a 3-time All-American, ranks 3rd at ESU with 399 career tackles and 5th with 22.5 sacks.

FIRST-TIME STARTERS
The Warriors have mixed 5 returning starters - R-Sr. DT Cody Berry, R-Sr. DT Rudy Cerami, Sr. ILB Mike Bergey, R-Sr. ILB Taylor Cave and R-Sr. CB Shawnte Carroll - with 8 first-time starters this season, including 4 at defensive end.

R-Sr. DE Jon Weber and R-Sr. OLB Bryan Billger have both made their first career starts in 2011.

STRONG UP THE MIDDLE (DT)
• Cerami and Berry started all 11 games in 2010
• Cerami has 96 tackles, 12.0 TFL and 4.0 sacks
• Berry has 110 tackles, 19.5 TFL and 11.5 sacks
• R-Jr. Sam Hull (3 tackles, 2.0 TFL, sack) and R-Fr. Bryan Thomson (9 tackles, 1.5 sacks) see time

STRONG UP THE MIDDLE (LB)
• Cave has started 26 straight games and Bergey has started 5+ games for two straight years
• Cave leads all ESU players with 185 tackles
    70+ tackles the last two years (21 this season)
    5 career Int., 4 FF and 2 FR
• Bergey has 150 career tackles (70 in 2009)
    11 tackles, FF at goal line vs. Cal

MANNING THE CORNER
• Carroll has started 25 of the last 26 games
• 5 Int. in 2009 (ESU record 4 Int. vs. Slippery Rock)
• Tied DII record with 3 in 4th quarter (2 TD returns)
• 5 career Int., 15 pass breakups, 105 tackles

• Culbreath is a transfer from Lackawanna College
• 2 Int. in 3 games (66-yard return for TD vs. Pace)
• Half-brother of Herschel Thornton, 2nd team All-PSAC East safety last season
• Replaced David Castillo (1st team All-PSAC East)

ANTOL PUTS SAFETY FIRST
• 1st true freshman to start at DB since Castillo and Kevin Schafer in 2007
• 12 tackles, FF vs. Cal (5 tackles in first 2 games)
• Recruited to ESU as WR and moved to safety before camp opened
• 2-time All-Lancaster-Lebanon WR/DB at Cocalico; All-Section in basketball
• Honorable mention All-State at WR

DEFENSIVE ENDS
• Warriors will rotate 6 players including Weber, Brimmer, Harris, Gattelli, R-Fr. Sam Trunzo and Fr. Tarik Haddad
• Weber entered season as only DE who had played in a game at ESU
• DE's have combined for 14 solo tackles, 22 assists, 3.5 TFL and 1.5 sacks
• Replacing Alex Figueroa and Brett Moss, combined for 21.5 TFL, 14 sacks

OUTSIDE LINEBACKERS
• Billger entered season with 27 of 37 career tackles on special teams
• 7 tackles, first career sack, forced fumble in first career start vs. Pace
• Brown played in first 4 games last season before season-ending injury
• 26 tackles this season (8 vs. Pace, 12 at IUP, 6 vs. Cal and first career sack)
• Warriors replace 3-time All-American Matt Freed and 2-year starter/4-year letterwinner Mark Kalo

SOUDERTON CONNECTION
So. OLB Derek Brown, the brother of TE Matt Brown who graduated last year, is the Warriors' third starting linebacker from Souderton since 2005. He follows Dave Lotier, a 2nd team All-PSAC East selection in 2007, and Matt Freed, a 3-time All-American from 2008-10 and 2-time Daktronics Super Region 1 Player of the Year.

WARRIORS RECOGNIZE GARVER, WORTLEY
ESU held a moment of silence for former Warriors Gary Garver and Martin Wortley before the season opener.

Garver, a 3-year letterwinner and the Warriors' top rusher in 1986, was also an assistant coach for 10 seasons from 1990-99. He passed away on August 22 after a 6-month battle with cancer.

Wortley, a 4-year letterwinner on the offensive line, was lost on Sept. 11 in the attack on the World Trade Center. A 1995 graduate, Wortley worked as an investment rates option broker for Cantor Fitzgerald. ESU remembered Wortley and others at its 9-11 candlelight vigil on Sept. 11. Denny Douds and teammates Ed Myers and Bob Stelma addressed those in attendance.

UNDER THE LIGHTS
ESU is 5-3 in night games since lights were installed in 2007:

9-15-07 - L 23-38 vs. IUP
8-28-08 - W 14-11 vs. #25 Virginia Union
9-6-08 - W 23-10 vs. Gannon
9-27-08 - W 52-12 vs. Cheyney
9-12-09 - W 45-31 vs. Clarion
9-11-10 - L 17-23 vs. IUP
9-1-11 - W 56-14 vs. Pace
9-17-11 - L 19-22 vs. #21 California

FAMILY AFFAIR
Two Warriors have fathers who played for Coach Douds:
• R-Jr. DL Sam Hull - father Chris, four-year letterwinner at DE from 1984-87
• Fr. QB Matt Soltes - father Andy lettered at QB in 1982, threw game-winning TD at West Chester

In addition, two Warriors have relatives who played for ESU under Douds:
• So. WR Dusty Reed - uncle Pat Flaherty was All-America center in 1976 and is currently the offensive line coach of the NY Giants
• R-Fr. CB Andrew Coyle - father is cousin of Tim Bishop, an All-East WR in 1984 and All-PSAC pitcher, 2B and OF in baseball

At least six other father-son combinations have earned letters since Douds arrived in 1966:

• Falcone - Michael, LB '73; Bryan, LB '00-02
• Jackson - Steven, C '69-71; Greg, TE '98-99
• McNamee - Doug, DB/WR '64-66, Todd, K/P '85-88
• Stem - Willard, FS '72-75; Drew, WR '05-08
• Terwilliger - Mike, QB '74-77 (Douds' first 4 seasons, entering 34th year as
asst. coach); Jimmy, QB '03-06 (Harlon Hill Award in 2005)
• Marshall - Brian, QB '81; Matt, QB '08-10 (3rd in career total offense)

GREGORY-DOUDS FIELD AT EILER-MARTIN STADIUM
• Field renamed to honor coaches Jack Gregory and Denny Douds after ESU's 58-14 win vs. Cheyney on Oct. 30, 2010
• Gregory had 49-11-2 (.806) record from 1959-65 and won 1964 and 1965 PSAC championships
• Douds has been ESU's head coach since 1974
• Eiler-Martin Stadium has been the home of the Warriors since 1938
• John R. Eiler was an outstanding athlete at the school in the early 1930s and later athletic director and a championship soccer coach
• Gene Martin was the Warriors' head football coach from 1942-57 and the school's long-time Dean of Men
• The Warriors have a 119-67 home record (.640) under Douds and a 38-24 home record (.613) since 2000.

Renovations include:
• New home bleachers were added in 1960
• The current press box was installed in 1988
• The track was resurfaced and expanded to 8 lanes in 2005
• Lights were added prior to the 2007 season
• FieldTurf was installed prior to the 2008 season

WARRIORS FROM 2000-09
• The Warriors wrapped up their winningest decade in school history in the 2000's, going 77-34 for a .694 winning percentage
• They had nine winning seasons in 10 years, made three NCAA Playoff appearances, won PSAC East titles in 2002 and 2003, and had a school-record 11 wins in 2005
• ESU has an all-time record of 446-292-19 (.602)

ESU IN THE NCAA PLAYOFFS
• ESU has played in the NCAA Division II Playoffs four times, most recently in 2009 when they fell to Edinboro, 31-16, in the first round
• The Warriors have also played in the postseason in 1991, 2004 and 2005, when they advanced to the national semifinals
• ESU has a 4-4 record in four postseason trips

PSAC PRESEASON POLL
• ESU was picked to finish 5th in the 2011 PSAC East Coaches Poll
• The Warriors were selected behind Bloomsburg, Kutztown, West Chester and C.W. Post and ahead of Shippensburg, Millersville and Cheyney

WARRIORS ON RADIO
• WVPO 840 AM is in its 49th season broadcasting ESU football and will once again carry all 11 games in 2011
• Chuck Seese, the 2009 PSAC Heaslip Media Award winner, is in his 23rd season as the voice of the Warriors
• He is joined in the booth by Bob Brittain, who is in his 11th year providing the color commentary

WARRIORS ON TV
• Blue Ridge TV-13 will broadcast ESU football for the 24th year this season, with all six home games airing live across the region
• Play-by-play man Chris Doty (22nd year) is joined by color commentator Jim Riley (4th year) and sideline reporter Mike Remish (2nd year)
• ESU will announce this year's schedule with PA SPORTSfever, which has broadcast 10 games over the last four seasons

ESU WARRIORS ALL ACCESS
• All six broadcasts on Blue Ridge TV-13 will be available online through ESU Warriors “All Access” at www.esuwarriors.com
• The single-season package ($24.95) gives access for all football content, live and archived, through August 31, 2012
• The single-day package ($6.95) gives access for a 24-hour period

AND WE GO TO...OVERTIME
• ESU is 4-6 all-time in overtime contests and has won its last two games in OT, 27-20 at Kutztown in 2009 and 44-41 vs. Shippensburg in 2008
• The win vs. Shippensburg gave head coach Denny Douds the PSAC record with his 213th career victory

OVERTIME GAMES
1991 - L 34-33 vs. Shippensburg (NCAA Playoffs)
1996 - W 27-20 vs. Kutztown
1999 - L 33-27 at Shepherd (2OT)
2000 - W 35-28 vs. Shepherd
2000 - L 33-26 vs. Millersville
2000 - L 17-14 vs. Shippensburg
2004 - L 38-37 vs. West Chester
2005 - L 31-24 vs. Bloomsburg
2008 - W 44-41 vs. Shippensburg
2009 - W 27-20 at Kutztown

PSAC CHAMPIONSHIPS
• ESU has won a share of nine PSAC titles under head coach Denny Douds, and 12 in school history
• The most recent championships came in 1991, 2002 and 2003, when the Warriors won the PSAC East championship
• Overall PSAC titles came in:
1942, 1954, 1964, 1965, 1968, 1975, 1976, 1978 and 1982
• ESU has a 210-105-1 (.668) record in PSAC games for the 3rd-best winning percentage since the first on-the-field title was awarded in 1960

ACADEMIC ACCOLADES
• ESU has produced 45 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District selections over the last four years
• ESU led the PSAC with 15 selections in 2010-11 and 10 selections in
2007-08 and 2008-09
• 2 student-athletes were Academic All-America selections in 2010-11 — Matt Freed and Rose Mascoli (women's cross country/track & field)

The football program has had 5 Academic All-Americans:
2010 - Matt Freed, LB, 1st team
2009 - Matt Freed, LB, 1st team
2004 - Matt Crispell, DB, 1st team
1992 - Ed Detwiler, P, 2nd team
1984 - Ernie Siegrist, TE, 1st team
1979 - Warren Brown, LB, 2nd team