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TV: Live on PBS 39, which is available throughout much of eastern Pennsylvania. On Blue Ridge cable systems, PBS 39 can be found on channel 12, or digital 606.

Radio: Live on WVPO 840 AM for the 51st season, and redzonemedia.com. Chuck Seese, the 2009 PSAC Heaslip Media Award recipient, is in his 25th season as the voice of the Warriors, with Bob Brittain in his 13th year providing the color commentary. Pre-game begins at 12:30 p.m.


1st & 10 ...  Complete Game Notes (PDF)

1 • ESU (4-3, 1-3 PSAC East) travels to Kutztown (1-6, 1-3) for its final road trip of the 2013 season. The Warriors are finishing their road schedule on the 2nd-earliest date (Oct. 26) since 1993.

2 • Kutztown has won 3 straight in the series, with both teams scoring 30+ points in all 3 games. Kutztown won 59-33 at ESU last year. In the last 3 games, ESU is averaging 32.0 points and 504.3 yards per game, and Kutztown is averaging 48.7 points and 534.0 yards per game.

3 • ESU head coach Denny Douds faces his 103rd different opposing coach in Kutztown's Drew Folmar, who quarterbacked Millersville from 1997-00. Their final meeting was Douds' 268th career game at ESU. This week marks Douds' 415th game as head coach, and Folmar's 8th.

4 • Douds has 241 career wins, a PSAC record and 1 win from tying Mel Tjeerdsma (NW Missouri St.) for 3rd on the DII all-time wins list. Douds' 241 wins are 25th in college football history.

5 • ESU and Kutztown have a similar breakdown in starters by class, with 12 upperclassmen (SR/JR) and 10 underclassmen (SO/FR). ESU starts 4 seniors, 8 juniors, 8 sophomores and 2 freshmen (1 true, 1 redshirt), while KU starts 7 seniors, 5 juniors, 6 sophomores and 4 freshmen.

6 • R-So. QB Matt Soltes had 542 yards of total offense (476 passing, 66 rushing) vs. Bloomsburg, tied for 6th-most in ESU history and 11th-most in PSAC history. ESU QB's have 10 of the 16 500-yard games in the PSAC, and Soltes is 1 of 4 with multiple 500-yard games. He is averaging 372.4 total yards in 14 career games as a starter, and is 212 yards from passing James Franklin '95 (current Vanderbilt head coach) for 6th on ESU's career list.

7 • R-Sr. WR Robert Bleiler had 100 yards for the 4th time in 5 games last week, with 8 catches for 130 yards and 2 TD. Bleiler is 3rd in the PSAC in catches (6.6) and yards (104.1) per game. R-Jr. TE Steven Jones (5-82, TD last week) is 4th among DII TE's in receiving yards (65.1) and t-3rd in TD's (7).

8 • R-Fr. TB Robert Healy (12 carries, 73 yards last week) is 2nd on ESU's freshman rushing list with 670 yards behind Stewart Ford's 1,109 (1997).

9 • ESU faced the #5 (Bloomsburg, 341.2 ypg) and #24 (West Chester, 229.8) rushing offenses in DII, and 2 of the top 4 DII rushers (Franklyn Quiteh, Rondell White) the last 2 weeks. This week, Kutztown is 161st of 163 DII teams with 47.7 ypg.

10 • Kutztown ranks 20th in DII in strength of schedule at 27-15 (.643) (not counting opponents' wins over KU). ESU is t-44th at 24-18 (.571).

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