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Sports atOtterbein CollegeWesterville, Ohio 43081Bill UtterbackSports Informa(614) 882-3601, Ext. 300 301GENERAL SPORTS RELEASE November 1971FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEWESTERVILLE, Ohio--For the eighth time in as many years Otterbein has wappedits football season with a disappointing los Capital ity. This timethe Cap team won 35 to 20 giving Otterbein its 25th loss in 46 meetings withCapital.nightNothing but the punting vent right for the Otterbein Cardinals Saturday Memorial Stadium. Sophomore Leif Pettersen (Toronto), who has had amarvelous year of kicking was the man to watch as he booted 10 punts for theCardinals averaging an amazing 45.4 yards a punt. He is leading the Ohiothis week with a seasonConference in punting and should be in national rankings average of 41.8 yards a kick for 32 punts, and a best one of 72 yardsThe Cap Crusaders held the Cardinals to just 89 yard on the ground andwhile churning out 354 yard shing and 12 yards passing themselvesOtterbein tually lost a yard on the ground in the second half They had 90yards rushing at halftime.Doug Thomson (Oakville, Ont.) who has led the Cardinal rushing attackthis year, attracted a host of Crusaders and xms limited to just 7 yards Thisseason he has carried the ball 175 times for 691 yards an average of 3.9 yardsa run.Freshman Jim Cox (Middletown) who has been starting at a Cardinal halfbackslot, was the best ground-gainer for Otterbein. Cox managed 85 yards in only 7carries That's just over 12 yards a run. He has the best average among Cardinalrushers, making 4.4 yards a rush this season overall.MC«£OTTERBEIN FOOTBALL...ad 1 11/14/11tSophomore Wayne Blevins (HamHton) also had a fairly good day againstCap He gained 34 yards in 9 attempts for average of 3.8 yards. Blevinshas been in the fullbach slot much of the season and now has a total of 215 yards in«63 tries this fall for the second place in Cardinal rushing.Blevins scored two of the three Otterbein TD's Saturday. The first cameon a 7 yard pass play from quarterback Greg Miller (Bellefontaine) with ju 4:44left in the first half His second TD was scored on a 14 yard scramble with 14:55remaining in the game.Sara Varney (Waverly), a sophomore, realized the dream of defensemen whenhq picked off a Cap pas with 13:13 left in the third quarter, and ran 27 yards fora Cardinal touchdown.This was the final game for nine seniors who wanted more than most to winCapital. All were instrumental in Cardinal action this fall. Four startedron the defensive squad and two were offensive starters. The other four rotatedkbehind the starters0tThe defensive men will be sorely missed next year. They have put in atremendous ffort in trying to contain some very strong opponents. Defensiveco-captains Porter Kauffman (Lancaster), left cornerback, and Howard *ButchDenney (Euclid), left linebacker, were conspicuous on most tackles this fallMark Banbury (Danville), right tackle, and John Johnson (Columbus Central) theright linebacker also gave the opponents many moments to remember. All four willbe very hard to replace.Jerry Elliott (Weaterville) who was a transfer, played as a Cardinal onlyas a senior and was the main signal-caller for the Cardinals this year. He completed 29 of 73 passing attempts for 447 yards as he helped quarterback the team to its3 wins.MOREOTTERBEIN FOOTBALL...ad 2Gary Kuzyk (Toronto), also a transfer played two years as a Cardinalhalfback He caught 15 passes for 194 yards and tiro touchdowns this year as hehelped the Otterbein squad from his left halfback positionIEric Nuppola (Toronto), back up man for Kuzyk at left half, gained 116 yards in just 38 attempts this season as he spent most of the time blocking fromihis backfleld position.Two Wendel Deyo (London) and Robin Bush (Pataskala) played theirlast game for Otterbein Saturday protecting their quarterback from the Cap's mean defensive line.center ofDave Mack (Lakewood), who just joined the team this year, was second man atboth the right and left end positions. He blocked of the time for the Cardinalsbut scored TD on a pass play in the closing moments of the win MariettaAnother aeason has gone by at Otterbein and Coach Moe Agler and hisseasonassistants are already working on next year as they try to get a winning A talented group of freshmen and sophomores will move up a notch next fall andshould toughen things up iderably if replacements can be found for the seniorstarters \dio are leaving.1971 OTTERBEIN COLLEGE FINAL FOOTBALL STATISTICS—Nine Games-11/14/71,3.6-0 (2-4-0)TEAM STATISTICS OTT OPPFirst Downs 136 1301 Rushing 82 82Passing 46 36Penalty 8 12Rushing (Attempts) 439 495Gain 1512 2236Loss 370 218Net Yards 1142 2018Ave/Game 126.9 224.2Passing (Attempts) 201 128Completions 83 60Had Intercepted 17 7Net Yards 1129 795Ave/Game 125.4 88.3Total OffenseTotal Plays 645 623Net Yards 2271 2814Ave/Game 252.3 312.7Punting (No,) 60 58Yds. Punted 2296 2003Ave/Punt 38.3 34.5Punts Blocked 0 1Fumbles (No.) 26 24Lost 15 11Penalties (No.) 58 49Yds. Penalized 580 490SCORING BY QUARTERSOtterbein 14 24 19 58.-115Opponents 83 62i 45 52--242SCORING PAT 2PAT FGTD At Ma At Ma At MaSteve Traylor 4 2 2Doug Thomson 3Wayne Blevins 3Gary Kuzyk 2Leif Pettersen 11 8 1 1Jim Cox 1 1 1Jim Bontadelli 1 Dave Mack 1 Sam Vamey 1FINAL 1971 RESULTS1 1INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRushingDotg Thomson Wayne Blevins Jin Cox Eric Nuppola Jin Bontadelli Les Donahue Jin Albright Gary Kuzyk Greg Miller Jerry Elliott PassingJerry Elliott Greg Miller Jin Bontadelli Dotg Thomson Steve Traylor Gary Kuzyk Total Offense Doug Thomson Greg Miller Jerry Elliott Jin Bontadelli Pass Receiving Steve Traylor Doug Thomson Gary Kuzyk Jin Cox Dan Fagan Wayne Blevins Neil Mairs Jin Albright Leif Pettersen Dave Mack Steve Schnarr FuntingLeif Pettersen Doug Thomson Pass InterceptionsSam Varney Jim Albright Mark Leopold Mike Shannon John Johnson Punt ReturnsTOTALPTS.28181812118866CAR YG YL Net Ave.175 717 26 691 3.963 220 5 215 3.442 204 17 187 4.438 126 10 116 3.123 86 28 58 2.59 22 1 21 2.32 5 3 2 1.017 25 41 -16 -1.016 14 59 -45 -2.841 53 137 -84 -2.0Att Comp Yds. H.I.73 29 447 598 44 572 720 10 110 42 0 0 11 0 0 01 0 0 0Rush Pass Total691 0 691-45 572 527-84 447 36358 110, 168Caught Yds. TD28 553 416 170 115 194 29 123 13 386 24 12 171 71 61 2 11 -5No. Yds. Ave.115Ott15 Kenyon*0e£147 Ashland 427 Wittenberg* 210 Mount Union* 4230 Hiram 2222 Marietta* 1014 Defiance 210 Denison* 3520 Capital* 35Jim Albright Jim Cox Doug Thomson Jim Bontadelli* OhioConferenceGames.ck Off Returns No. Yards Ave.Jim Albright 18 376 20.9Jim Cox 10 195 19.5Jim Bontadelli 6 110 18.3Sam Varney 2 38 19.0John Schneider 3 24 8.0Les Donahue 2 21 10.5Porter Kauffman 1 17 17.0Ed Hartung 1 7 7.0OHIO C0NFEREITC3 SPORT^ BUREAU Noveraber 21, 1971Ross Feltz, DirectorHus3cincru2T*. Collece FOR IHilEDIATE RELEASECONCORD, Ohio---^‘^hen you can*t v in /ourself, it*s usually nice tohave soneone you hnov; v;in* That’s what happened to Denison’s Ed Exler, the 1970 Ohio Conference rushing leader. Favored to repeat this year, he even had the advantage of seeing his competition everyday, teammate Bill Karris, Karris won this year’s title V7ith an average of 115 yards per game, followed by ^Jooster’s Jeff VJise (100,3 ave,) and Exler (99,2), In the scoring column, Kenyon’s Joe Szmania edged Baldwin-Wallace’s Terry Nagy eight points per game to 7,8 points per game.Ohio T^^esleyan’s Steve Chase not only led his team to a championship* but earned a personal title also as he capped the total offense race with 179 yards rushing and 1157 passing for a total of 1336, 148,6 per game, Steve "Morris of Marietta was second with an average of 146yards, Air-minc.eJ Fd Casey of BalJ^r/in-Wallace captured the passing crov^n V7ith 103 completions in 181 attempts for nine TDs and 1268 yards, an average of 10,3 completions per game. Kenyon’s Dan Handel was second with 9.6 completions per outing.Two of Casey’s targets finished in the top three receivers as Tom Graham (50 catches for 765 yds.) and !'7illie Avery (43, 536 yds) sand­wiched Oberlin’s Jon Davies (37, 490 yds,).The team totals show Denison as the rushing leader (253 yds, ave,) and Baldwin-Uallace the passing leader (185.5 yds. ave.).Mount Union slipped by Baldv/in-Nallace in total offense with a season ending average of 352 while the Yellow Jackets averaged 339,9 yards a game.Defensively, Heidelberg led in rushing defense (104.8 ave.), Den­ison topped the air defense units (79.8) and Ohio Nesleyan was the total leader (203,2).-——Pick up Final Stats--------

1971 Otterbein College Football General Release

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