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COVER STORY: NO. 15 PURDUE 41, NOTRE DAME 16 

Boilers Snap Streak 

In South Bend Shootout 

Orton-Led Offense Easily Dismantle Irish 

BY KEITH THOMAS 

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SOUTH BEND, Ind. — For the first 

time in recent memory, misfortune was 

misplaced for the Boilermakers in Notre 

Dame Stadium. 

After all, this sort of thing doesn’t 

usually happen for Purdue — it usually 

happens against Purdue. 

But the bad Boilermaker karma 

finally switched teams in South Bend. 

And the No. 15 Boilermakers came 

out swinging, slugging a 30-year old 

streak right in the mouth with a dominating 

41-16 win over Notre Dame Oct. 2. 

The Boilers played so well, in fact, 

that they just might have knocked the 

mustache right off of defensive coordinator 

Brock Spack’s face. 

The trademark hair below Spack’s 

nose was missing following the game, 

just as were questions about whether 

Purdue would ever win “up there.” 

For Spack, who hasn’t had a naked 

upper lip since 1999, going fuzz-free was 

a simple choice for a man who was taking 

part in his 18th Purdue-Notre Dame 

rivalry game — especially since it was a 

motivating factor for senior co-captain 

Antwaun Rogers and the Boilermaker 

defense. 

So the defense brought their focus, 

and some razors. 

“Antwaun asked, ‘Victory for the 

‘stache?’ I said, ‘Absolutely,” the former 

Purdue linebacker said. “That was it. A 

deal’s a deal — you can’t welsh. They all 

brought their clippers with them; they 

were prepared.” 

If fact, Spack the win over the Irish 

was certainly worth the wait, he was 

willing to trade a victory for being in 

trouble at home. 

“My wife’s going to hate me, but 

that’s the way it goes,” Spack said. 

And everything went the way of the 

Boilermakers (4-0 overall, 1-0 in the Big 

Ten) against the Irish on this crisp 

autumn afternoon. 

“They were playing us real tough there for 

a while, and then we just took it right down 

the field and put it right in their face and said, 

‘We came to play today.’” 

— Purdue quarterback Kyle Orton 

Following a game that had Purdue 

fans waiting for the traditional meltdown 

that never came, Coach Joe Tiller 

was relatively relaxed. 

“Surprisingly enough, I am pretty 

calm considering the magnitude of this 

victory. If it had been a nail biter, it 

would have been a much different feeling. 

I am extremely happy that we won, 

and I am sure we will celebrate a little 

more when we get home tonight.” 

But it wasn’t clear that it was going 

to be a Boilermaker blowout in the early 

going. 

In fact, shortly after Purdue received 

the opening kickoff, the Boilers and Irish 

traded paint on nearly identical drives — 

marching down the field for 60-plus 

yards in just over four minutes resulting 

in a field goal for each. At that point, it 

looked like it was going to be another 

closely fought football game in the shadows 

of the Golden Dome. 

But with just more than six minutes 

remaining in the opening quarter, the 

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Senior receiver Taylor Stubblefield finished 

the scoring for the day on this 12yard 

touchdown with 0:45 left in the 

third quarter. Purdue’s 41 points at Notre 

Dame was the highest point total by a 

Purdue team against the Irish since a 51- 

19 win in 1960. 

first indication that the big plays traditionally 

tagged as Luck of the Irish in 

South Bend would belong to the 

Boilermakers on this day. 

With the score tied at three in the 

early going, Purdue sophomore kick 

returner Jerome Brooks fielded an Irish 

kick on the doorstep of the Boilermaker 

end zone. One hundred yards, a nifty 

spin move and a couple of key blocks 

later, Brooks dove into an eerily quiet 

end zone, putting the Boilermakers on 

top, and they wouldn’t look back. 

Senior quarterback Kyle Orton said 

that key play was a turning point that let 

Purdue know that it had a good chance 

to win the game for obvious reasons. 

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ON THE COVER 

There was plenty of things to 

jump and shout about for 

players, coaches and fans 

alike as Purdue won in South 

Bend for the first time in 30 

years. Ray Williams (2) and 

Brandon Jones (27) sky after 

Jones’ 28-yard halfback 

option pass in the second 

quarter while the inset is of 

Coach Joe Tiller and Kyle 

Orton happily walking off 

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COACH TILLER: 24 HOURS LATER 

WITH QUESTION ANSWERED, TIME TO MOVE ON 

Tiller Pleased ‘Will You Ever Win In South Bend?’ Inquiry Buried 

BY KEITH THOMAS 


Each Sunday afternoon following 

Purdue football games, 

GoldandBlack.com catches up 

with Coach Joe Tiller to get some 

of his thoughts on the weekend’s 

contest, after he’s had a 

chance to review it on film. 

Below are some thoughts a day 

after Tiller’s Boilermakers posted 

a dominating 41-16 victory over 

the Irish. 

Q: Now that you’ve had 

time for this victory to set in, 

do you view it any differently, 

as far as the significance of 

what your team accomplished 

and the fact that no one can 

ask you about winning at 

Notre Dame any longer? 

Tiller: “Well that’s what feels 

best about it — I don’t have to 

answer that question any more. I 

look at things differently than 

you all do, and that’s the way it 

should be. I haven’t felt like 

there’s really much left for that 

we have to prove here. But I suppose 

in the real world, that’s a 

fair assumption. So winning a 

game like this eliminates one 

more of those, ‘You have to go 

do this.’ You guys know where 

I’m coming from, and it’s natural 

— I understand it. I don’t feel 

that way, but I feel satisfied about 

the win because I’m not going to 

get that question any longer.” 

Q: Following the win, your 

team is ranked No. 9 in the 

Associated Press poll, which 

ties your highest ranking since 

coming to Purdue. Now that 

the polls weigh heavily on the 

BCS rankings, will you start to 

play a little more attention to 

that? 

Tiller: “Ever since they took 

me off of the voting (panel), I 

pay much less attention to it. 

And I don’t know what merits us 

being ranked where we’re at, 

again, and I’m very serious here, 

when I was voting, I was always 

aware of who the top-10 teams 

were and Nos. 12, 13, 14. And I 

guess somebody above you has 

to lose for you to move 

up, so I don’t know 

what happened 

(Saturday) to why we’d 

move up. And quite 

frankly, I wouldn’t pay 

too much attention to it 

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Joe Tiller shows rare emotion on 

the sideline moments after the win 

at Notre Dame. Tiller is now 4-4 

against the Irish. 

anyway this early. Maybe Game 

8 or 9, you might get me on that 

one, but not now.” 

Q: You’ve had some potent 

offenses at Purdue before, but 

have you ever had one that 

was this potent and efficient at 

the same time? 

Tiller: “Probably not. We’ve 

had some unbelievable days 

when Drew (Brees) was here, 

number-wise, be we’ve never 

been as efficient running the 

offense as we have in this combination 

of four games. I think 

this is probably the best (combination). 

I’d have to go back and 

evaluate — I don’t think along 

those lines very often. But like 

everybody, I’m pleased, and kind 

of amazed, at how 

efficiently we’re running 

the offense.” 

Q: Did Notre 

Dame see something 

on tape that 

let them believe 

that they would be 

able to successfully 

throw the football 

against your 

defense, and are 

you concerned 

with allowing 460 

passing yards? 

Tiller: “Our 

biggest problem 

(Saturday) from a 

pass defense point of 

view was really our 

inability or a failure 

to communicate. In 

other words, on 

their one touchdown 

pass, we had 

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one-half of our secondary playing 

man (coverage) and the 

other half playing zone. And 

they just didn’t get the calls 

relayed across the secondary. 

That concerns us because that’s 

something that you have to do 

regardless of the crowd or the 

noise or anything else — you 

have to be on the same page. 

That’s the bad news. The good 

news is that any problems we 

had are correctable problems.” 

Q: What’s the status of 

Anthony Spencer, who didn’t 

play in the second half with an 

ankle injury? 

Tiller: “Spence will not practice 

today, although everything 

(X-ray-wise) is negative on him 

and hopefully it’ll stay that way 

on him. 

Q: Obviously Spencer was 

having a career day before getting 

banged up. Comment on 

his monstrous first half. 

Tiller: “It was easily a monster 

game. He was playing 

extremely well. We have a point 

system on defense, and for any 

player who scores 15 or more 

points during the game — you 

get a point for tackle and a point 

for a knocked down pass, etc. — 

they get a helmet sticker for 

that. Last week in our win at 

Illinois, we had five defensive 

players that got a sticker for playing 

a good football game. 

“Spencer (against Notre 

Dame) had 36 points by half- 

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time. That’s the most we’ve 

ever had a player get in one 

half. So to say he was playing 

extremely well is probably an 

understatement.” 

Q: How is the health of 

everyone else on your squad 

following the game? 

Tiller: “(Jon) Goldsberry will 

be tested again (Monday to see if 

he’s cleared from his bout with 

mono); that was according to 

plan. He has been improving 

and they’re going to start biking 

him and some light jogging and 

some activity.” 

Q: What kind of a Sunday 

workout do you traditionally 

get from your guys after big 

wins like this? 

Tiller: “Well we’ve changed 

our approach this year, and 

we’re going to stick with it, and 

that is we’re going to go out 

there and have our ‘Boiler Bowl’ 

where our young players scrimmage. 

We did it last week and 

we’re going to do it every 

Sunday from now on. And the 

reason I bring that up is because 

I think that even though it’s not 

your No. 1 guys, it kind of gets 

them a little energized and they 

watch the young guys scrimmage. 

And it kind of gets their 

minds off the game and on to 

what you’re doing next.” j 

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C onventional wisdom would 

make one think that Coach Joe Tiller 

has a tough job ahead of him. 

After all, his team just beat Notre 

Dame on the road for the first time in 

30 years. 

Wait, his team didn’t just beat 

the Irish, it crushed them in a way 

few teams have in the history of 

Notre Dame Stadium. 

But something is very different 

about this Purdue football team that 

makes all the talk about overconfidence 

and possible lack of focus 

heading into Happy Valley Oct. 9 

just talk. 

That difference is No. 18 and the 

air of confidence and ability quarterback 

Kyle Orton brings to this team. 

It’s not something that is plainly visible 

on the sideline or even in the 

huddle. He doesn’t spend much wasted 

motion pumping his fists or being 

overly demonstrative on the sidelines 

with his teammates. But what he 

does do that builds more confidence 

than anything is deliver amazing 

results. And that speaks volumes his 

to Boilermaker brethren. 

To set the record straight, Purdue 

has never had a quarterback enjoy a 

four-game stretch like 

Orton has. Not Griese, not 

Phipps, not Everett, not 

Herrmann and not Brees. 

The statistic of 17 touchdown 

passes and no interceptions, 

at least in Purdue 

terms, is akin to Joe 

DiMaggio’s 56-game hitting 

streak. When you stop 

and think about it, it is 

pretty amazing and may 

never be repeated. 

Orton is the first Boilermaker to 

throw four or more touchdown passes 

in four consecutive games. Heck, 

only quarterbacks Drew Brees (1998) 

and Len Dawson (1954) have done it 

in back-to-back games. Brees did 

snap off 16 touchdown passes over a 

four-game stretch during his recordsetting 

‘98 season when he tossed a 

Big Ten standard 39 scoring passes. 

But Brees threw five picks during that 

hot streak that took place in the last 

four regular-season games of that season. 

The common thread during 

Orton’s and Brees’ amazing runs? 

Purdue won all its games. 

Orton is, and deserves to be at 

this point in the season, a Heisman 

Trophy candidate. He will remain in 

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the race if two things 

occur. First, and obviously, 

he has to continue to perform 

at a high level. But 

second, and most important, 

Purdue needs to win 

at least nine regular season 

games and be in the hunt 

for a BCS bowl come mid- 

November. 

What is Orton’s biggest 

ally in the race for college 

football immortality? The 

fact that all he really cares about is 

winning football games. One look at 

Orton’s haircut, though I don’t think 

it is as bad as some people, and one 

can see he is not a Madison Avenue 

guy. If Purdue continues its remarkable 

season, no matter what individual 

numbers Orton accrues, it will be 

good enough for him. 

Finally, long-time fans with a 

healthy dose of Purdue paranoia, will 

remember that the team has struggled 

over the years it had a game the 

week after beating Notre Dame. 

Purdue is 9-4 in that situation in its 

history, but just 2-5-2 the week after 

it won in South Bend. In fact, the 

Boilermakers have lost their last 

three times they have played a road 

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Tiller is 3-0 the weeks following wins 

over the Irish. 

Researching the above data 

passed the time for me while I was 

waiting for the Notre Dame game to 

finally come to an end following a 

seemingly endless fourth quarter. 

While it makes for good conversation 

among the Knuckleheads during 

game week, it doesn’t mean any more 

than the 30-year losing streak under 

the Golden Dome meant to the 2004 

Boilermakers. 

Something special is in the air 

for this football team. How special 

we will all find out in the coming 

weeks, but if you are a Boilermaker 

fan you can dream big. This year, 

some of those dreams just might 

come true. 

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“It seems like that’s the never-ending 

trend in this rivalry — whoever wins 

the special teams battle is going to win 

the game,” Orton said. “I think both 

teams know that, and I really do believe 

that. And we definitely won it today.” 

Later in the quarter, the 

Boilermakers scored on the first of backto-back 

97-yard touchdown scoring drives 

that served as bookends to the halftime 

break. 

Opposite day play No. 2, however, 

occurred minutes before the first long 

drive, and served as the game’s second 

turning point. 

With the Irish driving down the 

field, it appeared that Notre Dame was 

going to answer Brooks’ touchdown 

return, as Notre Dame ended up in a 

first-and-goal situation on the 

Boilermaker 2-yard line. 

That’s when sophomore defensive 

end Anthony Spencer shocked the 

crowd of 80,795 by ripping the football 

out of the hands of Irish freshman running 

back Darius Walker, subsequently 

stripping the Irish of a chance to ensure 

the South Bend Streak would continue 

for two more years. 

“That was a huge swing,” Spack said. 

“And Anthony Spencer was playing the 

game of his life. I would have liked to 

have seen what happened if he would 

have played the second half. He played 

very, very well and came up with some 

huge plays. You talk about creating 

turnovers all the time, and in that situation, 

that was a huge play — a 14-point 

swing in a game like this — it was big.” 

It was a two-touchdown swing since 

Purdue’s deflating 97-yard, 11-play drive 

was capped by a perfectly executed playaction 

pass from Orton to defensive end 

Rob Ninkovich, who doubles as a goal 

line tight end, to give the visitors a comfortable 

20-3 lead at the intermission. 

“I think that 97-yard drive really 

broke their backs — I really do,” Orton 

said. “They were playing us real tough 

there for a while, and then we just took 

it right down the field and put it right in 

their face and said, ‘We came to play 

today.’ So I think that (drive) really set 

the tempo for the rest of the game. 

“At halftime I was real confident. 

We had just gone up by three scores and 

right there I knew we had a pretty good 

chance to come away with a win. I just 

told everyone, ‘Hey, we have to keep 

pulling our end. No turnovers; that’s the 

only way they can come back.’ And we 

did a great job again of not turning the 

ball over.” 

But Purdue’s 17-point lead wouldn’t 

last long. 

After an Irish three-and-out, the 

Boilermakers took just 19 seconds to 

extend their lead to a 24-point margin. 

And the second 97-yard drive by the 

Purdue offense to put the Boilers up 27- 

3 at the beginning of the third quarter 

was personal for senior wideout Taylor 

Stubblefield following some bulletin 

board material courtesy of Irish cornerback 

Dwight Ellick. 

“I guess Ellick said in the paper that 

he was going to get in Taylor’s face and 

not let him off the line,” Orton said. 

“Coach showed us that before the game 

and I think it kind of motivated Taylor a 

little bit. And they’ve been trying to do 

that (to Stubblefield) for three years and 

it hasn’t worked.” 

And it didn’t work on Oct. 2 either. 

On the third play of the drive, Orton 

called an audible and found Stubblefield 

streaking down the sideline, swallowing 

up all 97 yards on the drive in large 

chunk, as the fifth-year receiver began a 

fist-pumping celebration at the Purdue 

40 and carried it 60 yards into the end 

zone. 

“They had commented that they were 

going to play press coverage and that they 

were going to play it so tight that I was not 

going to be able to breathe,” Stubblefield 

said. “Anytime a team want’s to go manto-man 

— we’ve seen it the last three 

games, which was quite surprising — and 

we saw it again this game. Anytime we see 

it, we’re going to check to something and 

make them pay, and that’s what we did.” 

And the Purdue dynamic duo made 

them pay all day. 

Orton, now considered a frontrunner 

for the Heisman Trophy, completed 

21-of-31 passes for 385 yards and four 

touchdowns, while Stubblefield, Orton’s 

favorite target and soon-to-be Big Ten 

all-time reception leader, caught seven 

passes for 181 yards and two scores. 

Orton would hook up later on 

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Kyle Ingraham (nine yards), and with 

Stubblefield again from 12-yards out. 

His play is no longer shocking to 

Tiller. 

“Our quarterback continues to do a 

great job,” Tiller said. “He does an excellent 

job at the line of scrimmage. I’m not 

surprised anymore by what No. 18 can 

do. He’s a heck of a talent.” 

Notre Dame coach Tyrone 

Willingham, who earlier in the week 

called Orton “bulletproof,” was also 

singing Orton’s praises after witnessing 

Purdue’s fourth-straight 500-plus of total 

offense. 

“Orton has complete command 

of their system,” Willingham said. 

“He made some pretty big plays 

today. He had a real strong game. He 

came in not having thrown an interception 

and he didn’t have one 

today. There’s a reason for that. He 

does a great job.” 

After the contest, a relieved Tiller 

was tickled when talking to the large 

gathering of media. 

BY DOUG ELISH 

“This is a great win — no question 

about it,” Tiller said. “To come 

here to Notre Dame and win in this 

stadium is huge for us. Winning a 

game against this team (was great), 

because in my opinion watching 

Notre Dame over the course of last 

week, I was walking on eggshells. I 

thought this was the best team Coach 

Willingham has had at Notre Dame, 

and they were hitting on all eight 

cylinders. I was worried about their 

defensive front seven, and I thought 

our offensive line did a great job containing 

them today.” 

And the defense got the job done as 

well. 

Although the Irish accumulated 

536 yards of total offense, and Notre 

Dame quarterback set a Notre Dame 

Stadium record with 432 passing 

yards, the Boilermakers managed to 

keep the home team off the scoreboard 

in excess. 

After giving up 30 points to 

Illinois a week earlier, Spack hoped 

his defense would step up against 

Notre Dame. 

“I thought we played better here,” 

Spack said. “I didn’t think we’d play 

poorly, but I was hoping that we’d tackle 

better — that was our main goal to get 

better. 

“We kept the ball in front of us. We 

had some injuries we had to deal with in 

the second half, so it was critical to keep 

the ball in front of us.” 

The most crucial, and potentially 

costly at the time, was the injury of 

Anthony Spencer, who suffered a 

high-ankle sprain before halftime 

after posting four tackles, two sacks, 

the key forced fumble and a pass 

breakup. Spencer didn’t play in the 

second half, but was still a likely a 

candidate for the Purdue defensive 

player of the game. 

His positionmate, Ray Edwards, 

was nearly equally impressive, 

recording five tackles, 2.5 sacks and a 

forced fumble of his own. Linebacker 

George Hall again led the team with 

Orton Shines In Spotlight 

Against the Irish and in front 

of a national television audience, 

Kyle Orton made sure 

every Heisman voter knows what 

those close to Purdue have for a 

long time. 

He’s the real deal. 

A lot of pundits claimed 

Orton and Purdue weren’t as good 

as their wins over Syracuse, Ball 

State and Illinois made it seem. 

But against a Notre Dame team 

regarded as a true test, Orton had 

arguably the best performance of 

his career. 

After all, he completed 21 of 

31 passes for 385 yards. 

He threw four more touchdowns, 

bringing his total to 17 

without an interception. 

He led the offense to 41 

points against the Irish, the 

second-highest total by Purdue 

in the 76-year history of the 

series. 

Oh yeah, he did something 

Bob Griese, Gary Danielson, Mark 

Herrmann, Jim Everett and Drew 

Brees never could. He went to Notre Dame Stadium 

and came home with a win. 

He was so impressive even the Notre Dame 

players, who have no love-lost for Purdue, confirmed 

his legitimacy. 

“He was unstoppable. He is a great quarterback. 

A lot of people say he is the leading candidate for the 

Heisman Trophy,” Notre Dame defensive end Justin 

Tuck said. “He’s got my vote.” 

Defensive back Dwight Ellick, who was the one 

burned on Taylor Stubblefield’s 97-yard touchdown 

reception by a perfectly-thrown Orton ball, said 

Orton is the best he’s seen. 

“It’s the quarterback, to be honest with you,” 

Irish senior cornerback Dwight Ellick said. “He’s 

checking the defense, making his reads and every- 

Quarterback Kyle Orton continued his incredible streak of great performances posting a season-high 

385 passing yards and four touchdown passes. He became the first Boilermaker in 

history to toss four or more touchdown passes in four consecutive games. 

thing like that. You don’t see a quarterback who 

can make audibles and checks on every single 

play, week-in and week-out. You don’t see that at 

the college level.” 

It will be hard to find a Heisman list anywhere 

that disagrees with those two after Orton again 

orchestrated his offense to near perfection and in the 

process ended 30 years of Purdue frustration in 

South Bend. 

Certainly, it won’t be wide receiver Taylor 

Stubblefield’s list. After his 97-yard touchdown 

reception and when he knew the NBC cameras were 

on him, Stubblefield pointed to Orton and struck the 

Heisman pose, something Orton is about as likely to 

do as actually admit he cares about the highest 

honor in college football. 

Orton simply laughed at Stubblefield’s 

13 tackles. 

But the story was again the arm 

of Orton, who now leads the nation 

with 17 touchdown passes and no 

interceptions. 

And he continued to spread the 

wealth, connecting with eight different 

receivers. 

Stubblefield, who needs just 

three more receptions to replace 

former teammate John Standeford 

as the Big Ten’s all-time leading 

pass catcher, said the win, though a 

non-conference contest, was still 

pretty special. 

“It’s good for our team and great 

for the program,” Stubblefield said. 

“We just worried about ourselves — we 

didn’t worry about distractions. Our 

offense played well and our defense 

came up big at crucial times and we 

came out with a victory. It’s definitely 

big for our team, but it’s even bigger 

for our program. We’ve got the trophy 

and added another ‘P’ to it.” j 

antics and when asked if he had 

just proved himself in a stadium 

that’s housed more Heisman 

winners than anywhere else in 

college football history, he 

responded how he has after 

every other game this season. 

“I don’t know; I don’t have a 

vote,” Orton said. 

He did add that being in the 

running for the prestigious 

award means the team is doing 

well, but all the ever-increasing 

hype surrounding his personal 

achievements hasn’t changed a 

thing about his preparation, 

attitude or goals. 

“It feels the same as if I were a 

nobody,” Orton said. “It’s no added 

pressure for me. I’m just happy 

we’ve won four games and we are 

playing well.” 

It definitely doesn’t look like 

the pressure is effecting Orton as 

his poise and accuracy almost 

make his performances look 

easy. He never seems rattled 

even after a big hit or pressure 

in his face. 

Coach Joe Tiller and Orton 

have been saying all season that Orton’s experience 

and command of the system have finally 

allowed him to use his ample physical gifts to the 

fullest. Now, they just hope it lasts for seven 

more weeks. 

“I think (experience) is everything,” he said. 

“I don’t think I could have came in here as a 

freshman a few years back and played as well as I 

am right now. I’m so comfortable with the 

offense. We’re kind of in a groove right now and 

I just hope it keeps going.”j 

Doug Elish is a freelance contributor to Gold & 

Black Illustrated and GoldandBlack.com. 


THE VITALS 

When: Saturday, Oct. 9 

Where: Beaver Stadium (107,282) 

Playing Surface: Natural Grass 

Kickoff: 3:30 p.m. EST (West Lafayette 

time) 

TV Broadcast: ESPN 

Radio Broadcast: The Purdue Sports 

Network (Joe McConnell, play-by-play, Pete 

Quinn, color commentator, Tim Newton, 

anchor/producer Brett Schetzsle, sideline, 

Gary Kline, engineer) can be heard on over 

29 stations around the state, including the 

flagship station WSHP-FM (95.3, Lafayette) 

“The Rocket.” 

Series: Purdue trails 2-6-1, but defeated 

the Nittany Lions for the first time since 

they joined the Big Ten last season. 

Last Meeting: The Boilermakers won, 28-14, 

Oct. 11, 2003, in Ross-Ade Stadium. 

PSU 2004 SCHEDULE 

Date Opponent Result 

Sept. 4 AKRON W, 48-10 

Sept. 11 @ Boston College L, 7-21 

Sept. 18 CENTRAL FLORIDA W, 37-13 

Sept. 25 @ Wisconsin L, 3-16 

Oct. 2 @ Minnesota L, 7-16 

Oct. 9 PURDUE 

Oct. 23 IOWA 

Oct. 30 @ Ohio State 

Nov. 6 NORTHWESTERN 

Nov. 13 @ Indiana 

Nov. 20 MICHIGAN STATE 

PSU 2003 RESULTS 

Opponent Result 

TEMPLE W, 23-10 

BOSTON COLLEGE L, 14-27 

@ Nebraska L, 10-18 

KENT STATE W, 32-10 

MINNESOTA L, 14-20 

WISCONSIN L, 23-30 

@ Purdue L, 14-28 

@ Iowa L, 14-26 

OHIO STATE L, 20-21 

@ Northwestern L, 7-17 

INDIANA W, 52-7 

@ Michigan State L, 10-41 

Game Five: Penn State Nittany Lions 

BY DOUG GRIFFITHS 

DGriffiths@Goldand-Black.com 

Penn State fell to 0-2 in the 

Big Ten after a 16-7 loss Oct. 2 at 

No. 18 Minnesota. 

The 2-3 Nittany Lions’ 

defense played well enough to 

win, but their offense staggered 

as the Blue and White gained a 

total of 271 yards. 

Penn State senior quarterback 

Zack Mills started after suffering 

a shoulder injury the week 

before at Wisconsin. He completed 

24-of-46 passes for 250 

yards and an interception. 

Over the last two seasons, senior 

quarterback Zack Mills has thrown 

11 touchdown passes and 13 

interceptions. (Craig Melvin/Getty 

Images) 

While the Lions are slumping, Purdue is soaring. The Boilermakers 

are off to a 4-0 start (1-0 in the Big Ten) and will conclude a grueling 

three-game road trip when they visit State College Oct. 9. 

Below is a look at the key matchups when the Boilermakers and 

Nittany Lions meet for the fourth time in Happy Valley since Penn State 

joined the Big Ten. 

PSU RUNNING GAME VS. PU AGAINST THE RUN 

The Boilermakers took away Notre Dame’s running 

game and made the Irish one-dimensional and must do 

the same against the Nittany Lions. 

Rest assured that Coach Joe Paterno wants to control 

the clock and keep Kyle Orton off the field. 

He won’t get his wish though if the Lions are as ineffective 

on the ground as they were at Minnesota. Penn State rushed for 

a woeful 21 yards (fourth-lowest under Paterno) on 22 attempts (thirdfewest 

under Paterno). 

Purdue will have its sights on No. 26 Tony Hunt, the Lions’ leading 

rusher. He is also a threat coming out of the backfield after catching 

seven passes for 110 yards at Minnesota (the first Penn State running 

back to top 100 yards receiving since 1981). 

Penn State ranks 61st in the nation in rushing, averaging 152.6 

yards per game, while Purdue’s run defense is 13th (allowing 90.5 

yards). 

Advantage: Purdue 

PSU PASSING GAME VS. PU AGAINST THE PASS 

We saw significant improvement in the Boilermakers’ tackling 

No. Name Pos. 

2 Ray Williams WR 

3 Garret Bushong TE 

3 Jason Renn QB 

4 Fabian Martin DB 

4 Matt Pruitt CB 

5 Zach Logan CB 

6 Desmond Tardy WR 

7 Kyle Smith SS 

8 Grant Walker FS 

9 Dorien Bryant WR 

10 Ray Edwards DE 

11 Brandon Kirsch QB 

12 Antwaun Rogers CB 

13 Torri Williams SS 

14 Scott Carroll QB 

16 Dave Brytus P 

17 Josh Ferguson LB 

17 Curtis Painter QB 

18 Kyle Orton QB 

19 Paul Dubler CB 

19 Brandon Whittington WR 

20 Andre Chattams WR 

21 Taylor Stubblefield WR 

22 Jerome Brooks RB 

23 Kevin Noel WR 

24 Sean Petty CB 

24 Sean Bird WR 

25 Paul Long FS 

25 Jake Standeford WR 

26 Brandon Lombardy RB 

26 Lance Melvin FS 

27 Brandon Jones RB 

28 Dustin Keller TE 

29 Aaron Levin P/K 

30 George Hall LB 

No. Name Pos. 

1 “Phillips, Anwar CB 

3 “Bulter, Deon Db 

3 Ganter, Chris QB 

4 Gould, Robbie PK 

5 Kanuch, Jim Saf 

6 Hart, Mike QB 

6 Johnson, Donnie CB 

7 Mills, Zack QB 

8 Kinlaw, Rodney TB 

9 Phillips, Terrance WR 

10 Lowry, Calvin Saf 

11 Ganter, Jason Saf 

11 Golden, Terrell WR 

12 Robinson, Michael QB 

13 Humes, Patrick K 

13 Palmer, Kinta WR 

14 Kubic, Andy LB 

14 Morelli, Anthony QB 

15 Cianciolo, Paul QB 

15 Wise, Brent CB 

16 Corrado, Dan QB 

16 Davis, Tony DB 

17 Chisley, Lavon DE 

18 Guman, Andrew Saf 

19 Lundquist, Tom QB 

19 Smith, Gerald WR 

20 Shaw, Tim LB 

21 Prokopik, Joe WR/K 

21 Zemaitis, Alan CB 

22 Hardy, Darien CB 

22 Hill, Jed TE 

23 Mills, Marcus CB 

24 McCready, Nolan Saf 

25 Perretta, Brendan WR 

26 Hunt, Tony TB 

27 Harrell, Chris Saf 

29 Cronin, Paul Saf 

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Purdue Boilermakers 

31 Bernard Pollard SS 

32 Jerod Void RB 

33 Brian Hickman CB 

34 Jimmy Ladd FB 

35 Ben Jones K 

36 Dan Bick LB 

36 Casey Welch K 

37 Hakeem Abdullah RB 

37 Rafael Price WR 

38 Brian Mattaway SS 

39 Bobby Iwuchukwu LB 

40 Kory Sheets RB 

41 John Lampert LB 

42 Anthony Heygood RB 

42 Craig Mansfield LB 

43 James Flanagan LB 

44 Jon Goldsberry FB 

45 Gene Bright DE 

46 Luis Vasquez LB 

47 Mike Durrett LB 

48 Pat Kohtz SS 

49 Anthony Spencer DE 

50 Tyler Moore OG 

51 Garret Miller OT 

52 Hugh Johnson LB 

52 Mike Durrett LB 

53 Nick Fincher OG 

54 Adam Huebner DE 

55 Brandon Villarreal DT 

56 Matt Turner C 

57 Jeremy Coley DE 

58 Brent Grover DT 

59 Stanford Keglar LB 

60 Zach Smith OT 

61 Chris Mattson LS 

62 Craig Henderson DT 

30 Snow, BranDon LB 

31 Posluszny, Paul LB 

33 Scott, Austin TB 

34 Hahn, Matt RB 

34 Vendemia, Gio CB 

35 Royse, John CB 

35 Zwierzynski, J.R. OLB 

36 Kapinos, Jeremy P 

36 Pinchek, Nick RB 

37 Ridenhour, Spencer DB 

38 Lawlor, Dan FB 

39 Jefferson, Paul FB 

40 Connor, Dan LB 

41 Paxson, Scott DT 

42 Senk, Adam FB 

43 Kilmer, Ethan LB 

44 Hall, Patrick DE 

45 Bedics, Pat LB 

46 Reese, Curt DB 

46 Sales, Tyrell LB 

47 Gilmore, Brian FB 

49 Burton, Dorian LB 

49 Ream, Brandon P 

50 Richardson, Andrew T 

51 Harris, Tim DL 

52 Brown, Dontey LB 

53 Roach, Steve DT 

54 Davis, Scott G 

54 Purcell, Amani DE 

55 Rice, Matthew DE 

56 Hinton, Austin OL 

56 Sothern, Mike LB 

57 Mauriello, Chris KS 

58 Harrison, Greg T 

59 Rush, Charles G 

60 Weber, Patrick C 

61 Muir, Ross OL 

62 Daise, Nick DL 

63 David Owen OT 

64 Danny May OG 

65 Mike Otto OT 

66 Jordan Grimes OG 

67 Uche Nwaneri OG 

68 Robbie Powell C 

69 Neal Tull DT 

71 Dan Zaleski OT 

72 Chris Mattson LS 

73 Jeff Bennett TE 

74 Sean Sester OT 

75 Brian Wang OT 

76 Willie Bach OG 

77 Ryan Noblet OT 

78 Nick Maynard C 

79 Jermaine Guynn DE 

80 Brian Hare WR 

81 Al Royal LB 

82 Cory Benton TE 

83 Jake Cunningham WR 

84 Byron Williams WR 

85 Cliff Avril LB 

86 Chase Lecklider WR 

87 Charles Davis TE 

88 Drew Rucks LB 

89 Kyle Ingraham WR 

90 Ryan Baker TE 

91 Nick Cavallo DE 

93 Rob Ninkovich DE 

94 Jerry Wasikowski TE 

96 Nick Raben TE 

97 Jamaal Jones DT 

98 Dan McGowen DT 

99 Jonathan Patton DT 

Penn State Nittany Lions 

63 Toriello, Joe OL 

64 Bowman, Wyatt OL 

65 Price, Robert G 

66 Antolick, Lance C 

67 Brown, Levi T 

68 Wilson, John T 

69 Schnell, Tommy OL 

70 Marmo, Nick G 

71 Baird, Mike WR 

71 Farris, Mark T 

72 Lispi, Lee G 

72 Varva, Trent OL 

73 Holler, Joel T 

74 Reed, Tyler G 

75 Kuzemchak, Lee OL 

76 Cadogan, Gerald OL 

77 Smith, E.Z. C 

78 Shaw, John DT 

79 Auletta, Chris T 

80 Rubin, Mark WR 

81 Smolko, Isaac TE 

82 Surma, Vic WR 

83 Scott, Ryan WR 

84 Gaines, Josh DE 

85 Alford, Jay DT 

86 Lucien, Mike DL 

87 Bronson, John TE 

88 Darlin, Kevin TE 

89 Lyons, Jordan TE 

90 Robinson, Jason TE 

91 Hali, Tamba DL 

92 Johnson, Ed DT 

93 Shipley, A.Q. DT 

94 Wake, Derek DE 

95 Robinson, Elijah DT 

96 Ohrnberger, Rich DL 

98 Pawlikowski, Mike TE

effort against the Irish compared to the Illinois 

game. With that in mind, we expect to see a much 

better effort from Purdue’s linebackers covering the 

tight end in the passing game. 

As always, getting pressure on the quarterback 

will be key, especially since the Lions will probably be faced with 

several third-and-long situations. 

Keep in mind, that senior quarterback Zack Mills still won’t 

be close to 100 percent after partially separating his right (nonthrowing) 

shoulder against the Badgers. 

Also, the left-handed Mills has been prone to turn the ball 

over often during his career. He has thrown five touchdown passes 

with eight interceptions in 2004 and has been picked off 35 

times (compared to 37 TD passes) during the course of his career. 

If Michael Robinson is unable to go after suffering a concussion 

against Wisconsin, Penn State’s passing attack will be greatly 

effected. Robinson holds the Lions’ longest pass reception of 

the season (49 yards), but after that the longest play has been 32. 

Not helping matters in this category has been the fact that 

Penn State’s receivers have dropped several passes on numerous 

occasions. 

Purdue must improve its pass defense, which is surrendering 

239.5 yards per game (85th nationally). 

You can bet Penn State will try and exploit that any and 

every way it can. 


PU RUNNING GAME VS. PSU AGAINST THE RUN 

The 77-year-old Paterno says the Lions aren’t as 

bad as some people believe at stopping the run 

(54th nationally, permitting 135.8 yards per game) 

so we think the Blue and White will play with a lot 

of energy and hold the Boilermaker running attack 

in check. 

Plus, Jerod Void is less than 100 percent after banging up his 

left shoulder against the Irish. 

The Lions did a decent job on Minnesota’s rushing attack, 

which entered play Oct. 2 averaging a Big Ten-best 332 yards per 

game. The Gophers settled for 288 yards on the ground, including 

a season-low 143 in the first two quarters. 

Nonetheless, Purdue proved against Notre Dame that it 

doesn’t have to run the ball especially well to be productive 

offensively. 

Advantage: Penn State 

PU PASSING GAME VS. PSU AGAINST THE PASS 

How would you like to be a defensive coordinator 

trying to devise a game plan to slow down 

the Boilermaker aerial attack and quarterback Kyle 

Orton? 

Purdue ranks second in the nation in passing 

2004 Top Nittany Lion Statistical Leaders 

Rushing Att. Yds. Avg. TDs Long Avg/G 

Hunt, T. 69 410 5.1 4 77 82.0 

Scott, A. 21 172 8.2 2 47 43.0 

Robinson, M. 22 99 4.5 0 14 24.8 

Passing Att. Comp. Pct. Yds. TD Int. Long 

Mills, Z. 129 76 58.9 890 5 8 49 

Receiving No. Yds. Avg. TDs Long 

Hunt, T. 17 168 9.9 0 24 

Robinson, M. 16 231 14.4 1 49 

Smith, G. 14 201 14.4 0 27 

Jefferson, P. 10 63 6.3 0 20 

Tackles UT AT Tot Sacks 

Posluszny, P. 22 17 39 1.0 

Guman, A. 27 10 37 0.0 

Shaw, T. 19 14 33 0.5 

Rice, M. 17 13 30 1.0 

Zemaitis, A. 20 5 25 0.0 

follett’s 

Top Twenty 

1st 

Place 

Team Pts Record Votes 

1 USC 132 4-0 3 

2 Oklahoma 116 4-0 1 

3 Georgia 114 4-0 1 

4 Auburn 99 5-0 1 

5 Miami Fla. 92 4-0 

5 Texas 92 4-0 

7 Purdue 78 4-0 

8 California 74 3-0 

8 Virginia 74 4-0 

10 Florida St. 65 3-1 

11 Minnesota 53 5-0 

12 Utah 51 5-0 

13 Michigan 49 4-1 

14 Florida 46 3-1 

15 Wisconsin 45 5-0 

16 Ohio St. 22 3-1 

17 Tennessee 19 3-1 

18 West Virginia 17 4-1 

19 Arizona St. 16 

20 Maryland 13 

Also receiving votes: Louisville, Boise State, LSU, 

Oklahoma State. Voting Panel: Jeff Gulick, Follett’s; 

Joe McConnell, Purdue Sports Radio Network; Alan 

Karpick, Gold & Black Illustrated; Lanny Sigo, 

WASK-Radio and Guest Fans Brent Talcott and 

Keith Didion. 

offense, averaging 370.3 yards per game. 

Orton will be looking to become the first Purdue quarterback 

ever to have four consecutive 300-yard passing games. 

He’ll do just that if Stubblefield continues to sizzle. He is 

making a strong case for being the front runner for the Biletnikoff 

Award this season. No. 21 has been sensational to date, hauling 

in 28 passes for 505 yards (that’s an average of 18 yards per grab) 

and a whopping 10 touchdowns. In just four games Stubblefield 

is just three touchdown receptions short of the school single-season 

record shared by John Standeford and Vinny Sutherland. 

Stubblefield is playing with more confidence than ever and 

has that mind set that no one can cover him let alone catch 

him. 

Penn State’s defense limited Minnesota quarterback Bryan 

Cupito to 113 yards passing (8-for-18) and intercepted him 

once. Cupito, however, isn’t in the same league as Orton. 

Statistically, the Lions are 18th in the country in pass 

defense, allowing 161.2 yards per game, but haven’t faced an 

offense nearly as committed to the pass as 

Purdue’s. 


SPECIAL TEAMS 

Purdue’s special teams were special against 

Notre Dame and if they continue to play like that they could be 

the difference between a very good season and a special season. 

Ben Jones hit both of his field goal versus Notre Dame and 

has now connected on 5-of-6 attempts this season, including 

five straight. 

Opponents now have to fear Jerome Brooks’ ability to 

change the complexion of a game. 

Freshman Dave Brytus has been OK in the punting department, 

averaging 38.1 yards. To his defense, he hasn’t gotten a lot 

of practice in game conditions (just nine attempts). Brytus has 

put five of those nine inside the 20. 

Talk about not many chances … that certainly applies to 

Penn State kicker Robbie Gould. He has hit 1-of-3 field goals this 

season, a 23-yarder. 

Like Brytus, Penn State punter Jeremy Kapino has been average 

at best. He’s averaging 37.8 yards per punt with six going 

inside the 20. However, Kapino has punted 26 times in five games. 

There doesn’t appear to be a big threat in the return game 

for the Lions as they have yet to run back a kickoff or a punt 

longer than 30 yards. 

Penn State has allowed a punt return for a touchdown. 

The Lions’ strengths on special teams is blocking kicks. 


GUT FEELING 

Will Purdue suffer a letdown after such an 

impressive performance at Notre Dame? Not with 

the way Orton is playing and leading the offense. 

Penn State is playing with little to no confidence. 

After all, the Lions have lost nine of their last 10 Big Ten games. 

Purdue, on the other hand, has an abundance of confidence 

after its showing in South Bend. 

If the Boilermakers get off to a good start and silence the 

Penn State faithful (except for the “Joe must go!” shouts), this 

one could get out of hand early. 

Keep in mind that Purdue leads the nation in total offense, 

averaging 549.3 yards per game and is second in scoring offense, 

averaging 47.3 points. Penn State, on the other hand, is 65th in 

the country in total offense (364.8 yards per game) and 90th in 

scoring offense (20.4 points). 


PREDICTION 

PURDUE 34, PENN STATE 17 

If the Boilermakers can win in Notre Dame Stadium for the 

first time in 30 years, they certainly can defeat a slumping Penn 

State program for the first time ever in Beaver Stadium. 

As long as Purdue protects the ball, they’ll win going away 

in this one. 

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2004 OPPONENT PREVIEW 

SCOUTING PENN STATE 



BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR 

… (a.k.a. STRENGTHS) 

R Beaver Stadium and its expected 

sellout crowd of 107,282 will be the 

largest venue the Boilermakers play in 

in the regular season. 

Penn State fans have been encouraged 

to “White Out” Purdue by wearing 

a white shirt or sweatshirt to the game. 

R Penn State’s defense probably 

isn’t as good as Notre Dame’s, but can 

have its moments. 

The Lions held Minnesota to 16 

points, 28 points below its season average 

of 44.2 points per game. 

In addition, they held the Gophers 

142 yards below their season average of 

542.8 yards per game. 

Penn State ranks 22nd in scoring 

defense (allowing 15.2 points per 

game), 26th in the country in total 

defense (297 yards allowed per game). 

R If junior quarterback Michael 

Robinson returns to action, and that 

may be a big if considering he suffered 

a head injury less than two weeks ago, 

he would be cause for concern for 

Purdue. 

The multi-talented Robinson started 

at wide receiver for the third time 

this season Sept. 25 at Wisconsin and 

made a 49-yard catch and run on the 

first play of the game. It was the longest 

reception of his career. 

Robinson is the Lions’ second-leading 

receiver with 16 catches for 231 

yards and one touchdown. He also has 

rushed for 99 yards on 22 carries and is 

5-of-8 passing for 87 yards and one 

score. Robinson is second on the team 

with 330 all-purpose yards. 

Last year against Purdue, 

Robinson replaced the injured Mills 

at quarterback and connected on just 

10-of-32 passes for 98 yards and one 

touchdown. 

R The Lions have a knack for 

blocking kicks. 

Defensive tackle Scott Paxson 

blocked two field goal attempts at 

Minnesota and now has five in his 

career (three this season). 

Outside linebacker Derek Wake 

blocked a Gopher PAT to record his 

seventh blocked kick of his career. 

R At times, senior quarterback 

Zack Mills, who is tied for fourth alltime 

in school annals with 37 career 

touchdown passes, can be a strength or 

a weakness. 

Mills, who has 15 200-yard passing 

games in his career (one behind 

the school’s all-time leader — Kerry 

Collins), is completing 58.9 percent 

of his passes (76-of-129) for 890 yards 

with five touchdowns and eight 

interceptions. 

He threw for 111 yards in the 

first half against the Gophers, but 

couldn’t guide Penn State past 

Minnesota’s 43 until the Lions’ final 

drive of the half. 

NITTANY LIONS 

AT A GLANCE 

Location: University Park, Pa. 

Nickname: Nittany Lions 

Colors: Blue and White 

Enrollment: 41,795 

Conference: Big Ten 

Stadium: Beaver Stadium (107,282) 

Last Time Went To Bowl: 2002 (Capital One 

Bowl, a 13-9 loss to Auburn) 

Head Coach: Joe Paterno (Brown, 1950) 

R 341-112-3 overall, 55-35 in the Big 

Ten, as Penn State’s head coach (39 seasons) 

R Assistant coach, Penn State (1950-65) 

2003 Record: 3-9 overall, 1-7 in the Big Ten (tied for ninth) 

Lineup: 

Offensive Formation: Multiple 

Defensive Formation: Multiple 

Returning Starters/Lost: 15/12 

Returning Lettermen/Lost: 32/21 

Website: www.bwi.rivals.com 

Penn State coach 

Joe Paterno 

ACHILLES’ HEEL 

… (a.k.a. 

WEAKNESSES) 

R Coach Joe 

Paterno summed up 

how thrilled he is 

about his team right 

now shortly after 

losing to Minnesota. 

“I’m not anxious 

to talk about the 

play of anybody,” 

Paterno said. “We just have to find some 

people who can make a play.” 

Enough said. 

R Penn State’s offense is struggling. 

In its first two Big Ten games, it 

scored a combined 10 points. That’s the 

fewest two-game total since scoring a 

combined six points at Pittsburgh and 

Ohio State in 2000. 

R If Robinson is unable to play 

against Purdue, that would greatly 

reduce Penn State’ potency on offense. 

Robinson traveled with the team to 

Minnesota but did not dress. He had 

several follow-up tests since his concussion 

at Wisconsin. Robinson is listed as 

week-to-week with original estimates 

from team doctors ranging from two to 

four weeks. 

R The Lions are 101st in the 

nation in turnover margin (-1.20 with 

10 takeaways and 16 giveaways). 

R A winning attitude. Since the 

1999 season, Penn State is 24-29 overall, 

including 14-20 in the Big Ten. 

R Penn State’s top five receivers 

from last year are gone, including 

Maurice Humphrey. He left the team in 

the spring while facing charges relating 

to an alleged assault. Humphrey was 

later acquitted of felony assault 

charges, but found guilty of three misdemeanor 

counts of simple assault. 

Last season, Humphrey had 30 

receptions, 410 receiving yards and one 

touchdown. 

R Over the last two seasons, 

Robbie Gould has hit just 2-of-10 field 

goals from beyond 40 yards. 

R You probably never thought you 

would see the day where Paterno would 

play a number of true freshmen, but 

that day has come. So far this season, 

Paterno has played six true freshmen. 

DID YOU KNOW? 

R A win would make the Boilers 

5-0 for the first time since 1945. 

R The last time Purdue won its 

first two Big Ten road games was 1997 

when it defeated Minnesota (59-43) 

and Illinois (48-3). 

R The last time the Boilermakers 

won three straight road games was 

1943 when they toppled Wisconsin, 

Minnesota and Indiana. Purdue went 

9-0 that season. 

R Under Coach Joe Tiller, Purdue 

is 0-8 in road games against Penn State, 

Ohio State and Michigan. 

R Under Tiller, Purdue is 6-1 in 

games immediately following the Notre 

Dame game. The lone loss came to 

Washington State in the 2001 Sun Bowl. 

R You might have noticed that 

Purdue will play at Penn State two years 

in a row. After their visit to Happy 

Valley Oct. 9, the Boilermakers will 

return to State College Oct. 29, 2005. 

Why? 

That’s just the way the schedule the 

computer spits out the schedule. 

R Penn State is 0-2 in the Big Ten 

for the fourth time in 12 years of conference 

play. 

R Coach Joe Paterno hired former 

Penn State player Galen Hall, the former 

head coach at Florida, to be his 

offensive coordinator. 

R Paterno flew home without his 

team after the Nittany Lions’ loss to 

Wisconsin when he learned his son-inlaw 

had been involved in a serious 

bicycle accident. 

Craig Melvin/Getty Images 

Junior quarterback Michael Robinson, who 

is the Lions’ most potent offensive threat, 

was knocked out of the Wisconsin game 

Sept. 25 and was taken off the field by an 

ambulance. He suffered a concussion and 

didn’t play Oct. 2 at Minnesota. He is 

questionable for the Purdue game. 

Paterno was told after the game 

that Chris Hort, the husband of his 

daughter, Mary Kay, was in intensive 

care at a hospital in State College, Pa., 

with a head injury. 

Paterno’s wife, Sue, was at Camp 

Randall when she learned of the accident 

during the first half and immediately 

flew back to Pennsylvania. 

R Last year’s 3-9 record was 

Paterno’s worst at Penn State, but he 

was offered a new four-year extension 

that will put him at age 82 if the 

Nittany Lions go to a bowl game after 

the 2008 season. 

Paterno, who has donated millions 

of dollars to Penn State, continues to 

say he isn’t close to retiring. 

R The Sporting News ranked Penn 

State 55th nationally and eighth in the 

Big Ten. j 

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Q&A WITH OFFENSIVE COORDINATOR JIM CHANEY 

ANOTHER SPECTACULAR JOB 

Boilers’ Offensive Onslaught Blows Out Notre Dame In South Bend 



SOUTH BEND, Ind. — It’s hard not 

to sound like a broken record these 

days when describing Purdue’s offensive 

output. 

But here goes. 

In the Boilermakers’ 25-point win 

Oct. 2 at Notre Dame, Purdue racked 

up more than 500 yards of total 

offense for the fourth straight game 

this season. 

Quarterback Kyle Orton threw 

four touchdown passes. He’s had at 

least four TD tosses in every game 

this season. In addition, Orton didn’t 

throw an interception. He hasn’t 

been picked off in 137 pass attempts 

this season. 

And finally for the fourth game 

in a row, Purdue scored at least 38 

points (something no Purdue team 

has done in 117 years of football) and 

didn’t commit a turnover. 

“I can’t find a lot to be critical of 

at this moment and I’m really not 

looking for it,” offensive coordinator 

Jim Chaney said. “I’m just thrilled to 

death.” 

Gold & Black Illustrated talked 

with Chaney after the Boilermakers’ 

thrilling win. Below is what he had to 

say. 

GBI: It doesn’t get much bigger 

than this win does it? 

Chaney: “No. We’ve been here 

eight years and there are a lot of 

things we have and haven’t done. 

One thing we have not been able to 

accomplish is to come up here and 

beat Notre Dame. To do it is refreshing 

and comforting. 

“Joe (Tiller), Brock (Spack) and 

Gary (Emanuel) have been here a 

long time, we’re competitive people 

and we know down deep that that’s 

the one thing we hadn’t gotten done 

and we did today. 

“The players played their butts 

off.” 

GBI: In a lot of ways to a lot of 

people it’s more than just one win, 

right? 

Chaney: “It might be for a lot of 

people and for the guy I work for 

(Tiller), Spack and Gary who have 

lived through a few up here you’re 

right … it probably is a little more 

than that. 

“It’s winning in an environment 

that you respect and that’s an incredible 

accomplishment for our football 

team.” 

GBI: In the game’s opening 

series, you made a statement by getting 

a number of players involved. 

Chaney: “Oh yeah. That’s what 

we were trying to do. We were trying 

to decoy them, do our little game and 

go up and down the field and then 

we got the chance to make some big 

plays. 

“It was like we smelled blood 

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Junior receiver Ray Williams was one of several 

Boilermakers to step up big against Notre Dame 

nearly tripling his production in the previous 

three games with five catches for 59 yards. 

when they started playing a lot of 

press man on us. We weren’t sure 

whether or not we could get off (the 

line of scrimmage). When we did, it 

all kind of avalanched and our kids 

had a lot of confidence. They were 

wanting to throw the ball down the 

field all the time and I was having 

Kyle throw the ball down the field 

quite a bit.” 

GBI: Big games are decided by big 

plays and Jerome Brooks’ 100-yard 

kickoff return for a touchdown was 

huge. 

Chaney: “I would say that was big, 

but I would say the biggest play of this 

game was the fumble (by Notre Dame) 

on the (Purdue) 2. And us going 97 

yards on that drive really turned the 

momentum on them and really gave 

us something to hang our hats on at 

halftime.” 

GBI: Take us through the 97yard 

touchdown pass from Orton to 

Taylor Stubblefield. 

Chaney: “That was a hell of a 

play. I did not expect them to play 

man-to-man coverage. We told Kyle 

as soon as they got back to man, Let’s 

keep throwing it to Taylor.’ 

“I called the play, they were playing 

straight up man, Kyle audibled 

and threw a touchdown. 

“He changes about 20 percent of 

the plays. That’s what a good quarterback 

does. He changed things up 

on that play and made a good play.” 

GBI: Another good play call was on 

first-and-goal from the Notre Dame 2. 

You had Orton bootleg and he hit a 

wide-open Rob Ninkovich for a touchdown 

in the second quarter. 

Chaney: “It worked. It’s always good 

when they work.” 

GBI: In the last couple of years 

you’ve taken some heat for your playcalling 

… 

Chaney: “Yeah, that’s life in the big 

city. Kyle Orton is a hell of a player. If he’s 

saying he wants something, I’m 

calling it. I may not be the smartest 

man in the world, but when I’ve got 

a quarterback playing as hot as Kyle 

is right now and he requests something, 

he’s getting it. I’m going to 

feed that monster until it dies.” 

GBI: Is anyone hotter than 

Orton right now? 

Chaney: “I don’t see everyone 

else, but the one we’ve got is 

playing real well.” 

GBI: You don’t like to talk 

about the Heisman Trophy, but 

he certainly made a statement 

today with his performance. 

Chaney: “I’ll just let his play 

speak for itself.” 

GBI: Some thought Notre 

Dame would try to take 

Stubblefield out of your arsenal 

by double-covering him (bracketing 

him). 

Chaney: “Going into the ball 

game, we never thought that. Notre 

Dame has not been playing a lot of 

press coverage and they’ve been playing 

very good defense so we weren’t 

anticipating them coming in and 

bracketing and doing a bunch of 

crazy stuff to take away Taylor.” 

GBI: Did they defend you differently 

than Illinois? 

Chaney: “Yes. They were on us 

more and did less zone pressure than 

Illinois did. They played man-to-man 

a whole lot more. You can generate a 

lot more big plays when you’re facing 

man-to-man coverage.” 

GBI: Talk about the performance 

put in by the offensive line 

today. 

Chaney: “I said earlier if there is 

an MVP of this game, it’s the offensive 

line. Coming in, we thought the 

strength of their team was their 

defensive front and that we had to 

negate them. Our kids did a wonderful 

job without having to throw a lot 

of quick game. We did a lot of fivestep 

drops. We held up marvelously 

well. 

“I couldn’t be more pleased with 

them and I told every one of them 

that. They played really well.” 

GBI: Do you realize just how big 

of a win this is to Purdue fans? 

Chaney: “I’m a Purdue fan and 

it’s very big to me. It’s big any time 

you beat a team like Notre Dame. As 

a coaching staff, we respect them so 

much. They do such a wonderful job 

recruiting and coaching that any 

time you beat a team that you put on 

a pedestal … that’s pretty good.” j 

You can get Chaney’s thoughts after 

each game all season long on 

GoldandBlack.com. 


Q&A WITH DEFENSIVE COORDINATOR BROCK SPACK 

BEND BUT DON’T BREAK MENTALITY 

Boilers Accomplish No. 1 Goal … Stop Irish Ground Attack 



SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Purdue’s No. 1 

defensive goal entering its game Oct. 2 at 

Notre Dame was to make the Irish onedimensional. 

The Boilermakers did just that. 

Defensive coordinator Brock Spack’s 

unit limited the Irish to 76 yards rushing 

(2.1 yards per rush). Entering the game, 

Notre Dame was averaging 116.2 yards 

rushing per game. 

“They’ve had a lot of success at running 

the football,” Spack said. “They ran 

the ball really well on Michigan (40 carries 

for 135 yards and two touchdowns), 

which concerned us a great deal. We 

wanted to make them one-dimensional 

today and try to keep the ball in front of 

us. We had to do that and did.” 

But the Boilermakers were torched 

through the air by Notre Dame sophomore 

quarterback Brady Quinn for a 

Purdue opponent record 432 yards and 

gave up more than 500 yards for just the 

second time in Spack’s eight years as 

defensive coordinator.. 

However, the Boilermaker D had a 

bend but don’t break mentality. 

Notre Dame was in Purdue territory 

on 10 of 11 possessions in the game, but 

scored just two touchdowns and settled 

for one field goal. The Irish also had a 44yard 

field goal partially blocked. 

On one of Notre Dame’s deepest drives, 

it was kept off the scoreboard thanks 

to a great play by defensive tackle 

Anthony Spencer. On second-and-goal 

from the Purdue 2, Irish running back 

Darius Walker ran left and had the ball 

ripped out of his arms by Spencer. 

Defensive tackle Brent Grover recovered 

it at the 3. 

The Boilermakers proceeded on a 97yard 

drive to make it 20-3 and never 

looked back. 

Spack said Spencer’s play couldn’t 

have come at a better time. 

“That was a huge strip,” said Spack, 

who shaved off his mustache as he 

promised the team he would if it beat the 

Irish. “It’s just great to see a kid execute 

what you try to teach. 

“Spencer got hurt (sprained his ankle 

late in the second quarter). He was having 

the game of his life. I can’t count the 

plays in the first half that he made.” 

Following are Spack’s thoughts on 

Purdue’s fourth win of the season. 

GBI: How big is this win? 

Spack: “In the last eight years, we’ve 

been up here three times and it was really 

frustrating. We had come very close 

and hadn’t been able to pull it off. 

“Today was really unbelievable.” 

GBI: When you were walking off the 

field were you kind of pinching yourself 

looking at that scoreboard? 

Tom Campbell 

Defensive coordinator Brock Spack reacts after the 

Boilermakers force a three-and-out in the second quarter. 

Unfortunately, the Boilers were whistled for offsides on 

the Irish punt on the next play which kept the drive 

alive. The Irish were stopped later when Darius Walker 

fumbled near the goal line. 

Spack: “Yeah. In the last five or six 

minutes of the game, you knew it was 

over and it was quite a feeling.” 

GBI: Can you put into words what 

this win means to Purdue fans? 

Spack: “No. You get tired of getting 

it (losing to Notre Dame in South Bend) 

shoved in your face all the time. I heard 

so many times, ‘You can’t win up there.’” 

GBI: Doesn’t a win like this put the 

2004 team in a special place in 

Boilermaker lore? 

Spack: “Our theme was that it was 

just another game. I told our players during 

the week, ‘If you win this game here, 

it is what legends are made of.’ You then 

become a very special group because 

obviously it doesn’t happen very often at 

Purdue.” 

GBI: A lot of critics took the 

approach that they would believe it once 

they saw it in terms of Purdue winning 

at Notre Dame. 

Spack: “This is the fourth time we’ve 

been here in the last eight years. All four 

times we thought we could win and this 

time we finally did it. These kids did a 

great job. What more can you ask for?” 

GBI: The tackling effort was much 

better against the Irish than at Illinois, 

which you thought would be the case. 

Spack: “I thought we would play 

hard here. We always seem to do that. 

They learned from last week that you 

can’t take anything for granted in the 

game of football. It can make you look 

like a fool or like today it can make you 

look like a hero.” 

“I had a slight smile 

on my face as I left Illinois’ 

stadium last week because 

I thought that was good 

for us. We won, but we 

went through some adversity. 

It was a great teaching 

tool for us.” 

GBI: How did the 

tackling improve that 

much in just a week? 

Spack: “It’s a mental 

issue. Always remember 

this in football … ties go 

to the offense. If you go in 

there and tie up a blocker 

or lean on a ball carrier, 

that goes to the offense 

because you have to whip 

the blocker, accelerate to 

the ball and terminate the 

ball-carrier. 

“We didn’t do that on 

every play last Saturday. 

And when you play 

against good teams like 

Notre Dame that can run 

the football, you cannot 

allow them to run the ball 

because they would have 

you on your heels.” 

GBI: What do you 

think of the offense? 

Spack: “It’s unbelievable. At all the 

alumni functions I did in the spring and 

summer I said that I thought No. 18 

(Kyle Orton) was one of the best I’ve ever 

been around and I’ve been around some 

great ones. 

“He is a great player and he has proven 

it. He has something that is hard to coach 

and that is he’s mentally tough and physically 

tough and has great arm strength. He 

has turned into a great player. 

“I have not seen one like him.” 

GBI: Is there a player anywhere in 

the country right now hotter than 

Orton? 

Spack: “I don’t think so. I could see 

this coming in the spring.” 

GBI: After Spencer caused the fumble, 

the offense went on a 97-yard 

touchdown drive. How big was that? 

Spack: “It was huge. When you turn 

it over and a team comes back and scores 

off that turnover, it’s just heartbreaking 

and really hurts your confidence.” 

GBI: Just out of curiosity, does your 

defense stop Orton and Co.? 

Spack: “I wouldn’t say we stop 

them. Once in a while we might slow 

them down a little bit, but he’s awfully 

good.” j 

You can get Spack’s thoughts after each 

game weekly on GoldandBlack.com. 


O DOUBT 

Photos by Tom Campbell 

HE DROUGHT IS OVER 

Boilers Post Worst 

Beating On Irish 

In 44 Years 

Sophomore Jerome Brooks’ (22) 100yard 

first quarter kickoff return 

changed the complexion of the game 

and started the Boilermakers on 

their first celebration on Irish turf in 

30 years. Brooks became the first 

Purdue player since Jimmy Smith 

(and the fourth ever) in 1981 to 

return a kick 100 yards for a score 

and the 14th player overall to score 

on a kickoff return. 

Sophomore strong safety Bernard Pollard looks 

on as Notre Dame tight end Anthony Fasano 

stretches out in vain to catch a pass in the end 

zone. Fasano had a career day for the Irish 

catching eight passes for 155 yards. 

Brooks and teammate Brandon Jones (27) sing 

‘Hail Purdue’ in the southeast corner of Notre 

Dame Stadium with several thousand Purdue 

fans that remained for the celebration. 

Junior defensive tackle Brent Grover had 

another solid game in the trenches with two 

blocked passes, five tackles and a fumble 

recovery. Purdue limited the Irish to just 76 

yards rushing, keeping the ND running game 

under triple figures against Purdue for the 

second-straight year. 

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Junior cornerback Brian Hickman gets in a jump-ball situation 

with Irish receiver Jeff Samardzija. The Irish picked up a Purdue 

opponent record 460 passing yards, but the Boilermaker defense 

held the Irish to 16 points, the fewest by a host Notre Dame 

team against Purdue since a 10-6 ND win in 1978. 

Actress Susan Saint James and her 

husband Dick Ebersol, president of 

NBC Sports, mirror the mood of the 

Notre Dame faithful from the 

sidelines in the second half. 

Somewhat lost in the shuffle is that the Purdue 

offensive line had another standout day. 

Quarterback Kyle Orton was sacked twice, but 

for much of the game he had all the time 

needed to carve up the Irish secondary. Also 

impressive was Purdue’s ground game in the 

second half, as the line helped the visitors chew 

up the clock while nursing a comfortable lead. 

No. 15 Purdue 41, Notre Dame 16 

Oct. 2, 2004 

Notre Dame Stadium 

South Bend, Ind. 

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BY TOM CAMPBELL 

A Boilermaker In Irish Territory 

Co-Workers Share Notre Dame Experience 

SOUTH BEND, Ind — The 

Joyce Center on the Notre 

Dame campus was rocking 

Friday night. Ten thousand 

Irish fans make sure it’s rocking 

every Friday night before 

a Notre Dame home football 

game. 

In a scene that was 

equal parts high school 

homecoming and Hollywood 

hype, the Irish toast their traditions 

during a pep session 

that features goofy skits with 

cross-dressing students and 

plenty of versions of that 

goose-bump raising “Notre 

Dame Victory March.” 

In the middle of all 

those Irish stewing was one, 

lone Purdue fan. Wearing a 

Purdue shirt and hat, Dan 

Annarino stuck out like that 

mole on Cindy Crawford’s 

face. 

“Man, I was getting some 

serious strange looks,” said 

Annarino, a graphic artist in 

Purdue’s department of 

Agricultural Communication. 

Annarino was born a 

Boilermaker. His dad, Tony, took 

him to Purdue games while Dan 

was still in diapers. He’s seen his 

share of Purdue flops in South 

Bend and missed some, too. It got 

so bad for Purdue one time that 

he left an Irish blowout at halftime 

and spent the remainder of 

the game across the street at the 

Snite Museum of Art. 

But he was back in Notre 

Dame this past weekend to see if 

his Boilermakers could break their 

30-year losing streak to the Irish. 

The pep session was the first 

stop of Annarino’s Irish 

Experience. His tour guide for the 

weekend was best friend and coworker, 

video producer Steve 

Doyle. 

“I have to listen to his 

stories all the time about how 

great football weekends are at Notre 

Dame,” Annarino says, “so I thought I 

would take him up on it and see what 

all the fuss is about.” 

Ever since he was in elementary 

school, Doyle and his dad, Tom, 

have been regulars at Notre Dame 

home games, and at the pep session the 

night before. 

As a student at South Bend St. 

Joseph High School, Doyle could look 

out the window and see Notre Dame’s 

fabled Golden Dome. Each Friday in 

the fall, classes would halt for a 

moment so students and faculty could 

say a brief prayer for their beloved Irish 

football team. 

The pep session is something the 

Doyle’s take in every chance they get, 

arriving at the Joyce Center (Notre 

Dame’s basketball arena) 90 minutes 

before the gates even open, not to 

ensure they get good seats, but seats, 

period. 

“We got here late one time,” Doyle 

relates, “and they wouldn’t let us in. It 

was full.” 

Doyle’s Irish tour continued at 

Fiddler’s Hearth, a traditional Irish pub in 

South Bend. There the air is filled with 

the smell of corned beef and cabbage, the 

sight of wall-to-wall Notre Dame fans and 

the sound of more versions of the Notre 

Dame Fight Song performed by, you 

guessed it, an Irish band. 

Tom Campbell 

Purdue fan Dan Annarino gets to experience the 

Friday night Notre Dame pep session in the Joyce 

Center with his Purdue co-worker and Notre Dame 

fan Steve Doyle. 

But everything is just a prelude to 

the blur of traditions and tribal rites 

that is game day. 

The Doyles park downtown to avoid 

traffic and take a shuttle to campus where 

they enjoy one Bloody Mary in the Frank 

Leahy room at the Morris Inn. Then it’s a 

hike to the famed grotto (everything here 

is the famed something or other) for a 

quick prayer for the Irish (Annarino 

chooses not to participate in this ritual). 

He thinks 30 years of losing is enough. 

“I got the whole tour,” Annarino 

Tom Campbell 

Nearly 10,000 Notre Dame fans 

(and one lone Boilermaker) take 

part in festivities the night 

before the game. Nearly half of 

the crowd was students. 

said. “We went to the famous 

cabin by the lake, which was 

the first structure on the Notre 

Dame campus, then we went to 

the basilica where the team was 

having mass. Everybody lines 

up and the players walk 

through. It’s pretty intense.” 

Next stop, the Knights of 

Columbus building on the 

quadrangle for one of their 

famous steak sandwiches. A 

movie was playing in the K of C 

lounge, “Rudy,” of course. 

After watching a concert by 

the marching band on the steps 

of Bond Hall, Annarino and the 

Doyles fell into lock step with 

the other thousands of fans and 

marched to the stadium. 

Finally, game time. 

“It was an amazing 24-hour 

period,” said Annarino. “I 

think I heard just about every 

Notre Dame tradition and 

story there is. It was the total 

college scene, it was great.” 

But for Annarino, the best 

came last, when Purdue broke 

its own tradition of losing at Notre 

Dame. 

“I’ll bet I sang ‘Hail Purdue’ at least 

10 times during the game. What a great 

game. What a great weekend.” j 

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GoldandBlack.com. Campbell can be reached 

at TSC@Purdue.edu. 

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have to rank the games 1-5. For 

example, this week, if the Maniac was 

most certain that Purdue was going to 

beat Penn State, he would rank that 

game a five. If he was least certain that 

Wisconsin was going to beat Ohio State 

he would rank that game a 1. Points will 

be tabulated throughout the season with 

each week having a maximum of 15 

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closest to predicting the total points 

in the featured Purdue game will be the 

winner. The guess for the tiebreaker is 

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(12/53) 

5. Ohio State 4. Northwestern 

3. Purdue (67) 2. Michigan 

1. Michigan 

Comment: The Boilers leave Happy Valley happy 

they’re still undefeated in Big Ten play. 

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5. Michigan State 4. Michigan 

3. Purdue (44) 2. Ohio State 

1. Northwestern 

Comment: If I thought Purdue could end its 30year 

winless streak at Notre Dame, surely the 

Boilers can snap a shorter dry spell at Penn 

State. 

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3. Michigan State 2. Michigan 


Comment: None. 

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5. Ohio State 4. Purdue (53) 

3. Illinois 2. Michigan 


Comment: The Boilers finally get back to Ross- 

Ade after an easy win. 

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3. Michigan State 2. Ohio State 



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3. Northwestern 2. Purdue (58) 

1. Michigan State 

Comment: A banged up bunch of Lions are dangerous, 

but Orton and the Boilers tame them. 

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1. Illinois 

Comment: Tough games this week, but that 

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trip with our first win at PSU. 

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1. Indiana 

Comment: The Boilers handle a tough test and 

pick up their first win in Happy Valley. 

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5. Michigan 4. Michigan State 



Comment: A must win for Big Ten title hopes! 

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5. Purdue (51) 4. Northwestern 

3. Michigan 2. Ohio State 


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but will after Orton tames the Lions. 

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3. Ohio State 2. Northwestern 


Comment: Boilers roar one step closer. 

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5. Northwestern 4. Ohio State 

3. Illinois 2. Penn State (49) 

1. Michigan 

Comment: Boilers eager to return home after a 

three-week road trip. 

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1. Ohio State 

Comment: Purdue finally gets a win in Happy 

Valley before JoePa hangs it up. 

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5. Purdue (41) 4. Ohio State 

3. Northwestern 2. Illinois 

1. Minnesota 

Comment: Boilers finally get a Happy Valley win 

over a declining Penn State program! This might 

be the toughest week in the Big Ten ... certainly 

so far! 

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1. Purdue (44) 


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looks. 

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1. Illinois 

Comment: Purdue should avoid post-Notre 

Dame letdown. 

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1. Michigan 

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3. Indiana 2. Ohio State 



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INDIANAPOLIS (9/44) 

5. Ohio State 4. Michigan State 

3. Purdue (49) 2. Minnesota 


Comment: Purdue’s revenge tour continues, just 

too much Purdue offense for the Nitany Lions to 

stop. 

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3. Michigan State 2. Northwestern 

1. Michigan 

Comment: Strong finish to long road test. 

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1. Ohio State 


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3. Michigan State 2. Ohio State 

1. Michigan 

Comment: Boilers get first win in Happy Valley 

under Joe Tiller. 

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3. Illinois 2. Michigan 

1. Wisconsin 

Comment: Now that the South Bend streak is 

busted, Purdue must refocus quickly to gain 

another road victory that has eluded them in the 

Tiller Era. That said, Penn State just doesn’t have 

enough tools to stop a team on a roll like this. 

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Purdue at Notre Dame — 10/2/2004 ; Notre Dame Stadium Notre Dame, Ind., Attendance 80,795 

Quarter 1st 2nd 3rd 4th Tot 

Purdue 10 10 21 0 41 

Notre Dame 3 0 13 0 16 

First Quarter 

PUR ND 

PUR Ben Jones 31-yard Field Goal 

10:49 

Drive: 10 plays 63 yds 4:11 

3 0 

ND Fitzpatrick 26-yard Field Goal 

06:30 3 3 


PUR Jerome Brooks TD KO 

(Ben Jones Kick) 06:16 10 3 

Second Quarter 

PUR Ben Jones 39-yard Field Goal 

11:24 13 3 


PUR Rob Ninkovich Pass from Kyle Orton 2-yards 

(Ben Jones Kick) 01:03 20 3 


Third Quarter 

PUR T. Stubblefield Pass from Kyle Orton 97-yards 



ND McKnight Pass from Quinn 40-yards 

(Fitzpatrick Kick) 08:54 27 10 


PUR Kyle Ingraham Pass from Kyle Orton 9-yards 



ND Powers-Neal 1-yard Run 

(Quinn Pass Fail) 04:17 34 16 


PUR T. Stubblefield Pass from Kyle Orton 12-yards 

(Ben Jones Kick) 00:45 41 16 


PUR ND 

Total First Downs 22 28 

Rushing 6 4 

Passing 15 21 

Penalty 1 3 

Rushing Attempts 28 36 

Yards Gained Rushing 125 106 

Yards Lost Rushing 26 30 

Net Yards Rushing 99 76 

Net Yards Passing 413 460 

Passes Attempted 32 49 

Passes Completed 22 29 

Had Intercepted 0 0 

Percent Completion 68.8% 59.2% 

Yards per Attempt 12.9 9.4 

Yards per Completion 18.8 15.9 

Total Offensive Plays 60 85 

Total Net Yards 512 536 

Avg. Gain Per Play 8.5 6.3 

Fumbles: No-Lost 0-0 2-1 

Penalties: No-Yards 8-70 7-40 

Punts: No-Yards 3-107 3-148 

Avg. Per Punt 35.7 49.3 

Avg. Net Punt 34.0 49.3 

Punt Returns: No-Yards 0-0 1-5 

Kickoff Returns: No-Yards 2-118 5-95 

Interception Returns: No-Yards 0-0 0-0 

Fumble Returns: No-Yards 0-0 0-0 

Miscellaneous Yards 0 0 

Possession Time 26:48 33:12 

Third-Down Conversions 5-10 8-18 

Percentage 50.0% 44.4% 

Fourth-Down Conversions 0-0 2-4 

Percentage 0.0% 50.0% 

Sacks By: No-Yards 7-31 2-17 

Purdue Individual Statistics 

Offensive 

Rushing No Gain Lost Net Avg TD Lg 

Jerod Void 11 57 4 53 4.8 0 16 

Brandon Jones 9 46 2 44 4.9 0 17 

Kyle Orton 6 21 18 3 0.5 0 16 

Ray Williams 1 1 0 1 1.0 0 1 

Team 1 0 2 -2 -2.0 0 0 

Total 28 125 26 99 3.5 0 17 

Passing Att Comp % Int Yds TD Lg 

Kyle Orton 31 21 67.7 0 385 4 97 

Brandon Jones 1 1 100.0 0 28 0 28 

Total 32 22 68.8 0 413 4 97 

Receiving No Yds TD Lg 

T. Stubblefield 7 181 2 97 

Dorien Bryant 2 78 0 56 

Ray Williams 5 59 0 28 

Brian Hare 1 36 0 36 

Kyle Ingraham 4 29 1 9 

Jerod Void 1 15 0 15 

Charles Davis 1 13 0 13 

Rob Ninkovich 1 2 1 2 

Total 22 413 4 97 

Kick Returns No Yds TD Lg 

Jerome Brooks 2 118 1 100 

Punting No Avg Lg Blk TB FC 50+ In 20 

Dave Brytus 3 35.7 44 0 0 1 0 1 

Field Goals Made Att Lg Blkd 

Ben Jones 2 2 39 0 

Defense Tac Ast Tot TFL Sac PD FF FR 

George Hall 6 7 13 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 

Bernard Pollard 5 5 10 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 

B. Villarreal 5 2 7 1-2 0-1 0 0 0 

Stanford Keglar 4 3 7 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 

Brent Grover 4 1 5 0-0 0-0 2 0 1 

Brian Hickman 4 1 5 0-0 0-0 1 0 0 

Ray Edwards 3 2 5 2-11 2-11 0 1 0 

Anthony Spencer 3 1 4 2-13 2-13 1 1 0 

Antwaun Rogers 1 3 4 0-0 0-0 1 0 0 

Bobby Iwuchukwu 3 1 4 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 

Kyle Smith 3 0 3 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 

Dan Bick 2 0 2 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 

Paul Long 2 0 2 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 

Rob Ninkovich 2 0 2 2-6 2-6 1 0 0 

Cliff Avril 1 0 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 

Grant Walker 1 0 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 

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Bobby Iwuchukwu’s six career blocks ties him for 

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Notre Dame Individual Statistics 

Offensive 

Rushing No Gain Lost Net Avg TD Lg 

Walker 19 62 2 60 3.2 0 8 

Jenkins 2 20 0 20 10.0 0 14 

Wilson 1 2 0 2 2.0 0 2 

Powers-Neal 2 1 0 1 0.5 1 1 

Quinn 12 21 28 -7 -0.6 0 6 

Total 36 106 30 76 2.1 1 14 

Passing Att Comp % Int Yds TD Lg 

Quinn 46 26 56.5 0 432 1 42 

Dillingham 3 3 100.0 0 28 0 13 

Total 49 29 59.2 0 460 1 42 

Receiving No Yds TD Lg 

Fasano 8 155 0 42 

McKnight 7 113 1 40 

Shelton 3 61 0 34 

Samardzija 3 59 0 41 

Freeman 2 22 0 16 

Walker 2 16 0 14 

Anastasio 1 15 0 15 

Collins 1 13 0 13 

Powers-Neal 1 6 0 6 

Quinn 1 0 0 0 

Total 29 460 1 42 

Punt Returns No Yds TD Lg 

McKnight 1 5 0 5 

Kick Returns No Yds TD Lg 

Anastasio 3 69 0 30 

Holiday 1 16 0 16 

Hoskins 1 10 0 10 

Total 5 95 0 30 

Punting No Avg Lg Blk TB FC 50+ In 20 

Fitzpatrick 3 49.3 59 0 1 0 1 2 

Field Goals Made Att Lg Blkd 

Fitzpatrick 1 2 26 0 

Defense Tac Ast Tot TFL Sac PD FF FR 

Burrell 4 3 7 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 

Curry 5 2 7 0-2 0-0 0 0 0 

Goolsby 5 2 7 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 

Tuck 2 3 5 0-4 0-4 0 0 0 

Zbikowski 5 0 5 1-1 0-0 0 0 0 

Ellick 2 1 3 0-0 0-0 1 0 0 

Hoyte 1 2 3 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 

Jackson 3 0 3 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 

Richardson 2 1 3 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 

Abiamiri 2 0 2 2-11 1-8 0 0 0 

Landri 0 2 2 0-1 0-0 1 0 0 

Pauly 0 2 2 0-5 0-5 0 0 0 

Beidatsch 1 0 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 

Budinscak 1 0 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 

Frome 1 0 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 

Laws 0 1 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 

Leitko 0 1 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 

Purdue Lineups vs. Notre Dame 

OFFENSE 

Quarterback: Kyle Orton 

Running Back: Jerod Void, Brandon 

Jones, George Hall 

Wide Receiver: Taylor Stubblefield, 

Andre Chattams 

Wide Receiver: Kyle Ingraham, Brian 

Hare 

Wide Receiver: Ray Williams, Dorien 

Bryant 

Tight End: Charles Davis, Rob 

Ninkovich, Jeff Bennett 

Left Tackle: Mike Otto 

Left Guard: Uche Nwaneri 

Center: Matt Turner 

Right Guard: Tyler Moore, Jordan 

Grimes 

Right Tackle: David Owen, Moore 

DEFENSE 

Defensive End: Anthony Spencer, 

Ninkovich 

Defensive Tackle: Brandon Villarreal 

Defensive Tackle: Brent Grover, Dan 

McGowen 

Defensive End: Ray Edwards, Gene 

Bright 

Weakside Linebacker: Bobby 

Iwuchukwu, Cliff Avril 

Middle Linebacker: George Hall 

Strongside Linebacker: Stanford 

Keglar 

Cornerback: Brian Hickman 

Free Safety: Kyle Smith, Grant 

Walker 

Strong Safety: Bernard Pollard 

Cornerback: Antwaun Rogers 

SPECIAL TEAMS 

Place-kicker: Ben Jones 

Punter: Dave Brytus 

Long Snapper: Villarreal 

Kick Returner: Jerome Brooks, Void 

Punt Returner: Stubblefield 

Holder: Kyle Smith 

Others: Aaron Levin, Brian Mattaway, 

Iwuchukwu, Hall, Dan Bick, Cavallo, 

Bryant, Bright, Smith, Williams, Avril, 

Walker, Keglar, Void, Ninkovich, 

Chattams, Villarreal, Br. Jones, 

Edwards, Spencer, Grover, Pollard, 

Hickman, Davis, Keller, Otto, 

Nwaneri, Owen, Moore, Grimes, Sean 

Petty, Kevin Noel, Paul Long 


NO. 15 PURDUE 41, NOTRE DAME 16 

What They Had To Say About One Of Purdue’s 

Most Memorable Wins Ever 



“It took 30 years, but it was worth 

the wait. I don’t think I’ve seen a 

better game plan drawn up offensively, 

a better game plan executed 

or better play calling. It was a 

phenomenal effort by so many 

guys. They deserve to enjoy this 

because they don’t come a long 

too often. Congratulations to the 

Boilermakers.” 

—Former Purdue standout center and current 

radio color commentator Pete Quinn 

Tom Campbell 

Junior center Matt Turner heads toward 

the band in triumph after a prolonged 

celebration with the Boilermaker fans 

after the game. 

“This is huge for our program. It 

has been so long since we won 

up here so it’s just great. The 

kids played their butts off and 

the outcome shows it. What a 

great win for our program.” 

— Defensive tackles/special teams coach Mark Hagen 

“This is a great feeling. Our kids 

did everything we asked them 

to do and they executed everything 

we taught them. What 

was it? Thirteen straight times 

we had lost here. We put an end 

to that streak didn’t we?” 

—Running backs coach David Mitchell 

“What it means to me is nothing compared 

to what it means to these people who have 

been here so many years. Joe (Tiller), Jim 

Chaney, Brock Spack and all these seniors 

have come here and experienced so much 

frustration. For me, this is the thrill 

of a lifetime and I can only imagine 

what some of our coaches and 

seniors who have been here so long 

are going through. 

“To beat a storied program on 

national TV and do it somewhat 

decisively, that helps (in recruiting). 

It will give us something to 

talk about.” 

— Wide receivers coach and recruiting 

coordinator Bob DeBesse 

“To me it’s another victory 

that establishes 

yourself as a pretty fair 

football team. When you 

beat Notre Dame at 

Notre Dame, it means 

you’ve been doing some 

things right. We’re doing 

a lot of stuff right, right 

now, which is enabling 

us to be successful with 

wins and losses. 

“This was a fun day. I’ll 

remember this a while.” 

—Offensive coordinator and tight ends 

coach Jim Chaney 

“When I was here as a player, we 

brought great teams up here and 

couldn’t win. Our Rose Bowl team 

(in 2000) couldn’t do it so this is 

pretty special.” 

— Defensive coordinator and linebackers coach 

Brock Spack 

“There’s no question this is one of the 

highlights of my coaching career. It’s 

exciting and very rewarding. Any time 

you can win a big game, and today 

was a big game, it’s always exciting. 

Any time you can win that big game 

on the road, it’s even more exciting.” 

— Offensive line coach Bill Legg 

“Any time you win anywhere it’s important, 

but to come up here as many times 

as we’ve come up here without success, 

obviously it’s a very important win for the 

program and the guys on the team. 

“You hope it means a lot and gives us 

national attention. 

“Any time you win at this level, it’s great, 

no matter who it’s against. But against 

Notre Dame, it’s extremely special.” 

— Assistant head coach and defensive ends coach 

Gary Emanuel 

“I’m just ecstatic. It’s a great 

thing for Purdue with all the 

people here. It’s just wonderful. 

“You always hoped this day would 

come. That’s what you play for 

this game for is to win.” 

— Strength and conditioning coordinator Jim Lathrop 

Tom Campbell 

Coach Joe Tiller looks for protection from the potential “Gatorade Shower” from quarterback 

Kyle Orton and receiver Taylor Stubblefield in the closing minutes of the game. 

“I was in the middle of graduate school 

(the last time Purdue won in South 

Bend) and I’ve waited 12 years as an AD 

to do it up here. I stood under the goal 

posts when we got beat by the kick (in 

2000) and I’ve seen balls do strange 

things up here. Today we just played a 

complete game. 

“I’m happy for the kids. I’m happy for 

Joe and Brock who had never had a victory 

up here. It was a great game.” 

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Dorien Bryant says he’s not a daredevil. 

“But I like to live on the edge a little bit,” 

said the freshman wide receiver. “I like to do 

extreme things.” 

Such as skydiving, surfing, skateboarding, 

and — coming soon to Ross-Ade Stadium 

— sprinting across the middle against the 

super-sized Big Ten defense. 

In his first four games at Purdue, Bryant 

has already received a small taste of the 

extreme nature of Big Ten football. With the 

addition of his two catches for 78 yards 

against Notre Dame on Oct. 2, Bryant has 

totaled nine receptions for 156 yards and a 

touchdown this season. His breakthrough 

game came against Ball State on Sept. 11 

when he contributed four receptions for 60 

yards and a touchdown in the Boilers’ victory 

and a 53-yard kickoff return to open the 

game. 

“I think the coaches are seeing more and 

more that I’m not the nervous type,” said the 

Boilers’ fourth-leading receiver. “I thrive on 

pressure situations like this.” 

Bryant has spent much of his playing 

time trying his best impersonation of Purdue 

senior wide receiver Taylor Stubblefield. And 

although there are similarities between the 

two — both are about the same height and 

weight — Stubblefield points out that there 

are also differences. 

“He’s obviously a lot faster than I am,” 

said Stubblefield. “He controls his speed, 

which is what I like to see. You see a lot of 

MAKING HIS MARK 

Bryant Brings Calm Demeanor Despite Youth 

guys who are fast but they can’t stop or they 

can’t move in or out of their breaks. But 

Dorien does a great job of that and he can 

catch the ball. And that’s probably the most 

important thing.” 

The other major difference is a statistical 

one. Stubblefield ranks third in the Big Ten 

with 264 career receptions — a fact not lost 

on Bryant. 

“I like filling in for Taylor because, obviously, 

he gets the ball,” said Bryant, a mere 

255 catches behind. “And I think any wide 

receiver wants the ball. It was a good first 

experience for me.” 

Bryant said he’s trying to learn as much 

as possible from Stubblefield in their one year 

together. He said the senior has taught him 

the importance of running sharp routes, 

instead of relying only on his speed to get 

open. 

“He’s already helped me tremendously,” 

said Bryant, who has been clocked at 4.31 seconds 

in the 40-yard dash. “I was always just a 

lot faster than everybody. He’s helped me on 

the routes and being focused on the field. 

Freshman year, you have a tendency to get 

out there and get rattled a little bit. But he’s 

helped me with my poise, route-running and 

everything. 

“I’m obviously a little faster than Taylor, 

but he’s a real pro,” said Bryant. “He runs 

routes better than anybody I’ve ever seen in 

college football.” 

And, according to Stubblefield, his 

young protégé has quickly picked up on some 

of his lessons. 

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and he’s playing very well right now,” he said. 

“He’s playing almost like he’s been here 

before.” 

Bryant, who spent a year at Fork Union 

Military Academy before arriving at Purdue 

this fall, didn’t wait long to start making an 

impact on the Boilermaker football team. In 

fact, he got into the mix on the first play of 

the season when he made the tackle on the 

opening kickoff against Syracuse. So how did 

it feel to be on the field on the first play of his 

freshman year? 

“I just kind of thought, ‘This is the place 

I’m supposed to be,’” he said. “Everybody has 

butterflies. If you don’t have butterflies, then 

you need to be out of the game.” 

Aside from the victories, the biggest trill 

of his young collegiate career may have came 

in the second quarter against Ball State when 

he caught a 15-yard touchdown pass from 

quarterback Kyle Orton. 

“It felt like practice,” said Bryant. “I was 

like, ‘Oh, I’m wide open. I just hope he doesn’t 

overlook me.’ And Kyle did a good job of 

looking everybody off and coming back to 

me. 

“I didn’t want to go crazy, but I was pretty 

excited about it,” he said. 

Tom Campbell 

Dorien Bryant came up big at Notre 

Dame Stadium with two catches for 78 

yards. 

Although Bryant is off to a good start, 

there are areas of his game that he wants to 

work on. He’d like to get a chance to return 

punts — a skill he perfected while at 

Kingsway Regional High School in 

Swedesboro, New Jersey. 

“Punt returns are just about being 

smart,” said Bryant. “And people get scared 

about it, but really there’s nothing to be 

scared of ... if you’re going to get rung, you’re 

going to get rung.” 

And Bryant uses the same philosophy 

while lining up at receiver. He’s still looking 

forward to that first pass across the middle 

against a defensive backfield with the caliber 

of talent of Michigan. 

“People look at me and say, ‘Well, you’re 

small, you can’t go across the middle,’” he 

said. “And I’m like, ‘Yeah right, I can do it.’” 

But even though he’s looking forward to 

the big hit and admits to “living on the edge,” 

he does have his limits. 

“No touchdown dance,” he said. “I’m not 

ready to get yanked off the field yet.” j 




ecruiting analyst Tom Lemming 

believes Purdue is off to a great 

start in the recruiting wars and 

could have a special year when signing 

day rolls around in February. 

“Right now Purdue is off to the best 

start they’ve ever had in recruiting, particularly 

locally,” said Lemming, who is 

the editor of Prep Football Report and is 

ESPN’s college football recruiting 

expert. “Purdue could have a really 

great year this year. They just have to sit 

back and go after some of the bigger 

names, which they’re doing. 

“Purdue is starting to get a real 

good offensive identity nationally. 

They’ve got big names looking their 

way now and I haven’t seen that in the 

25 years that I’ve been doing this. 

“I’ve said before that Purdue has 

had good, quality classes, but they 

haven’t gotten a lot of interest from the 

premier players. That might be about to 

change, especially since the No. 1 player 

in the country is going to visit 

there.” 

Although it’s extremely early to 

rank recruiting classes, Lemming, a 

South Barington, Ill., native, who annually 

visits hundreds of the country’s top 

prospects, said the Boilermakers’ six 

verbal commitments to date put them 

among the top 20 

classes nationally 

at this point. 

With five of 

those six commitments 

coming 

from instate players, 

one might 

believe that this is 

a great year for talent 

in Indiana. 

However, 

Lemming said 

that’s not the case. 

“It’s a good 

year, but I don’t 

know if there’s one 

clear knockout in 

the state though,” Lemming said. “It’s 

not a great year, but a very good year — 

an above average year. 

RECRUITING REPORT 

Where Lemming Has 

Ranked Purdue 

Following is a look at where recruiting 

analyst Tom Lemming has ranked 

Joe Tiller’s recruiting classes. 

Class Big Ten Nationally 

2004 5th 20th-22nd 

2003 4th or 5th 25th-30th 

2002 5th 25th 

2001 5th 20th 

2000 7th 29th 

1999 6th 30th 

1998 2nd 11th 

1997 10th NR 

NR-not ranked 

Lemming Believes Purdue May Have Great Recruiting Year 

Recruiting Analyst Impressed By Reception Boilers Receiving Nationwide 

Tom Campbell 

The size, arm strength and 

productivity of Evansville 

Harrison High School quarterback 

Joey Elliott has recruiting 

analyst Tom Lemming 

thinking that he’ll be a good 

one at the next level. 

“If Purdue gets the two instate players 

they really want, they’ll put their 

stamp on having complete control of 

the state.” 

Following is what Lemming had to 

say on each instate commitment. 

On Joey Elliot 

Lemming: “I like Joey. I had him 

bring tape to Champaign where I met 

him and I was really impressed with 

him. I was surprised because he had no 

offers when I saw him in April. That 

shocked me because he is 

such a good talent and I 

thought a lot of people 

would have known about 

him. But it takes some 

schools a little bit longer to 

realize that a 6-foot-2 kid 

with a good arm and good 

production is going to be 

good. 

“With Tiller it’s like 

money in the bank with a 

big-time quarterback. When 

it comes to quarterbacks, if 

they get the guy they want, 

he’ll be a star.” 

On Dray Mason 

Lemming: “He may be the only 

explosive player in the state. Plus, he 

could play a number of positions. 

2004-05 VERBAL COMMITMENTS 

Player Pos. Ht. Wt. Hometown/High School 

Joey Elliott QB 6-2 190 Evansville, Ind./Harrison 

Dray Mason RB 5-10 175 Indianapolis, Ind./Bishop Chatard 

Michael Neal DE 6-4 240 Merrillville, Ind./Merrillville 

Greg Orton WR 6-4 190 Huber Heights, Ohio/Wayne 

Jason Werner LB 6-4 200 Indianapolis, Ind./Roncalli 

Jared Zwilling DE 6-4 255 Evansville, Ind./Central 

Christian Graham* SS 6-2 190 Indianapolis, Ind./Warren Central 

Chris Haslon* RB 5-11 180 Burlington Township, N.J./Holy Cross 

David Ramirez! QB 6-2 190 Red Oak, Texas/Grace Preparatory Academy 

*hopes to re-sign with Purdue in February and join team mid-year 

!currently enrolled at Purdue as part-time student and set to join team in January 

Tom Campbell 

Lemming thinks Purdue 

recruited Indianapolis 

Roncalli High School linebacker 

Jason Werner based 

on his athleticism and 

potential. 

Lemming believes 

Merrillville High School 

standout Michael Neal has 

the most potential of any 

Indiana prepster. 

“I went through Indiana four times 

so I could see everybody and I thought 

he was one of the top five guys (in the 

state) that I saw on film.” 

On Michael Neal 

Lemming: “Of all the people in the 

state, the kid with the most potential is 

Michael Neal. He looks like an NFL guy 

right now. He’s a real physical guy, but 

he didn’t look that great on film as a 

junior, which is the thing that really 

got me. But he’s looking good now. 

“Purdue is going after him knowing 

they can coach him into being a great 

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but he’ll come around with good 

coaching and that’s exactly what 

he’ll get at Purdue.” 

On Jason Werner 

Lemming: “I liked him, too. He’s 

tall and skinny. His school has about 

three or four (Division I-A) prospects, 

but he’s the one that really jumps 

out. He’s impressive and comes off 

the corner real well. I think they’ll 

redshirt him and put some weight 

and strength on him. I think Purdue 

went after him based on his athletic 

ability and potential.” 

On Jared Zwilling 

Lemming: “I know they offered 

him a long time ago. He doesn’t have 

the body type that would lead you to 

believe that he’ll be a big-time player, 

but he plays like a big-time player and 

obviously that’s more important.” 

Editor’s Note: Lemming’s comments 

about Ohio wide receiver Greg Orton were in 

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BY DOUG ELISH 

It’s true that dreams can come true, 

even if they’re not quite as expected. 

That’s the case for Boilermaker tight 

end Dustin Keller. 

Keller grew up a diehard Purdue fan 

and even aside from being raised in 

Lafayette, he had good reason. 

His grandfather, Dale Mulvey, played 

on Purdue’s 1952 Big Ten championship 

team, his great grandfather, Robert Siskind, 

was an engineering professor, his mother, 

Maureen, and grandmother, Linda Orr, are 

Purdue graduates and he has two brothers, 

Dwight and Drew, that are also Boilers. 

So when Keller says “this is the place I 

always wanted to be,” it’s easy to see why. 

But now that he’s wearing the Old 

Gold and Black that he’s always loved, he’s 

not doing what he’s always done. 

Keller came to Purdue as a record-setting 

wide receiver from Lafayette Jefferson 

High School. In his senior season, his 113 

receptions and 1,804 yards were more than 

any Indiana player had ever accumulated 

in a single season and his 22 receiving 

touchdowns weren’t far off a record. He 

earned all-state honors, was a finalist for 

the Indiana Mr. Football award and was 

named in the nation’s top 50 receivers by 

Street & Smith’s. 

With such accolades, it’s understandable 

that Keller never thought he’d play 

Keller Living Purdue Roots 

anything other than wide receiver. But after 

a redshirt season full of not-so-subtle questions 

from Coach Joe Tiller, Keller started to 

suspect a position change to tight end 

might be in the future. 

“A lot of times Coach Tiller would 

come in the weight room my redshirt year 

joking around ‘keep on eating, put that 

weight on,’” said the 6-foot-4, 237-pound 

Keller. “He was always talking about where 

he wanted me to be on the scale and when 

I went to his office he would say ‘have you 

met (strength coach) Jim Lathrop?’ Just 

jokes like that, so I knew sooner or later it 

was going to happen.” 

The switch finally happened during 

this past spring practice and 50 pounds 

heavier, a whole bunch stronger and a few 

hundred technique lessons later, Keller 

made his first Boilermaker appearance 

against Syracuse Sept. 5. A 47-yard touchdown 

pass made his Purdue debut memorable 

and he followed that game up with a 

four-catch, 31-yard effort against Ball State. 

There wasn’t any question whether he 

could catch though, and the coaches and 

he both know he still has a lot to learn 

about blocking at the position. 

“His physical part of the game has 

improved dramatically considering where 

he’s coming from, but he’s got a lot to learn 

about the game of football,” Tiller said. 

“The thing of it is that it’s a different position 

and a different style of play compared 

to being outside. But he’s made tremendous 

progress since he’s been there.” 

Keller didn’t hesitate to admit that 

blocking a 180-pound defensive back is like 

a stroll in the park compared to tangling 

with a 280-pound lineman, but he’s determined 

to master his new trade. 

His weightroom numbers have risen 

tremendously and, while it’s not a great measure 

of overall strength, his bench press number 

broke the 385-pound mark recently. The 

technique is the key though and that’s where 

Keller is really focusing his efforts. 

“I always thought when I came to this 

position that strength would be the more 

important thing, but weight and technique 

definitely out do that easily,” Keller said. “A 

couple guys on the offensive line won’t 

even be stronger guys, but their technique 

is so good it doesn’t matter too much. I am 

trying to work on technique.” 

When Keller does master the blocking 

skills, he could be one of the more dangerous 

tight ends around. He’s already proven his 

receiving skills and his 6-10 high jump in high 

school showed his athleticism. Quarterback 

Kyle Orton saw his impressive 24-yard catch 

and run against Ball State, in which Keller 

juked and spun his way to the 9-yard line, and 

thinks Keller has the ability to become a star in 

the Big Ten. 

“He should be able to,” Orton said. 

“He’s probably got more physical skills 

Tom Campbell 

Redshirt freshman Dustin Keller has the 

tools to become a stellar Big Ten tight end 

and has shown flashes of his talent in 2004. 

than any tight end in the conference with 

his great athleticism. He should grow into a 

big-time tight end and if he keeps on working 

hard, he probably will be.” 

If he does reach that “big-time” status, 

Keller said he will have no regrets that it 

isn’t at his former position. In fact, the lightspoken 

and affable Keller draws the same 

satisfaction from a hole-creating block as he 

did from a game-breaking catch. 

“If you make a big block for a running 

back, or a quarterback or wide receiver that’s 

a key block in picking up yards it definitely 

makes you feel real good,” Keller said. “You 

don’t really get recognized the way the running 

backs will, but you know. You don’t 

need other people telling you all of that. 

You know that you helped open that up 

and so does the running back.” j 

Doug Elish is a freelance contributor 

for Gold & Black Illustrated and 





UNCHARTERED WATERS 

For the second time in Coach Joe 

Tiller’s eight seasons at Purdue, the 

Boilermakers are ranked in the top 10 

nationally. 

Purdue cracked the top 10 in both 

the Associated Press and ESPN/USA 

Today polls Oct. 3. 

The Boilermakers are ranked No. 9 

by AP and No. 10 by ESPN/USA Today. 

The last time Purdue was ranked 

this high was heading into the 

Michigan State game in November of 

2000 when it was ninth. 

Before Tiller arrived in West 

Lafayette, the Boilermakers hadn’t been 

in the top 10 since the 1980 preseason 

poll when they were ninth. 

By the way, the highest Purdue has 

ever been ranked in the AP was No. 1 in 

1968 (They were No. 1 in the coaches 

poll for one week in 1965). The 

Boilermakers were No. 2 in , 1943, 1965 

and 1967. The highest ranking during 

Coach Jim Young’s tenure at Purdue 

was fifth in September of 1979. 

BOILER BITS FROM 

NOTRE DAME GAME 

R Purdue was favored by three 

points. 

R The 25-point home loss to Purdue 

was the third-worst defeat for the Irish in 

the last 43 years. Only Florida State (37-0) 

and USC (45-14) have defeated Notre 

Dame by wider margins on its home field 

during that span. 

R Quarterback Kyle Orton’s 385yard 

passing performance marked the 

first time a Purdue quarterback has ever 

thrown for 300 yards in Notre Dame 

Stadium. 

The other 300-plus performances 

against the Irish are Billy Dicken (352 yards) 

in Purdue’s 28-17 win in 1997, Mark 

Herrmann (351) in a 31-24 loss to the Irish 

in 1977 and Drew Brees (317) in Purdue’s 

28-23 win in 1999. 

R Orton’s four touchdown passes 

is the most by a Boilermaker quarterback 

against Notre Dame since 

sophomore sensation Len Dawson 

tossed four scoring passes in a 28-14 

PRESENTS 

AND FINALLY 

SIMPLY AMAZING 

Purdue is the only team in 

Division I-A football that has 

not yet committed a turnover. 

Boilermaker win over No. 1 Notre 

Dame 50 years ago. 

R Purdue’s 97-yard touchdown 

connection (Orton to Taylor 

Stubblefield) was the longest ever by a 

Notre Dame opponent. 

R Orton tied an Irish opponent 

record with four touchdown passes, 

becoming the 10th player to reach that 

mark and the first since USC’s Matt 

Leinart last season. 

R It marked the first time Purdue 

posted more than 500 yards in total 

offense against Notre Dame in the 

Coach Joe Tiller Era. 

R Purdue has now won two consecutive 

games against Notre Dame for 

the first time since 1984-85. 

R Purdue’s 41 points are the second-most 

ever for the Boilermakers in 

the 76-game series (51-19 on Oct. 1, 

1960, at Notre Dame Stadium). 

R The Boilermakers kept possession 

of the Shillelagh Trophy, which is 

annually awarded to the winner of the 

Purdue-Notre Dame game. The Irish 

lead the battle for the trophy 30-18. 

In case you didn’t know, Purdue is 

two-thirds of the way to winning all 

Associated Press 

Top 25 

(Sept. 26) 

No. School Prev 

1 Southern California 1 

2 Oklahoma 2 

3 Georgia 3 

4 Miami (FL) 4 

5 Texas 5 

6 Auburn 8 

7 California 10 

8 Florida State 9 

9 Purdue 15 

10 Virginia 12 

11 Utah 14 

12 Florida 16 

13 Minnesota 18 

14 Michigan 19 

15 Wisconsin 20 

16 West Virginia 6 

17 Tennessee 10 

18 Ohio State 7 

19 Arizona State 21 

20 Louisville 22 

21 Boise State 23 

22 Oklahoma State 25 


24 LSU 13 

25 South Carolina _ 

ESPN/USA Today 

Coaches Top 25 

(Sept. 26) 

No. School Prev 

1 Southern California 1 

2 Oklahoma 2 

3 Georgia 3 

4 Miami (FL) 4 

5 Texas 5 

6 Auburn 9 

7 California 10 

8 Florida State 11 

9 Virginia 12 

10 Purdue 15 

11 Utah 14 

12 Florida 16 

13 Minnesota 19 

14 Michigan 18 

15 Ohio State 6 

16 Wisconsin 20 

17 Tennessee 8 

18 West Virginia 7 

19 Boise State 21 

20 Louisville 22 

21 Oklahoma State 24 

22 Arizona State 25 


24 LSU 13 

25 North Carolina State _ 

2004 PURDUE FOOTBALL SCHEDULE 

Date Opponent ‘03 Record Series TV Time/Result 

Sept. 5 SYRACUSE 6-6 1-0 ABC W, 51-0 

Sept. 11 BALL STATE 5-8 6-0 None W, 59-7 

Sept. 25 @ Illinois 1-11 35-41-6 ESPN Plus W, 38-30 

Oct. 2 @ Notre Dame 5-7 25-39-2 NBC W, 41-16 

Oct. 9 @ Penn State 3-9 2-6-1 ESPN 3:30 p.m. 

Oct. 16 WISCONSIN* 7-6 29-36-8 ESPN2 4:30 p.m. 

Oct. 23 MICHIGAN* 10-3 12-39-0 TBD TBA 

Oct. 30 @ Northwestern* 6-7 47-23-1 TBD TBA 

Nov. 6 @ Iowa* 10-3 44-29-3 TBD TBA 

Nov. 13 OHIO STATE* 11-2 11-35-2 TBD TBA 

Nov. 20 INDIANA 2-10 65-35-6 TBD TBA 

!Homecoming *Participated in bowl games during 2003 season All times EST 

Tom Campbell 

Sophomore defensive end Ray Edwards forced one 

fumble and had 2.5 sacks. His play had much to do 

with the Irish being held under 100 yards rushing. 

three of its trophy 

games having kept the 

Cannon with a win 

over Illinois Sept. 25. 

If the Boilermakers 

beat Indiana Nov. 20 

to keep the Old Oaken 

Bucket, they will have 

won all three trophy 

games for the third 

time in Coach Joe 

Tiller’s eight seasons in 

West Lafayette. 

Purdue has completed 

the trifecta in 

1968, 1969, 1979, 

1985, 1997 and 2003. 

LIGHTEN UP 

FRANCIS 

Leading up to the 

Notre Dame game, the 

Irish players made a 

2004 BIG TEN STANDINGS 

Big Ten Overall 

Team W-L/Pct. W-L/Pct. 

Minnesota 2-0/1.000 5-0/1.000 

Wisconsin 2-0/1.000 5-0/1.000 

Michigan 2-0/1.000 4-1/.800 

PURDUE 1-0/1.000 4-0/1.000 

Iowa 1-1/.500 3-2/.500 

Michigan State 1-1/.500 2-3/.400 

Northwestern 1-1/.500 2-3/.400 

Ohio State 0-1/.000 3-1/.750 

Illinois 0-2/.000 2-3/.400 

Indiana 0-2/.000 2-3/.400 

Penn State 0-2/.000 2-3/.400 

Oct. 2 Results 

PURDUE 41, Notre Dame 16 

Iowa 38, Michigan State 16 

Wisconsin 24, Illinois 7 

Michigan 35, Indiana 14 

Northwestern 33, Ohio State 27 (OT) 

Oct. 9 Games 

PURDUE @ Penn State, 3:30 p.m 

Illinois @ Michigan State, 11 a.m. 

Indiana @ Northwestern, 11 a.m. 

Minnesota @ Michigan, 11 a.m. 

Wisconsin @ Ohio State, 2:30 p.m. 

.All times EST (Lafayette time) 

big to do about a statement 

that Orton made earlier in 

the week. 

Orton said, “We’re 

going to have to keep them 

off balance, run the ball. 

But I don’t see us having 

that much trouble with 

them.” 

According to some 

South Bend radio station 

reports, Notre Dame coach 

Tyrone Willingham used 

that as bulletin board material. 

The Irish players also 

made it known that they 

were going to show how 

much they disliked Purdue 

running through their 

pregame warm-ups last season 

in Ross-Ade Stadium. 

BROOKS 

TAKES IT TO 

THE HOUSE 

During fall camp, 

running back Jerome 

Brooks told Gold & 

Black Illustrated that he 

wanted to become 

even more of a threat 

returning kickoffs. 

“My job last year 

was to try and get the 

ball to the 50, but this 

year I look forward to 

getting to the house,” 

he said. 

Well, he took one 

to the house on one of 

the biggest stages there 

is in one of the biggest 

games of the season. 

Brooks’ first-quarter 

100-yard kickoff 

return for a touch- 


down at Notre 

Dame tied a 

Notre Dame 

o p p o n e n t 

record (now 

done four 

times), dating 

to 1974 when 

USC’s Anthony 

Davis went end 

zone to end 

zone. 

Brooks’ 

return also tied 

the Purdue 

record for the 

longest kickoff 

return and was 

the first kickoff 

runback for a 

TD by a 

Boilermaker 

since Sept. 30, 

1995, when Lee 

Johnson did so 

against Ball 

State (99 yards). 

Following 

his big day 

against the 

Irish, Brooks 

finds himself 

No. 6 in career 

kickoff return 

yardage at Purdue with 957 yards on 

40 runbacks and fifth in career kickoff 

return average (23.9). 

R Brooks’ kickoff return against 

the Irish was the Xerox Unexpected 

Play-of-the-Day on the NBC telecast. 

Rushing G No Gain Lost Net Avg TD Lg Yd/G 

Jerod Void 4 49 270 4 266 5.4 2 18 66.5 

Brandon Jones 4 41 198 4 194 4.7 0 24 48.5 

Brandon Kirsch 2 11 83 2 81 7.4 1 16 40.5 

Jerome Brooks 3 8 67 0 67 8.4 1 44 22.3 

Kyle Orton 4 24 89 35 54 2.2 2 16 13.5 

Jon Goldsberry 2 5 37 0 37 7.4 0 11 18.5 

Dorien Bryant 4 3 10 0 10 3.3 0 4 2.5 

Brent Grover 4 1 5 0 5 5.0 0 5 1.2 

Brian Hare 4 1 5 0 5 5.0 0 5 1.2 

Dave Brytus 4 1 2 0 2 2.0 0 0 0.5 

Ray Williams 4 1 1 0 1 1.0 0 1 0.2 

Team 4 3 0 6 -6 -2.0 0 0 -1.5 

Total 4 148 767 51 716 4.8 6 44 179.0 

Opponent 4 139 536 174 362 2.6 1 32 90.5 

Passing G Att Comp % Int Yds TD Lg Yd/G 

Kyle Orton 4 137 95 69.3 0 1367 17 97 341.8 

Brandon Kirsch 2 6 4 66.7 0 86 1 47 43.0 

Brandon Jones 4 1 1 100.0 0 28 0 28 7.0 

Total 4 144 100 69.4 0 1481 18 97 370.2 

Opponent 4 128 77 60.2 2 958 5 42 239.5 

Receiving G No Yds Avg TD Lg Yd/G 

T. Stubblefield 4 28 505 18.0 10 97 126.2 

Dorien Bryant 4 9 156 17.3 1 56 39.0 

Brian Hare 4 5 135 27.0 1 75 33.8 

Brandon Jones 4 9 129 14.3 2 49 32.2 

Kyle Ingraham 4 12 123 10.2 2 31 30.8 

Ray Williams 4 8 115 14.4 0 44 28.8 

Charles Davis 4 11 106 9.6 0 23 26.5 

Dustin Keller 3 4 88 22.0 1 47 29.3 

Jerod Void 4 8 76 9.5 0 21 19.0 

Andre Chattams 4 3 22 7.3 0 13 5.5 

Jon Goldsberry 2 1 15 15.0 0 15 7.5 

Kevin Noel 2 1 9 9.0 0 9 4.5 

Rob Ninkovich 4 1 2 2.0 1 2 0.5 

Total 4 100 1481 14.8 18 97 370.2 

Opponent 4 77 958 12.4 5 42 239.5 

Total Offense G Rush Pass Total PG 

Kyle Orton 4 54 1367 1421 355.2 

Jerod Void 4 266 0 266 66.5 

Brandon Jones 4 194 28 222 55.5 

Brandon Kirsch 2 81 86 167 83.5 

Jerome Brooks 3 67 0 67 22.3 

Jon Goldsberry 2 37 0 37 18.5 

Dorien Bryant 4 10 0 10 2.5 

Brent Grover 4 5 0 5 1.2 

Brian Hare 4 5 0 5 1.2 

Dave Brytus 4 2 0 2 0.5 

Ray Williams 4 1 1 0.2 

Team 4 -6 0 -6 -1.5 

Total 4 716 1481 2197 549.2 

Opponent 4 362 958 1320 330.0 

ORTON FEATURED IN 

SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, ON 

ESPN’S COLLEGE GAMEDAY 

Orton continues to get plenty of 

exposure and deservedly so. 

GO BOILERMAKERS GO BOILERMAKERS GO BOILERMAKERS 

On Oct. 2, ESPN’s 

College GameDay did a 

feature on Orton. 

In the Oct. 4 issue of Sports 

Illustrated, there was a feature on Orton 

titled, “The Big Ten’s Big Shift.” 

R Following the Illinois game Sept. 

25, Orton was named the Big Ten 

Offensive Player-of-the-Week (for the 

second time this season), The Sporting 

News and the USA Today.com National 

Player-of-the-Week. 


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PURDUE INDIVIDUAL SEASON STATS 

All Purpose G Rush Rec PR KR IR Total PG 

T. Stubblefield 4 0 505 7 0 0 512 128.0 

Jerod Void 4 266 76 20 0 0 362 90.5 

Brandon Jones 4 194 129 0 0 0 323 80.8 

Jerome Brooks 3 67 0 0 256 0 323 107.7 

Dorien Bryant 4 10 156 0 53 0 219 54.8 

Brian Hare 4 5 135 0 0 0 140 35.0 

Kyle Ingraham 4 0 123 0 0 0 123 30.8 

Ray Williams 4 1 115 0 0 0 116 29.0 

Charles Davis 4 0 106 0 0 0 106 26.5 

Dustin Keller 3 0 88 0 0 0 88 29.3 

Brandon Kirsch 2 81 0 0 0 0 81 40.5 

Kyle Orton 4 54 0 0 0 0 54 13.5 

Jon Goldsberry 2 37 15 0 0 0 52 26.0 

Bernard Pollard 4 0 0 17 0 19 36 9.0 

Andre Chattams 4 0 22 0 0 0 22 5.5 

Kevin Noel 2 0 9 0 0 0 9 4.5 

George Hall 4 0 0 0 8 0 8 2.0 

Brent Grover 4 5 0 0 0 0 5 1.2 

Dave Brytus 4 2 0 0 0 0 2 0.5 

Rob Ninkovich 4 0 2 0 0 0 2 0.5 

Team 4 -6 0 0 0 0 -6 -1.5 

Total 4 716 1481 44 317 19 2577 644.2 

Opponent 4 362 958 16 494 0 1830 457.5 

Punt Ret G No Yds Avg TD Lg Yd/G 

Jerod Void 4 1 20 20.0 0 0 5.0 

Bernard Pollard 4 1 17 17.0 0 0 4.2 

T. Stubblefield 4 3 7 2.3 0 8 1.8 

Total 4 5 44 8.8 0 8 11.0 

Opponent 4 3 16 5.3 0 9 4.0 

Kick Ret G No Yds Avg TD Lg Yd/G 

Jerome Brooks 3 8 256 32.0 1 100 85.3 

Dorien Bryant 4 1 53 53.0 0 53 13.2 

George Hall 4 1 8 8.0 0 8 2.0 

Total 4 10 317 31.7 1 100 79.2 

Opponent 4 26 494 19.0 0 72 123.5 

Punting G No Avg Lg Blk TB FC 50+ In 20 

Dave Brytus 4 9 38.1 51 0 1 2 1 5 

Kyle Orton 4 1 20.0 20 0 0 0 0 1 

Team 4 1 0.0 0 1 0 0 0 0 

Total 4 11 33.0 51 1 1 2 1 6 

Opponent 4 22 37.0 59 2 2 5 4 6 

Field Goals G Att Made Lg Blkd 

Ben Jones 4 6 5 45 0 

Total 4 6 5 45 0 

Opponent 4 6 4 48 1 

FACTOID 

Purdue has beaten Notre Dame more times 

(25) than any other school besides USC (28). 


BUILD IT AND 

THEY WILL 

COME? 

With Purdue looking 

at three and possibly 

four sellouts for the 

remainder of the 2004 

home season, there has 

been some conjecture 

about when the upper 

deck is going to be built 

on the east side of Ross- 

Ade Stadium. When talking 

with Athletics Director Morgan Burke 

prior to the Notre Dame game, he said his 

plan hasn’t changed. 

“We’ll talk about building the deck 

when we get to 53,000 season ticket holders, 

plain and simple,” Burke said. “We are 

following a path I predicted three years ago 

in that our season ticket base (42,800 plus 

1,900 half-season ticket holders) is growing 

because people are finding out this fall that 

they should have bought their tickets in 

June if they wanted to see some of the Big 

Ten games.” 

A key factor in the next phase of the 

renovation will be whether Purdue has 

demand for additional suites on the east 

side. In the plan for adding approximately 

8,000 addi- 

tional seats with 

the upper deck, 

is plans for 

approximately 

15 suites under 

the deck. 

“We need 

to sell the 

suites to pay off 

the debt service 

on the cost for 

Defense G Tack Ast Tot TFL Sack PD FF FR 

George Hall 4 15 22 37 1-2 0-0 2 0 0 

Bobby Iwuchukwu 4 12 17 29 2-10 0-5 1 0 1 

Kyle Smith 4 20 9 29 2-7 0-0 1 0 0 

Bernard Pollard 4 9 16 25 1-3 1-3 1 1 0 

Stanford Keglar 4 9 12 21 0-4 0-3 0 0 0 

Ray Edwards 4 8 10 18 5-25 3-22 1 1 1 

Brent Grover 4 9 8 17 1-3 0-0 4 0 1 

Brian Hickman 4 11 5 16 0-0 0-0 2 0 0 

B. Villarreal 4 10 5 15 3-16 1-10 1 0 0 

Antwaun Rogers 2 8 6 14 0-1 0-0 2 0 0 

Anthony Spencer 4 5 8 13 4-41 4-39 2 2 0 

Cliff Avril 4 5 4 9 1-3 0-0 0 0 0 

Grant Walker 4 4 2 6 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 

Paul Long 4 5 1 6 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 

Dan Bick 3 4 1 5 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 

Rob Ninkovich 4 4 1 5 2-6 2-6 1 0 0 

Brian Mattaway 3 1 2 3 0-0 0-0 0 0 1 

Josh Ferguson 3 1 2 3 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 

Al Royal 4 2 0 2 1-2 0-0 1 0 0 

Dan McGowen 4 0 2 2 0-2 0-0 0 0 0 

Dorien Bryant 4 2 0 2 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 

Gene Bright 4 1 1 2 1-12 1-11 0 0 0 

Brandon Jones 4 0 1 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 

Neal Tull 2 1 0 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 

Nick Cavallo 3 0 1 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 

Paul Dubler 1 1 0 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 

Ray Williams 4 1 0 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 

Team 4 1 0 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 

Int Ret G No Yds Avg TD Lg Yd/G 

Bernard Pollard 4 1 19 19.0 0 19 4.8 

Paul Long 4 1 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 

Total 4 2 19 9.5 0 19 4.8 

Opponent 4 1 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 

Scoring G TD FG SAF PAT-1 PAT-2 Total PG 

T. Stubblefield 4 10 0 0 0 0 60 15.0 

Ben Jones 4 0 5 0 24 0 39 9.8 

Brandon Jones 4 2 0 0 0 0 12 3.0 

Jerod Void 4 2 0 0 0 0 12 3.0 

Jerome Brooks 3 2 0 0 0 0 12 4.0 

Kyle Ingraham 4 2 0 0 0 0 12 3.0 

Kyle Orton 4 2 0 0 0 0 12 3.0 

Brandon Kirsch 2 1 0 0 0 0 6 3.0 

Brian Hare 4 1 0 0 0 0 6 1.5 

Dorien Bryant 4 1 0 0 0 0 6 1.5 

Dustin Keller 3 1 0 0 0 0 6 2.0 

Rob Ninkovich 4 1 0 0 0 0 6 1.5 

Total 4 25 5 0 24 0 189 47.2 

Opponent 4 6 4 0 5 0 53 13.2 

PURDUE TEAM STATS 

Scoring by Quarters: 

1st 2nd 3rd 4th OT Total 

PUR 55 54 52 28 0 189 

Opp 13 10 16 14 0 53 

PUR OPP 

Total First Downs 109 78 

Rushing 44 28 

Passing 59 42 

Penalty 6 8 

Total Net Yards 2197 1320 

Total Plays 292 267 

Yards Per Play 7.5 4.9 

Yards Per Game 549.2 330.0 

Rushing Attempts-Yards 148-716 139-362 

Yards Per Attempt 4.8 2.6 


Pass Att.-Comp.-Int. 144-100-0 128-77-2 

Passing Yards 1481 958 

Yards Per Completion 14.8 12.4 


Punting: No.-Avg. 11-33.0 22-37.0 

Fumbles-Lost 6-0 9-4 

Penalties-Yards 26-243 29-192 

Sacks By-Yds. Lost 15-99 3-28 

Third-Down Conversions 34-55 23-62 

Conversion Pct. 61.8 37.1 

Fourth-Down Conversions 3-5 4-8 

Conversion Pct. 60.0 50.0 

Avg. Time Of Possession 30:20 29:40 

the new deck (which 

was $25 million back 

in 1999 and is 

expected to be at 

least $30 million 

now),” Burke said. 

“We need to watch 

the demand for suites 

and see how it goes. 

“I think it will 

happen (the east 

deck), but I am just 

not sure when. I 

would rather have a 

tight ticket as 

opposed to an occasional 

sellout and 

(Coach) Joe (Tiller) 

and I are on the same page on this. 

Building the upper deck will be for the 

next generation and will have to be 

able to sustain itself long after Joe and 

I are gone.” 

Burke said Purdue needs a year to 

build the new deck and suites can be 

built in the off-season, but it would 

have to be preceded by a year of planning 

and selling the suites. There also 

has been talks about what to do with 

the south end zone in terms of either 

removing the seats, renovating the 

area or some other project. Burke said 

that while plans for the south end 

zone have been discussed, a plan is 

in its infancy. 

ORTON FOR HEISMAN 

Is there a quarterback at any level that is hotter than Kyle 

Orton is right now? 

Below is a look at his 2004 statistics as well as his career 

numbers heading into the Penn State game Oct. 9. 

2004 

Att. Comp. Int. Pct. Yds. TD Long 

137 95 0 .693 1,477 17 97 

Career 

Att. Comp. Int. Pct. Yds. TD Long 

1,084* 645 23 .595 7,724! 49* 97 

*third place all-time at Purdue 

!fourth place all-time at Purdue 

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BY ALAN KARPICK 

AKarpick@GoldandBlack.com 

Assistant athletic director 

Ed Howat, whose 

lot in life is to oversee 

Purdue’s academic support 

staff for athletics, admits it is 

a step in the right direction. 

Increasing the number of 

computers in the academic 

learning center from 24 to 

74 and renovating the computer 

lab, at a cost of nearly 

$250,000, is a welcome sight 

to Howat’s eyes. 

“We have such high 

expectations for our student 

athletes in terms of success 

in the classroom, that we are 

glad to really upgrade the 

resources available to them 

when they are on this side of 

campus,” Howat said. 

“When we planned the new 

computer center, it basically 

came down to how many 

computers could fit into the 

space we had available to 

us.” 

Much of the funding for 

the project came from the 

Student Athlete Opportunity 

Fund, which was made possible 

as part of NCAA’s most 

recent television contract 

with CBS. Purdue receives 

$121,000 annually from the 

NCAA and used about 

$70,000 of that fund for the 

project. ITAP (Information 

Technology At Purdue) provided 

about $103,000 worth 

of computers with the athletic 

department kicking the 

balance for the wiring, carpeting and 

aesthetics for the room. 

The computer lab is an integral part 

of the Jane P. Beering Academic 

Learning Center, which inhabits most 

of the second floor of the 

Intercollegiate Athletic Facility. The lab 

is open to all students on campus, not 

just student-athletes. But, because of its 

location, it will be used predominantly 

by Purdue’s 450 athletic competitors. 

“Having the computers here is very 

important, because time is one of the 

things our student athletes have in 

short supply,” athletics director Morgan 

Burke said. “If we can save them 10-15 

minutes because they can have quick 

access to computers, that really helps.” 

Howat and Burke know, however, 

that the current academic support facility 

falls far short of the space needed to 

provide all the necessary academic services 

for the student-athletes. 

“Our biggest needs consist of academic 

tutoring rooms and places for 

New Computer Center First Step 

In Academic Support Upgrade 

Current Facility Puts Limitations On Services To Student Athletes 

Academic Support Staff 

Responsibilities 

Tanya Foster: Soccer, M/W Track, Wrestling, LifeSkills 

Program 

Stan Kissell: MBasketball, M/W Swim., Softball 

Mark Shook: Football 

Mallori Walker: WBasketball, VBall, M/W Tennis, M/W 

Golf, Baseball 

Nicole Weston: Wrestling, M Swim., M/W Golf, W Tennis 

small study groups to meet,” said 

Howat. “We are also hoping to someday 

have an auditorium to that could handle 

up to 150 people at one time. It is on our 

three-to-five-years wish list.” 

The $12-million Student Athlete 

Enhancement Center is on the drawing 

board, but Burke is looking for a major 

donor to fund the project. Part of the function 

of the new facility would be to clear the 

way for the entire second floor of the IAF to 

be used only for academic services. 

Currently there are coaches and administrators 

housed in the area. 

Both Burke and Howat believe the academic 

services area is adequately staffed to 

handle the department’s needs. There has 

been a ramping up of personnel in recent 

years. 

Howat’s staff consists of five full-time 

advisors, three graduate assistants and one 

clerical support person. Each of the fulltime 

advisors is assigned multiple sports 

with the exception of Mark Shook, who 

handles football. Four of the five advisors 

Tom Campbell 

At the start of the 2004 school year, 50 

new computers were added to the computer 

lab in the Jane P. Beering Academic 

Learning Center. 

have been in place for three 

years. 

“The staff had a good year 

last year and even though it is 

mostly pretty young, it will 

continue to get better,” Burke 

said. 

Tanya Foster is the most 

experienced of the group. She 

has been involved with academic 

support for Purdue for 21 

years. Foster dates back to the 

day when it was she and Bob 

King, who still stops by the 

office despite officially retiring 

nearly a decade ago, handled 

academic support for all of athletics. 

“It has really changed a lot 

in the past few years,” Howat 

said. “Coach Bob and Tonya 

not only carried a big stick in 

this area, but cast a long shadow,” 

Howat said. “Bob is a true 

pioneer in this field and Tonya 

has the longevity and expertise 

that allows us to know the history 

behind events over many 

years. They are both valuable to 

have around.” 

In a later issue, Burke and Howat 

will share thoughts about some of the challenges 

facing academic services from the 

high-profile cases involving academic eligibility like 

Joey Harris and Chris Booker, to servicing the emotional 

needs of the student-athlete.j 

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P U R D U E 

VOLLEYBALL TEAM BEATS 

MICHIGAN STATE, LOSES 

TO MICHIGAN 

The volleyball team had an up and 

down week with a win against Michigan 

State after a loss to Michigan. 

On Oct. 2, the Boilers overcame a 

12-year drought in Jennison Fieldhouse 

with a 3-2 win over Michigan State 

Saturday night. 

Purdue broke the losing streak with 

a 30-26, 26-30, 28-30, 30-21 and 15-6 

win over the Spartans, garnering another 

historically significant victory for the 

Boilermakers on the day. 

Purdue clinched the match in convincing 

fashion with the 9-point win in 

Game 5. The Boilers registered a blazing 

.688 hitting percentage with 11 kills in 

16 attempts, including four by senior 

Kim McConaha. 

“I felt like our players grew up a little,” 

Purdue coach Dave Shondell said. 

“We gave away a lot of points in the first 

two games and in Game 3 they outplayed 

us in the end. But from that 

point on our players found their zone 

and it was a fun effort to watch. We went 

from an uptight group in the first two 

games to a group that was in complete 

control. We really learned how to relax 

and play on the opponents’ home 

court.” 

2004 Soccer Schedule 

Day Date Opponent Result/Time 

Sat. Aug. 21 DePaul (Exh.) T, 2-2 

Sat. Aug. 28 CINCINNATI* W, 2-1 

Sun. Aug. 29 NEW MEXICO* W, 3-0 

Wed. Sept. 1 @ No. 15 West Virginia L, 0-1 

Sun. Sept. 5 @ No. 22 Nebraska L, 0-3 

Fri. Sept. 10 MIAMI% W, 3-2 

Sun. Sept. 12 WRIGHT STATE% W, 1-0 

Fri. Sept. 17 IOWA W, 1-0 

Sun. Sept. 19 MINNESOTA W, 1-0 

Fri. Sept. 24 @Ohio State L, 0-1 

Sun. Sept. 26 @Penn State L, 1-3 

Fri. Oct. 1 WISCONSIN L, 0-1 

Fri. Oct. 8 MICHIGAN 3 p.m. 

Sun. Oct. 10 MICHIGAN STATE 1 p.m. 

Fri. Oct. 15 @Illinois 7 p.m. 

Sun. Oct. 17 @Northwestern 1 p.m. 

Fri. Oct. 22 INDIANA# 3 p.m. 

Sun. Oct. 24 @Indiana State 1 p.m. 

Thu. Oct. 28 OAKLAND 3 p.m. 

Sat. Oct. 30 @UW-Milwaukee 2 p.m. 

All times local to site 

#Senior Day 

*Boilermaker Challenge Cup 

%Clash of Conferences 

Leah Wischmeier led Purdue with 

23 kills, while McConaha added 15 and 

Sammi Mader tallied 13. Poe pulled up 

17 digs in the match, moving her 

Purdue dig tally to 1,009. 

A day earlier against Michigan, the 

Wolverines outlasted the Boilers for a 3- 

1 win in a game that featured 15 lead 

changes and 47 tie scores. 

The Boilers had several chances 

against the Wolverines but were unable 

to come away with victories in two overtime 

games. Michigan won the match 

30-23, 32-34, 31-29 and 30-26. 

Wischmeier posted a career-high 26 

kills, besting her previous high of 24, 

while McConaha and Kim Cappa also 

reached double digits with 17 and 15, 

respectively. McConaha hit .400, while 

completing her double-double with 13 

digs and five blocks. 

SOCCER SHUTOUT 

AGAINST WISCONSIN 

The Boilermakers dropped a 1-0 

decision to Wisconsin on Oct. 1 at the 

Varsity Soccer Complex. The loss 

snapped an eight-match home unbeaten 

streak and broke a four-match winning 

streak against the Badgers. 

Prior to the match, Wisconsin (7-3- 

1, 1-3-1 Big Ten) had not beaten nor 

scored against Purdue (6-5, 2-3) in the 

regular season since 1999, a 

4-0 win at Madison. 

Wisconsin starting 

midfielder Katy Lindemuth 

broke the Badgers’ five-year 

scoring drought in the 

10th minute. Her first shot 

on goal was saved by a 

Purdue defender, but she 

was able to gain control of 

the rebound and blasted 

the ball past Boiler goalkeeper 

Lauren Mason. 

The Badgers recorded 

eight shots for the match, 

with only six shots on goal. 

Purdue’s offense, though, 

wasn’t any better. The 

Boilers finished with 12 

shots, six of which were on 

goal. 

Badger goalkeeper 

Lynn Murray recorded her 

second shutout of the season 

to boost her record to 

5-2-0. 

CROSS COUNTRY 

MEN, WOMEN 

FINISH 11TH 

Eleven was the magic 

number on the cross country 

course Oct. 1 as both 

the Purdue men and 

women finished in 11th 

place at the Adidas Notre 

Dame Invitational. 

The event was run at 

Purdue 

Kim McConaha played a big role in Purdue’s win at 

Michigan State. 

the Burke Memorial Golf Course, with 

the men running 8K and the women 5K. 

The Boiler men - competing in the 

Gold division - placed 11th among 26 

teams. Notre Dame won the team title 

with 85 points, compared to Purdue’s 

358. 

2004 Volleyball Schedule 


Wed. Sept. 1 BUTLER W, 3-1 

Fri. Sept. 3 vs. No. 12 Georgia Tech* W, 3-1 

Sat. Sept. 4 vs. Missouri* W, 3-2 

Fri. Sept. 10 vs. Tennessee-Martin^ W, 3-0 

Sat. Sept. 11 vs. Wake Forest^ L, 0-3 

Sat. Sept. 11 vs. Tennessee^ L, 1-3 

Tue. Sept. 14 VALPARAISO W, 3-1 

Fri. Sept. 17 vs. Central Michigan# W, 3-0 

Sat. Sept. 18 vs. East Tennessee State# W, 3-0 

Sat. Sept. 18 vs. Kentucky# L, 2-3 

Wed. Sept. 22 INDIANA W, 3-0 

Fri. Sept. 24 @ No. 13 Illinois W, 3-1 

Fri. Oct. 1 @ Michigan L, 1-3 

Sat. Oct. 2 @ Michigan State W, 3-2 

Fri. Oct. 8 PENN STATE 7 p.m. 

Sat. Oct. 9 OHIO STATE 7 p.m. 

Fri. Oct. 15 @ Northwestern 7 p.m. 

Sat. Oct. 16 @ Wisconsin 7 p.m. 

Fri. Oct. 22 IOWA 7 p.m. 

Sat. Oct. 23 MINNESOTA 8 p.m. 

Fri. Oct. 29 @ Ohio State 7 p.m. 

Sat. Oct. 30 @ Penn State 7 p.m. 

Fri. Nov. 5 MICHIGAN STATE 7 p.m. 

Sat. Nov. 6 MICHIGAN 7 p.m. 

Wed. Nov. 10 @ Indiana 7 p.m. 

Sat. Nov. 13 ILLINOIS 8 p.m. 

Fri. Nov. 19 @ Minnesota 7 p.m. 

Sun. Nov. 21 @ Iowa 2 p.m. 

Fri. Nov. 26 WISCONSIN 7 p.m. 

Sat. Nov. 27 NORTHWESTERN 7 p.m. 

* Madison, Wis. 

^ Lady Vols Classic, Knoxville, Tenn. 

# Mortar Board Premier, West Lafayette, Ind. 

Justin Stadt paced the 

Purdue men, finishing 

40th in the individual 

standings with a time of 

25:40. Justin Gauthier was 

the second Boiler to cross 

the finish line, running a 

26:01 for 67th place. 

Purdue’s third, fourth and 

fifth scoring runners were 

Eric Hammond (76th, 

26:08), Zach Wilder (79th, 

26:14) and Joshua 

Robinson (96th, 26:31). 

In the women’s Blue 

division, Purdue scored 316 

points for 11th-place. 

Stanford won the field of 

national elite squads with 

34 points. The Boilermakers 

finished one spot, and one 

point, behind Big Ten foe 

Penn State. 

Amber Ferner was the lead runner 

for the Purdue women, finishing 34th 

with a time of 17:36, a personal best at 

5K. Ferner’s prior best was a 17:46 run at 

the Indiana Intercollegiates in 2001. 

Lindsay Zinn finished second for Purdue 

with a time of 17:45, placing 45th overall. 

Four other veteran Purdue 

women posted personal bests, 

led by Corrie Whisner’s 74thplace 

18:07. Kara Lahey finished 

a second behind 

Whisner for 76th-place. 

Kaleena Cappel finished 87th 

with an 18:16. And Rachel 

Kroll finished with a time of 

18:43. 

PURDUE TO HOST 

2008 NCAA GOLF 

TOURNAMENT 

Purdue was awarded the 

host site for the 2008 NCAA 

Division I Men’s Golf 

Championships. 

The event - from May 28 

to 31 - will be held at the 

Kampen Course of the Birck 

Boilermaker Golf Complex. 

The Kampen Course was 

designed by world-renowned 

golf course architect Pete Dye. 

“This facility was designed 

by Pete Dye to challenge all 

level of golfers and, with that 

in mind, Pete created a true 


Purdue 

Freshman Parrissa Eyorokon led Purdue 

with three shots against Wisconsin. 

test for NCAA champion golfers on the 

Kampen Course,” said athletic director 

Morgan Burke. “The Birck Boilermaker 

Golf Complex will be the ideal venue to 

host this prestigious event. We know a 

lot of outstanding facilities were considered 

for this opportunity and that makes 

receiving the bid even more special.” 

The Kampen Course hosted the 

NCAA Women’s Golf Championships in 

2003, the NCAA Women’s Central 

Regional Championships in 2001 and 

the NCAA Men’s Golf Central Regional 

Championships in 2004. 

“It is a tribute to our facility, our 

staff that ran the central regional in 

2004, and to our golf program specifically,” 

said Purdue golf coach Devon 

Brouse. “The golf course now is truly one 

of the best two or three collegiate facilities 

in the country, and a strong case 

could be made that it is the best. We 

have, along with Pete Dye’s help, plans 

for a few minor adjustments that will 

make it even better. By 2008, the players 

will find it to be one of the best tests of 

golfing ability. With our track record, I 

am confident we can count on the 

Purdue family and community to run a 

great championship.” 

During the 2004 Central Regional 

Championships, the Kampen Course 

played 7,259 yards and was a par 72. 

Purdue has hosted a men’s national 

golf championship twice before - in 

1952 and 1961. In the 1961 NCAA Men’s 

Golf Championship, the Boilers won the 

national championship. 

PURDUE ACADEMIC 

PROGRAM RECEIVES 

RECOGNITION 

The Purdue CHAMPS/Life Skills program 

was named a Program of 

Excellence this week by the Division I-A 

Athletic Directors’ Association at a luncheon 

held in Dallas. 

Auburn University and the 

University of Utah also joined the 

Boilers at the awards podium. 

The Program of Excellence designation 

is shared by just 32 other schools, 

including those inducted this week. 

Notre Dame, Penn State, Michigan State, 

Iowa and Ohio State have also been 

inducted. 

CHAMPS, which stands for 

2004 Men’s and Women’s Cross Country Schedule 


Sat. Sept. 4 Great American Legends NTS 

Sat. Sept. 11 @ Indiana State Invitational 4 th @ 

Fri. Sept. 17 INDIANA INTERCOLLEGIATES W1st/M4th 

Fri. Oct. 1 @ Notre Dame Invitational M/W 11TH 

Sat. Oct. 16 Pre-National Meet ##. 

Sun. Oct. 31 Big Ten Championships&& 

Sat. Nov. 13 NCAA Regionals** 

Mon. Nov. 22 NCAA Championships## 

##Terre Haute, Ind. 

&&Iowa City, Iowa 

**Ypsilanti, Mich. 

Home Meets ALL CAPS 

@Women fourth place of nine teams, Men fourth of eight 

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Presents 

The Big Play By Purdue’s Golden Boys 

Kyle Orton’s 97-yard touchdown pass to Taylor Stubblefield 

with 11:51 left in the third quarter was the longest play from 

scrimmage ever against Notre Dame and the second longest in 

Purdue annals. In the first frame, Orton signals to Stubblefield the 

route to be run. Then he makes the toss with the end result a little 

celebration on the sideline by the Boilermaker duo. Orton became 

the first Purdue quarterback to throw for more than 300 yards in 

South Bend and Stubblefield’s seven receptions (for 186 yards and 

two scores) puts him three short of John Standeford’s Purdue and 

Big Ten all-time records. 

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