Complete Game Notes

OPENING KICKOFF
Gettysburg (4-5, 3-5 CC) aims to close out the year with a .500 record as it visits the Franklin & Marshall College Diplomats (5-4, 5-3 CC) on Saturday in its season finale and the 99th meeting between the two schools. Kickoff is set for noon at Sponaugle-Williamson Field.

GAME COVERAGE
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QUICK HITS
1.  Gettysburg enters the game with the 17th-ranked offense in Division III, averaging 481 yards per game.
2. A win would give the Bullets a final record of 5-5, marking the team's fourth-straight season of finishing .500 or better. It would be the team's longest such streak since 1992-95.
3. Gettysburg has played Franklin & Marshall more than any other opponent. Dickinson is second on the list, as the Bullets and Red Devils have met 79 times.

SERIES HISTORY
Gettysburg holds a slight 46-45-7 in their all-time series that started in the Bullets inaugural season in 1890. However, Gettysburg has won the last three meetings and five of the last seven.

LAST TIME OUT
Senior receiver Aden Twer broke the school record for career receiving yards and Gettysburg team won back the Little Brown Bucket, downing Dickinson College 42-7 at home last Saturday. The Bullets jumped out to a 28-0 halftime lead and outgained the Red Devils 454-296. Twer finished with 125 yards on five catches while junior Zach Miller threw for 281 yards on 17-of-23 passing. Junior tailback Eddie Hutchins rushed for three touchdowns while sophomore linebacker Kodie McNamara led all players with 15 tackles. Junior defensive end Drew Winters added a career-high 11 tackles, including 2.0 for loss and one sack.

Franklin & Marshall dropped a 45-30 decision at Johns Hopkins last week. The Diplomats trailed just 24-20 at halftime before the Blue Jays pulled away in the second half, when they outscored F&M 21-10. The game featured nearly 1,000 yards of offense, with Johns Hopkins outgaining F&M 461-424. Senior E.J Schneider passed for 207 yards and a pair of touchdowns while Frank Strumolo rushed for 136 yards and two TDs. Senior linebacker John Stark and sophomore safety Ryan Feulner made 10 tackles apiece.

LAST YEAR'S MATCHUP
The Bullets held off a late Franklin & Marshall rally and knocked off the Diplomats 38-31 at Gettysburg in their season finale. Numerous Bullets made their final appearance in Musselman Stadium a memorable one, as Ted Delia '13 rushed for 153 yards, Kody Smith '13 passed for 64 yards and a touchdown while passing for 141 yards and an additional TD to break the school record for touchdowns responsible for (25) that had stood since 1958. In addition, cornerback D.J. Thompson '13 returned an interception 80 yards for a touchdown, receiver Kyle Davis '13 hauled in a 71-yard touchdown pass, linebacker Larry DelViscio '13 made 12 tackles, defensive end Joe Ventresca '13 forced a fumble on a sack, and safety Drew Olsen '13 made a touchdown-saving tackle on F&M's final play from scrimmage, leading to a field goal. Tim Muller caught seven passes for 114 yards and a touchdown for the Diplomats while Frank Strumolo made eight catches for 98 yards and a touchdown to go with 29 yards rushing and a TD.

THE GETTYSBURG OFFENSE
The Bullets have received steady contributions from both its passing game and rushing game once again this season. The team has passed for 259.1 yards per game and have averaged 38 yards more per game passing than rushing (221.9 ypg). However, the Bullets have scored 23 of their 38 offensive touchdowns on the ground. Junior quarterback Zach Miller has enjoyed an impressive first year as a starter, throwing for 2,256 yards - a mark that leads the Centennial Conference and ranks second in school history. He has also completed 63.7 percent of his passes and thrown 14 touchdowns against just five interceptions. Senior receiver Aden Twer has enjoyed a big season, posting team-highs of 35 catches, 771 yards, and eight touchdowns. The running game has been paced by sophomore tailback Kyle Wigley, who has rushed for 95.0 yards per game and five touchdowns while junior tailback Eddie Hutchins has added a team-leading seven rushing TDs.

THE GETTYSBURG DEFENSE
Gettysburg is coming off its top performance of the season on defense, posting season-lows for points allowed (seven), rushing yards allowed (138), and total yards allowed (296). Sophomore linebacker Kodie McNamara is the team and Centennial Conference leader with 103 tackles, and his 12.0 hits per game ranks 11th in Division III. Senior linebacker Cody DiAmore is close behind with 93 tackles, including 6.5 for loss, while junior defensive end Drew Winters leads the squad with 6.5 sacks to go with 8.5 tackles for loss. Junior defensive end A.J. Hill is tops among the Bullets with 9.0 tackles for loss, and sophomore cornerback Brian Calatozzo has contributed four interceptions.

THE GETTYSBURG SPECIAL TEAMS
On special teams, senior Tommy LeNoir has been a jack-of-all-trades for the Bullets. The second-leading kick returner in the Centennial Conference (25.1 yards per return), he also made two big plays as a holder last week against Dickinson, rushing for a touchdown on a faked field goal and scoring a two-point conversion run on a fumbled snap. He has taken every punt return for the Bullets, contributed on offense as a wing back, and averaged 152.7 all-purpose yards per game. Sophomore Robby Fay has averaged 40.0 yards per punt and converted 4-of-5 extra points while junior kicker Matt Perkins has made 26 of 29 PATs and 5-of-10 field goals.

SCOUTING F&M
Offensively, Franklin & Marshall has relied heavily on its passing game, averaging 240.4 yards per game through the air against just 157.1 on the ground. Senior quarterback E.J. Schneider has thrown for 237.9 yards per game and 16 touchdowns while completing 64.4 percent of his passes. He is also the team's leading rushing, averaging 71.6 yards per game and a team-leading eight touchdown passes. Senior tailback Frank Strumolo has added 71.2 rushing yards per game while junior Jordan Zackery has been the team's leading receiver, making 56 catches for 74.7 yards per game and seven touchdowns. Defensively, senior Brendan Wengerter has led the way with 105 tackles, including 14.0 for loss and 9.5 sacks. Zackery has also enjoyed a big season as a return specialist, averaging 25.6 yards per kickoff return and 19.0 yards per punt return to go with two punt return touchdowns.

TWER HITS MILESTONES
Senior receiver Aden Twer has reached three different career milestones over the past four weeks. On Oct. 19 versus Muhlenberg he made his 100th career reception, a week later against Johns Hopkins he went over 2,000 career receiving yards, and last week versus Dickinson he set the school record for career receiving yards. Twer comes into Saturday's game ranked first in school history in both career touchdown receptions (24) and receiving yards (2,200) and is third in receptions (113).

MORE ON TWER
With his two touchdown catches against Ursinus on Sept. 14, Twer broke Gettysburg's oldest major football record. His 4-yard grab with 4:06 left upped his career total for TD receptions to 19 - one more than Ken Snyder '65 accumulated from 1962-64, when freshmen were not eligible for varsity competition. Two years ago, Twer also broke Snyder's single-season touchdown reception record that had stood since 1964 when he made 12 TD catches, and he became just the second Bullet to post 1,000 receiving yards in a season, finishing with 1,079 to finish behind only Chris Notarfrancesco's 1,115 in 1994.

THE COACHES
Gettysburg is coached by Barry Streeter, now in his 35th year at the helm of the Bullets and the longest-tenured football coach in Division III. With 178 career victories, Streeter is eighth among active Division III coaches in wins. He is also tied for 20th on the all-time Division III coaches win list. Streeter, who owns a career record of 178-170-5, is Gettysburg's all-time winningest and longest-tenured football coach in program history. In addition, his 108 Centennial Conference football wins are second in conference history.

John Troxell is in his eighth year at the helm of the Diplomats. He has guided F&M to a 41-41 record and ECAC bowl appearances in 2009, 2010, and 2012.