This Week: Wabash (6-2, 6-1 NCAC) plays host to Hiram College (0-8, 0-7 NCAC) on Saturday, November 9 at Byron P. Hollett Little Giant Stadium in North Coast Athletic Conference action.

The game is the 214th and last to be played in Hollett Little Giant Stadium. The facility will be demolished to make way for a new Little Giant Stadium to be ready for the first home game September 5, 2020 against Rose-Hulman.

Game Information: Kickoff is set for 1 p.m. Tickets for admission to the game, parking and tailgating spaces can all be purchased at wabashtickets.com.

Parking along Jennison Street between Will Hays Jr. Drive and Sycamore Drive is prohibited. Sycamore Drive and Thornwood Road are part of the Sycamore Hills residential area and are not public parking areas for Wabash College football games. Beginning October 21, Grant Street will be restricted to a single lane due to construction. Fans traveling to Wabash College for home events are instructed to take Washington Street (State Road 231) and turn west onto Jennison Street to avoid construction traffic on Grant Street.

A live video feed of Saturday's game will be available at https://team1sports.com/Wabash/. Updated live statistics can be found at https://sports.wabash.edu/sidearmstats/football.

Series History: Wabash and Hiram both joined the North Coast Athletic Conference in 1999 and played football for the first time in 2000.  The Little Giants have not lost in 13 previous games between the two programs. Two second-quarter touchdowns helped Wabash take a 20-3 halftime lead and an eventual 41-17 over the Terriers last year at Hiram. The Little Giants scored nine points in the fourth quarter of the 2017 game in Crawfordsville to claim a 25-21 victory after Hiram had taken a 14-0 lead in the first quarter. 

Among The Best: Wabash enters the 2019 season as the fifth-winningest program in NCAA Division III history with a record of 695-390-59. The top-five programs in all-time victories among DIII teams are Mount Union (806), Wittenberg (778), Washington and Jefferson (749), Widener (708), and Wabash (695).
 
Scouting Hiram: The Terriers are searching for their first victory of the 2019 season. Hiram suffered a three-point loss earlier this year at Kenyon, 15-12, along with a 7-0 loss at Oberlin in October. Interim head coach Chris Rosselot took over the program on October 22 after the resignation of Henry Stafford. Rosselot is in his seventh season at Hiram, serving the past four years as defensive coordinator for the Terriers.
 
Freshman running back Bryson Butler is the leading rusher for Hiram. He averages 58.6 yards a game and has scored two rushing touchdowns. Jacquarias Waller, Malcolm Rogers, and David Cummings have each accounted for rushing touchdowns for the Terriers this season. Xavier Reyero has thrown for 736 yards and two touchdowns through six games as a freshman quarterback. He has completed 63 of 144 pass attempts with six interceptions. Backup Rodney Myers, Jr. has thrown for three TDs and 322 yards in six games on 25-of-55 passing. Collin McNamara, who did not play in last Saturday's game against Allegheny, has completed 29 of 68 attempts for 362 yards. Junior Moe Yarbrough is the leading receiver for the Terriers with 25 catches for 366 yards and one score. Jaris Foreman has caught 30 passes for 313 yards and two TDs. Tahj Lorthridge also has two touchdown receptions as part of his 21 catches for a total of 297 yards.
 
Sophomore defensive back Delanoe Harris leads the team in tackles with 94 and is atop the conference stats with an average of 11.8 tackles a game. Freshman defensive back Jordan Jones is ranked fifth in the conference in passes defended with an average of one a game. He has recorded one interception to go with six pass breakups. Horace Johnson has intercepted two passes this season for Hiram and is the team leader in tackles for losses with 9-1/2 for a total of 28 yards. Floyd Shackelford's 4-1/2 sacks for 32 yards are the most for the Terriers this season.
 
Hollett Little Giant Stadium By The Numbers: Saturday is the final game at Hollett Little Giant Stadium. Dedicated on October 8, 1966, the Little Giants lost to Wheaton College that day 20-14. Wabash owns a 204-65-4 record in the Stadium, including a 30-game home winning streak from 1978-1984. Wabash has scored a total of 7,733 points entering the final game against Hiram. The most victories in a single season are seven in 2002, 2011, and 2015. Wabash owns a one-game edge in Monon Bell games at Hollett Little Giant Stadium at 13-12-2. The most points scored in a single game came in 2003 against Hiram College in an 81-0 victory. The longest rushing play in the stadium's history came last year on a 98-yard run by Isaac Avant against Allegheny. The longest yardage on a passing play came against Albion in 1984 on an 83-yard connection between quarterback Steve Hoffman '85 to Tim Granson '85.
 
Avant Up To Sixth: Isaac Avant added another 138 rushing yards to his career totals in Saturday's win over Kenyon. He moved up to sixth on the Wabash all-time rushing list with 2,731 total yards to pass the late Stan Huntsman '54 with his total of 2,595 career rushing yards. Avant trails Tyler Holmes '14 in fifth place by 227 yards. Holmes rushed for 2,958 yards in his career.

Avant currently ranks second in the NCAC and 28th in Division III in rushing yards per game with an average of 109.8. He trails conference leader Alex Minton from Denison with an average of 131.8 rushing yards per game. Ike James is third in the NCAC with an 87.4 yards-per-game average.
 
1-2-3 Kick: Wabash leads all 247 Division III football teams in net punting yards per game.  The Little Giants average 39.84 net yards per punt through eight games. Sophomore punter Joey Annee ranks eighth among DIII players and leads the NCAC with an overall average of 42.70 yards per punt.
 
Looking Beyond The Horizon: The first set of NCAA Division III football regional rankings were released Wednesday afternoon. Wabash is ranked ninth in the first of three sets of rankings produced by the north region advisory committee as part of the selection process for the 2019 NCAA DIII football playoffs. A total of 32 teams made up of 27 automatic bids from conference champions along with five national at-large selections will earn berths in the national tournament. Wabash would receive the NCAC automatic bid with victories in its remaining games against Hiram and DePauw.

Next Week: Wabash and DePauw meet in the 126th Monon Bell Classic. Kickoff at Blackstock Stadium in Greencastle, Indiana is at 1:07 p.m.