Eastern Michigan Athletics
Football Hosts Toledo on Homecoming
10/16/2006 2:49:13 PM | Football
Game time set for 3 p.m. at Rynearson Stadium
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The Eastern Michigan University football team returns home for a homecoming date with Mid-American Conference foe Toledo, Oct. 21. Saturday’s contest is Homecoming, with more than 60 activities planned for on and off campus, a week-long celebration at Eastern Michigan University with the festivities culminating with the Eagles hooking up with the Rockets at 3 p.m.
EMU VS. UT
Toledo and Eastern Michigan are meeting for the 34th time in the series which started in 1923. Toledo holds a 23-10 lead in the matchup, including a 30-3 win, Oct. 8, 2005, in Toledo, Ohio. The Rockest hold a slim 8-6 advantage in games played in Rynearson Stadium. The last time the two teams met in Ypsilanti, Toledo captured a thrilling 42-32 win, Sept. 18, 2004.
THE HEAD COACHES
EMU Head Coach Jeff Genyk (Bowling Green, '82) is in his third year as head coach after serving the previous 12 years working for Northwestern University.
Toledo Head Coach Tom Amstutz (Toledo, ’77) is in his sixth season.
115th SEASON
The 2006 season marks the 115th year of football at Eastern Michigan University. The first year of intercollegiate football in Ypsilanti was 1891 when the team posted an 0-2 record. EMU has fielded a team every year since 1891 with one exception, when the 1944 season was cancelled because of World War II.
COLLEGIATE CLASH SET FOR NOV. 11
For the third year in a row the EMU football team will be taking one of its home games on the road, hosting the United States Navel Academy in the third annual Collegiate Clash at Ford Field, home of the Detroit Lions, in Detroit. EMU will be the host team for the non-conference battle Saturday, Nov. 11, with game time set for 1 p.m. Tickets for the game are $20 each. The Eagles hosted Central Michigan in the inaugural Collegiate Clash, Nov. 6, 2004, and Eastern won a thriller, 61-58, in four overtimes. Last year Eastern tangled with Western Michigan, Nov. 5, 2005, but this time it was the Broncos that walked away with a hard-fought 44-36 decision.
JEFF GENYK RADIO SHOW SET
EMU head football coach Jeff Genyk will be the featured guest on the Sunday morning radio show, "Green Eggs and Coffee", from 9 a.m.-10 a.m. each Sunday of the football season. The shows, with WTKA radio’s Josh Vernier and WEMU radio reporter Brian Nemerovski serving as co-hosts, will be broadcast live from WTKA’s studio in Ann Arbor. The first show of the 2006 season was Sunday, Aug. 27.
WELCOME BACK
The EMU football team members from 1956 are special guests at Saturday's game. We welcome back that fine group of lettermen on their 50th anniversary.
DESLAURIERS ON THE MARK
Senior wide receiver Eric Deslauriers broke the EMU career record for receiving yards and also for receptions when he hauled in 10 passes for 173 yards and two touchdowns last weekend (Oct. 14) at Bowling Green. Deslauriers has now caught 217 career passes for 2,859 yards and 28 touchdowns. He snapped Kevin Walter’s career receptions mark of 211 and also his career reception yardage of 2,838. Walter, who played for the Eagles from 1999-02 is now a member of the NFL’s Houston Texans. Deslauriers’ 26 career touchdown receptions is a school record while that same number is tied for third in EMU career touchdowns, three behind leader Gary Patton (1984-87) who had 31.
NATIONAL LEADER
EMU junior defensive lineman Jason Jones leads the NCAA-IA ranks in tackles-for-loss with an average of 2.6 per game. The 6-foot-5, 262-pound Jones has accumulated 13 tackles-for-loss of 50 yards as a starter in all five games in which he has played this season. He missed the Louisiana Lafayette game with an injuryir teammates to serve as captains.
EMU ON THE WEB
The EMU athletic website, featuring all of the information on 21 varsity athletic teams, is: www.emueagles.com. There is an additional website for information on the Eagles’ football team only and that site is: www.emueaglesfootball.com.
