Postgame Notes: Indiana vs. Eastern Illinois
9/7/2019 8:23:00 PM | Football
Post-Game Notes
Indiana vs. Eastern Illinois
Sept. 7, 2019
TEAM
• Indiana Football opened its 60th season at Memorial Stadium.
• The 52-point margin of victory was the most in Memorial Stadium history, eclipsing the 51-point win the Hoosiers had over Missouri (58-7) on Sept. 22, 1990. It was also IU's largest margin of victory since a 54-0 blanking of Nebraska in Bloomington on Oct. 14, 1944.
• Indiana is 42-18 in Memorial Stadium openers with wins in 16 of its last 18 and 33 of its last 38.
• The Hoosiers improved to 2-0 for the second-straight season, the second time under head coach Tom Allen and the fourth time in the past five campaigns.
• Today marked the first meeting between the two programs.
• IU has won 16 of its last 17 non-conference games, including eight straight.
• The 1979 Holiday Bowl championship team held its 40-year reunion this weekend.
• Indiana received the ball first for the first time this season after Eastern Illinois won the coin toss and deferred to the second half.
• Senior left tackle Coy Cronk, fifth-year senior linebacker Reakwon Jones, fifth-year senior right guard Simon Stepaniak and fifth-year senior wide receiver Nick Westbrook served as game captains. The four are the Hoosiers season captains.
• The 1979 Holiday Bowl championship team captains served as today's honorary captains: quarterback Tim Clifford, fullback Tony D'Orazio, linebacker Terry Tallen and defensive end Brent Tisdale.
• True freshmen Sio Nofoagatoto'a, Beau Robbins, Josh Sanguinetti and Larry Tracy III, made their season debuts to push the number of Indiana true freshmen seeing the field in 2019 to nine.
OFFENSE
• The 52 points scored in a home opener was the most for IU since beating Indiana State, 73-35, on Aug. 29, 2013.
• Indiana scored 35 points in the first half, its first half over 30 points since a 31-point opening 30 minutes against Georgia Southern on Sept. 23, 2017.
• The Hoosiers posted 21 points in the first quarter, their first time with 21-or-more in a quarter since the final stanza at Minnesota on Oct. 26, 2018 (22 points).
• Redshirt freshman Michael Penix Jr. completed 14-of-20 (70.0 percent) for 197 yards and two touchdowns in just under one half of play. The multi-TD game was the first of his career.
• On his first pass of 2019, redshirt junior Peyton Ramsey hit Ronnie Walker Jr. in the flat and Walker raced 64 yards for his first-career receiving score. It marked Ramsey's second-career 60-plus yard touchdown.
• Ramsey added a 43-yard TD to fifth-year senior Donavan Hale in the third quarter and closed out the afternoon 13-for-14 (92.9 percent), a new program single-game completion percentage mark, with 226 yards and a pair of TDs.
• The Cincinnati native moved into a share of eighth on the program's career passing scores list (31) and into ninth on the career passing yardage list (4,481).
• Hale went over 100 yards for the first time in his career with 110 yards on five receptions. The Largo, Fla., native owns nine career touchdowns.
• Stevie Scott III rushed for 61 yards on 12 attempts with a 5-yard TD. The sophomore has reached the end zone on the ground in seven-straight games, has three rushing scores in 2019 and 13 in his career.
• Tight end Peyton Hendershot hauled in his first touchdown of the year and the third of his career, from 8 yards out, in the second quarter. The redshirt sophomore made a career-high five grabs for 52 yards.
• Junior Whop Philyor tallied four catches for a season-high 75 yards.
• Redshirt freshman Miles Marshall opened the scoring with his first-career reception, a 10-yard TD.
• Redshirt sophomore Cole Gest crossed the goal line for the second time in his career and the first time since 2017 on a 3-yarder in the first quarter.
• True freshman Sampson James scored his first career touchdown on a 1-yard run in the fourth quarter.
• Redshirt freshman Turon Ivy Jr. set career-highs with the first three receptions of his career for 24 yards.
• True freshman David Ellis recorded the first two catches (26 yards) of his career.
• A total of 12 players had at least one reception in the game, while eight different players had at least one rush.
• Sophomore tight end Matt Bjorson made his first-career start.
DEFENSE
• Indiana recorded its first shutout since a 41-0 whitewashing of Rutgers on Nov. 18, 2017. It is the third shutout in the Tom Allen Era.
• The shutout was the first for the Hoosiers in a home opener since beating Toledo, 27-0, on Sept. 4, 1993.
• The shutout was the largest for IU since beating Nebraska, 54-0, on Oct. 14, 1944.
• The 116 total yards allowed are the fewest by Indiana dating back to 1966.
• The 64 yards passing allowed are the fewest since the Hoosiers allowed just 58 to Michigan on Oct. 14, 2017.
• The 52 rushing yards allowed are the fewest since IU allowed 33 at Illinois on Nov. 11, 2017.
• Indiana held EIU to -5 total yards in the first quarter – 0 passing and -5 rushing – and posted three-and-outs on all three of the Panthers drives. The Hoosiers posted eight total three-and-outs in the game.
• The Hoosiers' streak of at least one takeaway in 19 games, the longest streak in the country, and at least one pick in 11 straight contests, was snapped.
• Redshirt sophomore defensive end Alfred Bryant posted a pair of tackles for loss in the first quarter, his second-career, multi-TFL game.
• Sophomore defensive tackle DeMarcus Elliott and sophomore defensive end James Head Jr. each recorded the first sacks of their careers in the opening quarter. Head added a half-sack in the second quarter.
• Sophomore defensive tackle Demarcus Elliott and sophomore husky Jamar Johnson made their first-career starts.
SPECIAL TEAMS
• Redshirt freshman linebacker Aaron Casey blocked an Eastern Illinois punt in the first quarter, which led to the Hoosiers third touchdown. It was the team's first blocked punt since Peyton Hendershot against Ball State on Sept. 15, 2018.
• Fifth-year senior Logan Justus converted all six of his PAT attempts in the game.
• Redshirt sophomore Charles Campbell hit his first career field goal, converting from 48 yards out in the fourth quarter.
• Combined, Justus and Campbell are 5-for-5 on field goals, including 4-for-4 from 48-yards or more. They are also a perfect 9-for-9 on PATs.
Indiana vs. Eastern Illinois
Sept. 7, 2019
TEAM
• Indiana Football opened its 60th season at Memorial Stadium.
• The 52-point margin of victory was the most in Memorial Stadium history, eclipsing the 51-point win the Hoosiers had over Missouri (58-7) on Sept. 22, 1990. It was also IU's largest margin of victory since a 54-0 blanking of Nebraska in Bloomington on Oct. 14, 1944.
• Indiana is 42-18 in Memorial Stadium openers with wins in 16 of its last 18 and 33 of its last 38.
• The Hoosiers improved to 2-0 for the second-straight season, the second time under head coach Tom Allen and the fourth time in the past five campaigns.
• Today marked the first meeting between the two programs.
• IU has won 16 of its last 17 non-conference games, including eight straight.
• The 1979 Holiday Bowl championship team held its 40-year reunion this weekend.
• Indiana received the ball first for the first time this season after Eastern Illinois won the coin toss and deferred to the second half.
• Senior left tackle Coy Cronk, fifth-year senior linebacker Reakwon Jones, fifth-year senior right guard Simon Stepaniak and fifth-year senior wide receiver Nick Westbrook served as game captains. The four are the Hoosiers season captains.
• The 1979 Holiday Bowl championship team captains served as today's honorary captains: quarterback Tim Clifford, fullback Tony D'Orazio, linebacker Terry Tallen and defensive end Brent Tisdale.
• True freshmen Sio Nofoagatoto'a, Beau Robbins, Josh Sanguinetti and Larry Tracy III, made their season debuts to push the number of Indiana true freshmen seeing the field in 2019 to nine.
OFFENSE
• The 52 points scored in a home opener was the most for IU since beating Indiana State, 73-35, on Aug. 29, 2013.
• Indiana scored 35 points in the first half, its first half over 30 points since a 31-point opening 30 minutes against Georgia Southern on Sept. 23, 2017.
• The Hoosiers posted 21 points in the first quarter, their first time with 21-or-more in a quarter since the final stanza at Minnesota on Oct. 26, 2018 (22 points).
• Redshirt freshman Michael Penix Jr. completed 14-of-20 (70.0 percent) for 197 yards and two touchdowns in just under one half of play. The multi-TD game was the first of his career.
• On his first pass of 2019, redshirt junior Peyton Ramsey hit Ronnie Walker Jr. in the flat and Walker raced 64 yards for his first-career receiving score. It marked Ramsey's second-career 60-plus yard touchdown.
• Ramsey added a 43-yard TD to fifth-year senior Donavan Hale in the third quarter and closed out the afternoon 13-for-14 (92.9 percent), a new program single-game completion percentage mark, with 226 yards and a pair of TDs.
• The Cincinnati native moved into a share of eighth on the program's career passing scores list (31) and into ninth on the career passing yardage list (4,481).
• Hale went over 100 yards for the first time in his career with 110 yards on five receptions. The Largo, Fla., native owns nine career touchdowns.
• Stevie Scott III rushed for 61 yards on 12 attempts with a 5-yard TD. The sophomore has reached the end zone on the ground in seven-straight games, has three rushing scores in 2019 and 13 in his career.
• Tight end Peyton Hendershot hauled in his first touchdown of the year and the third of his career, from 8 yards out, in the second quarter. The redshirt sophomore made a career-high five grabs for 52 yards.
• Junior Whop Philyor tallied four catches for a season-high 75 yards.
• Redshirt freshman Miles Marshall opened the scoring with his first-career reception, a 10-yard TD.
• Redshirt sophomore Cole Gest crossed the goal line for the second time in his career and the first time since 2017 on a 3-yarder in the first quarter.
• True freshman Sampson James scored his first career touchdown on a 1-yard run in the fourth quarter.
• Redshirt freshman Turon Ivy Jr. set career-highs with the first three receptions of his career for 24 yards.
• True freshman David Ellis recorded the first two catches (26 yards) of his career.
• A total of 12 players had at least one reception in the game, while eight different players had at least one rush.
• Sophomore tight end Matt Bjorson made his first-career start.
DEFENSE
• Indiana recorded its first shutout since a 41-0 whitewashing of Rutgers on Nov. 18, 2017. It is the third shutout in the Tom Allen Era.
• The shutout was the first for the Hoosiers in a home opener since beating Toledo, 27-0, on Sept. 4, 1993.
• The shutout was the largest for IU since beating Nebraska, 54-0, on Oct. 14, 1944.
• The 116 total yards allowed are the fewest by Indiana dating back to 1966.
• The 64 yards passing allowed are the fewest since the Hoosiers allowed just 58 to Michigan on Oct. 14, 2017.
• The 52 rushing yards allowed are the fewest since IU allowed 33 at Illinois on Nov. 11, 2017.
• Indiana held EIU to -5 total yards in the first quarter – 0 passing and -5 rushing – and posted three-and-outs on all three of the Panthers drives. The Hoosiers posted eight total three-and-outs in the game.
• The Hoosiers' streak of at least one takeaway in 19 games, the longest streak in the country, and at least one pick in 11 straight contests, was snapped.
• Redshirt sophomore defensive end Alfred Bryant posted a pair of tackles for loss in the first quarter, his second-career, multi-TFL game.
• Sophomore defensive tackle DeMarcus Elliott and sophomore defensive end James Head Jr. each recorded the first sacks of their careers in the opening quarter. Head added a half-sack in the second quarter.
• Sophomore defensive tackle Demarcus Elliott and sophomore husky Jamar Johnson made their first-career starts.
SPECIAL TEAMS
• Redshirt freshman linebacker Aaron Casey blocked an Eastern Illinois punt in the first quarter, which led to the Hoosiers third touchdown. It was the team's first blocked punt since Peyton Hendershot against Ball State on Sept. 15, 2018.
• Fifth-year senior Logan Justus converted all six of his PAT attempts in the game.
• Redshirt sophomore Charles Campbell hit his first career field goal, converting from 48 yards out in the fourth quarter.
• Combined, Justus and Campbell are 5-for-5 on field goals, including 4-for-4 from 48-yards or more. They are also a perfect 9-for-9 on PATs.
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