Game Information
Series: (SRU leads 9-2)
First Meeting: 1984 (SRU 21, KU 6)
Last Meeting: 2013 (SRU 58, KU 10)
Last KU Win: 2012 (KU 56, SRU 49)

Bear Bites
• Kutztown opens its 99th football season in 2014.
• Zach Greenwald (Gibbstown, N.J./Paulsboro) and Kodi Reed (Hanover, Pa./Delone Catholic) are the 2014 team captains.
• Jim Clements is the 16th head coach in KU's modern football history.
• KU returns 17 of 22 starters (8 off./9 def.) and three All-PSAC players from last year.
• KU has won five of its last six season-openers.
• Andre Reed '05 became the first player from the PSAC to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Game Notes
SERIES HISTORY: Saturday night marks the 12th meeting between the Golden Bears and The Rock. Slippery Rock has won nine of the 11 matchups, as KU last won against SRU in 2012 on the road (56-49). Slippery Rock won the first eight matchups in the series beginning in 1984. The teams met in the 2011 PSAC Championship game, when KU's Marshall Vogel threw the game-winning touchdown pass to Erik Frazier with 2:59 to play to give Kutztown its first PSAC Championship in school history.
 
KU IN OPENERS: KU has not historically done well in season-openers with a 33-56-9 record (.383) in program history. However, since 1997, KU has turned that trend around with a 12-5 record (.706). It has won five of its last six openers, with all five wins coming against Saint Anselm from 2008-12.
 
BROADCAST INFORMATION: On the road in 2014, KU football will be broadcast online through, "The Radio Voice of Kutztown University, KUR." Matt Santos, Kutztown University's director of university relations who has covered Golden Bear Football since coming to KU in 1992, will have the call at Kutztown's six road games in 2014. The pregame show will start 10 minutes prior to kickoff.
 
NEW ERA OF KU FOOTBALL: Jim Clements took over the program on March 24 following the resignation of Drew Folmar, who became the offensive coordinator at Lehigh University. Clements is the 16th head coach in Kutztown's modern football history after serving as the head coach at Division III Delaware Valley College for eight years. He is the winningest coach in Delaware Valley history with an overall record of 66-24 from 2006-13. He held a .500 or better record in each of his eight years and won four Middle Atlantic Conference (MAC) championships (2008-11) with three NCAA second round appearances (2009-11).
 
STARTERS RETURNING: The Golden Bears return 17 of the 22 starters from last season, eight on offense and nine on defense. It also welcomes back 34 letterwinners from last season, 16 on offense and 17 on defense.
 
HAPPY 99TH BIRTHDAY: 2014 kicks off the 99th season of Kutztown University football. Beginning in 1895, Kutztown's all-time record in 796 games stands at 349-424-23 (.453).
 
DRIVING THEM BACKWARDS: Zach Greenwald (Gibbstown, N.J./Paulsboro) finished eighth in Division II with 20.5 tackles for loss, averaging 1.9 per game. It ranked second on Kutztown's single-season leaderboard.
 
STRETCHING THE FIELD: Kutztown had one play go for 50 or more yards last season, a 78-yard touchdown run by Darrell Scott (Douglassville, Pa./Daniel Boone) against ESU. KU's longest pass was a 49-yard touchdown from Josh Luckenbaugh (York, Pa./Dallastown) to Tonnies against Lock Haven.
 
MR. REED: Redshirt junior Kodi Reed (Hanover, Pa./Delone Catholic) is coming off a career-best season and was Kutztown's offensive representative on the all-conference team. He led the team with a career-high 797 yards and 60 catches for nine touchdowns. He was fourth in the PSAC in touchdowns, eighth in catches and ninth with 72.5 yards per game. Reed's nine TD grabs tied him for seventh in school history for a single-season, and his 15 career touchdown catches ranks him 10th all-time. Reed still has two seasons with the Golden Bears and will need eight touchdown catches in his final two seasons to tie the record of 23.
 
TOO TALL: Senior Brett Fox (Laureldale, Pa./Muhlenburg) (6-2) and redshirt junior Anthony Kelly (Pottsville, Pa./Pottsville Area) (6-3) give Kutztown its biggest threats on the outside of the field. Fox was third on the team with 43 catches last season and averaged a team-best 13.33 yards-per-catch. For his career, Fox ranks on KU leaderboards in receptions, yards and touchdowns. Kelly had 34 catches for 322 yards and four touchdowns. His top game was the season-opener at Clarion, when he had 10 catches for 85 yards and a touchdown.
 
HALL OF FAME: Kutztown University graduate Andre Reed '05 was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame on August 2, 2014. Reed was a four-year letterman at Kutztown from 1981-84, making 142 career catches for 2,002 yards and 14 touchdowns. Upon completion of his collegiate career, he held school records for catches, receiving yards and touchdowns in a game, season and career. Though all of his records have since been broken, Reed still ranks among the top five receivers in several statistical categories. He wore number 88 and is the first player in PSAC history to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
 
ENGLISH 101: Senior English Peay (Philadelphia, Pa./George Washington) aims to be a four-year starter at cornerback and has been Kutztown's No. 1 option for much of his career. He had a career-high 66 tackles in his freshman season and posted two shy of that mark in 2013. He was an All-PSAC cornerback in 2012 and has recorded 172 career tackles and four interceptions.
 
MULTIPLE PICKOFFS: It took until the final game of the season last year for Kutztown to have a player haul in his second interception of the season, when Zachary Delp (Whitehall, Pa./Whitehall) had two in the season-finale against Edinboro. He was one of nine Golden Bears to intercept a pass on the season. The last time KU finished a season with no one having more than one interception was in 2009, when the team combined for three for the season.
 
CAPTAIN GREENWALD: Two-time All-PSAC East defensive end Zach Greenwald (Gibbstown, N.J./Paulsboro) enjoyed his second straight second team all-conference honor last season. He tallied 68 tackles, but made his mark by getting into the backfield with a team-leading 20.5 tackles for loss, second in the PSAC and eighth in Division II. He also had eight sacks for fourth in the conference. The three-year member and two-time captain of the Golden Bears has 173 career tackles and 31 tackles for loss.
 
SAM IN THE MIDDLE: Senior Sam Dougan (Secane, Pa./Ridley) is a two-time All-PSAC MLB after earning second team honors last season. He made a career-high 90 tackles in 2012 and put up nearly identical numbers in 2013 with 88 tackles despite not playing in the final game of the season due to injury. He made his most significant improvement from two years ago by making tackles in the backfield with a career-high 14 tackles for loss, seventh in the PSAC. Dougan opened the season by recording double-digit tackles in four of his first five games, and went on to finish with five games with 10 or more tackles. He also had a career-high four sacks last season. Through three seasons with the Golden Bears, he has 194 career tackles and aims to be the 17th Golden Bear in program history to record 200 career tackles.
 
PASS ATTACK: Dating back to 2011, Kutztown has thrown 30 or more pass attempts in 19 of its last 21 games. 
 
FINDING THE RIGHT LEG: While trying to find its full-time kicker through the first three weeks of the 2013 season, Kutztown went 3-for-6 in PAT kick attempts. Since then, Kutztown went a perfect 31-for-31, all off the foot of Andrew Deutsch (Kutztown, Pa./Northwestern Lehigh).
 
SECOND HALF SIGNAL CALLER: Quarterback Josh Luckenbaugh (York, Pa./Dallastown) started the final four games of the season last year as KU finished the season winning three of four games. Luckenbaugh threw for 1,120 yards last year with 12 TDs and just three interceptions. He completed 60 percent of his passes, averaged 230 passing yards per game in his four starts to end the season, and also rushed for 140 yards.