DAYTON -- The University of Dayton football team stays on the road Saturday when the Flyers are in Poughkeepsie, N.Y, to visit the Marist Red Foxes for a 12 Noon ET kickoff.

Dayton is looking to bounce back after a disappointing 31-0 loss at Butler last Saturday.  UD is 3-2 on the season, and 1-1 in the Pioneer Football League.

A charter member of the PFL, Dayton has won 12 league championships in the PFL's 29 seasons.  UD and San Diego have won the most league titles.

The Flyers are four wins away from becoming the ninth team playing at the FCS level to win 700 games.  The previous eight members of the 700 Win Club are Yale, Harvard, Penn, Princeton, North Dakota State, Dartmouth, Delaware and Lehigh.

GOOD NEWS WORTH REPEATING
The Flyers entered the season with the fifth-best winning percentage (.727, 168-63) in FCS football since 2000 AND have produced the most football Academic All-Americans (35) in Division I in the same time frame.  The top five in winning percentage are North Dakota State (.808), Harvard (.756), Montana (.754), San Diego (.736) and Dayton (.727). 

PFL POWER
• The Pioneer Football League is in its 30th season.  The original (and now the only) Division I strictly need-based football league began with charter members Butler, Dayton, Drake, Evansville, San Diego and Valparaiso.  
• UD's 130-46 record is the best in PFL history. 
• The Flyers' 12 league championships are the most in PFL history.  San Diego also has 12.

THE MAN AT THE TOP
• Rick Chamberlin is now in his 14th season in charge of Flyer football. His record is 102-477.
• He is the 16th active FCS coach with 100 career wins.
• Chamberlin is just the third D-I coach (out of 429 with 100 career wins) to play for his alma mater, immediately join (and never leave) the coaching staff, and then become the head coach while only doing all at one school.
• The first two were Knute Rockne, and the man who succeeded John Heisman at Georgia Tech, William A. Alexander.
• He is third all-time in wins at UD, behind two College Football Hall of Fame members-- Mike Kelly (246 wins) and Harry Baujan (124). 

THE MAN AT THE TOP IN THE PFL
• Rick Chamberlin is the winningest coach in Pioneer Football League history, with 75 wins. 
• No other PFL coach has 60 league wins. 

ARMS RACE
• With quarterback Dante Casciola out with a broken thumb, the remaining seven quarterbacks on the UD roster have a combined total of three pass completions in 12 attempts.
• Senior Cole Dow is one-for-five (1-for-4 last year as the backup to record-setting quarterback Jack Cook, and 0-for-1 against Youngstown State this year.
• Redshirt freshman Shane Hamm was two-for seven for 41 yards in the last series of the day at Butler.  He also ran three times for 23 yards.

CAPTAINS, MY CAPTAINS
• The Flyer co-captains for the 2022 season are senior running back Jake Chisholm, graduate linebacker Ben Schmiesing and senior offensive guard Brian Stevens. 
• Senior wideout Derek Willits is this year's special teams captain.  

CHISHOLM EARNS PRESEASON HONORS
• Co-captain Jake Chisholm is on the Stats Perform Walter Payton Award Watch List.  The Payton award goes annually to the FCS offensive player of the year.   This is the third consecutive Flyer season a Dayton player is on the watch list (Adam Trautman, Jack Cook).  Chisholm is one of 10 Payton finalists from last returning to the list this season.
• Chisholm is also on the Stats Perform and HERO Sports Preseason All-America Second Teams as an all-purpose runner.

CHISHOLM TRAIL
• Jake Chisholm was a Second Team Stats Perform FCS All-American last year as an all-purpose runner after finishing second in FCS football in all-purpose yardage (163.9 yards per game).  He also led FCS in rushing attempts per game (23.5) and touchdowns per game (1.8).  
• In 2019, he led FCS in all-purpose yardage (204.3 yards a game) after carrying the ball 153 times for 1,129 yards (and eight touchdowns) while also catching 21 passes for 230 yards (and three touchdowns), and returning 29 kickoffs for a 23.6 yard average (with one 97-yard TD vs. Duquesne).  
• He entered 2022 as the UD career all-purpose yardage record holder (now 5,109 yards).  He is also seventh in career rushing (2,517).  Next is William Peterson (2,540). 
• Last year, Chisholm became just the second Flyer to have back-to-back 1,000 yard seasons (Tucker Yinger was the first in 2017 and 2018.).  Chisholm led the Pioneer Football League in rushing (103.3 yards per game in 10 games) and scoring (11.0 points per game), as well as all-purpose yardage in 2021.   Chisholm also caught 30 passes for 361 yards, which was the second-most on the team.
• He is a two-time Stats Perform FCS Third Team All-American as an all-purpose runner.   

CLASS ACT
• Not only is Jake Chisholm a multi-year All-American on the field, he is a multi-year CoSIDA Academic All-American in the classroom. 
• He was a second team Academic All-American in 2019, and first team in 2020 and 2021.  
• He is the tenth University of Dayton football player to be named a First Team Academic All-American at least twice, dating back to UD's first football Academic All-American in 1970.  The others are Christopher Beaschler, Brandon Cramer, Greg French, Steve Lochow, Tim Quinn, Dan Rosenbaum, Brandon Wingeier and Tucker Yinger.  
• Chisholm is also just the eighth Flyer student-athlete to earn any sort of Academic All-America recognition three times (he was named Second Team Academic All-America in 2019).  The others are baseball's Tom Beechem, cross country's Amy Fleck, and football's Cramer, Leisring, Rosenbaum, Wingeier and Yinger. 
• No Dayton student-athlete has ever been named a four-time Academic All-American.

UP NEXT 
• UD returns home for back-to-back home games, starting with Stetson on Saturday, Oct. 22.  Game time is 1 p.m. ET.
• The Stetson game is UD's alumni game, with members of UD's 1987 being honored on the 35th anniversary of their NCAA Division III national runner-up season.
• The Flyers will host Valparaiso on Oct. 29.