Football coach Pete Peterson has said that he cares about just one statistic: W's and L's. "All the others," he said, "are just for newspapers and numbers junkies."
Like it or not, the stat Peterson cares about has been virtually a constant for Oberlin over the course of the 1990s - a decade in which the football team has chalked up just two W's - one in its first game of the decade, against Thiel in 1990 and one a week after its only forfeit of the decade against Kenyon in 1992.
Here's a look at selected statistics of the Oberlin football team over the past several years.
Last winning season: 1974, 5-4 |
Last win: Kenyon, 1994, 14-8 |
Number of winning seasons since 1891: 32 |
Number of winless seasons since 1891: 8 |
Most lopsided loss: Ohio State, 1916, 128-0 |
Most lopsided loss in 1990s: 1994, Allegheny, 83-0 |
Current losing streak, since 1992: 34 |
Previous losing streak, 1990-1992: 26 |
Record in 1990s: 2-60 |
Number of times held scoreless, 1990s: 22 |
Number of games with negative offensive yards in 1990s: 2 |
Most rushing yards in a game, individual, 1990s: Leigh Foster, 170, vs. Earlham, 1991 |
Most completions in a game, individual, 1990s: James Parker, 23, vs. Wittenberg, 1996 |
Most receptions in a game, individual, 1990s: Felix Brooks-Church, 11, vs. Kenyon, 1996 |
Longest fumble return: Cisco Brooks-Church vs. Wittenberg, 1994, 99 yards |
- Geoff Mulvihill
Copyright © 1996, The Oberlin Review.
Volume 125, Number 6; October 11, 1996
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