Football by the numbers

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