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Ron Dayne Bio

All-America tailback and Heisman Trophy Winner Ron Dayne

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Inducted into the 2011 Rose Bowl Hall of Fame

Inducted into the University of Wisconsin Athletics Hall of Fame in 2009

College football’s most-decorated player after winning the Heisman Trophy and Maxwell and Doak Walker Awards

National player of the year by the Associated Press, Football News, The Sporting News and Walter Camp

College football’s all-time leading rusher and the first player in college history to run for more than 7,000 career yards (post-season play included)

Three-time bowl game MVP (1996 Copper, 1999 Rose and 2000 Rose)

First three-time Big Ten rushing champion and conference career leader in rushing and scoring

Name and number on the facade of Camp Randall Stadium after setting the NCAA record at the Iowa game on Nov. 13, 1999

Landslide winner in the Heisman Trophy bal-loting---his 2,042 votes were the 10th-most of all time

Wisconsin’s Ron Dayne

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Career StatisticsRushing Att. Yds. Avg. TD1996 325 2,109 6.5 211997 263 1,457 5.5 151998 295 1,525 5.2 151999 337 2,034 6.0 20Career 1,220 7,125 5.8 71

Honors• 2011 Rose Bowl Hall of Fame• 2009 UW Athletics Hall of Fame• 1999 Heisman Trophy winner• 1999 Maxwell Award winner• 1999 Doak Walker Award winner• 1999 Associated Press Player of the Year• 1999 Walter Camp Player of the Year• 1999 Football News Player of the Year• 1999 The Sporting News Player of the Year• 1999 Chicago Tribune Silver Football winner (given to the Big Ten Most Valuable Player)• 1999 first-team All-American by Associated Press, Walter Camp Football Foundation, American Football Coaches Association, Football Writers Association, The Sporting News, Football News, CNN/SI.com and CBS Sportsline

1999 Heisman Trophy voting1. Ron Dayne, Wisconsin 2,0422. Joe Hamilton, Georgia Tech 9943. Michael Vick, Virginia Tech 3194. Drew Brees, Purdue 3085. Chad Pennington, Marshall 2476. Peter Warrick, Florida State 2037. Shaun Alexander, Alabama 1718. Thomas Jones, Virginia 1409. LaVar Arrington, Penn State 5410. Tim Rattay, Louisiana Tech 29

What they saidBarry Alvarez, Wisconsin Head Coach: “Ron really exemplified our program. I don’t think there’s a player that has ever meant more to a program. He’s what our program is all about ... blue-collar, tough, hard-nosed. He doesn’t do it the easy way, but he does what you have to do for wins.”

ABC’s Tim Brandt (on Dayne’s carry when he became college football’s career rushing leader): “Open up the record books for Ron Dayne. He is the man of few words and many yards.”

Dayne’s Legacy at the UWWhat Ron Dayne accomplished at the University of Wisconsin is simply remarkable. In essence, he defined the Badger football program during his four-year career with his physical play, no-nonsense approach and blue collar work ethic for a program which averaged 9.3 wins per season during his illustrious career.

The carry to break the NCAA career rushing mark

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#33Ron DayneTB, 5-10, 252, Berlin, NJ (Overbrook)

Honors, awards and records have never been the focus of Ron Dayne’s football career. “I just tried to do what I could to help the team win,” is what the soft-spo-ken tailback repeated many times throughout his career.

Helping the Badgers win may be Dayne’s favorite personal legacy, but other witnesses to his career will forever marvel at his on-field accomplishments.

In 1999, Ron Dayne entered his senior season as the leading candidate for the Heisman Trophy, Maxwell

Award and the Doak Walker Award after his record-setting effort in the '99 Rose Bowl.

What Dayne accomplished by the conclusion of his senior year is simply remarkable. In essence, he defined the UW football team with his physical play, no-nonsense approach and blue collar work ethic for a school which has averaged nine wins per season during his career.

Consider these accomplishments. • college football's career

rushing leader with 6,397 yards (7,125 in all games) bet-tering the one-year old mark of 6,279 yards set by Texas' Ricky Williams ... broke the record on a 31-yard run in the second quarter vs. Iowa on Nov. 13, 1999

• only player in the history of college fooball (any division) to rush for more than 7,000 yards (includes bowls)

• career yards including post season numbered 7,125

in 47 games for a 151.6 yards per game average• first three-time Big Ten rushing champ• outrushed the opposing team 29 times in 43 career starts.• lost a fumble on just 0.73 percent of his career carries (nine in 1,220

attempts).• named MVP of three bowls (1996 Copper, Bowl 1999 and 2000 Rose

Bowls)

• tied NCAA record for career games of at least 200 yards (11 set by Dayne, Marcus Allen of USC, and Ricky Williams of Texas)

• Badgers compiled a 17-1 record during his career in games Dayne had at least 30 carries

• an incredible 50.1 percent of his career yardage came after contact.

• averaged 5.84 yards per carry over entire career

• averaged 150.1 yards per game against Big Ten competition and 154.5 yards vs. non-con-ference opponents

• recorded 186 career runs of at least 10 yards against defnses generally geared to slow him with up to nine players "in the box"

• averaged 169.5 yards per game during victories during his Badger career and 99.4 yards in the losses.

• first Badger since lineman Dennis Lick (for-mer Chicago Bear) in 1974-75 to earn first-team All-America honors twice; only player in Badger history to receive All-America mention in four-straight seasons

• Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week nine times

• only player to lead the Big Ten in three cate-gories (rushing, all-purpose yardage and scoring) in 1999.

• holds record for the most rushing TDs (71), scoring (426 points), TDs (71), rushing attempts (1,220), yards in a season (2,109), yards in a career (7,125) in Big Ten history.

• became the Badgers’ all-time leading rusher vs. UNLV as a junior and broke Billy Marek’s school record which had stood for 23 years

• graduated UW with 48 school records• Wisconsin compiled a 37-13 record, won

two Big Ten titles and led the conference in rushing three times during his spectacular career.

Ron Dayne

7,1257,125When 1998 Heisman Trophy winner Ricky

Williams (Texas) broke Tony Dorsett’s (Pitt) 23-year-old career college rushing mark in 1998, many people thought the new record might be out of reach for future backs. Ron Dayne eclipsed Williams' mark of 6,279 yards in the next season and became UW's second Heisman Trophy Winner.

Ron Dayne's name and number adorn the facade of Camp Randall Stadium

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Two-time Rose Bowl MVP Ron Dayne is college football’s top career rusher with 7,125 yards

Ron DayneTB, 5-10, 252, Berlin, N.J. (Overbrook High School)

1999 Heisman Trophy winner

Opponent (A.P. Rank) Att. Yards Avg. TDs Lg Murray State (NR) 20 135 6.8 3 26Ball State (NR) 31 158 5.1 1 19@Cincinnati (NR) 28 231 8.3 1 29Michigan (#4) 22 88 4.0 1 34@Ohio State (#12) 32 161 5.0 4 46@Minnesota (#25) 25 80 3.2 1 16Indiana 17 167 9.8 2 69Michigan State (#11) 34 214 6.3 2 51@Northwestern 35 162 4.6 2 24@Purdue (#17) 32 222 6.9 1 41Iowa 27 216 8.0 1 38Stanford (#22) - Rose Bowl 34 200 5.9 1 64

Career rushing totals

Season Att. Yards Avg. TDs Lg Freshman (1996) 325 2,109 6.5 21 71Sophomore (1997) 263 1,457 5.5 15 80Junior (1998) 295 1,525 5.2 15 54Senior (1999) 337 2,034 6.0 20 69Totals 1,220 7,125 5.8 71 80

Ron Dayne won the 1999 Heisman Award and the Doak Walker Award given to the nation’s top running back.

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vs. ranked foes (Michigan, Ohio State, Minnesota, Michigan State, Purdue, and Stanford) ... recorded 200-yard games in four of final five weeks including a Heisman Trophy show-down with Purdue's Drew Brees when Dayne had 222 yards ... averaged 177.7 ypg after Brooks Bollinger became starting QB ... out-rushed the opposing team nine times in 12 games ... four touchdowns at No. 12 Ohio State tied career best ... string of three-straight 200-yard games to end career (Purdue, Iowa, Stanford) tied his own school record for consecutive 200-yard rush-ing contests ... gained an incredible 1,098 yards after contact (YAC) or 54.0 percent of his season total ... 20 rush-ing TDs were one off his school record (set in '96) ... Dayne's average per

game (166.7) would rank 38th nationally among teams (just ahead of Ohio State) ... Badgers ranked third nationally in rush-ing offense and Dayne gained 61.5 percent of their total ... accounted for 40.6 percent of UW's total offense ... one of five team captains for the Big Ten Champs. VV

In 1999 (as a senior)

College football's consensus player of the year ... landslide winner in the Heisman Trophy balloting ... his 2,042 votes were 10th-highest of all time ... ranked second nationally in rushing (166.7), fourth in scoring (10.4) and ninth in all-purpose yardage (167.6) ... runner-up to TCU's Ladainian Tomlinson in NCAA rushing race (16 yards behind) despite sitting out six full quarters in blowout wins ... 1,834 net rushing yards (24th best all-time) ... average of 6.1 yards per carry was third-best among the nation's top 50 runners ... averaged 48.4 yards per quarter, which raises his per-game norm to 193.7 yards if he hadn't sat out the equivalent of three entire halves in '99 ... won third Big Ten rush-ing crown by an impressive 50.6 ypg (over Minnesota's Thomas Hamner) ... Dayne's 2,034 yards would have ranked fifth among the Big Ten teams ... pro-duced five 200-yard rusing games (most in the nation), including three vs. ranked foes ... an eye-popping 214 yards against Michigan State's nation-best rushing defense (39.9 ypg at the time the teams played) ... only player in Big Ten to lead circuit in three categories (rushing, scor-ing and all-purpose yardage) ... rushed for 200 yards in Rose Bowl victory over Stanford ... won second consecutive Rose Bowl MVP trophy to join Washington QB Bob Schloredt (1960-61) and Southern Cal TB Charles White (1979-80) as the only players to accom-plish that feat ... scored fifth career TD (four-yard carry vs. Stanford) in the "The Granddaddy of Them All" to become Rose Bowl's career scoring leader ... Dayne's 30 points surpassed Michigan's Neil Snow who tallied 25 points in 1902 (TDs were worth five points at that time) ... named Big Ten offensive player of the week four times, equaling the all-time league best (set by Indiana's Anthony Thompson and Michigan's Desmond Howard) ... avearged 160.8 yards rushing

Ron Dayne Year-by-year

Dayne Career Stats

RUSHING

Year Att. Yards Avg. TD

1996 *325 *2,109 6.5 *21

1997 263 1,457 5.5 15

1998 295 1,525 5.2 15

1998 337 2,034 6.0 20

Total *1,220 *7,125 *5.8 *71

RECEIVING

Year No. Yards Avg. TD

1996 14 133 9.5 0

1997 10 117 11.7 0

1998 6 45 7.5 0

1998 1 9 9.0 0

Total 31 304 9.8 0

* –– Wisconsin school records

Ron Dayne was named the MVP of the 2000 Rose Bowl for a second-straight year joining Washington QB Bob Schloredt (1960-61) and Southern Cal TB Charles White (1979-80) as the only players to accomplish that feat.

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In 1998 (as a junior)

In 1998, one of three finalists (along with Boston College’s Mike Cloud and Texas’ Ricky Williams) for the Doak Walker Award . . .Walter Camp Football Foundation first-team all-American ... first Badger to earn first-team all-Ameri-ca honors twice in a career since Chicago Bear lineman Dennis Lick (1974-75) ... only unanimous first-team all-Big Ten choice on offense by both coaches and media ... shared team’s Wayne Souza Award (appreciation honor offense) with Mike Samuel ... Rose Bowl Most Valuable Player in Badgers’ 38-31 win over UCLA ... tied modern-era bowl record (shared by USC’s Sam Cunningham and UCLA’s Eric Ball) with four touchdowns ... rushed for 246 yards (the same number he had in the 1996 Copper Bowl vs. Utah), one yard shy of Charles White’s Rose Bowl record ... ABC player of the game vs. Bruins ... broke the school’s 23-year-old career rushing mark, the oldest in the Badger record book, against UNLV when he ran for 108 yards ... did not play in season opener at San Diego State after injuring ankle in training camp ... reached the century mark vs. Ohio (111), UNLV (108), Northwestern (168), Indiana (130), Purdue (127), Illinois (regular-season best 190), Iowa (164) and Minnesota (133) as Badgers began the season 9-0 ... led the Big Ten in rushing by 23 yards per game (over Ohio State’s Michael Wiley) ... first con-ference player to lead the Big Ten in rushing twice since Lorenzo White (Michigan State) in 1985 and 1987 ... ranked ninth nationally in rushing (127.9) and 32nd in all-purpose yards (132.4) ... besides leading the league in rushing, he ranked third in all-purpose yards, eighth in scoring and ninth in total offense (127.9) ... registered nine games of at least 100 yards rushing despite facing defenses geared to stop

him week after week ... outrushed the opposing team eight times in 11 games ... four-time Badger offensive MVP (Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Iowa) ... Big Ten P.O.W. against Northwestern and Illinois ... gained 58.9 percent of the yardage for Badgers’ league-leading ground attack ... accounted for 38.6 per-cent of Wisconsin’s total offense ... 1,525 yards rushing and 295 carries are third-most in UW season annals ... 15 rushing touchdowns are tied for fourth-best sea-son at Wisconsin ... scored at least one TD in six consecutive games ... scored three TDs in wins over Ohio and Illinois.

In 1997 (as a sophomore)

Rushed for 1,457 yards (fifth nation-ally with an average of 142.0 per game) ... yardage total was fourth-best in

Ron Dayne has come to epitomize Badger football with his physical, blue-collar approach to the game. Nearly half of his career yardage has come after contact.

school annals despite missing 12 quar-ters (entire games vs. Boise State and Michigan, three quarters vs. Iowa and one period against San Jose State) of action... first-team all-America honors from Football News ... finalist for Doak Walker Award ... consensus second-team all-Big Ten honors ... named Madison Magazine’s Sports Personality of the Year in a vote by city residents ... became the fifth Badger to rush for more than 3,000 career yards (making that plateau in his 17th game) ... the other members of that club and the game they reached that level in their careers are Billy Marek (27th), Brent Moss (36th), Alan Ameche (40th) and Terrell Fletcher (41st) ... set Badger record for yards rushing by a sopho-more (Marek had 1,207 in 1973) ... set a school mark for yards rushing in a quarter (170 in the opening stanza at San Jose State) ... had an 80-yard TD run vs. the Spartans on his first carry ... averaged 12.7 yards per carry at San Jose State (20-254) tied for fourth-best in UW history ... season totals of 1,457 yards, 263 attempts, 15 touchdowns all ranked fourth in UW history ... those figures were compiled despite playing all season with shoulder, groin, ankle and knee ailments ... named Badger offensive MVP four times ... recorded 200-yard games against San Jose State (254), Indiana (202) and Illinois (207) ... made century mark for yards gained against San Diego State (145), Purdue (141), Minnesota (183) and Penn State (126) ... served as a spokes-person for the Dane County Humane Society in its efforts to encourage peo-ple to give shelter to homeless animals ... Dayne did TV and radio spots, a poster and billboards ... the theme of the campaign was to seek “Humane Treatment of Animals, Not Linebackers”

Ron Dayne Year-by-year

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In 1996 (as a freshman)

Joined a group of 10 other players in college history to rush for more than 2,000 yards (bowl games included) in a season ... totalled 2,109 yards (eighth-best in NCAA history) with a school-record 21 touchdowns despite not start-ing until fifth game ... most-prolific freshman runner in NCAA history ... gained 1,863 yards (the NCAA does not recognize bowls in seasons stats) to break Herschel Walker’s (Georgia) freshman mark of 1,616 yards set in 1980 ... tied Walker’s record of four 200-yard games by a freshman ... game aver-age of 155.3 (not counting the bowl) is second in NCAA freshman history, just behind Marshall Faulk’s (San Diego State) mark of 155.8 set in 1991 ... set national freshmen records for carries in a game (50 vs. Minnesota) and sea-son (295) ... the old records were 45 car-ries in a game by James McDougal (Wake Forest, 1976) and 292 in a season by Steve Bartalo (Colorado State, 1983) ... established an NCAA mark for yards gained in consecutive games when he totalled 628 yards vs. Illinois (289) and Hawaii (339), Dayne broke the old mark of 626 yards set by Cal State Fullerton’s Mike Pringle in 1989 ... finished fourth nationally in rushing ... average per carry was second-best among NCAA’s top 20 rushers (Air Force option quarterback Beau Morgan was only player ahead of him) ... third-team Associated Press all-American ... first-team freshman all-American by The Sporting News ... first-team all-Big Ten by media and second-team by coaches ... Big Ten co-freshman of the year (with Ohio State’s Andy Katzenmoyer) by coaches ... averaged 195.8 yards per game as a starter .... averaged 162.2 yards per game, breaking the Wisconsin record (136.4 by Big Ten MVP Brent Moss in 1993) by more than 25 yards ... broke the Big Ten rushing record with 2,109-yard cam-paign ... bettered the mark of 2,066 yards set by Lorenzo White (Michigan State) in 1985 ... became just fourth

Badger in modern era to lead the confer-ence in rushing (joining Moss, 1993; Marek, 1974; and Alan Ameche, 1951-52) ... a 30.2-yard (per game) lead over Northwestern’s Darnell Autry for league rushing crown ... only player to be named Big Ten player of the week three times ... rushed for a school-record 339 yards at Hawaii, the second-highest fig-ure for a freshman in NCAA history (Faulk of San Diego State had 386 vs. Pacific in 1991) ... Dayne’s total vs. Rainbows was achieved in just under three quarters (he left with 1:46 left in the third period) ... broke UW mark for yards gained in a half (250) at Hawaii ... also gained more than 200 yards (212) in the opening half at Illinois ... gained more than 100 yards in five quarters ... personally outrushed eight opponents, including two games when he played only in fourth period ... gained 1,231 yards in the month of November (244 vs. Purdue, 297 vs. Minnesota, 62 at Iowa, 289 at Illinois and 339 at Hawaii) ... set Badger bowl record with 246-yard effort against Utah in Copper Bowl ... scored four TDs, one off school record, against Illinois and Hawaii ... Badgers’ offen-sive MVP seven times ... broke school freshman records for yards rushing in a game and season, held previously by Alan Ameche (1951) ... gained 42 percent of team’s total offense ... registered 100-yard games vs. No. 14 Northwestern

(139) and No. 3 Penn State (129) ... set Badger record with 50 carries vs. Minnesota ... carried the ball on 31 of the team’s 41 first-half plays against the Golden Gophers ... Dayne’s 31 first-half carries were just short of Tony Sands’ (Kansas) NCAA mark of 34 carries in a half ... recorded fourth, ninth and 13th-best games (vs. Hawaii, Minnesota and Illinois) in Big Ten history ... Dayne’s per-sonal average as a starter would have ranked fourth in Big Ten and 29th nationally among teams ... gained just 218 yards in first three games despite getting just one carry prior to the fourth quarter in those contests ... finished 13th in voting for Heisman Trophy.

High School

Consensus first-team all-American at Overbrook ... chosen to elite squads by USA Today, Parade, Reebok, Prep Football Report, Blue Chip, Schutt Sports Group and SuperPrep ... offensive player of the year in the east and No. 1 fullback pros-pect in the nation according to PFR and SuperPrep ... rushed for 1,785 yards (14.9 average) and 24 TDs as a senior ... top game was a 250-yard, four-touchdown effort vs. Atco Edgewood ... gained 1,566 yards with 27 touchdowns as a junior ... won state shot put and discus titles as a junior and senior ... threw dis-cus 216-10 at the Golden West Invitational as a senior, the third-lon-gest prep throw in history ... set New Jersey state discus record ... captured Penn Relays shot put title in 1996 and provisionally qualified for the Olympic Trials ... same high school as former Badger receivers Lee DeRamus, Michael London and Keith Jackson ... coached by Harvey Miller.

Personal

Born 3/14/78 ... agricultural journal-ism major ... guardians are Rob and Debbie Reid ... has a daughter, Jada ... nicknamed the “Great Dayne.”

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1996 Season (as a freshman)

Opponent Att. Yds. Avg. TDs LgEastern Michigan 8 53 6.6 1 23@UNLV 13 90 6.9 1 15Stanford 12 75 6.3 0 17Penn State 23 129 5.4 2 50@Ohio State 21 65 3.1 0 11Northwestern 28 139 5.0 1 21@Michigan State 15 81 5.4 0 19Purdue 30 244 8.1 2 37Minnesota 50 297 5.9 3 27@Iowa 17 62 3.6 0 17@Illinois 41 289 7.0 4 54@Hawaii 36 339 9.4 4 71Utah 30 246 8.2 3 40Totals 325 2,109 6.5 21 71

1997 Season (as a sophomore)

Opponent Att. Yds. Avg. TDs LgSyracuse 13 46 3.5 0 10Boise State ––––––––––––––––– did not play –––––––––––––––––@San Jose State 20 254 12.7 3 80San Diego State 26 145 5.6 4 33Indiana 34 202 5.9 2 35@Northwestern 25 93 3.7 2 22Illinois 28 207 7.4 2 66@Purdue 26 141 5.4 1 13@Minnesota 40 183 4.6 1 17Iowa 7 24 3.4 0 6Michigan ––––––––––––––––– did not play –––––––––––––––––@Penn State 30 126 4.2 0 18Georgia 14 36 2.6 0 15Totals 263 1,457 5.5 15 80

1998 Season (as a junior)

Opponent Att. Yds. Avg. TDs Lg@San Diego State ––––––––––––––––– did not play –––––––––––––––––Ohio 20 111 5.6 3 18UNLV 13 108 8.3 0 31Northwestern 22 168 7.6 1 46@Indiana 28 130 4.6 1 48Purdue 33 127 3.8 1 11@Illinois 39 190 4.9 3 20@Iowa 39 164 4.2 1 21Minnesota 35 133 3.8 1 23@Michigan 16 53 3.3 0 10Penn State 23 95 4.1 0 22UCLA 27 246 9.1 4 54Totals 295 1,525 5.2 15 54

Yards After Contact (YAC)

Ron Dayne has made nearly half of his collegiate yardage after con-tact. With opposing defenses designed to slow him, it has been rare for him to get a carry without contact. Shown below are Dayne’s yearly totals for yards after contact (YAC). His total of 2,372 yards after contact would rank eighth in UW history for regular career rushing yards.

Year YAC* Yards Pct.1996 1,066 2,109 50.51997 699 1,457 48.01998 704 1,525 46.11999 1,098 2,034 54.0Totals 3,567 7,125 50.1

* –– yards after contact

Dayne on NCAA All-time Lists

Career StatisticsRushing yards: 6,397 (1st) . . . Ricky Williams (Texas), 2nd with 6,279Rushing yards per game: 148.8 (5th) . . . LeShon Johnson, Northern Illinois is 4th at 150.6Rushing touchdowns: 63 (4th) . . . six players are tied for 18thRushing attempts: 1,115 (2nd) . . . Steve Bartalo, Colorado State is 1st with 1,215Scoring (non-kickers): 378 (4th) . . . Anthony Thompson, Indiana is third with 394Career 200-yard games: 11 (T1st) . . . ties Ricky Williams (Texas) and Marcus Allen (USC)Career 1,000-yard seasons: 4 (T1st) ... tied with Amos Lawrence, North Carolina, 1977-80; Tony Dorsett, Pitt, 1973-76; Denvis Manns, New Mexico State, 1995-98; Cedric Benson, Texas, 2002-05; DonTrell Moore, New Mexico, 2002-05; Tyrell Fenroy, La-Lafayette, 2005-08; Damion Fletcher, Southern Miss., 2006-09

1999 Season (as a senior)

Opponent Att. Yds. Avg. TDs LgMurray State 20 135 6.8 3 26Ball State 31 158 5.1 1 19@Cincinnati 28 231 8.3 1 29Michigan 22 88 4.0 1 34@Ohio State 32 161 5.0 4 46@Minnesota 25 80 3.2 1 16Indiana 17 167 9.8 2 51Michigan State 34 214 6.3 2 51@Northwestern 35 162 4.6 2 24@Purdue 32 222 6.9 1 41Iowa 27 216 8.0 1 38Standford 34 200 5.9 1 64Totals 337 2,034 6.0 20 69

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RECORD WHEN RON ...

Rushes for >= 100 yards: 28-5Rushes for <= 100 yards: 7-7Rushes for >= 200 yards: 13-1Scores at least three TDs: 11-0Carries at least 30 times: 17-1Carries fewer than 30 times: 18-11

SINGLE-GAME BESTS

Attempts: 50 vs. Minnesota, 1996Yards: 339 vs. Hawaii, 1996Average per attempt: 12.7 vs. San Jose State, 1997Touchdowns: 4, on five occasionsLong run: 80 vs. San Jose St., 1997

NCAA Career Rushing

Records without Bowl games through 2010 season

Player Yards1. Ron Dayne, Wisconsin 6,3972. Ricky Williams, Texas 6,2793. Tony Dorsett, Pittsburgh 6,0824. DeAngelo Williams, Memphis 6,0265. Charles White, USC 5,5986. Travis Prentice, Miami 5,5967. Cedric Benson, Texas 5,5408. Damion Fletcher, S. Mississippi 5,3029. LaDanian Tomlinson, TCU 5,26310. Herschel Walker, Georgia 5,25911. Archie Griffin, Ohio State 5,17712. Avon Cobourne, W. Virginia 5,16413. Garrett Wolfe, N. Illinois 5,16414. Mike Hart, Michigan 5,04015. Darren Lweis, Texsa A & M 5,01216. Darren Sproles, Kansas State 4,97917. Anthony Thompson, Indiana 4,96518. George Rogers, S. Carolina 4,95819. Trevor Cobb, Rice 4,94820. Michael Turner, No. Illinois 4,94121. Ray Rice, Rutgers 4,926

NCAA Career Averages

Career Yards Per Game through 2010

Player Average1. Ed Marinaro, Cornell 174.62. O.J. Simpson, USC 164.43. Herschel Walker, Georgia 159.44. Garrett Wolfe, No. Illinois 156.55. LeShon Johnson, No. Illinois 150.66. Ron Dayne, Wisconsin 148.87 Marshall Faulk, San Diego St. 148.08. George Jones, San Diego St. 147.99. Tony Dorsett, Pittsburgh 141.4 Troy Davis, Iowa State 141.410. DeAngelo Williams, Memphis 137.011. Mike Rozier, Nebraska 136.612. Ricky Williams, Texas 136.513. Howard Stevens, Louisville 136.214. Jerome Persell, W. Michigan 135.215. Rudy Mobley, Hardin-Simmons 133.816. Adrian Peterson, Oklahoma 130.517. Kevin Smith, UCF 130.018. Ray Rice, Rutgers 129.619. Alex Smith, Indiana 129.320. Vaughn Dunbar, Indiana 129.2

Breaking Down Dayne

Result Att. Yards /Game TD Wins 967 5,932 169.5 65 Losses 253 1,193 99.4 6

Site Att. Yards /Game TD Home 543 3,235 140.6 33 Away / neutral 677 3,893 169.1 38

Competition Att. Yards /Game TD Big Ten 875 4,652 150.1 42 Non-league 345 2,473 154.6 29

“Wisconsin running back Ron Dayne, coming off an extraordinary performance against UCLA at the Rose Bowl, is the front runner for the ’99 Heisman Trophy.”

Beano Cook, Football News

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Ron Dayne’s Wisconsin Records

QUARTERYards Rushing: 170 vs. San Jose State, 1997Attempts: 16 vs. Minnesota, 1996

HALFAttempts: 31 vs. Minnesota, 1996

GAMEYards Rushing: 339 vs. Hawaii, 1996Yards Rushing By Freshman: 339 vs. Hawaii, 1996Scoring By Freshman: 24 vs. Illinois and Hawaii, 1996Scoring By Sophomore: 24 vs. San Diego State, 1997Attempts: 50 vs. Minnesota, 1996All-purpose Yards: 347 vs. Hawaii, 1996

BOWL GAMESYards Rushing: 246 vs. Utah (1996 Copper) and vs. UCLA (1999 Rose)Most Points Scored: 24 vs. UCLA (1999 Rose)Touchdowns: 4 vs. UCLA (1999 Rose)Most Rushing Touchdowns: 4 vs. UCLA (1999 Rose)Longest Rushing Touchdowns: 54 vs. UCLA (1999 Rose) Longest Rush: 64 vs. Stanford (2000 Rose) Avg. per carry: 9.1 vs. UCLA (1999 Rose)

SEASONYards Rushing: 2,109 in 1996Yards Rushing By Freshman: 2,109 in 1996Yards Rushing By Senior: 2,034 in ’99Average Per Game: 169.5 in 1999Scoring By Freshman: 126 in 1996Scoring By Sophomore: 90 in 1997All-purpose Yards: 2,242 in 1996200-yard Games: 5 in 1996Consecutive 200-yard Games: 3 in 1996Yards 2 Consecutive Games: 628 in 1996Yards 3 Consecutive Games: 874 in 1996Yards 4 Consecutive Games: 987 in 1996Yards 5 Consecutive Games: 1,233 in 1996Yards 6 Consecutive Games: 1,477 in 1996

CAREERYards Rushing: 7,125, 1996-99Attempts: 1,220, 1996-99Rushing Touchdowns: 71, 1996-99Touchdowns: 71, 1996-99Points: 426, 1996-99All-purpose Yards: 7,429, 1996-99Avg. Per Game: 151.6, 1996-99100-yard Games: 33, 1996-99200-yard Games: 14, 1996-99

Dayne In the Rose Bowl

Most rushing attempts: tied for fourth with 34 in 2000 vs StanfordMost net yards: 2nd with 246 in 1999, 1 behind Charles White, USC in 1980, and tied for 5th with 200 in 2000Longest touchdown run: Tied for 8th with the 54 yards in 1999Highest average per play: tied for 7th with 9.1 in 1999. At the time it was 5th-bestMost points: tied for 2nd with 24 in 1999 – 4 rushing TDsMost rushing touchdowns: tied for 2nd with 4 in 1999, 5 is the record set by Neil Snow in 1902 (first-ever game). Also 2nd with 4 TDs on list of most TDs responsible for – 2 players have 5.

Dayne Career Statistics

Year Att. Yards Avg. TD1996 325 2,109 6.5 211997 263 1,457 5.5 151998 295 1,525 5.2 151999 337 2,034 6.0 20Career 1,220 7,125 5.8 71

These totals include statistics from Dayne’s three bowl appearances. Wisconsin and the Big Ten do count bowl games in their totals for records. The NCAA does not recognize bowls for statistical purposes.

Dayne Without Bowls

Year Att. Yards Avg. TD1996 295 1,863 6.3 181997 249 1,421 5.7 151998 268 1,279 4.8 111999 303 1,834 6.0 19Career 1,115 6,397 5.7 63

The NCAA does not recognize bowl game appearances when compiling college records. Dayne’s career total of 6,397 yards ranks first in NCAA college history.

Dayne In Bowls

Bowl Att. Yards Avg. TDCopper 30 246 8.2 3Outback 14 36 2.6 0Rose 27 246 9.1 4Rose 34 200 5.9 1Total 105 728 6.9 8

Dane County Humane Society

Wisconsin’s most-famous “Great Dayne” lent his name and time to pro-mote a cause for the humane treatment of animals during the 1997 football sea-son. Dayne, in conjunction with the Dane County Humane Society, was fea-tured in a campaign urging for the “Humane Treatment of Animals, Not Linebackers.” Dayne did PSAs for radio and television and posed for billboards. The poster at the right was given out at the ’97 season opener vs. Boise State. For his efforts, Dayne received the Humane Society’s “You Made a Difference Award.” Dayne has been an animal lover since his youth when he had a Doberman named Butch.

Ron Dayne’s work for the Dane County Humane Society earned him the “You Made A Difference” Award from the local chapter in 1996. Dayne’s campaign asked for the “humane treatment of animals, not linebackers.”

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6,397: NCAA career rushing record set by Dayne on a 31-yard run vs. Iowa on Nov. 13, 1999. It broke the one-year old mark of 6,279 set by Ricky Williams of Texas, 1998.

378: number of points scored by Dayne in his career; ranks fourth in the NCAA records for non-kickers

339: Dayne’s single-game yardage figure recorded against Hawaii (1996) in just three quarters. He left the game with 1:46 left in the third period. At the time, that total was the second-best in NCAA history for a freshman.

148.8: Average yards per game rushing by Dayne in his career which ranks fifth in NCAA marks.

50.1: percentage of his total yards Dayne garnered after con-tact (YAC yards).

48: number of school records Dayne had when he graduated from Wisconsin.

29: number of times Dayne out-rushed the opposing team in 43 career starts.

11: ties the record for career games of at least 200 yards also owned by Marcus Allen of USC and Ricky Williams of Texas.

5.48: average yards per carry over his career.

4: number of seasons Dayne rushed for over, 1000 yards; ties the NCAA record

3: years that Dayne led the Big Ten in rushing. No other player in Big Ten history has led the league in rushing three times.

3: times that Dayne earned the MVP for bowl games (1996 Copper, 1999 and 2000 Rose Bowl)

37-13: Wisconsin record during Dayne's career run which included two Big Ten titles and an average of 9.3 wins/season.

17-1: Badger record when Dayne had 30 carries or more

“From the waist down, he’s a shifty halfback. But from the waist up, he’s a brute of a fullback.”

Bob Greise, ABC Sports

“Dayne just ran the ball down our throats and that was the difference in the game. We had 5,000 guys in the box and still didn’t stop him.”

UCLA Assistant Coach Nick Aliotti