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KICKOFF: It is a Liberty League road game for the Engineers (5-2; 1-1) this week as it travels to Canton for a showdown with St. Lawrence (2-5; 1-2) at Leckonby Stadium.
 
THE STANDINGS: RPI currently sits in third place in the Liberty League standings, trailing first place Union (3-0) and second place Ithaca (3-1) ... The Engineers will finish first and earn the conference's automatic berth into the NCAA Playoffs if they win the remaining three games on their schedule ... St. Lawrence is tied for fourth place with two league games to play.
 
REMAINING SCHEDULE: After its trip to the North Country, Rensselaer hosts Rochester next Saturday in its final home game (12:05pm) before heading to Schenectady to play Union in the Dutchman Shoes Trophy Game ... St. Lawrence visits Hobart and hosts No. 11 Brockport.
 
ALL-TIME: Rensselaer and St. Lawrence have faced each other 62 times headed into Saturday's clash ... RPI won the first ever meeting, 14-0 in Troy on October 14, 1916, but is 26-34-2 (.435) in the series history against the Saints.
 
IN THE RECORD BOOK: RPI's 62 games against SLU are the fourth most against any one opponent … The 26 wins and 34 losses are both fifth in those respective categories.
 
STREAKS: After the Engineers went unbeaten in the first five games with SLU (4-0-1), the Saints won the next eight games from 1925 to 1961 and 22 of 23 contests with RPI from 1925 to 1982 ... Rensselaer is 21-12-1 since the 1982 meeting, including losses in each of the past four meetings.
 
RECENTLY: The Engineers are 5-5 (.500) in their last 10 games with the Saints, including 1-3 in Canton in that span ... The three defeats have come in the last three trips north.
 
LAST SEASON: Quarterback Sean Richardson threw for 249 yards and a touchdown and rushed for 97 yards and another score to lead St. Lawrence to a 20-14 victory in Troy ... The Engineers jumped out in front on its first possession when quarterback Ed Trimpert scored on a 2-yard run ... St. Lawrence answered with a touchdown on its next possession and eventually built a 20-7 advantage before Keaton Ackermann went 60 yards for a TD on what turned out to be RPI's final possession ... Trimpert was RPI's top runner with 83 yards, including a 37-yard long, on 15 carries ... He was 5 for 17 for 101 yards throwing ... Ackermann had two receptions for 72 yards ... Linebackers Oliver Kaija and Alexander Greenidge had 12 tackles apiece ... Bryan Hayes and Ryan Buss had 11 (8 solo) and 10 (5), respectively ... Hayes added two pass breakups, while Buss had a tackle for a loss (9 yards), three pass breakups, a forced fumble and an interception.
 
Score by Quarter        1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - Total
St. Lawrence  7 - 7 - 0 - 6 - 20
Rensselaer     7 - 0 - 0 - 7 - 14
 
ALL-TIME IN CANTON: In 28 road games against St. Lawrence, the Engineers are 8-19-1 (.304), including a 24-21 loss on October 15, 2015.
 
CONFERENCE CHAMPIONS: The Engineers and Saints tied for the 2015 Liberty League Championship with identical 6-1 records ... St. Lawrence earned the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Playoffs based on its 24-21 head-to-head victory over RPI.
 
LEAGUE PLAY: RPI is 15-7 (.682) all-time against the Saints in Liberty League games ... The two programs were previously members of the ICAC, in which St. Lawrence held an 18-4-1 (.803) advantage in head-to-head conference matchups from 1964 to 1990.
 
COMMON OPPONENTS: Rensselaer and St. Lawrence have three common opponents ... RPI defeated Western New England and Ithaca and lost to Buffalo State ... The Saints lost to all three foes, including a 27-24 overtime defeat at Western New England and a 24-21 loss against Buffalo State.
 
ENGINEERS LAST WEEK: The defense forced seven turnovers, including six interceptions, and Rensselaer doubled up No. 25 Alfred, 30-15, on the road ... Six different student-athletes had interceptions for the Engineers, who also showed a strong run defense, allowing 77 net yards on 20 carries, an average of 3.9 per attempt. 
 
DEFENSIVE STANDOUTS: Junior defensive back Rory McCarthy led the Engineers with nine tackles (4 solo) and an interception last week ... Senior Sam Barrett added an interception with a 50-yard return for a touchdown, DJ Stefonsky had a pick with an 85-yard return and Oliver Kaija, Jack Hoggard and Sean Egan also had interceptions ... Hoggard, a linebacker, also had a fumble recovery, a pass breakup and two tackles ... Brandt Beck added eight stops (3 solo).
 
NOT SINCE 95: RPI registered its most picks in a game since 1995 when it had six interceptions at St. John Fisher College ... The school record is seven in a game, which happened three times ... The most recent was 2003 at Hartwick with the other two happening in 1982 at Lowell and 1923 against Stevens.
 
ON OFFENSE: The Engineers rushed for 139 yards with 11 different players carrying the ball against the Saxons ... Senior Ethan Wells had a team-high 34 yards on nine carries ... Freshman George Marinopoulos completed 10 of 14 passes for 104 yards and a touchdown with no interceptions ... Junior Keaton Ackermann had four receptions for 55 yards and a 25-yard touchdown.
 
HONORED: Rensselaer's Rory McCarthy and Christian Kapp were recognized by the Liberty League with weekly awards after their performances at Alfred ... McCarthy, a junior defensive back, was selected as the Defensive Performer of the Week, while Kapp, a senior kicker, earned Special Teams Performer of the Week ... McCarthy was chosen after leading the Engineers with nine tackles, including four unassisted, while also intercepting a pass in a 30-15 victory at No. 25 Alfred ... His interception came at the RPI 9-yard line early in the second quarter with RPI trailing 7-3 ... Kapp was 3 for 3 on field goals and 3 for 3 on point-after-touchdowns ... His field goals came from 44 yards in the first quarter, making it 7-3, 30 yards in the second (7-6) and 26 in the fourth (30-7) ... He also kicked off seven times for 443 yards (66.0 avg) with five touchbacks.
 
FOUR OF SIX: Saturday's game is the fourth of six road games for RPI, which is 2-3 away from East Campus Stadium this season.
 
LONG TRIPS: Rensselaer will travel nearly 1000 miles for its six road games this season ... The longest was to Buffalo (292 miles) with Alfred (271) the second longest ... Both Geneva (197), where Hobart is located, and Canton (195), home to St. Lawrence, are nearly 200 miles ... The shortest trip, by far, is to Schenectady (14), home to Union.
 
OPTIONS: The Engineers have had 16 different players carry the ball out of the backfield and seven of them average at least four yards per carry ... Twelve players have at least one pass reception and seven have at least one receiving touchdown.
 
DEFENSIVE DEPTH: Fifteen Rensselaer players have double-digit tackles with seven having at least 20 stops
 
SCOREBOARD: Senior kicker Christian Kapp leads the team with 40 points, followed by wide receiver Keaton Ackermann (24) and running backs Ethan Wells (18) and Nick Cella (18).