If you have the feeling this Cal Lutheran football team is accomplishing things CLU hasn't done in some time, well, you're right.
Some examples:
-- This year's 7-1 record, on the heels of last year's 7-2 campaign, marks the first time since 1981-82 that CLU has had consecutive seasons with seven or more wins. The 1981 Kingsmen were 8-2; the 1982 team -- the last to make the playoffs -- was 9-2.
-- CLU has now had seven straight winning seasons, a streak unmatched since posting nine straight winning years from 1973 to 1982. In the 20 years between the end of that nine-year streak and the start of the current one, the Kingmen never had more than two consecutive winning years.
-- Saturday's 45-3 win at La Verne marked the fifth time this season the Kingsmen have scored more than 40 points, the others being against Pacific Lutheran, Whittier, Pomona-Pitzer and Chapman. It's the first time CLU has ever had five games of 40 or more points in a season; the previous best was four such games, five times (1965, 1975, 2004, 2005, 2007).
-- Derek Wilson's 89-yard score Saturday was the first kickoff-return touchdown for the Kingsmen since Charlie Brown had a 90-yard return against Pomona-Pitzer on Oct. 2, 2004 -- a span of 51 games. Earlier this season, Wilson had a 69-yard punt-return TD against Pacific Lutheran, making this the first time CLU has had both a kickoff-return and punt-return TD in the same season since 2004. (Craig Herrera had a punt-return touchdown that year to go with Brown's kickoff return.)
Over the nine years for which CLU statistics are available online, no other CLU player has had both a kickoff-return and punt-return touchdown in the same season.

The game story in Sunday's paper noted the large number of CLU players who were involved in the offense, but it is also worth noting that just about everyone saw action on defense, too. Twenty-nine players were credited with at least one tackle, which means almost three full units' worth of defensive players were involved in a stop.
Notable among the reserves was sophomore linebacker Michael Ashocar, who had a interception, broke up a pass and had two tackles.
The official "game participation" statistic lists 65 CLU players as seeing action (although, since one of those listed is defensive back Victor Edwards, out for the season with an injury, that number may not be exact.) Regardless of the details, head coach Ben McEnroe said it was "awesome" to have the chance to play so many of his reserves.
"I think we got everyone in the game, or pretty close to it," said McEnroe. "It was great to get some of those young guys out there. They work as hard as anybody else, if not harder, and it was great to get that reward, and have a chance to get out there when it mattered."