Last week revisited Individual and team highlights in district college last week: Carnegie Mellon's Jonathan Browne, a senior forward from Thomas Jefferson, scored a goal in a 1-0 victory against Point Park to become the school's all-time leader in men's soccer with 103 career points (48 goals and seven assists). He surpassed Harry Ulrich's 102 points set from 1995-98. The California women's tennis team defeated Robert Morris, 7-0, to complete its fall season with an 11-0 record. California lost just five games in the five singles matches and posted shutouts in the doubles matches. Allegheny's Jimmy Savage set school records for pass completions (38), pass attempts (58) and passing yardage (400) in a 41-27 defeat against Wabash. He also threw a career-high four touchdown passes, three to Jake Vite. Duquesne's Scott Knapp, who completed a school-record 35 passes in 48 attempts for 363 yards and three touchdowns in a 20-17 victory against Fordham, leads Division I-AA with 302.2 yards passing per game. He was Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference offensive player of the week. California's 10-0 victory against Edinboro was its first shutout since a 45-0 victory against Geneva in John Luckhardt's first game as coach in 2001.

The streak can be traced back to the day Rich Lackner first stepped onto Carnegie Mellon University's campus as a freshman linebacker in the fall of 1975.

He's still there.

So is the streak.

CMU, which is 5-0 heading into its University Athletic Association opener Saturday at Western Reserve University (3-2), already has clinched its 32nd consecutive non-losing record. The Tartans are 5-0 for the first time since 1990 when they went 10-0 in the regular season and made their most recent appearance in the NCAA Division III playoffs, losing in the first round to Lycoming, 17-7.

CMU most likely will have to be 10-0 to receive an at-large bid to the playoffs because the UAA, which has been reduced to four teams, doesn't have the necessary seven teams to qualify its champion for an automatic bid under NCAA rules.

Lackner, who became CMU's head coach in 1986 and is the school's all-time winningest football coach with a 138-59-2 record, was a standout player for the Tartans from 1975-79 and was an assistant under Chuck Klausing from 1979-85. Lackner has been an integral part of teams that have a 225-77-4 record, won seven UAA championships and appeared in the playoffs five times.

Lackner credits the stability in his program as the foundation for the team's success. Offensive coordinator Rich Erdelyi and defensive coordinator Terry Bodnar have been full-time assistants on Lackner's staff since he became the head coach.

"We know each other so well sometimes it gets scary. We find ourselves completing each other's sentences," said Lackner, who grew up in Mt. Lebanon. "All three of us are from here and all three of us are family-oriented. Frankly, we like each other."

Lackner's daughter graduated from CMU, as did Erdelyi's three daughters. Bodnar's son, Jonathan, is a junior linebacker on this year's team. Erdelyi lives in Plum and Bodnar in Deer Lakes.

Erdelyi, whose credentials include being Dan Marino's coach at Central Catholic High School, has run a variation of the winged-T at CMU that befuddles defenses and is grinding out nearly 300 yards per game on the ground this season.

	CMUs of winning The Carnegie Mellon Tartans are 5-0 this season, clinching their 32nd consecutive non-losing football season (1975-2006). Yr Rec '75 5-3 '76 6-1-1 '77 8-1 '78 9-2 '79 10-1 '80 8-1 '81 7-1-1 '82 6-3 '83 9-1 '84 6-3 '85 8-1 '86 6-3 '87 7-2-1 '88 5-4-1 '89 7-3 '90 10-1 '91 9-1 '92 7-2 '93 8-2 '94 7-3 '95 7-3 '96 7-3 '97 8-2 '98 7-3 '99 8-3 '00 6-4 '01 7-2 '02 5-5 '03 6-4 '04 6-4 '05 5-5 '06 5-0 Total: 225-77-4

"Rich has taken the winged-T to a different level. It's evolved to become a unique offense," Lackner said. "It's a system other teams have a difficult time duplicating in practice. We've opened it up more than in the past. We're more than just a running football team."

But it still all starts with the run for the Tartans, who are led by junior fullback Travis Sivek (578 yards rushing, 5.1 average per carry, 5 TDs) and junior tailback Robert Grimson (505 yards, 7.5 average, 7 TDs). Sivek (6 feet, 235 pounds) is from Traverse City, Mich.; Grimson (5-10, 205) hails from Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., illustrating CMU's expanded recruiting from 25 years ago, when they relied heavily on Western Pennsylvania players.

"The pool of potential kids has basically been cut in half locally because of the drop in population and the rise of CMU's academic standards," Lackner said. "We've been squeezed at both ends. We've been doing a lot more traveling with a more national approach."

CMU's 100-player roster represents 15 states, with about 15 from Western Pennsylvania, which includes a handful of starters. Lackner said the streak has helped open doors in recruiting that used to be closed to CMU.

"Once you're into a streak like this I think it attracts competitive kids who want to get an 'A' in calculus and want to start on the football team. That's the type of kid we look for," he said. "When we go out recruiting, the kids recognize Carnegie Mellon academically, and football-wise we have a story to tell them. If they're not serious about their football, we're not serious about recruiting them.

"We ask them to set aside two hours a day to play football."

With each victory, the Tartans inch closer to the American Football Coaches Association Top 25 poll. They have outscored their opponents, 171-52, with 19 points the smallest winning margin.

When they aren't running wild over an opponent, senior quarterback Kevin Mulkern provides a change of pace. He has completed 63.5 percent of his passes for 533 yards and five touchdowns and has not thrown an interception in 53 passes.

"If things fell into place, I knew we'd have a chance to win week-in and week-out," Lackner said. "It's been a long time since we been [to the playoffs.] We'd love to have the opportunity."