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CORNELL INFORMATION
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GAME INFORMATION
Game #7: Princeton at Cornell
Date: Saturday, Nov. 1, at 12:30 p.m.
Site: Schoellkopf Field (25,597), Ithaca, N.Y.
2014 Records: Princeton (3-3, 2-1 Ivy); Cornell (0-6, 0-3 Ivy)
Series Record: Princeton leads the series 58-36-2
Last Meeting: Princeton won 53-20, Nov. 2, 2013, in Princeton, N.J.
Television: Fox College Sports (Jerry Trupiano, Steve DeOssie, Gabby Lucivero)
Radio: WHCU 870 AM, Barry Leonard (play-by-play), Buck Briggs '76 (color)
Live Video: Blacked Out For This Game
Live Stats: www.CornellBigRed.com
Tickets: Available by calling (607) 254-BEAR or online here

HEAD COACH DAVID ARCHER '05
David Archer '05, the Roger J. Weiss '61 Head Coach of Cornell Football, is in his second season at the helm of the Big Red (3-13 overall,.188; 2-8, Ivy, .200) ... Archer is the youngest Division I head football coach in the country ... he had been an assistant coach/recruiting coordinator at his alma mater for six years ... Archer was hired as head coach on Jan. 3, 2013.

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STORY LINES
• Cornell and Princeton will meet for the 97th time when the squads square off on Saturday, Nov. 1 at 12:30 p.m. at Schoellkopf Field in a game that will be televised by Fox College Sports.
• The game will be broadcast live locally on WHCU 870 AM with Barry Leonard and Buck Briggs on the radio call.
• Few series in college football have been as competitive or compelling over nearly three decades as the Cornell-Princeton one.
• Peppered with last-second finishes, crazy endings and upsets galore, eight of the last 10 contests have been decided by a touchdown or less, with that stretching to 11 of the last 14 meetings and 18 of the last 24.
• Thirteen games have been decided by a field goal or less or in overtime during that 24-year span.
• During that more than two-decade span, an amazing run of exciting games have been played between the teams, though a year ago, the Ivy champions were too much for the Big Red in a 53-20 Tiger victory. Princeton quarterback Quinn Epperly still made the game memorable, as he set an NCAA FCS record by opening the game with 29 consecutive completions and finished the day with six total touchdowns. On the Cornell side, Jeff Mathews became the 45th player in NCAA Football Championship Subdivision history to surpass 10,000 yards of total offense.
• Both teams are looking to pick themselves up after disappointing losses last Saturday.
• Cornell dropped its sixth consecutive game with a 42-16 defeat at the hands of Brown on the road. The Tigers, meanwhile, fell to Harvard at home in a battle of Ancient Eight unbeatens, 49-7.
• Despite its 0-6 start, Cornell continues to see a number of strong individual efforts from one of the youngest teams in the FCS.
• A number of individuals have had strong efforts this season for one of the youngest Division I teams in the country. The Big Red roster features just 14 seniors and 41 total upperclassmen on a 102-player roster.
• Against Lehigh, all 27 rushes and each of the 44 passes by the Big Red were attempted by freshmen. In all, 15 of the team's 17 receptions were by first or second year players and the top three tacklers were either freshmen or sophomores. Versus Brown, all 36 rushers, 11 of the 12 receptions and all 29 passes were from non-seniors, as were the top six tacklers.
• Sophomore punter Chris Fraser continues to be one of the nation's top special teams players. He averaged 42.8 yards per punt on nine kicks, downing four inside the 20 and three inside the 9-yard line. He ranks second in the conference in attempts (42) and average (41.6, 22nd nationally) and has the longest punt of the season (72 yards) of any Ivy player with the most punts downed inside the 20 (15).
• The Big Red ranks second in the Ivy League in passing defense (231.3 ypg.) behind only unbeaten Harvard.
• The Tigers are the defending Ivy League champions after matching Harvard with a 6-1 conference mark last season, the fourth under Bob Surace. Surace has built the program after suffering through a 2-18 start in his first two years as head coach of the Tigers.

ABOUT PRINCETON
• Princeton is 3-3 on the season (2-1 Ivy) and is tied for third in the Ivy League standings despite last weekend's 49-7 loss at Harvard to drop the Tigers to 1-2 at home.
• The Tigers continue to have one of the most explosive offenses in the country and enter the weekend averaging 31.2 points and 418.0 yards per game.
• Reigning Bushnell Cup Award winner Quinn Epperly has 11 touchdowns this season (eight rushing, three passing) and accounts for 207 yards per game. He has passed for 34 career touchdowns and run for another 34.
• The Tigers have been without a pair of primary offensive weapons, with leading rushing DiAndre Atwater (359 yards, one touchdown) and receiver Seth DeValve (121.5 receiving yards per game, one touchdown) combining to miss six contests.
• Punter Tyler Roth is among the conference's best, averaging a league-high 42.6 yards per punt with nine inside the 20 and seven kicks of at least 50 yards.
• Princeton entered the Harvard game leading the country in rushing defense, but slipped to ninth (101.8 yards per game) after surrendering 306 rushing yards to the Crimson. In all, Harvard had 698 total yards of offense.
• Rohan Hylton (51 tackles, 8.5 tackles for loss, 3.5 sacks), Dorian Williams (47 tackles) and Mike Zeuli (45 tackles, 9.0 tackles for loss, 3.5 sacks) lead the defense in tackles, while Anthony Gaffney has a team-high two interceptions.
• Head coach Bob Surace, a Princeton alum, is in his fifth season with the Tigers. A 2013 finalist for the Eddie Robinson Jr. National Head Coach of the Year award, he led the Tigers to an Ivy title a year ago.

THE CORNELL-PRINCETON SERIES
• This will be the 97th meeting between Cornell and Princeton, with the Tigers holding a commanding 58-36-2 advantage.
• The two teams first met in 1891, a 6-0 Princeton win.
• In all, 15 of the last 19 meetings have been decided by a touchdown or less.
• Princeton snapped Cornell's three-game win streak in a big way a season ago, with the Tigers posting a 53-20 victory at Princeton Stadium.

A WIN OVER PRINCETON WOULD ...
• give the Big Red its first win of 2014.
• snap a season-opening six-game skid and a two-game home losing streak.
• cut Princeton's lead in the all-time series to 58-37-2 dating back to the first meeting in 1891.
• be the 631st in program history (12th-most in the Football Championship Subdivision).

THE LAST TIME OUT (Brown 42, Cornell 16 - Oct. 25, 2014 at Brown Stadium, Providence, R.I.)
• Sophomore quarterback Robert Somborn hit junior receiver Chris Lenz for a pair of touchdowns, but Brown's consecutive touchdowns late in the first half propelled the Bears to a 42-16 win at Brown Stadium.
• Somborn, who missed the team's first five games due to injury, completed 7-of-14 passes fo 118 yards and two touchdowns, both to Lenz.
• Somborn became the fourth Big Red quarterback to throw a touchdown pass this season, a new school record.
• The junior caught a 12-yard scoring pass midway through the fourth quarter, then hauled in a career-long 51-yard scoring strike late.
• Junior Luke Hagy piled up 63 rushing yards to lead the offense, while Jonathan Ford's 10 tackles sparked the defense.
• Senior captain Rush Imhotep and long-snapper Dylan Chayes each forced fumbles, while sophomore Justin Solomon recovered one.
• Sophomore punter Chris Fraser averaged an impressive 42.8 yards on nine punts, including four that pinned the Bears inside their own 20. One was downed at the Brown 1, and on the very next play Cornell forced a safety to put the Big Red on the board.
• Marcus Fuller completed 20-of-33 passes for 306 yards and four touchdowns in the win, hitting four different receivers for scoring strikes.
• Zach Sparber had five tackles, including three for a loss, for a Brown defense that surrendered just 242 total yards.
• The Bears outgained Cornell by a 234-97 margin in the first 30 minutes.

WILDEST SERIES IN COLLEGE FOOTBALL?
• Peppered with last-second finishes, crazy endings and upsets galore, eight of the last 10 contests have been decided by a touchdown or less, with that stretching to 11 of the last 14 meetings and 18 of the last 24.
• Thirteen games have been decided by a field goal or less or in overtime during that 24-year span.
• During that two-decade span, an amazing run of exciting games have been played between the teams.
• In the last 14 years alone, Cornell blocked a PAT with 11 seconds left to win by one in 2000,a Princeton rally from a 25-10 deficit in the fourth quarter ended with a 32-25 Tiger win in 2002, a blocked Tiger PAT late in the fourth gave the Big Red another win (2004), Derek Javarone of Princeton booted a game-winning field goal in OT to set an Ivy League record for career field goals (2005), Cornell handed Ivy champ Princeton its only league loss in 2006, a Peter Zell 47-yard field goal fell short in a 37-34 Tiger win in 2007 and the Big Red nearly rallied from a 12-point deficit in the final 45 seconds, with a pass into the end zone falling incomplete as time ran out in a 31-26 loss in 2008.
• In 2009, Tommy Wornham connected with Trey Peacock for a 78-yard touchdown late in the fourth quarter gave Princeton a 17-13 win. The 2010 season saw Emani Fenton break up a two-point conversion that would have tied the game in the fourth quarter and then intercept a pass with the Tigers in chip-shot field goal position with 23 seconds remaining for a 21-19 Big Red win. Cornell won 24-7 in the 2011 meeting, but even that was in a rare October Nor'easter than dropped eight inches of snow during the game. It was back to normal in 2012, as John Wells connected on a 23-yard field with 50 seconds left after missing a game-tying PAT attempt earlier in the fourth quarter. A year ago, the Ivy champions were too much for the Big Red in a 53-20 Tiger victory that saw Tiger quarterback Quinn Epperly set an NCAA FCS record by opening the game with 29 consecutive completions and finished the day with six total touchdowns.

NOTES TO KNOW
• Sophomore Collin Shaw had his first career 100-yard receiving game against Lehigh with four catches for 119 yards, the most yards by a sophomore since Keith Ferguson '03 had 164 vs. Princeton in 2010.
• In Cornell's loss to Lehigh, all 27 rushes and all 44 passes were attempted by freshmen. In all, 15 of the team's 17 receptions were by first or second year players and the top three tacklers were either freshmen or sophomores.
• Freshman quarterback Kyle Gallagher threw his first career touchdown pass against the Mountain Hawks, a 2-yarder to junior Matt Doneth. The touchdown catch was the first of Doneth's career. The following week against Brown, sophomore Robert Somborn completed a pair of touchdown passes to Chris Lenz, the first scoring throws of Somborn's career.
• Four Cornell quarterbacks have thrown touchdowns this season, the first time that has happened in school history. The last time four players at any position threw touchdowns in the same season was in 2007 when quarterbacks Nathan Ford, Stephen Liuzza and Ben Ganter and running back Randy Barbour all completed scoring passes.
• Sophomore Chris Fraser has averaged at least 40 yards per punt in five of the team's six games and at least 42.5 yards in four of the six games.
• The Big Red defense held Harvard scoreless in the first half, the first time the high-powered Crimson offense was held scoreless in a half since 2010.
• Cornell forced five turnovers against Harvard, the most by a Big Red defense since forcing six against Bucknell in the 2013 opener.
• Cornell has had six Ivy League performers of the week in the first six weekends of the season, including four of six Rookie of the Week picks. Jake Jatis (Sept. 29, Oct. 13) and Nick Gesualdi (Oct. 6, Oct. 20) have each captured Rookie of the Week honors, while Chris Fraser (Oct. 6) has taken home Special Teams Player of the Week once. Rush Imhotep was named Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week on Oct. 13.
• Junior Luke Hagy is the 29th player in school history to reach 1,000 career rushing yards and the first to hit the century mark in both rushing and receiving at Cornell.
• Freshman quarterback Jake Jatis earned the start at Bucknell, becoming just the second rookie to start a game under center. He joins good company, as two-time All-American Jeff Mathews '14 - the Ivy League's all-time leading passer - started the final nine games of the 2010 campaign to become the first. Jatis has opened each of the last five games.
• Senior receiver Lucas Shapiro is 108 yards shy of becoming the 21st player at Cornell to surpass 1,000 career receiving yards.
• Cornell has at least one passing touchdown in 22 consecutive games and 38 of its last 39 contests.
• The Big Red offense hasn't been shut out in 46 games, with the last coming against Penn (34-0 to close out 2009).

NEXT UP
• Cornell will attempt to top Dartmouth for the first time since 2008 when it faces the Big Green on Saturday, Nov. 8 at 12:30 p.m. at Schoellkopf Field.
• It will be the 98th meeting between the programs, with Dartmouth leading the all-time series 56-40-1.