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CORNELL INFORMATION
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GAME INFORMATION
Game #4: Cornell at No. 23 Harvard
Date: Saturday, Oct. 6, at 1:00 p.m.
Site: Harvard Stadium (30,323), Cambridge, Mass.
2012 Records: Cornell (2-1, 1-0 Ivy); Harvard (3-0, 1-0 Ivy)
Series Record: Harvard leads 42-32-2
Last Meeting: Harvard won 41-31, Oct. 8, 2011, in Ithaca, N.Y.
Television: None
Radio: WHCU 870 AM, Barry Leonard (play-by-play), Buck Briggs (color)
Live Stats: Available at www.GoCrimson.com
Live Video: Available at www.GoCrimson.com
Tickets: Available by calling (607) 254-BEAR

HEAD COACH KENT AUSTIN
Kent Austin, the Roger J. Weiss '61 Head Coach of Football, is in his third season at the helm of the Big Red (9-14 overall, .391; 5-10, Ivy, .333) ... Austin has won CFL Grey Cups as a player, assistant coach and head coach ... previously was offensive coordinator at his alma mater, Ole Miss, Austin was hired as head coach on Jan. 27, 2010.

STORY LINES
• The Big Red football team has the goal of claiming the 2012 Ivy League championship, but it will likely need to go through defending champ Harvard to reach it. Cornell will visit No. 23 Harvard and attempt to snap its 12-game win streak when the two teams meet on Saturday, Oct. 6 at 1 p.m. at Harvard Stadium.
• Harvard and Cornell are both 1-0 in Ivy League play and were picked first and third, respectively, in the 2012 Ivy League Preseason Media Poll. The winner will have an early leg up on the Ivy race.
• The game will feature the league's two most explosive offenses and arguably the top two quarterbacks in Cornell's Jeff Mathews and Harvard's Colton Chapple. The teams rank 1-2 in the conference in some order in passing offense, passing efficiency and total offense.
•  Cornell is coming off a hard-fought 15-10 road win at Bucknell in a non-conference game. The Big Red defense came through again, limiting the Bison to 286 yards of offense and making big plays in the fourth quarter to help the visitors escape with the win.
• The Big Red is looking for its first 2-0 Ivy League start since 2000.
• Cornell's defense has allowed just 16 points over its last two games, the fewest over a two-game span since the final two games of 2005.
• In its last 12 quarters of Ivy League play, Cornell has piled up 155 points (51.7 ppg.) while being credited with 1599 yards of offense (533.0 yards per game).
• Harvard dominated Holy Cross 52-3 for its 12th straight victory and avenged last year's loss to the Crusaders in the 2011 season opener. That was the Crimson's last loss.
• It will be the 77th meeting between the teams dating back to 1890, with Harvard holding a 42-32-2 lead in the all-time series.
• The Crimson have won 10 of the last 11 meetings between the teams, with the Big Red's last win coming in 2005. Cornell last won at Harvard Stadium in 2000.
• Harvard won last season's contest 41-31 in a game that featured a combined 926 yards of offense. Chapple threw for 414 yards and four touchdowns for the Crimson, while Mathews threw for 322 yards and three scores for the Big Red.

ABOUT HARVARD
• Harvard improved to a perfect 3-0 and increased its win streak to 12 with a dominant 52-3 win over Holy Cross on Friday, Sept. 28.
• Colton Chapple threw for 260 yards on 13-of-18 passing and had five total touchdowns (four pass, one run) all in the first two quarters to build a 49-3 halftime lead.
• The win avenged the Crimson's only loss from 2011.
• The Crimson piled up 520 yards of offense while limiting Holy Cross to 191 yards.
• Harvard ranks first nationally in sacks (4.7 per game), second in rushing defense (59.7 ypg.), fourth in total offense (486.0 ypg.) and fifth in both scoring offense (41.7 ppg.) and passing efficiency (165.94).
• Chapple (third in FCS in passing efficiency at 171.24) and running back Treavor Scales (eighth in FCS in rushing at 130.3 ypg.) lead a high-powered offense.
• Head coach Tim Murphy, in his 19th season at Harvard, has led the program to six Ivy League titles. Every four-year player recruited by Murphy to Harvard has taken part in at least one Ivy League championship.

A WIN OVER HARVARD WOULD
• move Cornell to 3-1 overall and improve the team's Ivy record to 2-0.
• snap a six-game losing skid to Harvard overall and a five-game losing streak at Harvard Stadium (last win, 2000).
• make Cornell 3-1 to open a season for the first time since 2008 and 2-0 in Ivy play for the first time since 2000.
• make the Big Red 5-1 in its last six contests dating back to 2011.
• be the 626th in program history (11th-most in the Football Championship Subdivision).

THE CORNELL-HARVARD SERIES
• Cornell and Harvard will be meeting for the 77th time dating back to the first meeting in 1890.
• The Crimson owned the early series, capturing the first 10 games (1890-1913), while Cornell 11 won straight from 1986-1996.
• Harvard has won 10 of the last 11 contests, with the Big Red's last win coming during the 2005 campaign, a 27-13 victory at home.
• The Crimson won last year's meeting 41-31 at Schoellkopf Field.

NOTES TO KNOW
• Junior Jeff Mathews needs 25 passing yards to move into second place on the school's passing yardage list and needs one touchdown pass to become the second Big Red quarterback to post 40 in a career.
•  Cornell's defense has allowed just 16 points over its last two games, the fewest over a two-game span since the final two games of 2005, when it surrendered 14 points (45-7 vs. Columbia, 16-7 at Penn). That was also the last time the Big Red allowed 10 points or fewer in consecutive games.
• Since allowing 470 yards of offense in the opener to Fordham, the Big Red defense has decreased that number each of the last two weeks (350 vs. Yale, 286 at Bucknell).
• In its last 12 quarters of Ivy League play, Cornell has piled up 155 points (51.7 ppg.) while being credited with 1599 yards of offense (533.0 yards per game).
• In the first half of games, the Big Red defense has allowed just 13 points in three games while allowing just 150.3 yards.
• In the second quarter of games, Cornell has outscored opponents 37-3.
• The Big Red offense has turned the ball over just two times in three games and holds a +1.3 turnover ratio, a mark that ranks 15th nationally.
• Senior Shane Savage has had great success against the Crimson, hauling in 18 passes for 235 yards and four touchdowns to go along with one two-point conversion in three games. He caught eight passes for 152 yards and two scores against Harvard last season.
• Savage needs 20 receiving yards to pass Bryan Walters '10 for fourth on the school's receiving yardage list.
• Freshmen have been the team's leading rusher in each of the team's first three games (Silas Nacita at Fordham, Luke Hagy vs. Yale, at Bucknell).
• The Big Red is 7-0 when allowing opponents to score less than 20 points under head coach Kent Austin and are 2-14 when surrendering 20 or more points.
• Cornell has three of the league's five wide receivers with at least 20 catches this season (Luke Tasker - 28; Kurt Ondash - 23; Grant Gellatly - 20).

NEXT UP
• Cornell completes its non-conference schedule when it plays host to Monmouth on Saturday, Oct. 13 at 12:30 p.m.
• It will be the first-ever meeting between the two teams.