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GAME INFORMATION
Game #10: Penn at Cornell
Kickoff: Saturday, Nov. 22, at 1:00 p.m. ET
Site: Schoellkopf Field (25,597), Ithaca, N.Y.
2008 Records: Penn (5-4, 4-2 Ivy); Cornell (4-5, 2-4 Ivy)
Series Record: Penn leads 65-44-5
Last Meeting: Penn won 45-9, Nov. 17, 2007, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Television: None
Radio: WHCU 870 AM, Jason Weinstein (play-by-play), Buck Briggs (color)
Live Stats: Available at www.CornellBigRed.com
Live Video: Available at www.CornellBigRed.com
Tickets: Available by calling (607) 254-BEAR

HEAD COACH JIM KNOWLES '87
The Roger J. Weiss '61 Head Coach of Football Jim Knowles is in his fifth season at the helm of the Big Red (24-25 overall, .490; 15-19 Ivy, .441) ... Knowles, an All-Ivy defensive end and three-year letter winner on the gridiron, was hired by his alma mater as head coach on Jan. 30, 2004.

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ITHACA, N.Y. — One of the longest-running and oldest rivalries in college football will be renewed in a battle for the Trustees Cup when Cornell and Penn square off on Saturday, Nov. 22, at 1 p.m. at Schoellkopf Field. The game can be heard locally on WHCU 870 AM with Jason Weinstein on the call, and can be viewed at no charge on the internet at IBNSports.com.

The Big Red will honor its 33 seniors in a pregame ceremony prior to the contest. The group represents head coach Jim Knowles' first recruting class. Included among the group are four All-Ivy League selections (Tim Bax, Zac Canty, Graham Rihn and Steve Valenta), nine three-year starters (Bax, Canty, Rihn, Valenta, Dario Arezzo, Nathan Ford, Gus Krimm, Frank Kunis, Nick Maxwell), two of the school's top six in receiving yards (Canty, Jesse Baker), Cornell's second all-time leading passer (Ford) and one of the top 10 tacklers in school history (Bax). Cumulatively, the senior class has accounted for two full Victory Bells (10 wins each), 81 varsity letters and 755 total games played.

Cornell was again able to move the ball at will last weekend against Columbia, but four second half turnovers proved costly, and a fourth-quarter punt return for a touchdown by the Lions' Austin Knowlin broke the Big Red's back in a 170-7 loss. The Big Red piled up 411 yards of offense, including 376 passing yards by senior Nathan Ford. Classmate Jesse Baker had 14 catches for 142 yards, just falling short of the school record of 15 receptions.

Penn was knocked out of first place in last weekend's 24-21 loss to Harvard and needs a win and some help to garner a share of the Ancient Eight championship. Head coach Al Bagnoli's team needs to claim the Trustees Cup, have Yale defeat Harvard in "The Game" and have Columbia upset Brown in Providence, R.I. to have four teams finish with identical 5-2 records at the top of the Ivy standings.

A WIN OVER PENN WOULD:
• end the Big Red's season at 5-5 overall (3-4 Ivy League).
• guarantee the fourth straight season at .500 or better under head coach Jim Knowles '87, the longest stretch for the program since the 1948-51 teams went a combined 29-7 under head coach Lefty James.
• cut Penn's lead in the all-time series to 65-45-5.
• snap a two-game Quaker win streak in the series.
• get Cornell within 8-6 in the Trustees Cup series since it began in 1995.
• be the 615th in program history (10th most in the Football Championship Subdivision).

THE CORNELL-PENN SERIES: (Penn leads 65-44-5) This will be the 115th meeting between Cornell and Penn, with the Quakers holding a 65-44-5 lead in the series. The series is the fifth most-played in college football history. The two teams first met in 1893, a 50-0 Penn win. Two years ago, Cornell claimed a 16-7 win at Franklin Field for the 600th win in program history. Last year, the Quakers topped the Big Red 45-9 at Franklin Field.

THE TRUSTEES' CUP: Since 1995, the winner of the Cornell-Penn football game has been awarded the Trustees' Cup. Alumni from Penn and Cornell gathered at the New York Penn Club on Sept. 6, 1995 for the dedication of the Trustees' Cup, which thereafter has been presented to the winner of the annual football game. The idea evolved from a series of discussions between officials and alumni of both universities, focusing on what would be the best way to honor one of college football's most celebrated rivalries. The decision was made to establish an award to be presented at an annual luncheon, with the winning team taking the prize home and displaying it for a year. Penn leads the Trustees' Cup series 8-5.

A LITTLE HISTORY?: In all, 57 seasons have gone in the books since 1951. Included during that span are 250 wins, 23 winning seasons, 10 head coaches and three Ivy League championships (1971, 1988, 1990). A win over Penn today would provide something none of those campaigns or coaches could accomplish since the 1951 campaign. The Big Red football team will be in search of its fourth-straight season at or above .500, something that hasn't happened since the 1948-51 squads combined to go 27-9 under Hall of Fame coach Lefty James. 

NATIONAL RANKINGS: The NCAA statistical rankings shed some light on the team's 4-5 record. As a team, the Big Red ranks in the top 30 nationally in passing offense (8th, 297.0), kickoff return average (17th, 22.6) and total offense (23rd, 400.6), but is ranked in the bottom 30 in scoring offense (94th, 19.9), turnover margin (103rd, -0.78), and net punting (114th, 28.1). 

REVIEWING THE COLUMBIA LOSS (Nov. 15): Cornell turned the ball over four times and allowed a backbreaking punt return touchdown in the fourth quarter in a 17-7 loss at Columbia on Saturday. Senior Nathan Ford completed 34-of-53 passes for 376 yards to move into the top 10 all-time in Ivy League history in passing yards, but was intercepted four times. The loss spoiled an impressive receving day by senior Jesse Baker (14 receptions, 142 yards) and junior Bryan Walters (six catches, 127 yards). Baker finished one catch shy of matching a single-game record of 15 receptions, while Walters posted his third straight 100-yard game. Defensively, junior Chris Costello had 13 tackles and a pass breakup.

ALL SHALL PASS: Over the last seven weeks, the Big Red's passing game has been exceptionally productive under senior quarterback Nathan Ford and his group of experienced receivers. Cornell posted a school record 472 yards through the air in the win over Lehigh and added 431 more yards in the loss to Princeton. The Big Red piled up 376 more against Columbia and 310 yards in the air against Dartmouth. Cornell ranks eighth nationally in passing at 297.0 yards per game, a number that has risen to 338.6 yards per game in the last seven contests. Over that span, Ford has completed 63.3 percent of his passes for 10 touchdowns and has connected with 14 different receivers, including eight that have at least 11 catches during that span.

BLOCKING OUT: The Big Red practice live special teams everyday, and a focus is blocking kicks. Cornell has been exceptional in that category under head coach Jim Knowles '87 with 24 blocked kicks, including a school record eight in 2004, seven more in 2007 and five in the first eight contests in 2008. Cornell's Graham Rihn swatted away an extra-point that proved to be the difference in the season-opening 21-20 victory over Bucknell, then got his hands on a 42-yard field goal attempt by Yale's Tom Mante in a three-point win. Rihn blocked a field goal last weekend against Dartmouth that was returned 69 yards by sophomore Andy Wade for a touchdown before Trevin Cowman got his fingertips on a last-second field goal to end the first quarter.

RUN, PASS, CATCH: When senior Luke Siwula flipped a 3-yard pass over the offensive line in the first half to classmate Zach Vredenburgh for a touchdown against Colgate, he became just the third Cornell player since 1980 to run, pass and catch a touchdown during their varsity careers. John Tagliaferri '86 (8 rush, 1 throw, 2 receptions) and Derrick Harmon '84 (26 rush, 1 throw, 2 receptions) have also hit on that statistical oddity. Four other players on the current Big Red team have touchdowns in two criteria: Randy Barbour (run, pass), Nathan Ford (run, pass), Shane Kilcoyne (run, catch) and Stephen Liuzza (run, pass).

CHARTING FORD'S RISE: Senior quarterback Nathan Ford continues to move up the career passing charts. Here is where he stands entering the Penn game.

 

 

Career Yardage
1. Ricky Rahne (1998-01) 7,710
2. Nathan Ford (2005-pr.) 6,046

Career Completions
1. Ricky Rahne (1998-01) 678|
2. Nathan Ford (2005-pr.) 580

Career Attempts
1. Ricky Rahne (1998-01) 1226
2. Nathan Ford (2005-pr.) 950

Career Completion Percentage
1. Nathan Ford (2005-pr.) .611
2. Mike Hood (1996-98) .607
3. Steve Joyce (1994-95) .567

SECOND TO SIX GRAND: With his 376-yard effort against Columbia, senior quarterback Nathan Ford became the second player in Big Red history to surpass 6,000 passing yards in a career. His career total now stands at 6,046 yards, behind only all-time leader Ricky Rahne '02 (7,710).

HITTING THE MARK: Senior Nathan Ford threw for 376 yards and a touchdown against Columbia, marking the 17th time Ford has tossed for at least 200 yards in a game and the fifth time he has surpassed 300 yards The native of Palo Alto, Calif., threw for at least 200 yards in each of the Big Red's first seven games in 2007, the most 200-yard passing games since Ricky Rahne surpassed 200 yards in all 10 games of the 2000 season. He did not attempt a pass after being injured early in the game at Dartmouth, did not play vs. Columbia and saw only second half duty against Penn in the season finale.

DOZEN FORDS IN A ROW: From the last possession of the first quarter until the second possession of the fourth against Bucknell, senior Nathan Ford completed 12 consecutive passes, including a third quarter in which he went 8-of-8 for 92 yards and a touchdown. He ended the day 21-of-26 passing for a completion percentage of .807. Accuracy like that is nothing new for Ford. The school's No. 1 quarterback in completion percentage, Ford set a Cornell record by hitting on his first 17 passes against Princeton in 2007. While all of that was good, his 25-of-30 passing day against Dartmouth last week set a school record for completion percentage in a game by a Cornell quarterback (.833).

BIG HITTER ON THE DIAMOND: A highly-recruited baseball player out of high school, Nathan Ford chose Cornell in part because of the opportunity to play on the gridiron as well as on the diamond. In 2008, while Ford was going through spring football practice, the catcher/third baseman was named to the All-Ivy first team. Ford earned his second all-league honor after being named to the second team in 2007 as a third baseman. This past season, Ford pitched in at two key spots on the diamond, playing 11 games at third base and nine games behind the plate in Ivy League action in place of injured starter Adam Jacobs. He led the Big Red in batting (.410) and RBI (28). He also had a school-record 17 doubles, more than twice as many as anyone else on the roster. He added two triples to go along with three home runs. Ford also drew 16 walks to just 15 strikeouts on the year. He enters his senior season hitting .358 for his career, a mark that ranks second all-time behind Erik Rico '02 (.362). 

FORD HUNDRED: Senior Nathan Ford threw for 431 yards against Princeton on Nov. 1, his second 400-yard game this season after a 436 yard effort at Lehigh earlier this year. Ford is the first-ever Big Red quarterback to post two 400-yard games in one season and joins Ricky Rahne '02 as the lone Cornell signal callers to collect two such games in their career. 

RECORD HOLDER: Junior Bryan Walters still has 11 career games left to continue to rewrite the Big Red record book, but he's already done a pretty good job. Below are his rankings in Cornell history in a variety of categories. 

Season Punt Return Yards — 1st, 345 yards in 2007
Career Punt Return Yards — 1st, 767 yards
Career Punt Returns — 1st, 79 returns
Career Kick Return Yards — 1st, 1971 yards
Season Kick Returns — 1st, 40 returns in 2007
Career Kick Returns — 1st, 92 returns
Season All-Purpose Yards — 2nd, 1,702 yards in 2007
Career All-Purpose Yards — 3rd, 3,997 yards
Career Receiving Yards — 10th, 1,259 yards

WALTERS OBLITERATES PUNT RETURN RECORDS: After just three seasons with the Big Red, junior Bryan Walters already holds the career punt return yardage record (767 on 79 returns) and the top two single-season marks (345 in 2007, 273 in 2006). 

Career Punt Return Yardage
1. Bryan Walters (2006-pr.) 767
2. Chris Allen (1994-97) 545

Career Punt Return Attempts
1. Bryan Walters (2006-pr.) 79
2. Brian Romney (2004-05) 63

WALTERS AN ALL-PURPOSE OPTION: Junior Bryan Walters is among impressive company as an all-purpose threat, ranking second in school history behind Hall of Famer Ed Marinaro and ahead of former NFL player Derrick Harmon with his 148.0 yards per game. Marinaro averaged an incredible 183.2 yards in his career, good for 5,117 total yards. If Walters continues at his current pace for his remaining 11 contests, he will end with 5,625 all-purpose yards. Below is how he ranks all-time at Cornell.

 

Career All-Purpose Yardage
1. Chad Levitt (1993-96) 5,117
2. Ed Marinaro (1969-71) 4,947
3. Bryan Walters (2006-pr.) 3,997

Career All-Purpose Yardage (Average)
1. Ed Marinaro (1969-71) 183.2
2. Bryan Walters (2006-pr.) 148.0
3. Derrick Harmon (1981-83) 140.7
4. Chad Levitt (1993-96) 134.7

OH YEAH, HE'S ALSO A RECEIVER: Junior Bryan Walters became an All-Ivy candidate as a sophomore wideout, hauling in 48 passes for 592 yards and four touchdowns. His receptions and receiving yards ranked him among the top 60 nationally. As a freshman, Walters caught three passes for 33 yards in limited action. In his first seven games of 2008, Walters has caught 36 passes for 507 yards and two touchdowns, including seven for 83 yards against Colgate and eight for a career-high 138 yards and a TD vs. Princeton. Walters has five career 100-yard receiving games, including three straight heading into the Penn game. He had a four-catch, 116-yard effort last weekend against Dartmouth that included a 96-yard touchdown reception from Nathan Ford, the second-longest pass play in school history. He is coming off a six-catch, 127-yard effort at Columbia last weekend.

TOP 10: Junior Bryan Walters is listed among the top 20 active players in the Football Championship Subdivision in two categories: career kick return yardage (sixth, 1,971), career punt return yardage (seventh, 767) and career all-purpose yardage (14th, 3,997). 

BACK AT 1: Junior Bryan Walters is second in Ivy League history in kick return yardage with 1,971 yards. Terry Brown of Columbia is the all-time leader with 1,977 yards.

CANTY, BAKER JOIN THE 100-1,000 CLUB: Senior Zac Canty became the sixth player in school history to tally 100 career catches and the 13th to reach 1,000 receiving yards with his performance against Lehigh. His 11 catches for 120 yards were both career highs. He has since lifted his four-year totals to 130 receptions for 1,345 yards. After joining the 1,000-yard club earlier in the season, Baker surpassed 100 career catches with an eight-grab effort vs. Princeton. He now has 123 receptions for 1,432 yards. Junior Bryan Walters has already surpassed 1,000 yards and could get to 100 catches with a strong finish, as he currently has 93. 

BAKER THE TOUCHDOWN MAKER: Senior wide receiver Jesse Baker has had a remarkable senior campaign, registering a team-best 59 receptions for 692 yards and six touchdowns through nine contests. He narrowly missed a school record for catches in a contest when he hauled in 14 passes for 142 yards against Columbia. The record of 15 receptions came by John Tagliaferri against Princeton during the 1985 campaign. Baker had 10 catches for 141 yards and two touchdowns against Lehigh, including a 20-yard scoring grab as time expired to beat the Mountain Hawks. He also had a TD at Brown and Columbia, and two more scores i nthe season opener at Bucknell. Baker has raised his career totals to 123 catches for 1,432 yards and eight touchdowns in 29 varsity contests.

CAN YOU SPARE A RECEIVER: The Big Red returns all 14 players that caught a pass a season ago, accounting for 100 percent of the team's 281 catches for 2,611 yards and nine touchdowns from a season ago.

• Nine receivers reached double figures in catches, with two more catching eight balls.
• Six players hauled in at least 20 passes and three caught at least 40.
• Eight players had a reception of at least 20 yards.
• Rising seniors accounted for 179 catches (63.7 percent) and 1,600 yards (61.3 percent).
• Tight ends accounted for 19 catches (6.8 pct.) and 169 yards (6.5 pct.).
• Tailbacks accounted for 23 catches (8.2 pct.) for 190 yards (7.3 pct.).

LIUZZA SETTLES IN AT WR: Junior Stephen Liuzza has settled in at wide receiver after being the definition of a utility athlete in his first two seasons. The converted quarterback has seen action behind center, in the slot and in the backfield in his 26 varsity contests. The Slidell, La. native caught 23 passes for 196 yards a season ago, but also saw action in three games at quarterback. He posted 423 yards of total offense in just three quarters of play against Dartmouth in front a national television audience on YES, the third-best total in school history. 

THE CAPTAIN: Senior Tommy Bleymaier surpassed the 50-reception milestone with a pair of catches vs. Princeton and is nearing the 500-yard mark as well, entering the Penn contest with 54 catches for 484 yards in his four seasons. Bleymaier had a breakout junior season, hauling in career highs of 29 catches for 224 yards, easily surpassing his totals from his first two seasons (11 catches, 162 yards). The son of Boise State AD Gene Bleymaier and a former walk-on, the 5-9, 170-pound receiver had 16 catches for 145 yards in the team's final three contests a season ago, including a career-high nine catches for 107 yards at Dartmouth. He had his first three catches of 2008 go for 25 yards in the win over Lehigh and now has 14 catches for 98 yards in nine games this year.

KILCOYNE ALWAYS DANGEROUS: Senior Shane Kilcoyne is one of the team's most dangerous threats in the open field, and the Big Red will attempt to find a way to get him the ball in open space in 2008. The senior has caught 28 passes for 197 yards and a touchdown, has rushed four times for 39 yards and has returned five kicks for 153 yards. Kilcoyne enters the Penn game with 1,345 all-purpose yards and seven career touchdowns.

BIG-PLAY BAX SURPASSES 200 TACKLES: After finishing second in the Ivy League in tackles in 2007 with 100, senior safety Tim Bax posted a team-best 12 tackles in the season opener against Bucknell, giving him 209 career stops. With that effort, Bax became the 20th Cornell defender to register 200 career knockdowns. Bax has since upped that total to 269 career tackles, good for 10th overall. Below is where he ranks for the Big Red all-time:

 

No. Player Tackles
8. Tom Bernardo '87 291
9. Tom Nunes '99 277
10. Tim Bax (2005-pr.) 269

BARBOUR CUTS CLOSE: Junior Randy Barbour entered the season the team's leading returning rusher after posting 477 yards and six scores a season ago. The 5-9 tailback picked right up where he left off, registering his second career 100-yard game with 114 yards on 23 carries and a score in the season-opening victory over Bucknell and has rushed for a team-best 399 yards and five scores through nine games. Barbour earned Ivy League Offensive Player of the Week honors after rushing for 159 yards and three touchdowns in an overtime win over Brown a season ago, the sixth-best rushing total this decade.

RIHN BIG TACKLER: Senior captain Graham Rihn is recognized as one of the top defensive players in the Ivy League, and he will have a chance to give the league's coordinators headaches one last time this fall. In the opener against Bucknell, Rihn had four tackles, including 2.5 for a loss and a sack, but it was his play on special teams that proved to be the difference in the 21-20 victory. Rihn blocked a Bison game-tying extra-point attempt in the fourth quarter to help Cornell retain a one-point lead. Rihn also blocked a field goal and recovered a fumble in the win over Yale, and blocked another field goal that was returned for a touchdown by sophomore Andy Wade against Dartmouth. For the season, Rihn has posted 50 tackles, including 4.5 TFL, a pair of sacks and three blocked kicks.

KRIMM A SAFETY VALVE: Senior Gus Krimm has been a steady playmaker in the defensive backfield over the last two seasons, ranking fourth on the team each year with 58 total tackles. He registered six tackles, including one for a loss, and recovered a fumble in the opener against Bucknell. Krimm then had three tackles, including two sacks and a fumble recovery, in the victory over Yale. Krimm enters the Penn game with 29 consecutive starts and 162 tackles to go along with 12 pass breakups. He had his first interception of the year against Brown, adding five tackles and two pass breakups.

COSTELLO, OSTROWSKY TAKE THE REIGNS AT LINEBACKER: With the loss of two-year starters Ryan Blessing and Doug Lempa to graduation, junior Chris Costello and senior Brian Ostrowsky have capably filled their slots and excelled in the first nine games. The duo rank second and fourth on the team in tackles, respectively, combining for 120 stops, 11.5 tackles for loss and three forced fumbles. Ostrowsky and Costello each had eight tackles, including a stop for a loss, in the win over Yale. Costello posted a career-best 11 stops in the win over Lehigh, adding 2.5 TFL to his totals. Costello and Ostrowsky also had 11 and 10 tackles, respectively, in the loss to Colgate. Costello had a career-best 13 tackles at Columbia.

CORNERING THE MARKET: Sophomore Emani Fenton has emerged as the team's starting corner and has been a difference-maker against the pass. Fenton ranks fifth on the team with 47 tackles, including 4.5 behind the line of scrimmage, and a team-high nine pass breakups.

MAXWELL SMART PUNTER: Senior punter Nick Maxwell has been among the top punters in the Ivy League in his three seasons as a starter. Maxwell has averaged 38.2 yards on 137 career punts, putting 39 of his kicks inside the opponents' 20-yard line. He has had only seven touchbacks and one kick blocked in his career. The Lacey, Wash., native averaged a career-best 39.2 yards per punt as a junior. His hangtime, as well as the team's punt coverage team, allowed just 166 return yards on 28 returns, an average of 5.9 yards per attempt. He has been nearly as good in 2008, averaging 38.5 yards on 44 punts with 14 being downed inside the 20.

A LOT OF LEG: Senior punter Nick Maxwell was busy in the Big Red's win over Yale, kicking 11 times for an average of 41.0 yards per punt. He dropped six of those kicks inside the 20 and was part of a group that allowed Yale average field position of its own 24. Cornell's offense, meanwhile, averaged starting on its own 41, a key 17-yard difference.

HALF DOZEN AT TWO GRAND: With his 81-yard effort against Bucknell in the 2007 opener, senior Luke Siwula became the sixth player in program history to reach 2,000 career rushing yards. The Cortland, N.Y., native, joined Ed Marinaro '72, Chad Levitt '97, Derrick Harmon '84, John McNiff '92 and Gary Wood '64 at the milestone. He enters the Penn game with 2,492 yards. Next up on the list is McNiff with 2,557 yards.

SIWULA FOR SIX: Senior Luke Siwula scored a pair of rushing touchdowns against Dartmouth, giving him 20 career touchdowns on the ground and 24 total scores. His 24 total touchdowns ranks fifth on the school's list. Siwula is tied for sixth on the school's all-time scoring list with 146 career points.

ANOTHER HUNDRED: Luke Siwula enters the Columbia game with nine career 100-yard rushing games, fifth all-time in Cornell history. In 2005, Siwula became the first Cornell running back to record six 100-yard games in one season since Malaga in 1988. He was the fifth player to post a season with six or more 100-yard games (Ed Marinaro in 1969, 1970 and 1971; Dan Malone in 1972; Joe Holland in 1978; Malaga; and Siwula), with Heisman Trophy runner-up Ed Marinaro doing it in three straight seasons.

SIWULA NAMED ACDADEMIC ALL-DISTRICT FOR FOURTH TIME: Senior Luke Siwula became a rare four-time ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District selection when he was named to the District 1 first team on Nov. 6. The two-time Academic All-American was honored for his achievements on the gridiron and in the classroom and was part of a group of 11 Ivy League players who will advance to the national ballot for Academic All-America honors. In the classroom, Siwula has posted a 3.51 grade point average in industrial and labor relations and is a two-time Academic All-Ivy pick. The team is voted on by members of the College Sports Information Directors of America within the district, which covers all Division I-A and Division I-AA schools in New England, New York and the eastern Canadian provinces. In order to be eligible for the team, a student-athlete must be a starter or key reserve, have completed at least two semesters and maintain a cumulative grade-point average of at least 3.30.

VALENTA LEADS THE LINE: All-America candidate Steve Valenta enters the season as a three-year starter at left tackle and has made 29 consecutive starts while playing in all 32 games in which he has been available. During his three seasons as a starter, the Big Red has averaged 22.0 points and 136.1 rushing yards per game with 44 total touchdowns on the ground.

PEOPLE TAKE NOTICE: Senior tackle Steve Valenta has earned a great deal of recognition heading into 2008, earning preseason all-conference honors from a variety of publications. With the success of recent graduate Kevin Boothe '06 fresh in the minds of NFL scouts, the 6-5, 309-pound Valenta has already brought several to campus to see him practice. He is currently rated among the top 100 tackles in college football by nfldraftscout.com.

VOTERS LIKE CORNELL: After starting the season 3-0, the Cornell football team found itself receiving votes in both the Sports Network FCS Poll and the FCS Coaches' poll on Oct. 6. In the Sports Network poll, Cornell received 28 points and also received two votes in the coaches' poll. Cornell was one of last five undefeated teams in the FCS.

UP AND GOOD: Sophomore place-kicker Brad Greenway enters the Penn contest having hit six of his last seven field goals after missing two of his first three career kicks. His streak of six consecutive field goals that ended against Dartmouth was the most by a Big Red kicker since Peter Zell '08 made eight straight in 2006.

EXTRA POINTS: Sophomore Brad Greenway has continued the team's tradition of near-perfection on extra-point kicks, connecting on 18-of-19 attempts this year, making his first 16 before a false start penalty moved Cornell back five yards against Dartmouth, just enough to throw off the timing and Greenway missed the kick. That ended the team's mark to 102 straight conversion kicks dating back to Peter Zell's miss against Columbia on Nov. 13, 2004. Since then, A.J. Weitsman had made 30 in a row in 2004, while Zell made a school record 54 straight kicks in 2006 and 2007, including a single-season record of 32 without a miss in 2007.

NO TIME TO CELEBRATE: Cornell's win over Lehigh as time expired was the first time a Big Red game was decided with a score on the final play since Princeton's Derek Javarone kicked a 35-yard field goal in overtime during the 2005 season, ending a 20-17 contest in favor of the Tigers.

GAME NUMBER 1,100: Cornell's games against Brown on Oct. 25 was the 1,100th contest in Big Red football history. The Big Red has a storied history that includes many of the following highlights over the first 1,103 games.

By The Numbers
• 2 Ivy League Rookies of the Year (Derrick Harmon - 1981; John McNiff - 1989)
• 3 Ivy League championships (1971, 1988, 1990)
• 4 Ivy League Players of the Year (Ed Marinaro - 1970 and 1971; Derrick Harmon - 1983; Chad Levitt - 1996)
• 5 national championships (1915, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1939)
• 12 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-Americans
• 18 members of the National Football Foundation Hall of Fame
• 41 Big Red players who have gone on to play professionally
• 120 years of Cornell football
• 126 All-Americans
• 136 Cornell Athletic Hall of Fame members
• 143 first-team All-Ivy League selections
• 614 victories (10th-most among Football Championship Subdivision teams)
• 4,715 rushing yards by Ed Marinaro in three years, No. 2 all-time in the Ivy League
• 7,710 passing yards for Ricky Rahne, No. 3 all-time in the Ivy League

THE "C" RETURNS: Head coach Jim Knowles '87 took the block "C" off the Cornell football helmets this spring as a motivational tool after the Big Red staff reviewed the 2007 season and wasn't happy about the way his team was physically beaten up in several games. With the goal of becoming tougher, both physically and mentally, in 2008, Knowles said that the "C" wouldn't return to the helmets until the team proved it deserved to wear it. That proof was laid out in the team's season-opening win over Bucknell last weekend. The Big Red defense allowed Bucknell's option attack just 46 yards rushing, while the offensive line didn't allow a sack as Cornell piled up nearly 400 yards of offense.

A HOME THAT FEATURES FIELDTURF: Cornell played its first game on Schoellkopf Field's new FieldTurf surface that was installed this summer in the Big Red's Homecoming victory over Yale. The new field features a large block "C" at midfield, bright green synthetic grass and the even brighter red end zones with white lettering. The end zone on the South end reads "Cornell", while the North end zone spells out "Big Red." FieldTurf is a blend of polyethylene and polypropylene, silica sand and rubber granules that give years of grass-like appearance and use, without the regular maintenance of natural grass. The installation process includes a layer of decomposed granite, the company's patented polyethylene and polypropylene blades and a rubber granule infill system. It is resistant to temperature extremes, drains quickly and is extremely low-maintenance. 

STORIED RIVALRIES: The Big Red is involved in three of the top 20 most-played rivalries in college football. Heading into the 2008 campaign, the Cornell-Penn series ranks fifth in most games played with 115. The 95 meetings between Cornell and Columbia ranks 12th, while the Cornell-Colgate and Cornell-Dartmouth rivalries stand 17th with 91 games played. The Big Red's oldest active rivalry is with Lehigh. Although the teams have met just 24 times, the squads first faced off during the 1887 season, Cornell's first season of football. The Cornell-Dartmouth and the Cornell-Penn series are the second-longest uninterrupted active series, as the teams have met every season since 1919, a span of 88 years. They trail only the Lafayette-Lehigh series, which has been played every year since 1897. 

AP NO. 1: Cornell is the only Ivy League school to be ranked No. 1 in the weekly Associated Press poll, holding the top ranking for three weeks (10/15-10/29) of the 1940 season. The No. 1 ranking ended with the historic "Fifth Down Game" against Dartmouth. The Big Red ended that campaign with a 6-2 record that included wins over Army, Syracuse and Ohio State.

WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS: Cornell has won five national titles in its storied football history. The Big Red claimed at least a share of the 1915 (Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, National Championship Foundation and Parke Davis), 1921 (Helms, Houlgate, National Championship Foundation and Parke Davis), 1922 (Helms, Parke Davis), 1923 (Sagarin) and 1939 (Litkenhous, Sagarin) titles. All five teams went undefeated and dominated their opponents. The 1915 team was 9-0 and outscored its opponents 287-50 with four shutouts. The 1921, 1922 and 1923 squads each went 8-0 and outscored their opponents 392-21, 339-27 and 320-33, respectively. The teams allowed more than one touchdown in a game just once during that 24-game span while scoring 40 or more points 14 times. The 1939 team was 8-0 and defeated Syracuse, Penn State and Ohio State. 

LIVE AND IN YOUR HOME: You can see live streaming video of each of the Big Red's five home games courtesy of Cornell athletics and IBN Sports. Visit www.CornellBigRed.com or www.IBNSports.com for more information. For subscription information for Cornell's other sports through the Redcast subscription service, visit Cornell's web site, www.CornellBigRed.com.

WHAT'S THE FREQUENCY?: All of the Big Red's football games in 2008 are carried live on WHCU (870 AM) in the Ithaca area and on the internet at www.CornellBigRed.com. Barry Leonard returns for his 11th season in the booth and ninth season in the play-by-play chair, while Buck Briggs '76 is back to provide the color commentary for an eighth season. Special guests will also make appearances throughout the year.

UP NEXT: Cornell's season is complete.