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GAME INFORMATION
Game #6: Cornell at Brown
Date: Saturday, Oct. 20, at 12:30 p.m.
Site: Brown Stadium (20,000), Providence, R.I.
2012 Records: Cornell (3-2, 1-1 Ivy); Brown (3-2, 0-2 Ivy)
Series Record: Brown leads 32-26-1
Last Meeting: Brown won 35-24, Oct. 22, 2011, in Ithaca, N.Y.
Television: None
Radio: WHCU 870 AM, Barry Leonard (play-by-play), Buck Briggs (color)
Live Stats: Available at www.BrownBears.com
Live Video: Available at www.BrownBears.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 (10-15 overall, .400; 5-11, Ivy, .313) ... 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
• With five games remaining, all in Ivy League play, Cornell will attempt to stay in the Ivy League race when it visits Brown on Saturday, Oct. 20 at 12:30 p.m. at Brown Stadium.
• Cornell has won five of its last seven games overall and is 3-1 in its last four Ivy contests.
• The Big Red will be attempting to snap a four-game losing streak to the Bears overall and on the road.
• Cornell is looking to build on last week's 41-38 win over Monmouth without the services of three offensive starters, including All-Americans Jeff Mathews at quarterback and Shane Savage at wide receiver, as well as four defensive starters.
• The Big Red rallied from a fourth quarter deficit for the first time under head coach Kent Austin, getting three rushing touchdowns in the final quarter from Silas Nacita. He had a freshman record with four scores in the game, becoming the first Cornellian with four touchdowns in a game in 29 years.
• Plenty of records were broken in the win, with senior Chris Amrhein completing 33-of-56 passes for 523 yards and a touchdown, posting the second-most passing yards in a game in Cornell history and the third-most yards in a game by an Ivy League quarterback.
• His favorite target was senior Luke Tasker, who hauled in 11 passes for a school-record 280 yards and a touchdown. In the game, Tasker became the sixth Cornell receiver to surpass 2,000 career yards in the air. It was the third-highest receiving yardage total in Ivy League history.
• Brown, a perennial Ivy League contender under head coach Phil Estes, dropped to 0-2 in Ivy League play with a 19-0 defeat at the hands of Princeton on Saturday. The shutout snapped a streak of 162 straight games that the Bears had scored, an Ivy League record.
• The Bears finished a perfect 3-0 in non-league play, but have lost contests to the preseason Ivy favorite (Harvard, 45-31) and an impressive Princeton team (19-0).
 
ABOUT BROWN
• Brown brings a 3-2 record into the weekend's matchup after last weekend's 19-0 loss to Princeton.
• The Bears, long one of the nation's most dangerous and balanced offenses, was limited to 242 total yards a week ago by a stingy Princeton defense. The Bears turned the ball over three times in the loss.
• This weekend's game will be Family Weekend at Brown.
• The Bears have impressive non-league wins at Holy Cross (24-21), Georgetown (37-10) and Rhode Island (17-7).
• In its last three games, Brown has allowed a total of seven second half points.
• Linebacker Stephen Zambetti ranks among the Ivy League's top tackles with 51 tackles in five games to go along with 3.5 tackles for loss and a pair of pass breakups.
• The Brown offense is still suffering from the loss of star tailback Spiro Theodhosi, who ranked among the nation's leaders in rushing with 347 yards in his first three games with a pair of touchdowns before injuring his foot. He is expected to miss the remainder of the season.
• Quarterback Patrick Donnelly is completing 58 percent of his passes for 214.6 yards per game. He had seven touchdowns and four interceptions.
• Head coach Phil Estes has directed the Brown program to three Ivy League titles and four runner-up finishes in his 15 seasons in charge of the program.
 
A WIN OVER BROWN WOULD ...
• move Cornell to 4-2 overall and 2-1 in Ivy League play.
• give the Big Red a 4-1 record in its last five Ivy contests.
• snap a four-game losing skid to the Bears.
• make the Big Red 6-2 in its last eight contests dating back to 2011.
• put the Big Red two games over .500 (4-2) for the first time since opening the 2009 campaign 2-0. The last time it was two games over .500 during the second half of the season was topping Penn to finish the 2005 season at 6-4.
• be the 627th in program history (11th-most in the Football Championship Subdivision).
 
THE CORNELL-BROWN SERIES
• This will be the 60th meeting between Cornell and Brown, with the Bears holding a slim 32-26-1 advantage.
• The two teams first met in 1895, a 6-4 Cornell win.
• Brown has won nine of the last 11 meetings, with Cornell's last win coming in 2007, an exciting 38-31 overtime win at Schoellkopf Field.
• The Bears won last year's contest 35-24 in Ithaca.
 
NOTES TO KNOW
• Cornell is one of five Ivy League teams with zero or one losses entering the weekend. It will be looking to avoid its second conference loss this weekend when it meets perennial Ivy contender Brown. No team has won at least a share of an Ivy League title with two losses since 1982 (Harvard, Penn and Dartmouth all finished 5-2).
• Junior Jeff Mathews is 451 passing yards away from becoming the second Cornell quarterback to surpass 7,000 career passing yards. He is 135 yards from matching former Dartmouth quarterback and NFL star Jay Fiedler with 6,684 yards, good for seventh place on the all-time Ivy League list.
• Senior wide receiver Luke Tasker needs three receiving yards to move into the top 10 on Cornell's single-season receiving yardage list. He is 317 yards shy of setting the school's single season record with five games remaining.
• In the second quarter of games, Cornell has outscored opponents 57-24.
• Freshmen have been the team's leading rusher in each of the team's first five games (Silas Nacita at Fordham, Luke Hagy vs. Yale, at Bucknell, at Harvard, vs. Monmouth).
• The Big Red is 7-0 when allowing opponents to score less than 20 points under head coach Kent Austin and are 3-15 when surrendering 20 or more points.
 
SOME OTHER MISCELLANEOUS NOTES
• The Big Red is now 121-1 all-time when scoring 40+ points in a game after its 41-38 win over Monmouth. Its only loss was a 56-40 defeat at Brown in 2000.
• The team's top nine tacklers are all underclassmen, including six of the top seven listed as freshmen or sophomores.
• Freshmen have been the team's leading rusher in each of the team's first five games (Silas Nacita at Fordham, Luke Hagy vs. Yale, at Bucknell, at Harvard).
• Freshman Silas Nacita scored four touchdowns in the win over Monmouth, setting a school freshman record for touchdowns in a game and becoming the first Cornellian to score four times in a game since  Derrick Harmon against Columbia in 1983.
• Senior Chris Amrhein's 523 passing yards were the most by a Cornell or Ivy League quarterback in their first career start.
• Cornell has more interceptions (five) than its opponents (three) despite defending against 66 fewer passing attempts.
• Senior Luke Tasker, meanwhile, extended his streak of consecutive games with a catch to 25 with his 11 catches for 280 yards.
• Tasker's total of 764 receiving yards is 348 more than the next closest Ivy receiver, teammate Grant Gellatly (416 yards).
• Freshman Logan Murphy had a pair of sacks against Monmouth. Freshmen now have four of the team's six sacks this year (Sodeke - 1, Watson-Lewis - 1).
• Freshman Luke Hagy has already posted 419 all-purpose yards, the most by any Big Red freshman since Grant Gellatly's 548 in 2010. Since freshmen became eligible for varsity competition in 1993, Bryan Walters posted the most all-purpose yards for the Big Red with 847 yards in 2006.
• Cornell closed out its second straight winning non-conference season by topping Monmouth 41-38 last weekend. The last time the Big Red had back-to-back winning non-conference seasons were 2007 (3-0) and 2008 (2-1).
 
NEXT UP
• The Big Red will play three of its final four games of the season at home beginning with a matchup against Princeton on Saturday, Oct. 27 at 12:30 p.m. at Schoellkopf Field.
• Princeton leads the all-time series 57-35-2, though the Big Red won last season's meeting 24-7 on the road in a driving snow storm.
• In all, 14 of the last 17 meetings between the teams have been decided by a touchdown or less.