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CORNELL INFORMATION
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GAME INFORMATION
Game #7: Princeton at Cornell
Date: Saturday, Oct. 27, at 12:30 p.m.
Site: Schoellkopf Field (25,597), Ithaca, N.Y.
2012 Records: Princeton (4-2, 3-0 Ivy); Cornell (3-3, 1-2 Ivy)
Series Record: Princeton leads the series 57-35-2
Last Meeting: Cornell won last meeting 24-7, Oct. 29, 2011 in Ithaca, N.Y.
Television: Time Warner Cable
Radio: WHCU 870 AM, Barry Leonard (play-by-play), Buck Briggs (color)
Live Stats: Available at www.CornellBigRed.com
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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 (10-16 overall, .385; 5-12, Ivy, .294) ... 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
• Cornell will have every opportunity to get back in the Ivy League race when it faces conference upstart Princeton on Saturday, Oct. 27 at 12:30 p.m. at Schoellkopf Field.
• The Big Red, sitting at 1-2 in Ivy League play, can get back within one game of the league leader if it can top Princeton, the league's lone unbeaten.
• It will be another interesting twist in a series that has been one of the most exciting and entertaining over the last two decades.
• In all, 10 of the last 12 meetings have been decided by a touchdown or less, with last season's 24-7 Big Red win in a driving snowstorm that enveloped the East Coast being the outlier. Prior to that, Cornell and Princeton had a string of seven straight games decided by an average margin of 3.6 points.
• During that span, Cornell won the 2006 contest at Schoellkopf Field, 14-7, handing the Tigers their only loss of the season en route to an Ivy League title.
• The Big Red dropped its second straight Ivy contest, both coming on the road, with a 21-14 loss at Brown on Saturday.
• The Princeton game will start a stretch where Cornell will play three of its final four games at home where the Big Red is already 2-0 this season and has a three-game win streak.
• The Tigers, coming off a 1-9 season, have been a revelation under third-year head coach Bob Surace. After going 2-20 in his first 22 games on the Princeton sidelines, his team has won four straight.
• The biggest, and most exciting, came last weekend against No. 22 Harvard when Princeton rallied to score 29 unanswered points in the final 12 minutes to stun the Crimson, 39-34. The win snapped Harvard's 14-game win streak and helped the Tigers improve to 3-0 in Ancient Eight competition.
 
ABOUT PRINCETON
• A year after going 1-9 overall, Princeton has been the surprise of the Ivy League and enters the weekend alone in first place in the Ancient Eight standings with a perfect 3-0 record.
• The Tigers enter the game with a four-game win streak and are 4-2.
• The way the Tigers got to 3-0 last weekend was as impressive as could be. Princeton rallied from a 34-10 deficit with 12 minutes to play to stun previously unbeaten and nationally ranked Harvard 39-34 with 29 unanswered points.
• Sophomore Quinn Epperly hit junior Roman Wilson for a 36-yard touchdown with 13 seconds to play to snap Harvard's 14-game win streak and put the Tigers alone in first place.
• Princeton's defense ranks among the best in the nation, allowing just 15.3 points per game. It actually won the Harvard game with its offense, as the 39 points scored was the most by the team since also scoring 39 against Harvard a season ago - in a 56-39 loss. It piled up 419 yards of offense against the Crimson.
• The defensive line tandem of Mike Catapano and Caraun Reid have played at an All-American level through the first half of the season. The duo has combined for 12.5 sacks and 16 tackles for loss in six games.
• The offense has been balanced, using a two-quarterback system with sophomores Epperly and Connor Michelsen. The run game, featuring a number of effective backs, has averaged more than 150 yards per game.
• Head coach Bob Surace is working on completing a turnaround on the Tiger campus in his third season directing the Princeton program. He went 2-18 in his first two seasons, including 1-13 in Ivy League play.
 
A WIN OVER PRINCETON WOULD ...
• move Cornell to 4-3 overall and 2-2 in Ivy League play.
• make the Big Red 6-3 in its last nine contests dating back to 2011.
• be the third straight in the series against the Tigers.
• move Cornell within one game of first place in the Ivy League standings.
• make the Big Red 2-0 in televised games this season.
• be the 627th in program history (11th-most in the Football Championship Subdivision).
 
THE CORNELL-PRINCETON SERIES
• This will be the 95th meeting between Cornell and Princeton, with the Tigers holding a commanding 57-35-2 advantage.
• The two teams first met in 1891, a 6-0 Princeton win.
• In all, 14 of the last 17 meetings have been decided by a touchdown or less.
• The Big Red have won two straight, including last year's meeting in a driving snow storm by a 24-7 score.
 
NOTES TO KNOW
• Junior Jeff Mathews is 94 passing yards away from becoming the second Cornell quarterback to surpass 7,000 career passing yards.
• 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 275 yards shy of setting the school's single season record with four games remaining.
• The Big Red is 7-0 when allowing opponents to score less than 20 points under head coach Kent Austin and are 3-16 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 six games (Silas Nacita at Fordham, Luke Hagy vs. Yale, at Bucknell, at Harvard, vs. Monmouth, at Brown).
• 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 vs. Monmouth were the most by a Cornell or Ivy League quarterback in their first career start.
• Senior Luke Tasker extended his streak of consecutive games with a catch to 26 with his five catches for 42 yards at Brown.
• Freshman Luke Hagy has already posted 496 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 on Oct. 13. The last time the Big Red had back-to-back winning non-conference seasons were 2007 (3-0) and 2008 (2-1).
• Though opponents have more than three times as many rushing yards this season (1,051-304), the Big Red actually has more rushing touchdowns than its opponents (10-9).
 
NEXT UP
• Cornell remains at home to face Dartmouth on Saturday, Nov. 3 at 12:30 p.m. at Schoellkopf Field.
• Dartmouth leads the all-time series 54-40-1, with the series nearly split over the last 19 years (Cornell leads 10-9).