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CORNELL INFORMATION
Roster I Schedule & Results I 2012 Statistics I History and Records

DARTMOUTH INFORMATION
Roster I Schedule & Results I Statistics

GAME INFORMATION
Game #8: Dartmouth at Cornell
Date: Saturday, Nov. 3, at 12:30 p.m.
Site: Schoellkopf Field (25,597), Ithaca, N.Y.
2012 Records: Dartmouth (4-3, 2-2 Ivy); Cornell (4-3, 2-2 Ivy)
Series Record: Dartmouth leads the series 54-40-1
Last Meeting: Dartmouth won 33-24, Nov. 5, 2011 in Hanover, N.H.
Television: None
Radio: WHCU 870 AM, Barry Leonard (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 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 (11-16 overall, .407; 6-12, 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
• A game back of first place, Cornell will attempt to keep pace with the leaders and start some momentum for the final three weeks of the season when it plays host to Dartmouth on Saturday, Nov. 3 at 12:30 p.m. at Schoellkopf Field.
• Cornell and Dartmouth bring identical 4-3 overall records and 2-2 marks in Ancient Eight play into the game.
• The contest will pit Cornell's top-ranked Ivy passing attack (405.4 ypg.) against a Dartmouth defense ranked first against the pass (174.3 ypg.).
• This will be the 96th meeting between the programs since the series started in 1900.
• The Big Red is coming off a thrilling 37-35 win over Ivy leader Princeton thanks to a 23-yard field goal by John Wells with 50 seconds left.
• Junior quarterback Jeff Mathews completed 35-of-51 passes for 525 yards and four touchdowns. His passing yardage total was the second-best in Cornell history and the third-best ever by an Ivy League quarterback.
• His favorite targets, junior Grant Gellatly (12 catches, 215 yards, one touchdown) and Luke Tasker (10 catches, 201 yards, two touchdowns) each surpassed 200 yards receiving. Heading into the game, there were only two 200-yard receiving games in the first 125 years of Big Red football. Before the season began, there had only been one such game.
• Junior Brian Gee forced a pair of fumbles that the Big Red recovered, including the final one that led to Cornell's game-winning scoring drive.
• In its three home games (Cornell 3-0), the Big Red offense has averaged 41.0 points, 543.0 yards and 27.3 first downs per game.

ABOUT DARTMOUTH
• Dartmouth enters the weekend with a 4-3 overall record and is 2-2 in Ivy League play, tied with the Big Red for fourth place in the Ancient Eight standings.
• Dartmouth outgained Harvard's offense, but the Crimson were able to move back into a first place tie with Princeton and Penn with the 31-14 win.
• Sophomore Alex Park threw for a career-high 310 yards while senior Michael Reilly amassed career highs with 12 receptions and 165 yards against the Crimson.
• Head coach Buddy Teevens' defense ranks in the top 20 nationally in total defense (15th, 311.3 ypg.) and scoring defense (19th, 19.0 ppg.). They are also 24th nationally against the pass (174.3 ypg.).
• Dominick Pierre ranks fourth in the Ivy League and 43rd nationally in rushing at 85.8 yards per game to go along with five touchdowns.
• Park is completing 62 percent of his passes and has thrown seven touchdowns in seven contests. He has been intercepted six times. Park's favorite target is Michael Reilly, who has 32 catches for 519 yards and three scores.
• Michael Runger is the team's leading tackler (68) on a team that has 11 players with 20 or more stops on the year.
• Teevens is in his second stop at his alma mater and has directed the program for a total of 13 seasons. He led the Big Green to Ivy titles in 1990 and 1991 and had Dartmouth second in the standings a year ago. He has also served as the head coach at Maine, Tulane and Stanford.

A WIN OVER DARTMOUTH WOULD ...
• move Cornell to 5-3 overall and 3-2 in Ivy League play.
• make the Big Red 7-3 in its last 10 contests dating back to 2011 and 5-2 in its last seven Ivy League games.
• snap a two-game Dartmouth win streak in the series and reduce the Big Green's edge all-time to 54-41-1.
• be the 628th in program history (11th-most in the Football Championship Subdivision).

THE CORNELL-DARTMOUTH SERIES
• This will be the 96th meeting between Cornell and Dartmouth, with the Big Green holding a 54-40-1 lead in the series.
• The two teams first met in 1900, a 23-6 Cornell win. The two teams have been fairly evenly matched in recent years, with 11 of the last 19 meetings being decided by a touchdown or less (Cornell holds a 10-9 lead during that stretch).
• The Big Green has won three straight meetings in the series, including a 33-24 win last season in Hanover, N.H.

THE FIFTH-DOWN GAME
• The 2012 meeting between the Big Red and Big Green is also the 72nd anniversary of the famed Fifth-Down Game.
• Played on Nov. 16, 1940 in Hanover, N.H., top-ranked Cornell improved to 6-0 with a 7-3 victory over Dartmouth, scoring on the game's final play.
• After reviewing game film on Monday, Coach Carl Snavely and acting athletic director Robert J. Kane wired Dartmouth officials to tell them Cornell scored on an inadvertent fifth down.
• Though there were no rules compelling the outcome to be changed, in an unprecedented act of sportsmanship, the Big Red relinquished claims to the win. The Big Green accepted the forfeit, winning the contest 3-0.
• It remains the only time a collegiate sporting contest has been decided off the field after the completion of a game.

NOTES TO KNOW
• Senior wide receiver Luke Tasker is 74 yards shy of setting the school's single season record with three games remaining.
• The Big Red is 7-0 when allowing opponents to score less than 20 points under head coach Kent Austin and are 4-16 when surrendering 20 or more points.
• 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 seven games (Silas Nacita at Fordham, Luke Hagy vs. Yale, at Bucknell, at Harvard, vs. Monmouth, at Brown, vs. Princeton).
• 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 27 with his 10 catches for 201 yards vs. Princeton.
• Freshman Luke Hagy has already posted 591 all-purpose yards, the most by any Big Red freshman since Bryan Walters posted a school freshman record 847 yards in 2006. Freshmen became eligible for varsity competition in the Ivy league in 1993.
• 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 (1,179-347), the Big Red actually has the same amount of rushing touchdowns as its opponents (11-11).

PASSING FANCY
• A Cornell quarterback has thrown for 300 yards or more in eight of the last nine games. Prior to that, there were only 26 300-yard passing games in the program's first 124 seasons, spanning 1,132 games.
• Big Red quarterbacks have posted six of the school's top 10 passing yardage totals in school history and four of the top five marks in Ivy League history.
• Junior quarterback Jeff Mathews is nine touchdown passes away from the school's career record of 54, set by Ricky Rahne '02.
• Mathews is 637 yards shy of becoming the Big Red's all-time leader in passing yardage (Ricky Rahne '02, 7,710 yards).
• Mathews had a streak of 147 pass attempts without an interception snapped earlier this season at Bucknell.
• Mathews has been sacked 96 times in 26 career games (3.7 per game), missing just one game due to injury.
• If Mathews continues at his career average of 285 yards per game over his final 13 career contests, he would end with his career with an Ivy League record 10,900 yards (current record, Brown's James Perry – current Princeton offensive coordinator – with 9,294 yards). If those numbers are boosted to 357 yards per game, which he has averaged over the last two seasons, he would finish with 11,508 yards.
• He is on pace to finish his career ranked among the top 20 all-time in passing yards in Football Championship Subdivision(FCS) history.

RECEIVING NOTES
• There have been 22 150-yard receiving games in Cornell history, with nine of them being accomplished by current members of the Big Red roster.
• Cornell receivers have combined for 20 100-yard games during their career.
• The Big Red roster has three of the top 11 career receivers in terms of yards and receptions and four of the top 20.
• Senior Luke Tasker is three yards away from moving into third place on the school's career receiving yardage list and is the sixth Big Red player to reach 2,000 receiving yards in a career.
• Tasker needs 287 yards in his last three games to surpass Keith Ferguson '03 atop the school's career list.
• Tasker needs 73 receiving yards to surpass teammate Shane Savage's single-season record of 1,080 yards set last season.
• Tasker is the fifth Big Red receiver and 26th Ivy League player to surpass 150 career catches.
• Senior Kurt Ondash moved into the school's top 10 all-time list in receiving yards with 1,439 yards with six catches for 37 yards vs. Princeton.
• Ondash needs one catch to move into the top 10 in career receptions.
• Junior Grant Gellatly became the 19th player in Cornell history to reach 1,000 career yards with his 12-catch, 215-yard effort against Princeton. He now has 1,031 yards.
• With Gellatly reaching 1,000 yards, it is the first time in school history a team has four 1,000-yard receivers at the same time (Shane Savage, Luke Tasker, Kurt Ondash, Gellatly).
• Fifth-year senior and preseason second-team All-American Shane Savage, who began the year needing 568 yards this season to become the school's career leader, has missed all but a dozen plays this season due to injury. He has one catch for 12 yards.

MATHEWS, HAGY HONORED BY THE IVY LEAGUE
• Junior quarterback Jeff Mathews (Ivy League Offensive Player of the Week) and Luke Hagy (Ivy League Rookie of the Week) have both been honored by the conference office for their performances in the Big Red's 37-35 win over league-leading Princeton.
• Mathews continued his record-setting ways with 525 yards on 35-of-51 passing with four touchdowns and no turnovers. His single-game yardage ranks second at Cornell and third in Ivy League history. He set up John Wells' game-winning, 23-yard field goal with under a minute by driving Cornell 66 yards after receiving the ball with three minutes left. He converted a pair of third-down chances and connected with Grant Gellatly for 35 yards to bring the Big Red down to the 11-yard line with under 90 seconds to play.
• Hagy posted another solid effort, recording 95 all-purpose yards and scoring his first career receiving touchdown. He led the team with a game-high 58 rushing yards on 14 carries and caught three passes for 37 yards, including a 23-yard touchdown midway through the third quarter.

NEXT UP
• The Big Red will play its final road game of the 2012 season when it visits Columbia on Saturday, Nov. 10 at 12:30 p.m. at Wien Stadium.
• Cornell and Columbia will play for the Empire State Bowl trophy, established in 2010.
• The teams have each won the Empire State Bowl game at home, with Cornell defeating the Lions 62-41 last season at Schoellkopf Field.
• It will be the 100th meeting between the two teams.