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GAME INFORMATION
Game #10: Penn at Cornell
Date: Saturday, Nov. 17, at 12:30 p.m.
Site: Schoellkopf Field (25,597), Ithaca, N.Y.
2012 Records: Penn (5-4, 5-1 Ivy); Cornell (4-5, 2-4 Ivy)
Series Record: Penn leads the series 68-45-5
Last Meeting: Cornell won 48-38, Nov. 19, 2011 in Philadelphia, Pa.
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 (11-18 overall, .379; 6-14, Ivy, .300) ... 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
• One of the oldest rivalries in college football will be renewed when Cornell and Penn battle for the Trustees' Cup today at Schoellkopf Field.
• Prior to the game, the Big Red will honor 24 seniors for their contributions to the football program before they take the field for the last time.
• Cornell will be attempting to finish at .500 or better for the second straight year, but Penn has its sights set even bigger. With a win, the Quakers would claim the outright Ivy League title after clinching at least a share with a 30-21 triumph over Harvard.
• Penn will also be looking to avenge last season's 48-38 loss to the Big Red in the 2011 season finale, a game in which Cornell quarterback Jeff Mathews threw for an Ivy League record 548 yards and five touchdowns. It marked the only home loss by the Quaker seniors in their four-year career.
• It will be the 119th meeting between Cornell and Penn, marking the fifth-most played series in college football history.
• The two teams have met annually since 1919, the second-longest uninterrupted series in the annals of college football.
• It will be the 18th meeting for the Trustees' Cup, a traveling trophy presented to the winning team annually. Penn leads the Trustees' Cup series 11-6 dating back to 1995, though it currently resides in Ithaca.

ABOUT PENN
• Penn has already wrapped up at least a share of the 2012 Ivy League title after last weekend's 30-21 win over Harvard. The Quakers are now 5-1 in Ivy play and 5-4 overall.
• The Quakers have recovered from an 0-3 non-conference slate to claim a 16th Ivy League title, and with a win would clinch the outright title. A loss would put both Harvard and Princeton, who enter the weekend with two defeats in Ancient Eight play, back into the title conversation.
• The Quakers' defense, long one of the best in the nation, limited the potent Penn attack to 295 total yards and posted a season-high six sacks.
• Penn suffered a crushing loss in its Ivy title-winning effort against Harvard, as senior quarterback and Ivy League Player of the Year candidate Billy Ragone suffered a season-ending ankle injury.
• Senior defensive lineman Brandon Copeland is Penn's lone captain, the first time Penn has had a solo captain since the 1997 season. He has posted 8.5 tackles for loss and a team-best 5.0 sacks.
• Penn's senior class has a four-year record of 27-12 (.692), including an impressive mark of 23-4 (.852) against the Ivy League. In their four years at Franklin Field, the current Penn seniors were 12-1 (.923) against Ivy League opponents, with their lone home loss coming last year to the Big Red. The Penn seniors have captured three Ivy titles.
• Cornell's oldest rival and longest rivalry saw the Big Red win a 48-38 decision last year at Franklin Field behind 548 passing yards by Jeff Mathews.
• With last week's win, head coach Al Bagnoli won his ninth Ivy League title in 21 seasons. He is the winningest active head coach in the FCS.

A WIN OVER PENN WOULD ...
• give Cornell a final record of 5-5 overall and 3-4 in Ivy League play.
• be the second straight in the series, keeping the Trustees' Cup in Ithaca.
• cut Penn's advantage in the all-time series to 68-46-5.
• make Cornell 7-11 in games played for the Trustees' Cup dating back to 1995.
• be the 628th in program history (11th-most in the Football Championship Subdivision).

THE CORNELL-PENN SERIES
• This will be the 119th meeting between Cornell and Penn, with the Quakers holding a 68-45-5 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.
• Seven years ago, Cornell claimed a 16-7 win at Franklin Field for the 600th victory in program history.
• Last season, the Big Red snapped a five-game Quaker win streak in the series with a 48-38 win over Penn at Franklin Field.

SENIOR DAY
• Cornell will say goodbye to 24 seniors playing their game this weekend.
• Seniors being honored prior to the game include WR Jake Allyn, QB Chris Amrhein, LB Sidney Balman, OL John Begley, FB/TE John Boyle, S Andrew Brown, OL Bob Bullington, DL Emile Chang, DL Matt Crowder, OL Dylan Cunningham, TE Michael DiChiara, S Michael Hernandez, RB Max Martinez, TE.RB Nick Mlady, CB DeMarr Moulton, WR Kurt Ondash, LB Cody Roberts, WR Shane Savage, DL Richie Silverman, DL Hugh Stewart, TE Beau Sweeney, WR Luke Tasker, DL Emmitt Terrell and OL JC Tretter.

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 11-6, though Cornell claimed the Cup last year with a 48-38 win in Philadelphia to snap a five-game Quaker win streak in the series.

NOTES TO KNOW
• The Big Red is 7-0 when allowing opponents to score fewer than 20 points under head coach Kent Austin and are 4-18 when surrendering 20 or more points.
• The team's top 10 tacklers are all underclassmen, including four of the top five listed as freshmen or sophomores.
• Freshmen have been the team's leading rusher in each of the team's first nine games (Silas Nacita at Fordham, Luke Hagy vs. Yale, at Bucknell, at Harvard, vs. Monmouth, at Brown, vs. Princeton, vs. Dartmouth, at Columbia).
• 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 29 with his three catches for 53 yards and a touchdown at Columbia.
• Freshman Luke Hagy has already posted 889 all-purpose yards, the most by any Big Red freshman in school history. He surpassed Bryan Walters, the Big Red's career leader in the category. He had 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).

RECORD WATCH
• Junior Jeff Mathews is within reaching distance of several milestones entering this weekend's contest against Penn.
• Mathews needs one passing touchdown to reach third on the season passing TDs list and to give him 50 for his career. He is five away from the career mark of 54 set by Ricky Rahne '02.
• Mathews is 36 completions from Rahne's career record of 678.
• Mathews is 249 passing yards from posting back-to-back 3,000 yard passing seasons.
• Senior Luke Tasker is 11 receptions shy of moving into second on the school's career list and needs one to move into second place on the season list (currently at 69).
• Tasker needs 197 receiving yards to match Keith Ferguson's career mark of 2,569 yards.
• Tasker needs 28 receiving yards to become the 17th player in Ivy League history to record 2,400 receiving yards and 128 yards to become the 12th to reach 2,500 yards.
• Tasker needs 69 all-purpose yards to become the ninth Cornell player to surpass 3,000 career yards.
• Freshman Luke Hagy has 889 all-purpose yards and needs 111 against Penn to become the first Big Red freshman to reach 1,000 yards as a rookie.
• Hagy needs 41 rushing yards to reach 500 in his rookie campaign.
• Hagy needs nine catches to hit 50 and 70 receiving yards to hit 500 in 2012.
• Junior John Wells needs two points to jump into the top 10 for single-season kicking points (currently at 44).

PASSING FANCY
• A Cornell quarterback has thrown for 300 yards or more in nine of the last 11 games. Prior to that, there were only 26 300-yard passing games in the program's first 124 seasons, spanning 1,132 games.
• Current 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 five touchdown passes away from the school's career record of 54, set by Ricky Rahne '02.
• Mathews had a streak of 147 pass attempts without an interception snapped earlier this season at Bucknell.
• Mathews has been sacked 103 times in 28 career games (3.7 per game), missing just one game due to injury.
• If Mathews continues at his career average of 282 yards per game over his final 11 career contests, he would end with his career with an Ivy League record 10,988 yards (current record, Brown's James Perry – current Princeton offensive coordinator – with 9,294 yards). If those numbers are boosted to 342 yards per game, which he has averaged over the last two seasons, he would finish with 11,648 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 21 100-yard games during their career.
• The Big Red roster has three of the top seven career receivers in terms of yards and receptions and four of the top 18.
• Senior Luke Tasker is 197 yards away from matching Keith Ferguson atop Cornell's career receiving yardage list. Ferguson ended his four-year career with 2,569 yards..
• Tasker has set a Cornell single-season record for yardage with his 1,097 yards. He ranks 10th all-time in Ivy history and is 15 yards from eighth, 69 from seventh and 85 from sixth. He needs 163 yards to move into fifth.
• 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. He has since moved into seventh place with 1,590 yards.
• 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 1,121 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.

NEXT UP
• The Big Red season is complete. Cornell will have spring practices before commencing on the 2013 season with practice next August.