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GAME INFORMATION
Game #5: Cornell at Monmouth
Date: Saturday, Oct. 19, at 1:00 p.m.
Site: Kessler Field (4,600), West Long Branch, N.J.
2013 Records: Cornell (1-3, 0-2 Ivy); Monmouth (3-4)
Series Record: Cornell leads 1-0-0
Last Meeting: Cornell won 41-38, Oct. 13, 2012, in Ithaca, N.Y.
Television: None
Radio: WHCU 870 AM, Barry Leonard (play-by-play), Buck Briggs (color)
Live Video: Available at www.IvyLeagueDigitalNetwork.com
Live Stats: Available at www.MUHawks.com
Tickets: Available by calling (607) 254-BEAR or online here

HEAD COACH DAVID ARCHER '05
David Archer '05, the Roger J. Weiss '61 Head Coach of Cornell Football, is in his first season at the helm of the Big Red (1-3 overall,.250; 0-2, Ivy, .000) ... Archer is the youngest Division I head football coach in the country ... he had been an assistant coach/recruiting coordinator at his alma mater for six years ... Archer was hired as head coach on Jan. 3, 2013.

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STORY LINES
• The Cornell football team hits the road to close out the 2013 non-conference slate when it visits Monmouth on Saturday, Oct. 19 at 1 p.m. at Kessler Field in West Long Branch, N.J.
• The game will be broadcast live on WHCU 870 AM with Barry Leonard and Buck Briggs on the radio call.
• Cornell will be out to earn its third straight winning non-conference season, the longest stretch of winning non-league slates since posting four in a row from 2005-08. A victory would end the Big Red's non-league record at 2-1.
• Both teams enter the contest after losses, with Cornell out to snap a three-game skid.
• Cornell is coming off a hard-fought 34-24 defeat at the hands of Harvard at Schoellkopf Field despite yet another record-breaking effort by senior quarterback Jeff Mathews.
• Mathews completed 39-of-56 passes for 472 yards and two touchdowns. During the game he established Ivy League records for most career 400-yard passing games (seven) and most career passing yards in Ivy League games (7,146).
• Four different times during the game Harvard stretched its lead to 10 points and Cornell answered to get back within a field goal each time before the Crimson put the nail in the coffin with its final scoring drive with under four minutes to play.
• Mathews' 472 passing yards were the most by any individual in a game against the Crimson and the second-most total against Harvard in any game in their 140-year history.
• The two teams met for the first time on the gridiron in 2012 with Cornell taking a 41-38 victory at Schoellkopf Field. The Big Red, playing without All-America quarterback Jeff Mathews, still piled up 581 yards of offense in the win.
• Cornell rallied from a fourth quarter deficit with three touchdowns in the final stanza, all coming on the ground from then-freshman Silas Nacita.
• Then-senior Chris Amrhein, in relief of the injured Mathews, completed 33-of-56 passes for 523 yards, good for the second-highest single-game total in Cornell history and the third-highest in Ivy League history.
• Monmouth racked up the yardage total as well with 602 yards, including 451 in the air.
• Cornell's Luke Tasker set a school record with 11 catches for 280 yards, a mark that also ranked third-highest in Ivy history.
• The Big Red will be attempting to win its first road game in more than a calendar year, with its last victory away from home coming in a 15-10 triumph at Bucknell on Sept. 29, 2012.
• Head coach Kevin Callahan is the only coach Monmouth has known and is in his 21st season directing the program. He ranks among the top 20 FCS coaches in wins with 120-98. Callahan's teams won five Northeast Conference titles and after a year as an independent, will move to the Big South in 2014.
• When Monmouth played its first varsity game on Sept. 11, 1993 with Callahan on the sidelines, Cornell head coach David Archer '05 was nearly a month away from his 11th birthday. Archer is the nation's youngest Division I football coach at 30-years-old.
• The Hawks will be attempting to get back on the winning track as well after falling to Saint Francis (PA) 28-10 this past weekend.
• Monmouth fell in a 21-0 hole in the first quarter after the Flash scored a pair of defensive touchdowns and couldn't climb all the way out.

ABOUT MONMOUTH
• Monmouth brings a 3-4 record into the weekend's matchup and is coming off a 28-10 loss at Saint Francis (PA) last Saturday.
• That loss snapped a three-game win streak that answered a season-opening three-game losing skid, though two of those losses came to top 25 teams .
• The Hawks fell behind 21-0 in the first quarter as the Flash scored a pair of defensive touchdowns (a fumble recovery and interception return).
• Monmouth has already squared off with one Ivy League foe, knocking off the Lions 37-14 on the road on Sept. 28.
• Through five games, the Hawks are allowing just 360.0 yards per game
• Opponents are converting just 30 percent of the time on third down, a mark that ranks sixth nationally.
• Monmouth has also been one of the most disciplined teams in the country, ranking second in fewest penalties per game (3.7).
• Monmouth has been dominated in the first half of games being outscored nearly 2:1 (121-63), but have the advantage after the break 104-59, including 72-28 in fourth quarter of games.
• The rushing tandem of Julian Hayes (98.6 ypg, 3 touchdowns) and K.B. Asante (79.3 ypg., 5 touchdowns) lead an offense that is averaging 165.7 yards per game on the ground.
• Brandon Hill is completing 54 percent of his passes with nine touchdowns in seven games. His favorite target has been Neal Sterling, who has 35 catches for 384 yards and four scores.
• Kicker Eric Spillane has been outstanding, hitting 7-of-9 field goals, including 4-of-5 from beyond 40 yards, and 18-of-19 PATs.
• The defense has been led by Dave Damirgian's 42 tackles and 7.5 tackles for loss, including 3.0 sacks. Tevrin Brandon has a pair of interceptions and Darnell Leslie has a team-best 8.5 tackles for a loss and 3.5 sacks.
• Head coach Kevin Callahan is the only coach Monmouth has known and is in his 21st season directing the program. He ranks among the top 20 FCS coaches in wins with 120-98. Callahan's teams won five Northeast Conference titles and after a year as an independent, will move to the Big South in 2014.

A WIN OVER MONMOUTH WOULD ...
• improve Cornell's record at 2-3.
• move the Big Red's lead in the all-time series to 2-0.
• clinch a winning non-conference record for the third straight year.
• even the Big Red's road record at 1-1.
• snap a three-game skid overall.
• make Cornell 7-4 in its last 11 non-league games.
• be the 629th in program history (12th-most in the Football Championship Subdivision).

THE CORNELL-MONMOUTH SERIES
• Last year was the first-ever meeting between the two teams.
• The Big Red won the first-ever meeting, a 41-38 decision over the Hawks at Schoellkopf Field.
• Monmouth was the 88th different opponent Cornell has faced over the years.

THE LAST TIME OUT
• Harvard made the plays when it needed to and held off a valiant effort from Cornell to earn a 34-24 victory.
• A great part of the effort came from the throwing arm of senior quarterback Jeff Mathews. Mathews completed 39-of-56 passes for 472 yards and two touchdowns.
• The 472 yards was the most by any individual in a game against the Crimson and the second-most total against Harvard in any game in their history.
• He also ran in a score, his first rushing touchdown of the season. He has now accounted for 66 touchdowns in his Big Red career, another record.
• Needing just 172 passing yards to become the all-time leader in conference games, Mathews passed that in the second quarter.
• His 39 completions and 56 attempts were both just shy of his own career-best totals, while it was his seventh 400-yard passing game in his career, matching an Ivy League record.
• He moved into second place all by himself for career passing scores in Ivy history (60), and moved within four completions of the Ivy record in that category as well.
• Grant Gellatly (12 catches, 181 yards, touchdown) and Ty Bostain (12 catches, 112 yards) each surpassed the 100-yard receiving mark. For Bostain, it was the first time in his career hitting that plateau. For Gellatly, it was his seventh.
• Junior Michael Turner recorded his second interception of the season and his third in his career to end a Harvard drive in the first quarter.
• In relief of injured quarterback Conner Hempel, Michael Pruneau completed 23-of-29 passes for 340 yards and two scores and also ran for a touchdown to get the Crimson on the board.

PASSING FANCY
• A Cornell quarterback has thrown for 300 yards or more in 13 of the last 16 games. Prior to that, there were only 26 300-yard passing games in the program's first 124 seasons, spanning 1,132 games.
• Jeff Mathews has posted six of the school's top eight passing yardage totals in school history and three of the top five marks (and five of the top 12) in Ivy League history.
• Mathews has the top three single-game passing totals in Ivy League contests.
• Mathews has been sacked 118 times in 33 career games (3.6 per game), but has missed just one game due to injury.
• If Mathews continues at his career average of 296.2 yards per game over his final six career contests, he would end his career with an Ivy League record 11,552 yards (more than 2,000 yards past previous record holder Brown's James Perry – current Princeton offensive coordinator). If those numbers are boosted to 350.1 yards per game, which he has averaged over the last three seasons, he would finish with 11,876 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.

NEXT UP
• The Big Red will close out the 2013 season with five consecutive Ivy League games starting with a home contest against Brown on Saturday, Oct. 26 at 12:30 p.m. at Schoellkopf Field.
• Jordan Reisner ran for 193 yards and two touchdowns as Brown held on for a 21-14 win over Cornell last season at Brown Stadium.
• Jeff Mathews posted his 10th career 300-yard passing day, completing 31-of-58 passes for 357 yards and a touchdown, but was intercepted three times.