ITHACA, N.Y. – With its non-conference schedule now complete, the Big Red men's soccer team travels to New Haven, Conn. to take on Ivy League-leading Yale on Saturday afternoon.

GAME INFORMATION
GAME #13: Cornell at Yale
DATE & TIME:  Saturday, Oct. 19 at 3:30 p.m.
SITE: Reese Stadium (New Haven, Conn.)
SERIES RECORD:  Yale leads 45-24-15
LAST MEETING: Oct. 13, 2012; Cornell won 3-0
2013 RECORDS: Cornell (6-3-3, 0-2-0 Ivy League), Yale (3-7-0, 2-0-0 Ivy League)
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ABOUT THE BIG RED
After getting off to a 6-0-2 start in non-conference play in 2013, the Big Red is winless through its last four games – two non-conference and two Ivy League matchups. Though Cornell was able to snap its scoring slide against Harvard last Saturday, the team was once again held scoreless in a midweek matchup against Colgate. Senior defenders Patrick Slogic and Jake Rinow lead the team with six points (2g, 2a), while fellow defender and classmate Jake Kirsch is tied with junior Conor Goepel with five points (2g, 1a). Goepel has the most shots on goal for Cornell so far this season with 17.

HEAD COACH JARO ZAWISLAN
After taking over a program that was 1-15 the season before his appointment as head coach, Jaro Zawislan has steadily improved men's soccer at Cornell; transforming an eighth-place team into Ivy League Champions and coaching the Big Red to the program's best season in nearly two decades. Zawislan, a native of Poland, now holds a 39-21-19 record after Tuesday's scoreless tie with Colgate. He played soccer for four years at Clemson and then spent time professionally in the United States and Poland.
 
ABOUT YALE
The Bulldogs are the only Ivy League squad sitting at a perfect 2-0 so far this season and has already eclipsed its in-league in total from last season when the team finished sixth at 1-3-3. Both league wins for the Bulldogs have come by one goal thanks to late-game heroics. Yale edged Harvard 2-1 on Oct. 5 thanks to a Henos Musie score in the 90th minute. Last weekend, the Bulldogs dropped Dartmouth 1-0 in double overtime. Senior Peter Jacobson leads Yale with four goals and one assist for nine points.  
 
THE SERIES WITH YALE
Dating back to 1908, the Bulldogs have a commanding lead in the series between the teams at 45-24-15. Cornell has won the last two matchups by virtue of the shutout and has outscored Yale 5-1 in the last three.
 
LAST TIME OUT
Last season Cornell beat Yale 3-0 on Berman Field thanks to second-half strikes by Tyler Regan, Atticus DeProspo and Daniel Haber. It was the first of three shutouts against Ivy opponents last season.
 
DIFFERENT LOOK
Against Colgate on Tuesday freshmen Evan King, Hollis Malkowski and Alex Sommer each make the first starts of their careers for Cornell. There were also numerous position changes for some of the team's upperclassmen as the team looked for solutions to its early-season scoring troubles. Senior Patrick Slogic, who has been a mainstay on defense for the Big Red the past three seasons, spent most of the game in the midfield while six-foot-seven freshman Liam Crotty slid in to anchor the back line.
 
AROUND THE IVY LEAGUE
Dartmouth is the only other team in the Ivy League that is winless so far this season. The Big Green finished second behind Cornell in 2012 with a 5-2 record against conference opponents. Harvard, who was last in league standings last season at 0-6-1, is currently in the middle of the pack at 1-1 after edging the Big Red in double overtime. It was the first league win for the Crimson since the 2010 season.
 
BACK TO BACK TO BACK
The Big Red opened the 2013 season with three straight overtime games; the last time a Cornell men's soccer team played in three straight games needing more than 90 minutes was in September 2006 against Buffalo, Boston University and Columbia.  

SENIOR LEADERSHIP
For the second season in a row the Big Red has three captains, as Jake Rinow, Patrick Slogic and Benjamin Williams have assumed the role for their senior seasons. Slogic is coming off a First Team All-Ivy season in 2012 and was named to the MAC Hermann watch list and as a contender for the Senior CLASS Award in the weeks prior to the 2013 season.
 
FRESH FACES
Cornell added 13 newcomers to the roster for the 2013 campaign, many of whom will challenge the veteran players for playing time throughout the year. Goalkeeper Evan King, midfielder Madison Heck and midfield/forward hybrid Sebastian Scales all come to East Hill from Eastside FC in Washington State.
 
AIN'T THAT AMERICA
Nearly all of the players on this season's roster hail from one of 12 states, as California, New York and Washington each claim claiming four players. The Big Red has three players from New Jersey, two from both Colorado and Indiana and one each from Arizona, Connecticut, Illinois, Kansas, Michigan and Nebraska. Freshman JJ Black hails from Cambridge, England.  
 
UP NEXT
The Big Red will welcome back former men's soccer players to Berman Field as part of the team's Alumni Weekend and will play host to Brown on Saturday, Oct. 26 at 3:30 p.m.