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GAME INFORMATION
Game #7: Cornell at Princeton
Date: Saturday, Nov. 2, at 1:00 p.m.
Site: Princeton Stadium (27,733), Princeton, N.J.
2013 Records: Cornell (1-5, 0-3 Ivy); Princeton (5-1, 3-0 Ivy)
Series Record: Princeton leads the series 57-36-2
Last Meeting: Cornell won 37-35, Oct. 27, 2012, in Ithaca, N.Y.
Television: ESPN3
Radio: WHCU 870 AM, Barry Leonard (play-by-play), Buck Briggs (color)
Live Video: Not available for this game
Live Stats: Available at www.GoPrincetonTigers.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 (1-5 overall,.167; 0-3, 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 old saying that the only sure things in life are death and taxes, but you can throw in that the Cornell-Princeton football game will be among the nation's most entertaining.
• Cornell and Princeton will meet for the 96th time when the squads square off on Saturday, Nov. 2 at 1 p.m. at Princeton Stadium.
• The game will be broadcast live on ESPN3 and locally on WHCU 870 AM with Barry Leonard and Buck Briggs on the radio call.
• Few series in college football have been as competitive or compelling over the last two decades as the Cornell-Princeton one.
• Peppered with last-second finishes, crazy endings and upsets galore, eight of the last nine contests have been decided by a touchdown or less, with that stretching to 11 of the last 13 meetings and 18 of the last 23.
• Thirteen games have been decided by a field goal or less or in overtime during that 23-year span.
• During that two-decade span, an amazing run of exciting games have been played between the teams.
• In the last 13 years alone, Cornell blocked a PAT with 11 seconds left to win by one in 2000,a Princeton rally from a 25-10 deficit in the fourth quarter ended with a 32-25 Tiger win in 2002, a blocked Tiger PAT late in the fourth gave the Big Red another win (2004), Derek Javarone of Princeton booted a game-winning field goal in OT to set an Ivy League record for career field goals (2005), Cornell handed Ivy champ Princeton its only league loss in 2006, a Peter Zell 47-yard field goal fell short in a 37-34 Tiger win in 2007 and the Big Red nearly rallied from a 12-point deficit in the final 45 seconds, with a pass into the end zone falling incomplete as time ran out in a 31-26 loss in 2008.
• In 2009, Tommy Wornham connected with Trey Peacock for a 78-yard touchdown late in the fourth quarter gave Princeton a 17-13 win. The 2010 season saw Emani Fenton break up a two-point conversion that would have tied the game in the fourth quarter and then intercept a pass with the Tigers in chip-shot field goal position with 23 seconds remaining for a 21-19 Big Red win. Cornell won 24-7 in the 2011 meeting, but even that was in a rare October Nor'easter than dropped eight inches of snow during the game. It was back to normal in 2012, as John Wells connected on a 23-yard field with 50 seconds left after missing a game-tying PAT attempt earlier in the fourth quarter.
• Step into today, and there is every reason to believe the two teams will put on a show.
• While Cornell has lost five straight and Princeton has won five in a row, the game will feature two explosive offenses and a pair of young coaches building their programs up.
• Fourth-year head coach Bob Surace led Princeton to a four-game improvement a year ago and has already matched the win total from 2012.
• First-year Cornell head coach David Archer '05 is where Surace was three years ago and could use a win to springboard the program's growth.
• Cornell senior All-America quarterback Jeff Mathews, who is 3-0 against Princeton, will attempt to become the first Cornell quarterback to win four games against an Ivy League opponent.
• The owner of 44 Cornell and 17 school records, the name most closely associated with Mathews among all the quarterback records in the conference is former Brown star and current Princeton offensive coordinator James Perry.
• Mathews accounts for 89.6 percent of Cornell's total offense, the largest percentage of any FCS player. Justin Arias of Idaho State is second at 78.4 percent.
• Perry, along with junior quarterback Quinn Epperly, leads one of the most explosive offenses in the country.
• The Tigers rank third nationally in total offense (534.2 ypg.) and scoring offense (43.8 ppg.).
• Princeton has scored at least 39 points in five straight games and has averaged 47.0 points during the team's five-game win streak.

ABOUT PRINCETON
• Princeton has been the surprise team of the Ivy League with its 5-1 start and an explosive offense averaging 47.0 points during its five-game win streak.
• The Tigers sit atop the Ivy League standings with Penn at 3-0 after last weekend's thrilling 51-48 triple overtime victory at No. 23 Harvard last weekend behind six touchdown passes from junior quarterback Quinn Epperly, a candidate for Ivy League Player of the Year.
• Epperly is completing .705 of his passes with 15 touchdowns and just one interception while throwing for 179.5 yards per game. He also has run for 11 touchdowns and ranks second on the team in rushing.
• The Tigers are outscoring opponents by 19.0 points per game and its only loss came to nationally ranked Lehigh by a point in its season opener.
• Princeton has scored at least 28 points in every game this season and rank third nationally in both total offense (534.2 ypg.) and scoring offense (43.8 ppg.).
• Epperly has shared time under center with Connor Michelsen, who has completed 56 percent of his passes and has 663 passing yards and a pair of scores.
• The duo's favorite target is Roman Wilson, who ranks behind Cornell's Grant Gellatly in most receiving categories. He has 51 catches for 631 yards and seven touchdowns.
• The defense is led by All-America defensive lineman Caraun Reid (14 tackles, 6.0 tackles for loss, 2.5 sacks) and Mike Zeuli (54 tackles, 2.5 sacks).
• Fourth-year head coach Bob Surace has led the turnaround for the Tigers, guiding Princeton from 1-9 in 2011 to 5-5 in 2012 and now 5-1 in 2013. He is 0-3 all-time against Cornell.
• Princeton leads the all-time series 57-36-2, though Cornell has won three straight meetings.

A WIN OVER PRINCETON WOULD ...
• improve Cornell's record to 2-5 (1-3 Ivy).
• snap a five-game skid overall as well as a five-game road losing streak.
• extend its win streak over the Tigers to four games.
• be the 629th in program history (12th-most in the Football Championship Subdivision).

THE CORNELL-PRINCETON SERIES
• This will be the 96th meeting between Cornell and Princeton, with the Tigers holding a commanding 57-36-2 advantage.
• The two teams first met in 1891, a 6-0 Princeton win.
• In all, 15 of the last 18 meetings have been decided by a touchdown or less.
• The Big Red has won three straight, including last year's 37-35 thriller at Schoellkopf Field.

THE LAST TIME OUT
• Cornell kept coming and coming, but Brown had enough cushion to hold on for a 42-35 shootout victory over the Big Red on a crisp fall afternoon at historic Schoellkopf Field.
• Senior quarterback Jeff Mathews surpassed 10,000 career passing yards, accounted for five touchdowns and hit the 400 yard passing mark in a game for the eighth time in his career while valiantly guiding the Big Red back in the game after falling behind 28-7 on the first play of the second half.
• Mathews completed 30-of-46 passes for 419 yards and four touchdowns and also ran for a score to match a school record with five total touchdowns.
• His favorite target was All-Ivy League receiver Grant Gellatly, who caught 10 passes for 212 yards and two touchdowns.
• It was just shy of his career-high in yardage and sits fourth in Ivy League history for a single game.
• Gellatly joined Luke Tasker '13 as the lone Cornell receivers to surpass 200 yards in a game twice.
• Junior Lucas Shapiro added eight catches for 79 yards and a touchdown in his fifth straight game, while Luke Hagy had 201 all-purpose yards and scored once.
• The Big Red defense kept Cornell in the game with several key fourth quarter stops, including a big third-and-4 to get Cornell the ball back with 2:16 left.
• Senior Brett Buehler had a career-high 15 tackles and surpassed 200 for his career, while classmate Kevin Marchand made 10 stops with a tackle for a loss and a pass breakup.
• Tre' Minor made nine tackles, including the late third-down stop of Brown's Patrick Donnelly to give Cornell a late opportunity to tie.
• Sophomore Bobby Marani recorded his first career interception and junior Taylor Betros forced a fumble.
• Patrick Donnelly led Brown by completing 21-of-27 passes for 295 yards and three touchdowns, one each to Tellef Lundevall, Jordan Evans and Andrew Marks.



NOTES TO KNOW
• Senior quarterback Jeff Mathews enters the game needing 238 passing yards to jump into the top 25 on the NCAA's career list in the FCS.
• Mathews is eight touchdown passes from matching Perry's record of 74. He has four games remaining.
• If Mathews throws a touchdown pass, it will be his 13th consecutive game with at least one, matching his own personal record and moving within two games of matching the Cornell and Ivy League record of 15 straight games.
• Mathews accounts for 89.6 percent of the Big Red's total offense, the largest percentage of any player in the FCS. Justin Arias of Idaho State is second at 78.4 percent. For comparison, Princeton's Quinn Epperly is at 44.6 percent.
• Senior Grant Gellatly needs 16 receiving yards to match Bryan Walters '10 in fifth all-time at Cornell with 2,032 yards.

PASSING FANCY
• A Cornell quarterback has thrown for 300 yards or more in 14 of the last 18 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 (five of the top 12) in Ivy League history.
• Mathews has the top three single-game passing totals in Ivy League contests in conference history.
• Mathews has been sacked 124 times in 35 career games (3.5 per game), but has missed just one game due to injury.
• If Mathews continues at his career average of 297.6 yards per game over his final four career contests, he would end his career with an Ivy League record 11,607 yards (more than 2,000 yards past previous record holder Brown's James Perry – current Princeton offensive coordinator). If those numbers are boosted to 343.8 yards per game, which he has averaged over the last three seasons, he would finish with 11,792 yards.
• He is on pace to finish his career ranked among the top 15 all-time in passing yards in Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) history.
• Mathews' 10,417 passing yards is the equivalent of 5.92 miles.

MATHEWS VS. PRINCETON
• Senior quarterback Jeff Mathews has had success against Princeton in his three seasons and will look to become the first Cornell quarterback to win four games under center against an Ivy League opponent.
• Earlier this season, Mathews became the first Cornell quarterback to win four games against a single opponent with a four-year sweep of Bucknell.
• Mathews has completed 82-of-123 passes (.667) for 992 yards with seven touchdowns and one interception in his three games (151.57 pass efficiency rating).
• In 2010, Mathews picked up the first Ivy League win of his career after completing 28-of-44 passes for 243 yards and two scores. He also threw his only interception against the Tigers.
• Since that first quarter pick in his first game against them, Mathews has thrown 110 passes against the Tigers without an interception.
• He ended the 2011 meeting completing 19-of-28 passes for 224 yards and a touchdown. In the second half, Mathews was 12-of-14 for 161 yards through the air.
• A year ago, Mathews directed an offense that piled up 566 yards of offense and did not turn the ball over in a 37-35 victory. He completed 35-of-51 passes for 525 yards and four touchdowns.
• In that game, Mathews directed the game-winning drive that culminated in a 23-yard field goal by John Wells with under a minute to play. Included was a key third-and-10 completion that kept the drive alive.

NEXT UP
• The Big Red remains on the road to meet Dartmouth on Saturday, Nov. 9 at 4 p.m. in Hanover, N.H.
• The game will be broadcast live on NBC Sports Network.
• Dartmouth leads the all-time series 55-40-1 dating back to the first meeting in 1900.
• The Big Green has won four straight meetings, including last season's 44-28 contest in Ithaca.