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CORNELL INFORMATION
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GAME INFORMATION
Game #4: Harvard at Cornell
Date: Saturday, Oct. 12, at 12:30 p.m.
Site: Schoellkopf Field (25,597), Ithaca, N.Y.
2013 Records: Harvard (3-0, 1-0 Ivy); Cornell (1-2, 0-1 Ivy)
Series Record: Harvard leads 43-32-2
Last Meeting: Harvard won 45-13, Oct. 6, 2012, in Cambridge, Mass.
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.IvyLeagueDigitalNetwork.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 (1-2 overall,.333; 0-1, Ivy, .000) ... Archer is the youngest Division I head football coach in the country ... he has 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 will attempt to get right back into the Ivy League race when it meets unbeaten Harvard on Saturday, Oct. 12 at 12:30 p.m. at Schoellkopf Field.
• The game will be broadcast live on the Ivy League Digital Network and locally on WHCU 870 AM with Barry Leonard and Buck Briggs on the radio call.
• The Big Red will attempt to snap a two-game skid when it meets a Crimson team that owns seven straight wins in the series.
• Harvard holds a 43-32-2 advantage in the all-time series, and has won 11 of the last 12 meetings between the teams. The Crimson won last year's meeting 45-13 at Harvard Stadium.
• Cornell's last win came during the 2005 season, a 27-13 victory over an unbeaten and nationally ranked  Harvard squad.
• A win would put the Big Red back into the Ivy race and even its overall record heading into its final non-league game of 2013.
• First-year head coach David Archer will attempt to become the first coach to defeat Harvard in his first meeting with the Crimson on the gridiron since Jim Hofher in 1990, a 20-17 Big Red win in Cambridge. That also was the year Cornell won a share of its last Ivy title.
• Cornell is coming off a 41-20 defeat at the hands of Central New York rival Colgate. The Big Red led 20-17 at halftime only to see the Raiders score 24 unanswered points after the break.
• Despite the loss, senior quarterback Jeff Mathews became the Ivy League's all-time leading passer during a 351-yard effort. He ended the day with 9,303 yards, nine yards clear of Brown's James Perry (9,294). Perry is still in the league as the offensive coordinator at Princeton.
• Mathews enters the Harvard game needing 172 passing yards to become the Ivy League's all-time leader in passing yards in conference games. He brings 6,674 yards on his stat sheet, behind only Perry (6,845).
• Mathews needs one passing touchdown to move alone into second place on the conference's list. His 58 passing scores is tied with former Dartmouth quarterback and NFL starter Jay Fiedler. Perry also holds that record with 74.
• In his three meetings all-time against Harvard, Mathews is 58-of-112 (.518) for 754 yards and six touchdowns (four interceptions). In his only game against the Crimson at Schoellkopf, Mathews was 21-of-35 passing for 322 yards and three scores while turning it over once.
• A year ago, Mathews was injured in the game against Harvard and missed the following game, the only contest he has missed in his four-year career.
• After allowing just 13 points in its season-opening win over Bucknell, the defense has allowed 39.0 points per game in its last two games. The offense has generated 22.0 points in the two-game losing streak after scoring 45 points in the opener.
• The Big Red's defense will be challenged against one of the nation's most explosive offenses. Harvard has scored at least 40 points in all three games during its 3-0 start. The Crimson ranks seventh nationally in scoring offense (41.3 ppg.) and also ranks first in turnover margin (+2.0) and fifth in passing efficiency (168.87).
• The game will feature two of the top 20 passing offenses in the FCS, as Cornell ranks seventh at 324.0 ypg., while the Crimson ranks 19th at 284.0 ypg.
• Harvard head coach Tim Murphy has established the Crimson as a perennial Ivy League contender with six conference crowns in his 20 years. The Crimson were picked to finish second in the conference in the preseason media poll.

ABOUT HARVARD
• Harvard brings a perfect 3-0 record into the game after outlasting Holy Cross in three overtimes last Saturday for a 41-35 victory.
• Sophomore Paul Stanton Jr. scored from 17 yards out in the third extra session in what was essentially a defensive battle all day long despite the final score.
• Despite the graduation of 2012 Ivy League Offensive Player of the Year Colton Chapple, the Crimson's offense hasn't missed a beat. Harvard's balanced offense is averaging 421.7 yards per game, with 284.0 coming through the air and 137.7 on the ground.
• The Crimson have scored at least 40 points in each of their first three games in wins at San Digeo (42-20), at home against Brown (41-23) and this past weekend at Holy Cross.
• This is the second straight year Harvard enters the contest with a 3-0 record. Last year the Crimson opened the year 5-0.
• Over the last 12 years, Harvard has the highest winning percentage in the Football Championship Subdivision at .803 (98-24). During that span, the Crimson is 10-1 against Cornell. Harvard has won at least seven games in each of the last 12 years
• Harvard is tied for eighth among all college football programs in all-time wins (832). They are tied with reigning FBS national champion and current top-ranked Alabama. The only schools with more wins are Oklahoma (836), Ohio State (844), Nebraska (860), Notre Dame (868), Texas (870), Yale (874) and Michigan (908).
• Head coach Tim Murphy, in his 20th season at Harvard, has led the program to six Ivy League titles. Every four-year player recruited by Murphy to Harvard has taken part in at least one Ivy League championship.

A WIN OVER HARVARD WOULD ...
• even Cornell's record at 2-2 and its Ivy League mark at 1-1.
• improve Cornell's record to 2-1 at Schoellkopf Field in 2013.
• snap a two-game skid overall.
• be the first by the Big Red over the Crimson since the 2005 season, snapping a seven-game Harvard win streak.
• be the 629th in program history (12th-most in the Football Championship Subdivision).

THE CORNELL-HARVARD SERIES
• Cornell and Harvard will be meeting for the 78th time dating back to the first meeting in 1890.
• The Crimson owned the early series, capturing the first 10 games (1890-1913), while Cornell 11 won straight from 1986-1996.
• Harvard has won 11 of the last 12 contests, with the Big Red's last win coming during the 2005 campaign, a 27-13 victory at home.
• The Crimson won last year's meeting 45-13 at Harvard Stadium.

THE LAST TIME OUT
• Jeff Mathews set an Ivy League record for most career passing yards last Saturday, but the Big Red dropped a 41-20 decision to Colgate at Schoellkopf Field.
• Mathews was 33-for-44 for 351 yards and two touchdowns on the day, with his final completion setting the record on a shovel pass to Ty Bostain in the right flat with 3:03 remaining.
• Mathews ended the day with 9,303 yards, surpassing Brown's James Perry (9,294).
• He also established an Ivy record for most career 300-yard games with his 15th.
• Grant Gellatly was on the receiving end of 13 Mathews' passes for 138 yards, including a 6-yard touchdown strike with 22 seconds left in the second quarter to give the Big Red a 20-17 lead at the break.
• Colgate scored 24 unanswered points in the second half.
• Luke Hagy reeled in 10 catches for 104 yards for the Big Red.
• Cornell was outgained on the ground, 258-52.
• In a battle of two of the best quarterbacks in the Football Championship Subdivision, Mathews and Colgate's Gavin McCarney went toe-to-toe until the Raiders' signal-caller was injured early in the third quarter.
• Jake Melville emerged off the bench and never missed stride, leading the preseason Patriot League favorites to their first win of the year.

NOTES TO KNOW
• Senior Jeff Mathews enters the game needing 172 passing yards to become the Ivy League's all-time leader in passing yards in conference games. He brings 6,674 yards on his stat sheet, behind only Brown's James Perry (6,845).
• In the Ivy League record book, Mathews also needs one 400-yard passing game to match Perry's seven at the top. He is also 43 completions away from that mark.
• He needs one passing touchdown to give him 59, moving him past former Dartmouth signal-caller and NFL starter Jay Fiedler for second on the Ivy list. Perry has that record as well with 74.
• Mathews can also break school records for career passing attempts (needs 29 to surpass Ricky Rahne '02 who had 1,226). He already owns 40 Big Red records.

PASSING FANCY
• A Cornell quarterback has thrown for 300 yards or more in 12 of the last 15 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 five of the school's top 10 passing yardage totals in school history and three of the top five marks in Ivy League history.
• Mathews has been sacked 112 times in 32 career games (3.5 per game), but has missed just one game due to injury.
• If Mathews continues at his career average of 290.7 yards per game over his final seven career contests, he would end his career with an Ivy League record 11,338 yards (more than 2,000 yards past previous record holder Brown's James Perry – current Princeton offensive coordinator). If those numbers are boosted to 344.5 yards per game, which he has averaged over the last three seasons, he would finish with 11,715 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
• Cornell hits the road for its final non-conference matchup of the season when it visits Monmouth on Saturday, Oct. 19.
• It will be the second-ever meeting between the two teams, with Cornell holding a 1-0 lead in the series.
• The squads met for the first time on the gridiron last season, a 41-38 Big Red victory at Schoellkopf Field.
• A Big Red quarterback threw for 523 yards and a touchdown without a turnover, but it was Chris Amrhein in place of an injured Jeff Mathews.
• Luke Tasker caught 11 passes for a school single-game record 280 yards and the lone touchdown. He became the sixth Cornell receiver to surpass 2,000 career yards in the process. It was the third-highest total by an Ivy League receiver in conference history.