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GAME INFORMATION
Game #9: Columbia at Cornell
Date: Saturday, Nov. 16, at 1:00 p.m.
Site: Schoellkopf Field (25,597), Ithaca, N.Y.
2013 Records: Columbia (0-8, 0-5 Ivy); Cornell (1-7, 0-5 Ivy)
Series Record: Cornell leads the series 61-36-3
Last Meeting: Columbia won 34-17, Nov. 10, 2012, in New York, N.Y.
Television: Fox College Sports
Radio: WHCU 870 AM, Barry Leonard (play-by-play), Buck Briggs (color)
Live Video: Not available for this game
Live Stats: Available at www.CornellBigRed.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 (1-7 overall,.125; 0-5, 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 2013 meeting for the Empire State Bowl will have significant meaning to two football teams looking to pick up their first Ivy League win of the season.
• Cornell and Columbia will play the Battle for New York on Saturday, Nov. 16 at 1 p.m. at Schoellkopf Field.
• The game will be broadcast live on Fox College Sports.
• The game can be heard locally on the radio on WHCU 870 AM with Barry Leonard and Buck Briggs describing the action.
• Video of the contest will not available live as part of the Ivy League Digital Network because it is blacked out for the television broadcast.
• The Big Red senior class of 23 players will be playing their final home game on Schoellkopf Field.
• Both teams will be looking to start building for 2014 when the squads meet, with both bringing extended losing streaks into the contest.
• Cornell will be out to snap a seven-game skid, while Columbia brings a nine-game losing streak into the game.
• One of the oldest and longest rivalries in college football, Cornell and Columbia will meet on the gridiron for the 101st time overall, with the Big Red leading the all-time series 61-36-3.
• Since the Empire State Bowl began officially in 2010, the Lions have won two of the three meetings. Each team has held serve in their home games.
• The owner of 44 Cornell and 17 Ivy League records, senior All-America quarterback Jeff Mathews broke into the top 25 all-time among FCS quarterbacks in passing yardage last weekend. He now sits at No. 20 with 10,825 yards after surpassing, among others, New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton who played at Eastern Illinois.
• Mathews, who is one of 16 finalists for the National Football Foundation's William V. Campbell Trophy that recognizes the top football scholar-athlete in the nation, joined classmate Grant Gellatly on the Capital One Academic All-District team.
• The duo both advance to the prestigious Academic All-America ballot.
• Gellatly is also putting up All-America numbers for the Big Red.
• He ranks among the national leaders and paces the Ancient Eight in receptions per game (8.9, third nationally) and receiving yards per game (113.6, fifth nationally). He also has seven receiving touchdowns.
• Senior linebacker Brett Buehler sits atop the Ivy League leaders in tackles (11.1 tpg.). The two-year captain is averaging 15.7 tackles in his last three games. He answered a career-high 15 tackles against Brown with 18 stops at Princeton and then 14 more at Dartmouth.
• The special teams have been one of the top units in the country, ranking 14th nationally and first in the Ivy League with four blocked kicks and 19th nationally in net punting (38.22).
• Freshman Chris Fraser is averaging 43.8 yards per punt this season, a mark that would establish a Cornell single-season record and rank third in Ivy history. The record of 44.0 yards per punt was set by Princeton's Matt Evans in 1998 and matched in 2012 by Harvard's Jacob Dombroski.

ABOUT COLUMBIA
• Columbia will be looking for its first win and enters the contest with an 0-8 record (0-5 Ivy).
• The Lions have lost nine straight dating back to last year, with its last victory coming a season ago at home against Cornell, 34-17.
• Columbia has been outscored this season 330-57, including 217-26 in its five Ivy games.
• All-Ivy League running back Marcorus Garrett is averaging 5.0 yards per carry and 77.2 yards per game. He has scored four touchdowns in six games this season.
• All-Ivy linebacker Zach Olinger ranks among the Ivy League leaders in tackles with 79, a mark that ranks second behind Cornell's Brett Buehler (89).
• This will be the 101st meeting between Cornell and Columbia, with the Big Red holding a 61-36-3 lead in the series.
• The squads have been evenly matched in the past two decades, with Columbia holding a 13-11 edge in the past 24 seasons after Cornell had won 12 straight contests, the longest streak in the series by either team.
• Former Big Red head coach Pete Mangurian is in his second season directing the Lions' program. He spent three years on the Cornell sidelines (1998-2000). After a 4-6 season his first year, the Big Red went 7-3 and 5-5 in his final two seasons, going 5-2 in Ivy League play each year to place third and then second in the Ancient Eight. Mangurian posted a 16-14 overall and 11-10 Ivy mark for the Big Red.

A WIN OVER COLUMBIA WOULD ...
• improve Cornell's record to 2-7 (1-5 Ivy).
• snap a seven-game skid overall.
• be the 629th in program history (12th-most in the Football Championship Subdivision).

THE CORNELL-COLUMBIA SERIES
• This will be the 101st meeting between Cornell and Columbia, with the Big Red holding a 61-36-3 lead in the series.
• The two teams first met in 1889, a 20-0 Cornell win.
• The Big Red won the last contest in Ithaca 62-41 in 2011, snapping a three-game win streak for the Lions. Then-sophomore Jeff Mathews set program records for completions, passing yards and touchdowns in a game and wide receiver Shane Savage had a school record-tying three touchdown catches as the Big Red set a modern-day record for points in a game.
• Columbia won last season's matchup at Wien Stadium 34-17 behind Marcorus Garrett's 187 yards, including an 86-yard touchdown run.
• The squads have been evenly matched in the past two decades, with Columbia holding a 13-11 edge in the past 24 seasons after Cornell had won 12 straight contests, the longest streak in the series by either team.

THE EMPIRE STATE BOWL
• Officially established in 2010, the Empire State Bowl has been the unofficial nickname of the Cornell-Columbia series for many years.
• The Lions lead the all-time series 2-1, with each team holding serve at home.
• The trophy currently resides in Morningside Heights after a 34-17 Columbia victory a year ago.
• Cornell's lone win in the series came in 2011, a 62-41 Big Red victory in Ithaca.
• Columbia won the first-ever Empire State Bowl in 2010 with an exciting last-minute 20-17 victory at Wien Stadium to capture the traveling trophy.

THE LAST TIME OUT
• Dartmouth raced out to a 21-0 halftime lead and never looked back, closing out a 34-6 win over Cornell at Memorial Field.
• Jeff Mathews completed 16-of-32 passes for 170 yards and threw for one touchdown with one interception.
• Grant Gellatly had seven catches for 58 yards and his eighth touchdown (seventh receiving TD) of the year.
• Defensively, Cornell made enough plays to stay in the game, collecting a season-best 11 tackles for loss with a pair of sacks. Brian Gee and Brett Buehler had 14 tackles apiece, with Buehler making a pair of tackles for loss and a sack.
• Tre' Minor added nine tackles and 3.5 tackles for loss, while Taylor Betros had nine stops with two tackles behind the line of scrimmage.
• Minor shared a sack with senior classmate Kevin Marchand, who had seven total tackles.\
• Punter Chris Fraser averaged 43.7 yards on his seven punts, with three downed inside the Dartmouth 20.
• Fellow rookies Luis Uceta (112 kickoff return yards) and Jackson Weber (eight tackles) also had strong afternoons.
• The Big Green controlled the clock with its run game, posting 291 yards on the ground.
• Kyle Bramble had a game-high 110 yards, while Dalyn Williams had 96 yards on the ground and completed 16-of-24 passes for 156 yards and a touchdown.
• Dominick Pierre scored twice on the ground and Alex Park also threw a touchdown.
• The home team's defense limited Cornell to 216 total yards with four total sacks.



SENIOR DAY AT SCHOELLKOPF FIELD
• The Cornell football program will honor its 23 seniors prior to today's contest.
• Among the seniors are the school's career passing leader, one of the top receivers, an All-Ivy linebacker and one of the school's top 20 leaders in career tackles and five players who have served as team captains 10 times in the last three seasons.
• The seniors who will be honored prior to the game will be OL Nate Baruch, TE Tyler Bostain, LB Evan Boyd, LB Brett Buehler, RB Dustin Dillard, LB Taylor Engstrom, S Brian Gee, WR Grant Gellatly, OL Josh Grider, DL Justin Harris, WR Jesse Heon, LB Michael Hernandez, DL Thomas Kokolas, S Kevin Laird, OL Tucker Maggio, DL Kevin Marchand, QB Jeff Mathews, LB Tre' Minor, OL Zak Sanderson, OL Matthew Simmonds, OL Brad Wagner, OL Andrew Weber and PK John Wells.

NEXT UP
• The Big Red will close out the 2013 campaign when it visits defending Ivy League champion Penn on Saturday, Nov. 23 at 1 p.m. at Franklin Field.
• The game will be played for the Trustee's Cup.
• This will be the 120th meeting between the teams, with Penn leading 69-45-5.