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GAME INFORMATION
Game #10: Cornell at Penn
Date: Saturday, Nov. 23, at 1:00 p.m.
Site: Franklin Field (52,593), Philadelphia, Pa.
2013 Records: Cornell (2-7, 1-5 Ivy); Penn (4-5, 3-3 Ivy)
Series Record: Penn leads the series 69-45-5
Last Meeting: Penn won 35-28, Nov. 23, 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.PennAthletics.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 (2-7 overall, .222; 1-5, Ivy, .167) ... 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 football season will close out with a traditional rivalry for the Trustees' Cup when Cornell and Penn meet for the 120th time on the gridiron.
• The Big Red and the Quakers will square off on Saturday, Nov. 23 at 1 p.m. at Franklin Field.
• The game can be heard locally on the radio on WHCU 870 AM with Barry Leonard and Buck Briggs describing the action, while video of the contest will be available as part of the Ivy League Digital Network.
• The Big Red senior class of 22 players will be playing their final collegiate game.
• The 120 meetings makes Cornell-Penn the fifth-most played series in college football history, with the Quakers leading the all-time series 69-45-5.
• Though the series began in 1893, the game has been played for the Trustees' Cup only since 1995.
• Alumni from Penn and Cornell gathered at the New York Penn Club on Sept. 6, 1995 for the dedication of the Trustees' Cup, which thereafter has been presented to the winner of the annual football game.
• The idea evolved from a series of discussions between officials and alumni of both universities, focusing on what would be the best way to honor one of college football's most celebrated rivalries. The decision was made to establish an award to be presented at an annual luncheon, with the winning team taking the prize home and displaying it for a year.
• Cornell won the Cup two years ago in Philadelphia with a 48-38 victory when Big Red quarterback Jeff Mathews established an Ivy League single-game passing record of 548 yards to go along with five touchdowns.
• The owner of 44 Cornell and 17 Ivy League records, Mathews broke into the top 25 all-time among FCS quarterbacks in passing yardage two weekends ago. 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 missed last weekend's 24-9 win over Columbia with an injury. Sophomore James Few filled in and accounted for three touchdowns (two passing, one rushing).
• 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 (116.1, fourth nationally). He also has seven receiving touchdowns.
• Senior linebacker Brett Buehler sits atop the Ivy League leaders in tackles (10.9 tpg.). The two-year captain is averaging 14.0 tackles in his last four games. He answered a career-high 15 tackles against Brown with 18 stops at Princeton and then 14 more at Dartmouth with nine vs. Columbia.
• The special teams have been one of the top units in the country, ranking 17th nationally and first in the Ivy League with four blocked kicks and 21st nationally in net punting (37.79).

ABOUT PENN
• Penn enters the contest with a 4-5 record (3-3 Ivy) and will be looking to avoid its first losing season since 2007.
• The Quakers nearly put together one of the Ivy League's greatest comebacks a week ago at Harvard, rallying from a 38-0 deficit midway through the third quarter to get within 38-30. Penn reached the Harvard 20 on its final possession, but could not get the game-tying score.
• Penn is allowing 380.3 yards per game, including 213.2 through the air.
• On offense, the running tandem of Kyle Wilcox (444 yards, two touchdowns) and Spencer Kulcsar (433 yards, three touchdowns) have shared the load, similar to what the Quakers have done at quarterback with Billy Ragone (1099 yards, eight touchdowns) and Ryan Becker (722 yards, five touchdowns).
• Sam Chwarzynski paces the Quaker defense with three interceptions, including one returned for a score. He also has 28 tackles, with six for a loss and four sacks.
• Place-kicker Connor Loftus is just 4-of-12 on field goals, but paces the team with his 33 points. He's a steady 21-of-22 on PAT kicks.
• The Quakers are on a three-game losing streak, its longest since losing the final game of 2006 and the first three of 2007.
• Head coach Al Bagnoli has won an Ivy League-record nine conference titles in his 22 years on the sidelines.

A WIN OVER PENN WOULD ...
• end Cornell's record at 3-7 (2-5 Ivy).
• narrow the lead in the all-time series to 69-46-5.
• cut the Quakers' lead in Trustees' Cup games to 12-7.
• be the second time in three seasons it would end the campaign on a two-game win streak.
• be the 630th in program history (12th-most in the Football Championship Subdivision).

THE CORNELL-PENN SERIES
• This will be the 120th meeting between Cornell and Penn, with the Quakers holding a 69-45-5 lead in the series.
• The series is the fifth-most played in college football history.
• The two teams first met in 1893, a 50-0 Penn win.
• Eight years ago, Cornell claimed a 16-7 win at Franklin Field for the 600th victory in program history.
• Last season, Penn avoided a late Big Red comeback for a 35-28 win on Senior Day at Schoellkopf Field.

FINAL GAME FOR BIG RED SENIORS
• The Cornell football program's 22 seniors will be playing their final collegiate game this weekend.
• 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.
• Cornell's seniors are 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, 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.

THE TRUSTEES' CUP
• Since 1995, the winner of the Cornell-Penn football game has been awarded the Trustees' Cup.
• Alumni from Penn and Cornell gathered at the New York Penn Club on Sept. 6, 1995 for the dedication of the Trustees' Cup, which thereafter has been presented to the winner of the annual football game.
• The idea evolved from a series of discussions between officials and alumni of both universities, focusing on what would be the best way to honor one of college football's most celebrated rivalries.
• The decision was made to establish an award to be presented at an annual luncheon, with the winning team taking the prize home and displaying it for a year.
• Penn leads the Trustees' Cup series 12-6 and has won five of the last six meetings, including last season's 35-28 Quaker victory in Ithaca.

THE LAST TIME OUT
• On Senior Day, wide receiver Grant Gellatly made sure his teammates would always remember their final game on Schoellkopf Field.
• With All-America quarterback Jeff Mathews on the sidelines with an injury, Gellatly did everything he could to make sure the Empire State Bowl trophy wouldn't leave Ithaca.
• The record-breaking wide receiver caught nine passes for 136 yards, ran for 38 more and helped settle down the Big Red's young quarterbacks, who were effective and efficient against a Lion defense built to defend against Mathews and the pass.
• Few was 14-of-17 passing for 178 yards and two touchdowns. He also scampered for a score.
• Somborn, in his first varsity appearance, connected on all three of his pass attempts for 49 yards and ran twice for 16 more in directing an offense that didn't commit a turnover and calmly converted 6-of-15 third down attempts.
• Cornell ran the ball a season-high 51 times for 131 yards to help dominate the time of possession and keep a young and inexperienced Columbia defense on the field. The Big Red held a 37:43-22:17 lead in possession.
• For Gellatly, it was his ninth career 100-yard game, good for second place on the Big Red's career list.
• Senior Ty Bostain made his first career touchdown catch in the fourth quarter to all but put the game away, while sophomore Ben Rogers also caught his first touchdown, a 16-yarder in the third quarter.
• Freshman place-kicker Joe Pierik made a 40-yard field goal and all three PAT kicks to close out the scoring.
• Sophomore Twan Terrell had the game's lone takeaway, intercepting a Trevor McDonagh pass early in the fourth quarter to set up the Big Red's final scoring drive of the afternoon.



NOTES TO KNOW
• Senior quarterback Jeff Mathews is six touchdown passes from matching James Perry's Ivy League record of 74.
• Mathews has had an excellent career against Penn, completing .678 of his passes for 1,138 yards (379.3 ypg) with seven touchdowns and two interceptions. He set a Cornell and Ivy League single-game record when he threw for 548 yards on 35-of-45 passes with five touchdowns in a 48-38 win over the Quakers at Franklin Field in 2011. A year ago, Mathews hit on 31-of-45 passes for 445 yards in a 35-28 loss to the Ivy champs.
• If Mathews throws a touchdown pass, it will be his 15th consecutive game with at least one, matching the Cornell and Ivy League record of 15 straight games.
• Mathews is at 2,486 passing yards this season, good for sixth in a single season at Cornell. He needs 276 yards to reach fifth.
• Senior wide receiver Grant Gellatly is also climbing up a number of charts. He enters the weekend needing 31 receiving yards to move past Joe Splendorio '01 for third place on the career list (2,337 yards), 176 yards to move past Luke Tasker '13 for second (2,482) and 263 yards to set a new school record, surpassing Keith Ferguson '03 (2,569).
• Gellatly enters the weekend with 80 receptions this season, good for third in a single season. He needs nine receptions to establish a new single-season record.
• Gellatly is sixth in career all-purpose yards (3,591 yards) good for fifth all-time at Cornell.
• Senior linebacker Brett Buehler enters the weekend needing three tackles to surpass 100 for the season. He'd be the first Cornellian to reach that milestone since first-team All-Ivy linebacker Chris Costello had 104 in 2009.
• Buehler's total of 98 stops is more than double the next top tackler, Brian Gee (48).

PASSING FANCY
• A Cornell quarterback has thrown for 300 yards or more 14 times in the last 21 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 135 times in 37 career games (3.6 per game), but has missed just one game due to injury.
• Mathews' 10,817 passing yards is the equivalent of 6.15 miles.

BIG RED INVOLVED IN STORIED RIVALRIES
• The Big Red is involved in three of the top 20 most-played rivalries in college football.
• The Cornell-Penn series ranks fifth in most games played with 120.
• The 100 meetings between Cornell and Columbia ranks 12th, while the Cornell-Colgate rivalry stands 17th with 96 games played.
• The Cornell-Dartmouth and the Cornell-Penn series are the second-longest uninterrupted active series, as the teams have met every season since 1919, a span of 94 years.
• They trail only the Lafayette-Lehigh series, which has been played every year since 1897.

IVY LEAGUE DIGITAL NETWORK
• The 2013-14 season will be the inaugural year of the Ivy League Digital Network.
• With the exception of the Nov. 9 game at Dartmouth, which will be televised nationally on NBC Sports Network, and the Nov. 16 contest vs. Columbia on Fox College Sports, all of Cornell's games will be available on the network this season.
• All Ivy League contests, both home and away, will be in high definition and feature increased production values, including replay and other features.
• The subscription-based service can be accessed on CornellBigRed.com or through www.IvyLeagueDigitalNetwork.com.

NEXT UP
• Cornell will begin spring ball looking for continued improvement in season two under head coach David Archer '05.
• The Big Red gets back into action for the 2014 season when it vists Colgate on Sept. 20, 2014 in Hamilton, N.Y.