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GAME INFORMATION
Game #8: Cornell at Dartmouth
Date: Saturday, Nov. 9, at 4:00 p.m.
Site: Memorial Field (17,000), Hanover, N.H.
2013 Records: Cornell (1-6, 0-4 Ivy); Dartmouth (3-4, 2-2 Ivy)
Series Record: Dartmouth leads the series 55-40-1
Last Meeting: Dartmouth won 44-28, Nov. 3, 2012, in Ithaca, N.Y.
Television: NBC Sports Network (Randy Moss, Ross Tucker)
Radio: WHCU 870 AM, Barry Leonard (play-by-play), Buck Briggs (color)
Live Video: Not available for this game
Live Stats: Available at www.DartmouthSports.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 (1-6 overall,.143; 0-4, 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
• Cornell and Dartmouth will meet for the 97th time when the squads square off on national television on Saturday, Nov. 9 at 4 p.m. at Memorial Field.
• The game will be broadcast live on NBC College Sports with Randy Moss and Ross Tucker calling the action.
• 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 will attempt to pick up its first win over the Big Green, as Dartmouth brings a four-game win streak in the series into the contest.
• Dartmouth leads the all-time series 55-40-1 and has won three straight meetings in Hanover, N.H., the last two by an average of just 6.0 points per game.
• The owner of 44 Cornell and 17 Ivy League records, senior All-America quarterback Jeff Mathews enters the weekend needing just eight passing yards to break into the top 25 all-time among FCS quarterbacks in passing yardage. Sitting at No. 25 with 10,655 yards is New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton from his time as a player at Eastern Illinois.
• If he hits his season average of 331 yards, he'd move into the top 20. Mathews also needs 353 passing yards from becoming the first Ivy League player and just the 20th FCS quarterback to hit 11,000 career yards in the air.
• Mathews accounts for 87.8 percent of Cornell's total offense, the largest percentage of any FCS player. Justin Arias of Idaho State is second at 78.5 percent.
• Senior wide receiver Grant Gellatly is also putting up All-America numbers for the eighth-ranked passing offense in the country (330.0 ypg.).
• Gellatly ranks among the national leaders and paces the Ancient Eight in receptions per game (9.1, third nationally) and receiving yards per game (121.6, fourth nationally). He also has six receiving touchdowns.
• Senior linebacker Brett Buehler sits atop the Ivy League leaders in tackles (10.7 tpg.), the two-year captain is averaging 16.5 tackles in his last two games. He answered a career-high 15 tackles against Brown with 18 stops at Princeton.
• The special teams have been one of the top units in the country, ranking 11th nationally and first in the Ivy League with four blocked kicks and 17th nationally in net punting (38.24).
• 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.
• Dartmouth brings a 3-4 overall record (2-2 Ivy League) into the matchup after a final minute Harvard field goal sunk the Big Green 24-21 last Saturday.
• The game will feature a matchup of two prolific former Ivy League Rookie of the Year quarterbacks in Mathews (2010 Ivy League Rookie of the Year) and Dartmouth's Dalyn Williams (2012 Ivy League Rookie of the Year).
• The two rank first (Mathews, 330.0 ypg) and third (Williams, 256.3 ypg.) in the Ivy League in total offense.

ABOUT DARTMOUTH
• Dartmouth brings a 3-4 overall record (2-2 Ivy League) into the weekend.
• The Big Green has alternated wins and losses over its last five games, including a 24-21 defeat at the ends of Harvard last weekend after a 56-0 shutout of Columbia the weekend prior.
• The Crimson kicked a game-winning field goal with under a minute to play to earn the victory after Dartmouth had tied the game late in the third quarter on Kyle Bramble's 7-yard touchdown run.
• The Big Green feature one of the conference's most balanced offensive teams. Dartmouth is averaging 212.1 yards per game on the ground and 230.0 ypg. through the air.
• Leading the dynamic offense is sophomore quarterback Dalyn Williams (1,390 passing yards, eight touchdowns passing, 404 yards rushing and three touchdowns on the ground) and senior running back Dominick Pierre (837 rushing yards, nine touchdowns).
• Six different wide receivers have at least 10 catches on offense with Bo Patterson leading the way with 21 catches for 302 yards and four scores.
• Leading the defense is Michael Runger with 51 total tackles and Will McNamara with two interceptions, both of which he returned for touchdowns.
• Head coach Buddy Teevens is in his second stint directing the program at his alma mater. He brings 17 returning starters back from last season's squad that went 6-4 overall and finished tied for third in the final Ivy League standings.

A WIN OVER DARTMOUTH WOULD ...
• improve Cornell's record to 2-6 (1-4 Ivy).
• snap a six-game skid overall as well as a six-game road losing streak.
• end a four-game Dartmouth win streak in the series.
• be the first in Hanover, N.H. since 2005 (three-game losing streak).
• be the 629th in program history (12th-most in the Football Championship Subdivision).

THE CORNELL-DARTMOUTH SERIES
• This will be the 97th meeting between Cornell and Dartmouth, with the Big Green holding a 55-40-1 lead in the series.
• The two teams first met in 1900, a 23-6 Cornell win. The two teams have been fairly evenly matched in recent years, with 11 of the last 20 meetings being decided by a touchdown or less (even at 10-10 during that stretch).
• The Big Green has won four straight meetings in the series, including a 44-28 win last season in Ithaca.

THE FIFTH-DOWN GAME
• The 2013 meeting between the Big Red and Big Green is also the 73rd anniversary of the famed Fifth-Down Game.
• Played on Nov. 16, 1940 in Hanover, N.H., top-ranked Cornell improved to 6-0 with a 7-3 victory over Dartmouth, scoring on the game's final play.
• After reviewing game film on Monday, Coach Carl Snavely and acting athletic director Robert J. Kane wired Dartmouth officials to tell them Cornell scored on an inadvertent fifth down.
• Though there were no rules compelling the outcome to be changed, in an unprecedented act of sportsmanship, the Big Red relinquished claims to the win. The Big Green accepted the forfeit, winning the contest 3-0.
• It remains the only time a collegiate sporting contest has been decided off the field after the completion of a game.

THE LAST TIME OUT
• Jeff Mathews became the 45th player in NCAA Football Championship Subdivision history to surpass 10,000 yards of total offense, but Princeton signal caller Quinn Epperly accounted for six touchdowns as Princeton claimed a 53-20 victory at Princeton Stadium.
• Mathews completed 24-of-40 passes for 230 yards and a touchdown despite being under pressure much of the afternoon.
• Luke Hagy ran for 76 yards and caught eight passes for 78 more, while Grant Gellatly hauled in 11 passes for 97 yards and the score.
• Mathews, already the Ivy League's career leader in 17 categories, ended the day with 210 yards of offense, giving him 10,144 yards of offense.
• Defensively, Cornell forced a pair of turnovers against a high-powered Tiger offense, with the highlight coming on a strip sack by Kevin Marchand.
• The loose ball ended in the arms of Justin Harris who had an open lane to the end zone for his first career touchdown.
• Brett Buehler notched a career-high 18 tackles and broke up a pass.
• Place-kicker Joe Pierik nailed both of his field goal attempts, including a 39-yarder, while punter Chris Fraser averaged 45.3 yards on six punts, including two downed inside the 20 and a 60-yard kick.
• Epperly was the story for a Tiger offense that piled up 605 yards of offense.
• He set an NCAA FCS record by opening the game with 29 consecutive completions and ended the day 32-of-35 for 325 yards and three scores.
• He also ran for three touchdowns and 69 yards on 11 carries.

NOTES TO KNOW
• Senior quarterback Jeff Mathews enters the game needing eight passing yards to jump into the top 25 on the NCAA's career list in the FCS.
• Mathews is seven touchdown passes from matching Perry's record of 74 with three games remaining.
• If Mathews throws a touchdown pass, it will be his 14th consecutive game with at least one, moving within one game of matching the Cornell and Ivy League record of 15 straight games.
• Mathews accounts for 87.8 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 78.5 percent.
• Mathews is at 2,316 passing yards this season, good for sixth in a single season at Cornell. He needs 446 yards to reach fifth.
• Senior wide receiver Grant Gellatly is also climbing up a number of charts. He enters the weekend needing 173 receiving yards to move past Eric Krawczyk '98 for fourth place on the career list (2,285 yards).
• Gellatly is one yard away from moving into eighth on the single-season list, two yards from seventh, five yards from sixth, 89 yards from fifth and 93 yards from fourth place.
• Gellatly enters the weekend with 64 receptions this season, good for seventh in a single season. He needs six catches to move to third and 11 receptions to second.
• Gellatly is sixth in career all-purpose yards (3,353 yards) and needs five yards to move into the top five.

PASSING FANCY
• A Cornell quarterback has thrown for 300 yards or more 14 times in the last 19 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 131 times in 36 career games (3.6 per game), but has missed just one game due to injury.
• If Mathews continues at his career average of 295.8 yards per game over his final three career contests, he would end his career with an Ivy League record 11,534 yards (more than 2,000 yards past previous record holder Brown's James Perry – current Princeton offensive coordinator). If those numbers are boosted to 343.2 yards per game, which he has averaged over the last three seasons, he would finish with 11,677 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' 10,647 passing yards is the equivalent of 6.05 miles.

NEXT UP
• Cornell returns home for Senior Day when it plays host to Columbia on Saturday, Nov. 16 at 1 p.m. at Schoellkopf Field.
• The Big Red and the Lions will meet for the fourth time with the Empire State Bowl on the line (Columbia leads 2-1).