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GAME INFORMATION
Game #9: Cornell at Columbia
Date: Saturday, Nov. 15, at 12:30 p.m.
Site: Wien Stadium (17,000), New York, N.Y.
2014 Records: Cornell (0-8, 0-5 Ivy); Columbia (0-8, 0-5 Ivy)
Series Record: Cornell leads the series 62-36-3
Last Meeting: Cornell won 24-9, Nov. 16, 2013, in Ithaca, N.Y.
Television: Fox College Sports (Eric Frede, Steve DeOssie, Gabby Lucivero)
Radio: WHCU 870 AM, Seth Cantor (play-by-play), Buck Briggs '76 (color)
Live Video: www.IvyLeagueDigitalNetwork.com
Live Stats: www.GoColumbiaLions.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 second season at the helm of the Big Red (3-15 overall, .167; 2-10, 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
• Two teams desperate for their first win of the season will play for the Empire State Bowl when Cornell visits Columbia on Saturday, Nov. 15 at 12:30 p.m. at Wien Stadium.
• The game will be televised nationally on Fox College Sports Network. Seth Cantor and Buck Briggs '71 will have the radio call on WHCU 870 AM, while the Ivy League Digital Network has live video coverage.
• Both Cornell and Columbia enter the game with identical 0-8 records (0-5 Ivy League), with the Lions sporting a 19-game losing skid, the longest in the Football Championship Subdivision (Savannah State - 19). The Big Red has lost eight straight.
• This will be the fifth matchup between the teams that will result in one team taking home 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 series is tied 2-2, with each team holding serve at home.
• The traveling trophy currently resides in Ithaca after last season's 24-9 Cornell win over Columbia.
• Cornell head coach David Archer '05 won both of the trophy games that capped his first season, allowing the Big Red to display both the Empire State Bowl (Columbia) and the Trustees' Cup (Penn) this past year.
• Both teams are coming off rough finishes against elite Ivy League teams, as Columbia was shut out 45-0 by first place Harvard and Cornell was upended 42-7 by second place Dartmouth.
• The Big Red had a spirited start against the Big Green, scoring on its first offensive possession on a 58-yard run by junior Luke Hagy. Cornell then forced a turnover, but missed a field goal to end that drive. That began an 0-for-5 performance in the red zone in the loss.
• Hagy was a huge bright spot in the loss, posting his second career 100-yard game with 18 carries for 110 yards and the lone score. He also caught four passes for 28 yards and completed one pass for 19 yards.
• Junior linebacker Jonathan Ford made seven tackles and blocked a Dartmouth field goal, while freshman safety Nick Gesualdi stopped a fourth-and-goal from inside the 1 with a two-yard loss.
• Gesualdi, a two-time Ivy League Rookie of the Week and candidate for Ivy League Rookie of the Year, paces all conference rookies in tackles and sits third on the Big Red charts with his 44 stops.
• Both freshman Jeremiah Shaw and senior Michael Turner intercepted passes. It was Turner's fifth career pick and Shaw's first.
• Sophomore Chris Fraser moved into the top spot in the league's punting rankings and had another outstanding day, averaging 43.5 yards on six punts with three downed inside the 20. He is now averaging 41.8 yards with 19 of his 53 punts pinning his opponent inside the 20.
• Former Big Red head coach Pete Mangurian is in his third season directing the Lions' program. He posted a 16-14 overall and 11-10 Ivy mark for the Big Red in three seasons and is 3-25 with an 2-17 Ivy mark in his three years with Columbia.

ABOUT COLUMBIA
• Columbia enters the weekend with an 0-8 record (0-5 Ivy) and with a 19-game losing streak in tow.
• The Lions last win came over the Big Red in New York City two seasons ago, a 34-17 Columbia win.
• Cam Molina paces the Lions' offense with 335 rushing yards and a touchdown on the ground and leads the squad with 38 catches for 330 yards.
• Quarterback Trevor McDonagh is completing 51 percent of his passes with seven touchdowns and 10 interceptions.
• Toba Akinleye paces the team in tackles (63), tackles for loss (eight), sacks (three) and fumble recoveries (two).
• Columbia has scored just 27 points in the first three quarters of games this season.
• The Lions rank in the bottom five nationally in a number of statistical categories, including rushing offense, passing efficiency, scoring offense, total defense, rushing defense, turnover margin, third down defense, red zone offense and first down offense.
• Former Big Red head coach Pete Mangurian is in his third 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.

THE CORNELL-COLUMBIA SERIES
• This will be the 102nd meeting between Cornell and Columbia, with the Big Red holding a 62-36-3 lead in the series.
• The two teams first met in 1889, a 20-0 Cornell win.
• Cornell won last season's matchup between the two teams 24-9 despite missing All-America quarterback Jeff Mathews due to injury.
• The squads have been evenly matched in the past two decades, with Columbia holding a 13-12 edge in the past 25 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 series is tied 2-2, with each team holding serve at home.
• The trophy currently resides in Ithaca following last year's 24-9 triumph at Schoellkopf Field.
• Cornell's other 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.
 
A WIN OVER COLUMBIA WOULD ...
• give the Big Red its first win of 2014.
• snap a season-opening eight-game skid and a four-game road losing streak.
• extend Cornell's lead in the all-time series to 63-36-3, including 3-2 in games played for the Empire State Bowl.
• make head coach David Archer 3-0 in trophy games against Columbia and Penn, including 2-0 on the road.
• be the 631st in program history (12th-most in the Football Championship Subdivision).
 
LAST TIME VS. COLUMBIA
• 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 thanks to a 24-9 victory over the Lions on Nov. 16, 2013.
• 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.
• James Few was 14-of-17 passing for 178 yards and two touchdowns. He also scampered for a score.
• Robert 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..
 
LAST WEEKEND VS. DARTMOUTH
• Dartmouth piled up 583 yards of offense and quieted a spirited Big Red start in a 42-7 win over Cornell at Schoellkopf Field.
• Junior Luke Hagy had his second career 100-yard rushing game with 18 carries for 110 yards, including an electric 48-yard touchdown that put the Big Red up early.
• Hagy also caught four passes for 28 yards and completed a pass for 19 yards.
• Sophomore Collin Shaw hauled in seven passes for 70 yards, while classmate Robert Somborn completed 20-of-33 passes for 182 yards.
• Junior Jonathan Ford made a game-high seven tackles and blocked a kick.
• Junior Del Barnes made four stops and broke up three passes.
• Both Michael Turner and Jeremiah Shaw recorded interceptions.
• On special teams, Chris Fraser was again a highlight, averaging 43.5 yards on six punts with three pinned inside the Dartmouth 20.
• Dalyn Williams, a candidate for the Bushnell Cup as Ivy League Offensive Player of the Year, continued to build on his season by completing 24-of-34 passes for 381 yards and four touchdowns, while also running for 62 yards on six carries with a score.
• In all, Dartmouth registered 388 yards passing and ran for 195 more.
• The defense sacked Cornell quarterbacks six times and turned the Big Red over twice.
 
NOTES TO KNOW
• Junior Luke Hagy is the 29th player in school history to reach 1,000 career rushing yards and the first to hit the century mark in both rushing and receiving at Cornell.
• Hagy sits 13th all-time at Cornell in receiving yards (1,296 yards on 117 receptions) and is 18th in rushing yards (1,363 yards on 335 carries). His 2,739 all-purpose yards puts him 13th all-time at for the Big Red.
• With his 17-yard touchdown pass in the second quarter against Princeton, Hagy became the sixth player in school history to throw, pass and catch touchdown passes in their career. He joined Derrick Harmon '84, John Tagliaferri '86, Steve Lutz '89, Luke Siwula '08 and Ryan Houska '12 on that exclusive list.
• Hagy posted his second career 100-yard game with 110 yards on 18 carries against Dartmouth.
• Hagy's 48-yard touchdown run was the longest by a Cornell ball carrier since Grant Gellatly ripped off a 63-yard run at Wagner during the 2010 season, more than four years ago.
• Freshman quarterback Jake Jatis earned the start at Bucknell, becoming just the second rookie to start a game under center. He joins good company, as two-time All-American Jeff Mathews '14 - the Ivy League's all-time leading passer - started the final nine games of the 2010 campaign to become the first. Jatis has opened five consecutive games.
• Senior receiver Lucas Shapiro became the 21st player at Cornell to surpass 1,000 career receiving yards with his 12-catch, 165-yard effort against Princeton. He ranks 20th in school history with 1,071 receiving yards.
• Shapiro's 12 catches against Princeton set a career high, while his 165 receiving yards was a new best and is tied for 16th best all-time at Cornell.
• With his 10 career receiving touchdowns, Shapiro moved into ninth on the school's all-time list.
• Cornell had a string of 23 consecutive games with a touchdown pass snapped against Dartmouth. The Big Red has thrown for at least one touchdown in 39 of its last 41 contests.
• The Big Red offense hasn't been shut out in 48 games, with the last coming against Penn (34-0 to close out 2009).
• Sophomore Collin Shaw had his first career 100-yard receiving game against Lehigh with four catches for 119 yards, the most yards by a sophomore since Keith Ferguson '03 had 164 vs. Princeton in 2010.
• In Cornell's loss to Lehigh, all 27 rushes and all 44 passes were attempted by freshmen. In all, 15 of the team's 17 receptions were by first or second year players and the top three tacklers were either freshmen or sophomores.
• Freshman quarterback Kyle Gallagher threw his first career touchdown pass against the Mountain Hawks, a 2-yarder to junior Matt Doneth. The touchdown catch was the first of Doneth's career. The following week against Brown, sophomore Robert Somborn completed a pair of touchdown passes to Chris Lenz, the first scoring throws of Somborn's career.
• Four Cornell quarterbacks have thrown touchdowns this season, the first time that has happened in school history. The last time four players at any position threw touchdowns in the same season was in 2007 when quarterbacks Nathan Ford, Stephen Liuzza and Ben Ganter and running back Randy Barbour all completed scoring passes. In all, five different Cornell players have tossed touchdown passes, a school record.
• Sophomore Chris Fraser has averaged at least 40 yards per punt in seven of the team's eight games and at least 42.0 yards in six of them.
• The Big Red defense held Harvard scoreless in the first half, the first time the high-powered Crimson offense was held scoreless in a half since 2010.
• Cornell forced five turnovers against Harvard, the most by a Big Red defense since forcing six against Bucknell in the 2013 opener.
• Cornell has had six Ivy League performers of the week in the first seven weekends of the season, including four of six Rookie of the Week picks. Jake Jatis (Sept. 29, Oct. 13) and Nick Gesualdi (Oct. 6, Oct. 20) have each captured Rookie of the Week honors, while Chris Fraser (Oct. 6) has taken home Special Teams Player of the Week once. Rush Imhotep was named Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week on Oct. 13.
• A pair of former Big Red football players were inducted into the Cornell Athletics Hall of Fame last weekend.
• Clarence Fauntleroy '54 won letters in football as a first string left tackle/left guard in 1951 and 1952, but was better known for his lacrosse exploits, where he was a two-time All-America selection in.
• Ricky Rahne '02 was a three-year starter at quarterback who set 33 Cornell passing and total offense records. His 7,718 passing yards ranked third all-time in Ivy League history.

NEXT UP
• The Big Red will close out the 2014 campaign when it hosts Penn on Saturday, Nov. 22 at 12:30 p.m. at Schoellkopf Field.
• The game will be played for the Trustee's Cup.
• This will be the 121st meeting between the teams, with Penn leading 69-46-5.
• The game will also be the final game on the Penn sidelines for longtime head coach Al Bagnoli, completing his 23rd and final season. He has won nine Ivy League titles during his stay.