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GAME INFORMATION
Game #8: Dartmouth at Cornell
Date: Saturday, Nov. 8, at 12:30 p.m.
Site: Schoellkopf Field (25,597), Ithaca, N.Y.
2014 Records: Dartmouth (5-2, 3-1 Ivy); Cornell (0-7, 0-4 Ivy)
Series Record: Dartmouth leads the series 56-40-1
Last Meeting: Dartmouth won 34-6, Nov. 9, 2013, in Hanover, N.H.
Television: None
Radio: WHCU 870 AM, Barry Leonard (play-by-play), Buck Briggs '76 (color)
Live Video: www.IvyLeagueDigitalNetwork.com
Live Stats: 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 second season at the helm of the Big Red (3-14 overall,.176; 2-9, Ivy, .182) ... 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 Cornell football team hits the home stretch of the 2014 season with the ability to impact the Ivy League race when it hosts second-place Dartmouth today at Schoellkopf Field.
• The game will be broadcast live locally on WHCU 870 AM with Barry Leonard and Buck Briggs on the radio call, while the Ivy League Digital Network has live video coverage.
• Both Cornell and Dartmouth are coming off losses to the 2013 Ivy League co-champions at home, with the Big Red falling to Princeton 38-27, while the Big Green dropped a 23-12 contest to Harvard.
• The Big Red will be looking to snap a seven-game losing streak and collect the biggest win under head coach David Archer '05 to date.
• Cornell is coming off its best offensive performance of the season against the Tigers, accumulating 447 total yards of offense, including 361 passing yards.
• Sophomore Robert Somborn had a career day off the bench for the Big Red at quarterback, completing 23-of-40 passes for 315 yards and two touchdowns.
• His favorite target was sophomore Lucas Shapiro, who caught 12 passes for 165 yards and a pair of scores. He became the 21st player in school history to surpass 1,000 career receiving yards in the process.
• Junior running back Luke Hagy was outstanding, running the ball 16 times for 91 yards, catching three passes for 45 yards and even throwing a 17-yard touchdown pass. He became the sixth player in school history to run, pass and catch a touchdown during their career.
• Freshman Nick Gesualdi continued his quest for Ivy Rookie of the Year honors after making six tackles, registering a sack and his first career interception, and also breaking up a pass.
• Senior Rush Imhotep recovered a fumble and classmate Justin Harris forced another that was recovered by sophomore Jackson Weber.
• Sophomore punter Chris Fraser continued to build on his outstanding season, punting five times for a 42.0 yard average with one downed inside the Princeton 20.
• Dartmouth, under head coach and Big Green alum Buddy Teevens, brings a 5-2 record into the contest and is a game behind Harvard at 3-1 in the Ivy standings.
• Quarterback Dalyn Williams is a Bushnell Cup Award candidate for Ivy League Player of the Year, has accounted for 15 touchdowns this season.

ABOUT DARTMOUTH
• Dartmouth is right in the thick of the Ivy League raceat 5-2 (3-1 Ivy), just a game behind first-place Harvard after the Crimson topped the Big Green 23-12 last weekend in Hanover, N.H.
• The loss snapped a four-game win streak for Dartmouth, including narrow wins over Holy Cross and Yale.
• One of the league's most balanced offenses, Dartmouth is averaging 149.6 rushing yards and 214.1 passing yards per game so far this season.
• Leading the way is Bushnell Cup Award contender Dalyn Williams at quarterback. The senior has completed 61 percent of his passes for 1,185 yards and 10 touchdowns with just two interceptions through the air, while also running for 286 yards and five scores.
• Ryan McManus leads the receiving corps with 43 catches for 579 yards and three touchdowns, while Kyle Bramble has rushed for 552 yards and four scores while catching 25 passes for 228 yards and four touchdowns.
• Defensively, Troy Donahue has an Ivy League-leading four interceptions, while Will McNamara has made 64 tackles, a mark that tops the Ivy League.
• In close games, Dartmouth as a weapon in place-kicker Alex Gakenheimer, who is 9-for-9 on field goals with a long of 41 yards.
• The Big Green also leads the Ancient Eight in punt return (11.4 yards per return) and kick return (24.5 yards per return) average.
• Head coach Buddy Teevens, a Dartmouth alum, is in his second stint as head coach at his alma mater. He is in search of his Ivy League title as head coach. Teevens also has had stints as head coach at Maine, Tulane and Stanford.

THE CORNELL-DARTMOUTH SERIES
• This will be the 98th meeting between Cornell and Dartmouth, with the Big Green holding a 56-40-1 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 21 meetings being decided by a touchdown or less (Dartmouth leads 11-10 during that stretch).
• The Big Green has won five straight meetings in the series, including a 34-6 win last season in Hanover, N.H.

A WIN OVER DARTMOUTH WOULD ...
• give the Big Red its first win of 2014.
• snap a season-opening seven-game skid and a three-game home losing streak.
• cut Princeton's lead in the all-time series to 56-41-1 dating back to the first meeting in 1900.
• end the Big Green's five-game win streak in the series and its two-game stretch in Ithaca.
• be the 631st in program history (12th-most in the Football Championship Subdivision).

LAST TIME VS. DARTMOUTH
• Dartmouth raced out to a 21-0 halftime lead and never looked back, closing out a 34-6 win over Cornell at Memorial Field on Nov. 9, 2013 at Memorial Field in Hanover, N.H.
• 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.

THE FIFTH-DOWN GAME
• The 2014 meeting between the Big Red and Big Green is also the 74th 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.

LAST WEEKEND VS. PRINCETON
• Sophomore quarterback Robert Somborn had a career day and senior wide receiver Lucas Shapiro went over 1,000 career receiving yards in  the Big Red's best offensive performance of the season, but Cornell came up short in a 38-27 decision to defending Ivy League champion Princeton at Schoellkopf Field.
• Somborn posted career highs in completions, attempts, yards and touchdown passes in going 23-of-40 for 315 yards with two touchdown passes, both to Shapiro, who finished the day with 12 catches for 165 yards.
• Junior running back Luke Hagy also had a productive day with 16 carries for 91 yards, three receptions for 45 yards, and a 17-yard touchdown pass, which he threw to Ben Rogers for the Big Red's first score of the contest.
• Defensively, Miles Norris finished with eight tackles, five solo, including one for a loss and one pass breakup.
• Freshman Nick Gesualdi continued his impressive play with six tackles, one tackle for loss, one sack, one pass breakup and one interception, which he returned 18 yards.
• Rush Imhotep, Justin Harris and Jonathan Ford all posted five tackles, with Imhotep recovering a Big Red on-side kick, and Harris forcing a fumble that was recovered by Jackson Weber.
• Princeton was led by quarterback Connor Michelsen, who went 23-of-33 for 281 yards and four touchdowns with one interception.
• Receiver Connor Kelley was his favorite target with 13 catches for 147 yards and two touchdowns.

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 15th all-time at Cornell in receiving yards (1,258 yards on 113 receptions) and is 21st in rushing yards (1,253 yards on 317 carries). His 2,601 all-purpose yards puts him 14th 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.
• 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 last weekend against Princeton. He enters the week with 1,057 receiving yards and now needs just 14 yards to move into the top 20.
• 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 has at least one passing touchdown in 23 consecutive games and 39 of its last 40 contests.
• The Big Red offense hasn't been shut out in 47 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 six of the team's seven games and at least 42.0 yards in five 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.

HALL OF FAME NOTES
• A pair of former Big Red football players will be inducted into the Cornell Athletics Hall of Fame this 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. He was a two-time All-America selection in lacrosse, receiving third-team honors in 1954, when Cornell compiled an overall record of 9-3, and he received honorable mention All-America honors in 1955, when the Big Red went 8-3-1.
• 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. Rahne was a two-time honorable mention All-Ivy League selection and was named honorable mention All-America by Don Hansen's Football Gazette in 2000. The three-time team MVP became the all-time leader in completions (678), yards (7,710), touchdown passes (54) and 200-yard games (25) among others. He also graduated in the top spot in total offense with 7,994 yards (7,710 passing, 284 rushing) during his Cornell career.

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 121.
• The 100 meetings between Cornell and Columbia ranks 12th, while the Cornell-Colgate rivalry stands 17th with 97 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.

NEXT UP
• The Big Red will play the last of four televised games this season, including its third Fox College Sports broadcast, when it visits Columbia on Saturday, Nov. 15 at 12:30 p.m. at Wien Stadium in New York, N.Y.
• The Big Red and the Lions will meet for the fifth time with the Empire State Bowl on the line (tied 2-2).