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GAME INFORMATION
Game #3: Yale at Cornell
Date: Saturday, Oct. 4, at 12:30 p.m.
Site: Schoellkopf Field (25,597), Ithaca, N.Y.
2014 Records: Yale (2-0, 0-0 Ivy); Cornell (0-2, 0-0 Ivy)
Series Record: Yale leads the series 45-29-2
Last Meeting: Yale won 38-23, Sept. 28, 2013, in New Haven, Conn.
Television: None
Radio: WHCU 870 AM, Barry Leonard (play-by-play), Buck Briggs (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 (3-9 overall,.250; 2-5, Ivy, .286) ... 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 will open the 59th official season of Ivy League play when Yale visits Schoellkopf Field on Saturday, Oct. 4 at 12:30 p.m.
• The contest will be broadcast live on the Ivy League Digital Network, while Barry Leonard and Buck Briggs '76 will have the radio call on WHCU 870 AM.
• The game will serve as the home opener for the Big Red and is the latest Cornell has opened its schedule at Schoellkopf since 2001.
• Cornell has won three straight home openers by a cumulative score of 114-32 (average of 38.0-10.7), including the 2012 game against Yale 45-7.
• The Big Red will be looking for a breakout in its home stadium after dropping a pair of non-conference contests to Colgate (27-12) and Bucknell (20-7).
• Cornell has improved its numbers across the board defensively, particularly in getting teams off the field on third down. The Big Red defense has allowed third down pickups just 36.4 percent of the time this season as compared to 46.2 percent last year.
• The young offense, featuring only one senior skill position player on the depth chart, has been tremendously balanced. Three quarterbacks have taken snaps, seven different players have taken at least one carry and 12 receivers have caught a pass this season.
• Special teams rank third nationally in net punting and are averaging 64.2 yards on kickoffs, just five yards short of a perfect season on six kickoffs (four touchbacks).
• Freshman Jake Jatis was named the Ivy League Rookie of the Week after his performance against Bucknell. He became the second Cornell freshman to start a game at quarterback, joining two-time All-American Jeff Mathews '14.
• Yale is off to a 2-0 start after pulling the 49-43 overtime upset over Army this past weekend.

ABOUT YALE
• Yale is a perfect 2-0 after stunning Army last weekend at the Yale Bowl, 49-43 in overtime.
• The win was the first by an Ivy League school against a team from the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) since Penn beat Navy in 1986.
• The previous weekend, the Bulldogs rallied from a 21-point deficit to defeat Lehigh in their season opener, 54-43.
• The Lehigh game celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Yale Bowl.
• The hero of the win over Army was running back Tyler Varga and his five touchdowns on the ground. He ended the day with 185 rushing yards on 28 carries, including the 3-yard winner in the first extra session. He was named the FCS National Player of the Week by College Sports Madness.
• Quarterback Morgan Roberts completed 23-of-40 passes for 290 yards and a touchdown, and his favorite target was Grant Wallace (six receptions, 101 yards).
• The Bulldogs rolled up 625 yards on offense (335 rushing, 290 passing) on 36 first downs against the Army defense.
• Yale has allowed 43.0 points per game in its 2-0 start.
• The Bulldogs were picked to finish fifth in the Ivy League Preseason Media Poll after last year's 5-5 record.
• Tony Reno, in his third season as head coach at Yale, is now 9-13 on the Bulldog sidelines. He was the 2002 AFLAC/Coach Magazine National Assistant of the Year at Worcester State and also had stints as an assistant at both Yale and Harvard.

THE CORNELL-YALE SERIES
• Yale leads the all-time series 45-29-2 dating back to the first encounter in the 1889 season.
• Cornell's longest win streak over Yale is four games (1990-93), while the Bulldogs claimed seven straight victories over the Big Red (1973-79).
• The series has recently tilted toward the Bulldogs, who have won nine of the last 13 meetings between the squads, though Cornell upset the 2008 preseason Ivy League favorites 17-14 at Schoellkopf Field in 2008 and knocked off the Bulldogs 14-12 at the Yale Bowl in 2009.
• Yale avenged its 2012 loss to the Big Red in Ithaca with a 38-23 victory last fall in New Haven, Conn.

A WIN OVER YALE WOULD ...
• give the Big Red its first win of 2014.
• snap a two-game skid.
• be the team's fourth straight in a home opener.
• make Cornell 3-2 in its last five games dating back to last year, including 2-0 at home.
• be its fourth win over the Bulldogs in the last seven seasons after losing six of the previous seven meetings.
• be the 631st in program history (12th-most in the Football Championship Subdivision).

THE IVY OPENER
• Cornell opens the 59th official season of Ivy League play with a 27-29-2 record in the previous 58 conference starters.
• The Big Red has faced Yale 14 times (each of the last 14 seasons) in Ivy openers previously with a 5-9 mark.
• Included was last year's 38-23 Yale triumph in New Haven, Conn.

THE LAST TIME OUT (Bucknell 20, Cornell 7 - Sept. 27, 2014 at Christy Mathewson-Memorial Stadium, Lewisburg, Pa.)
• Bucknell's C.J. Williams ran for 188 yards and a touchdown and R.J. Nitti passed for two scores as the Bison remained unbeaten with a 20-7 win over Cornell at Christy Mathewson-Memorial Stadium.
• Cornell, without the services of starting quarterback James Few, held the ball for more than 35 minutes and the defense limited the Bison to 3-of-9 on third downs and kept the Big Red in the game throughout the middle portion of the game.
• The Bison never trailed, however, after marching down the field to start the game to take a 7-0 lead just 2:21 in.
• Freshman quarterback Jake Jatis completed 11-of-23 passes for 102 yards and a touchdown but was intercepted twice. He also gained 20 yards on the ground.
• Junior Luke Hagy led the team with 59 rushing yards and caught three passes for 24 yards. In the process, Hagy became the first Cornell player in school history to surpass 1,000 career yards both rushing and receiving.
• Sophomore punter Chris Fraser, the 2013 Ivy league Rookie of the Year, averaged 42.5 yards on four punts with three downed inside the 20 and a 72-yarder that flipped field position downed at the 22. The punt was the seventh-longest in Big Red history.
• Sophomore Marshall Deutz caught the lone touchdown, a 19-yarder from Jatis in the first quarter for his first career reception. It was also Jatis' first touchdown throw.
• Defensively, Jarrod Watson-Lewis had eight tackles and a sack, sharing team tackling leader with Rush Imhotep.

NOTES TO KNOW
• Junior Luke Hagy carried the ball 15 times for 59 yards last weekend at Bucknell to push him past the 1,000 career yard mark on the ground. He became the 29th player in school history to surpass that milestone and the first to hit the century mark in both rushing and receiving at Cornell.
• Other Cornell players to hit 1K-1K milestones are Gary Wood '64 (2,156 rushing yards, 1,891 passing yards) and Ryan Kuhn (1,110 rushing yards, 1,692 passing yards).
• 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 was named Ivy League Rookie of the Week after his performance against the Bison, the first Cornell player honored with the award since Luke Hagy did it twice in 2012.
• Sophomore punter Chris Fraser had a career day against the Bison, averaging 42.5 yards on four punts without allowing a return yard and pinning three of his kicks inside Bucknell's 12 yard line. The fourth traveled 72 yards to flip field position and was downed at the 22. That punt was the seventh-longest in school history and a career-long.
• Sophomore Marshall Deutz's 19-yard grab in the right corner of the end zone in the first quarter against Bucknell was the first catch of his collegiate career. It was also the first touchdown pass for Jatis.
• Senior receiver Lucas Shapiro caught three passes for 25 yards against the Bison, moving him within 191 yards of becoming the 21st player at Cornell to surpass 1,000 career receiving yards.
• On offense, freshmen had 20 of the team's 43 rushing attempts and all 25 pass attempts at Bucknell. They also combined for six tackles and a blocked punt.
• Oct. 4 is the latest Cornell has played a home opener since 2001, when it played in front of the Crescent against Lehigh on Oct. 6. A home game scheduled that season for Sept. 15 was canceled after the attack on America on Sept. 11. It is the latest regularly scheduled home opener since 1973, when Cornell met Lehigh on Oct. 6.
• Cornell has at least one passing touchdown in 18 consecutive games and 34 of its last 35 contests.
• The Big Red offense hasn't been shut out in 42 games, with the last coming against Penn (34-0 to close out 2009).
• The team's 122 rushing yards against Colgate were the most in a non-conference game since posting 135 yards in a win over Bucknell in 2010.
• Sophomore Miles Norris, who entered the season with 15 career tackles, nearly matched that total against Colgate with a game-high 13 stops to go along with two sacks. He has surpassed the total with 18 tackles in two games.
• In its final 10 quarters of 2013, Cornell allowed 803 yards on 166 plays (4.8 yards per play), an average of 321.2 ypg.
• After allowing an average of 217.1 rushing yards per game over the first eight contests of 2013 (on 4.6 yards per carry), the Big Red surrendered just 106 total yards in its final two games (both wins) on 2.3 yards per carry.
• Senior John Wells has been outstanding on kickoffs in each of his last three seasons, averaging 61.0 yards with 47 touchbacks in 108 kickoffs (44 percent). He put 52 percent of his kickoffs through the back of the end zone (26-of-50) a season ago and started out strong this year with four of his six kickoffs resulting in touchbacks against Colgate and Bucknell.
• Wells booted a pair of 27-yard field goals in the opener against Colgate and a PAT at Bucknell, giving him 11 for his career. With 72 career points, he needs 11 to join the top 10 for career kicking points.
• After having his first career punt returned for a 59-yard touchdown in 2013, Fraser's next 56 punts have been returned a total of 96 yards (18 return attempts, 5.3 yards per return).
• Cornell led the Ancient Eight in punting average (42.9) and net punting average (38.1) in 2013. The team's net punting average ranked 13th nationally.

NEXT UP
• The Big Red returns to the road for the third time in the season's first four weeks when it heads to Cambridge, Mass. for a matchup against the defending Ivy League champion Harvard Crimson.
• The game, which will be broadcast on Fox College Sports, will kickoff on Saturday, Oct. 11 at 1 p.m. at Harvard Stadium.
• Harvard leads the all-time series 44-32-2 and has won 12 of the last 13 meetings.
• The last Big Red victory came during the 2005 campaign, a 27-13 Cornell win.