QUICK HITS
• For the second time in 2015 and just the fifth time in school history, a Friday evening will feature Cornell football when the Big Red visits Dartmouth on Nov. 6 at 8 p.m. at Memorial Field in Hanover, N.H.
• The game will be broadcast live on NBC Sports Network with Randy Moss and Ross Tucker providing the call.
• Barry Leonard and Jim Frontero will be on the radio broadcast on 98.7 FM The Buzzer, which will also air live on the Ivy League Digital Network.
• Video of the game will not be available live on ILDN due to television restrictions.
• The Big Red is 1-3 all-time on Friday, including a 28-21 loss to Colgate at home on Oct. 2.
• The last time Cornell won a game on a Friday was nearly 123 years ago, 10 days after Grover Cleveland won election for the second of his non-consecutive terms as President of the United States and three weeks after Thomas Edison received a patent for the telegraph — a 16-0 victory over Manhattan Athletics Club on Nov. 18, 1892.
• It will also be the 116th game played on a day other than Saturday (63-48-4) and its 11th since the official formation (5-5) of the Ivy League in 1956.
• Cornell will be looking for its first win of the year against a program familiar with where they are now — Dartmouth.
• For the second straight week, the Big Red will meet a team with a graduate of that school leading a program and tasked with rebuilding after many down years (Princeton's Bob Surace and Dartmouth's Buddy Teevens), much like Cornell's David Archer '05 is doing now for Cornell.
• Like Archer, Teevens took the long view in rebuilding Dartmouth to not just have a winning team, but build a winning program.
• Teevens was 4-16 in his first two years back in Hanover (same as Archer) and went 0-10 in year four as he gradually built the Dartmouth program back into the championship picture.
• A win over the Big Green would ramp up that building process for the Big Red significantly and give Cornell its first win over a ranked team since topping 15th-ranked Princeton 14-7 at Schoellkopf Field on Oct. 28, 2006.
• Cornell is coming off a 47-21 loss at Princeton last weekend despite 128 rushing yards and a touchdown from Luke Hagy and 283 all-purpose yards from Ben Rogers.
• Dartmouth remains squarely in the mix for an Ivy title despite last weekend's heartbreaking 14-13 loss at unbeaten Harvard.
• Featuring All-America candidate and Ivy League Player of the Year frontrunner Dalyn Williams at quarterback and one of the nation's stingiest defenses, the Big Green is 10-1 in its last 11 contests at home.
 • David Archer '05, the Roger J. Weiss '61 Head Coach of Cornell Football, is in his third season at the helm of the Big Red (4-23 overall, .148; 3-15, Ivy, .167).
• Archer is the second 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.

THE SERIES
• This will be the 99th meeting between Cornell and Dartmouth, with the Big Green holding a 57-40-1 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 half of the last 22 meetings being decided by a touchdown or less (Dartmouth leads 12-10 during that stretch).
• The Big Green has won six straight meetings in the series, including a 42-7 win last season in Ithaca.
 
ABOUT DARTMOUTH
• Dartmouth lost its first contest of 2015 last weekend in a heartbreaking 14-13 defeat at the hands of Harvard.
• In a matchup between unbeaten, nationally ranked teams, the Crimson scored two late touchdowns and blocked a game-winning 46-yard field goal attempt by Dartmouth as time expired in one of the most hotly-anticipated and fiercely-contested Ivy contests in years.
• Ivy League Player of the Year frontrunner Dalyn Williams has completed 65 percent of his passes for 2,017 yards and 14 touchdowns with just one interception, while the senior quarterback has run for 252 yards and four scores.
• His favorite target is Victor Williams, who has caught 52 passes for 758 yards and four touchdowns.
• The Big Green pack one of the nation's stingiest defenses, surrendering just 10.0 points and 283.7 yards per game - including just 68.3 yards per game on the ground.
• Linebacker Will McNamara leads the way with 46 tackles, four interceptions and 2.5 tackles for loss.
• Folarin Orimolade had nine tackles for loss with seven sacks and three pass breakups, while David Caldwell joins McNamara with four of the team's 11 total interceptions.
• Dartmouth grad Buddy Teevens in in his second go-around as head coach at his alma mater and sports a 72-83-2 record in those 16 seasons and 106-160-2 in 26 years at four schools (Dartmouth, Maine, Tulane, Stanford).

A WIN OVER DARTMOUTH WOULD ...
• give Cornell its first win of the season, making it 1-7.
• make the Big Red's Ivy record 1-4 on the season.
• snap an eight-game losing streak dating back to last season.
• cut the Big Green's lead in the all-time series to 57-41-1.
• be the 632nd in program history (12th-most in the Football Championship Subdivision).
 
THE FIFTH DOWN GAME
• The 2015 meeting between the Big Red and Big Green is also the 75th 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 TIME OUT
• Senior Luke Hagy posted yet another 100-yard rushing game and the Big Red defense dominated early, but a quick-strike Princeton offense eventually broke through as Cornell left points on the board early in a 47-21 Tiger victory at Tiger Stadium.
• Hagy piled up 128 rushing yards and a touchdown on 20 carries and caught two passes for 41 yards after missing much of the previous two weeks due to injury to lead an offense that piled up 444 yards.
• Senior Ben Rogers caught six passes for 96 yards and tallied 283 all-purpose yards on the day, the fourth-highest single-game total in school history.
• Rogers had one touchdown catch, as did classmate Chris Lenz.
• Robert Somborn completed 22-of-39 passes for 279 yards and two scores as Big Red quarterbacks threw for a combined 320 yards.
• Defensively, Jackson Weber had eight tackles and Nick Gesualdi had seven stops and a pass breakup. Twan Terrell blocked a punt and senior classmate JJ Fives had 1.5 tackles for a loss.
• Joe Rhattigan had 127 rushing yards and a touchdown on just 12 carries, while John Lovett had 92 yards on seven carries with a pair of touchdowns.
• Dre Nelson added a pair of touchdowns on opposite ends of the spectrum - a 1-yard run and a 100-yard kickoff return.


 
SOME NOTES TO KNOW
• With 2,129 career rushing yards, senior running back Luke Hagy in 28 yards from passing Ivy League legend and former NFL quarterback Gary Wood '64 for sixth all-time at Cornell (2,156 yards).
• Hagy also sits sixth on the school's all-purpose yardage list with 3,698 yards - 68 yards from fifth-place Grant Gellatly '14 and 102 yards away from fourth-place Derrick Harmon '84.
• Hagy enters the weekend 11 receiving yards away from becoming the first Ivy League player to surpass 2,000 career rushing yards and 1,500 career receiving yards.
• 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 is one of just six players in school history to throw, pass and catch touchdown passes in their career. He joins Derrick Harmon '84, John Tagliaferri '86, Steve Lutz '89, Luke Siwula '08 and Ryan Houska '12 on that exclusive list.
• Senior Ben Rogers has caught 11 passes for 205 yards and three touchdowns in his last two games.
• His 283 all-purpose yards against Princeton ranks fourth in a single game (dating back to 1994).
• The Big Red has posted 384 rushing yards in its last two games, the most in consecutive games since posting 403 yards in consecutive losses to Dartmouth and Columbia late in the 2009 season.
• Junior punter Chris Fraser has earned first-team All-Ivy honors in each of his first two seasons. The last Cornellian to earn back-to-back first-team all-league accolades was Kevin Boothe '05.
• Fraser, who ranks second nationally in punting average (46.2 yards per punt), has led the Ivy League in punting average by at least two yards per kick in each of his first two seasons. He's nearly four yards clear of his opposition through seven games.
• Fraser's 46.6 yards per punt ranks sixth in all of college football — he ranks behind only FBS punters Michael Carrizosa of San Jose State (49.0), Drew Kaser of Texas A&M (49.0), Tom Hackett of Utah (47.2), Tennessee's Trevor Daniel (47.1) and West Virginia's Nick O'Toole (46.8).
• Fraser was named to the STATS FCS Preseason All-America third team, joining fellow Ivy Leaguers Seth DeValve (Princeton, wide receiver) and Cole Toner (Harvard, offensive line) on the third team as the lone representatives from the conference.
•Sophomore Jake Jatis earned five starts under center a year ago, becoming the second Cornellian to earn a start at quarterback as a freshman, joining all-time Ivy leading passer Jeff Mathews '13.
• Cornell has had the last two Ivy League Rookies of the Year (Chris Fraser in 2013, Nick Gesualdi in 2014). No Ivy team has ever crowned Rookie of the Year three years in a row.
• The Big Red will play its 99th all-time game vs. Dartmouth this week. It played its 97th game against Colgate and its 98th game vs. Princeton earlier this year.
• The Big Red offense hasn't been shut out in 56 games, with the last coming against Penn (34-0 to close out 2009).
• The last time Cornell was picked to finish eighth in the preseason media poll (2004), the Big Red became the second Ivy League team ever to go from an 0-7 campaign to a winning league record (4-3) in the span of a year.
• Since taking over the program, head coach David Archer '05 is 3-1 in the trophy series games against Columbia (Empire Bowl, 2-0) and Penn (Trustees' Cup, 1-1).
• Cornell reached 23,000 points in school history in its season opener against Bucknell. The program enters the weekend having scored 23,108 points over 1,171 games — an average of 19.7 points per game.
 
HAGY NOMINATED FOR GOOD WORKS TEAM
• Senior running back Luke Hagy has been nominated for the 2015 Allstate AFCA Good Works Team, the most esteemed off the field honor in college football.
• The Good Works Team recognizes college football players from across the country who exemplify a superior commitment to community service and volunteerism.
• Hagy is one of just two Ivy League players nominated, along with Yale's Sebastian Little.
• Comprised of 11 players from the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision and 11 players from the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision, Divisions II, III and the NAIA, the final roster of 22 award recipients will be unveiled in September.
• In order to meet the criteria set forth by Allstate and the AFCA, each player must be actively involved with a charitable organization or service group while maintaining a strong academic standing.
 
GOGOLAK BROTHERS EARN NFF HONOR
• Cornell football great Pete Gogolak '64 and his brother, Princeton star Charlie Gogolak, have been named the National Football Foundation's Outstanding Contribution to Amateur Football Award Recipients for 2015.
• The first soccer-style place-kicker in collegiate football history, Pete '64 set a national major college record of 44 consecutive kicking conversions from 1961-63.
• First presented in 1974, the NFF Outstanding Contribution to Amateur Football Award provides national recognition to those whose efforts to support the NFF and its goals have been local in nature or who have made significant contributions to the game of football either to the manner in which it is played and coached or to the manner in which it is enjoyed by spectators.
• The Gogolaks become the 39th and 40th recipients of the award.
• The Gogolaks will be honored at the 58th NFF Annual Awards Dinner on Dec. 8 at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City.
 
THE WILSON PROJECT
• Junior tight end Nick Bland initiated "The Wilson Project" this fall as a way to give other members of the program an experience similar to his after having a ball signed for a family friend whose father passed away suddenly.
• Realizing the power of his simple gift of a football, he arranged to have 150 footballs for his teammates and staff to sign and provide to someone who has had a great effect on their life or someone they thought could use a positive influence.
• The players and staff had the balls signed by everyone in the program and then shipped or hand delivered, along with a note as why the recipient was getting the ball.
READ MORE ABOUT THE WILSON PROJECT HERE


 
FOOTBALL GETS NCAA RECOGNITION (AGAIN)
• Football has been publicly recognized by the NCAA for its Academic Progress Report (APR) score being in the top 10 percent nationally each year since the scores were first tabulated in 2004-05.
• Three Cornell sports (football, men's golf and women's soccer) have been publicly recognized each year since the APR was first released and are among just 129 teams across the country with that accomplishment.
• Cornell's score of 986 (out of 1,000) this past year is tied for its third-highest ever, behind only the 987 it had scored the previous two years.
• Only six FCS schools have been honored each year in football (Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth, Davidson, Penn and Yale), with five coming from the Ivy League.
• The APR measures semester-by-semester records for every individual team in Division I with regard to each team members' continuing eligibility, retention and progress toward graduation.

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, a total that will reach 122 this season.
• The 102 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 96 years. They trail only the Lafayette-Lehigh series, which has been played every year since 1897.
 
STATING THE STATES
• Cornell's 108-player roster is made up of student-athletes from 28 states, as well as Canada, South Africa and two from the District of Columbia.
• A team-high 15 players come to Cornell from California, while another 12 attended school in bordering Pennsylvania, 11 come from the home state of New York and 10 reside in Texas.
• Seven players are from Michigan, six players are from Maryland and five apiece come from Georgia and Virginia.
 
CORNELL FOOTBALL AT 128 YEARS
• This is the 129th year since the start of Cornell football, but it will be the 128th season.
• The first official Big Red football team was formed in 1887, and Cornell has sponsored a squad every year since except 1918 during World War I.
• The Big Red has an overall record of 631-506-34 (.553) in its 128 years of football.
• The program's 631 wins rank 12th among all FCS schools.
• Over the years, Cornell has taken on 89 different opponents, with its most frequent opponent being Penn (121 meetings).
 
CORNELLIANS IN THE PROS
• Cornell currently has four active players in professional football — two in the NFL (Bryan Walters, Jacksonville Jaguars; JC Tretter, Green Bay Packers) and two in the CFL (Jeff Mathews and Luke Tasker, Hamilton Tiger-Cats).
• Walters is having a career year with 19 catches for 228 yards in six contests (one start) for the Jacksonville Jaguars.
• In 27 career games, Walters has 28 catches for 312 yards for San Diego, Seattle and Jacksonville and has also returned kicks (six for 123 yards - 20.5 yards per return) and punts (40 for 276 yards - 6.9 yards per return).
• Tretter has played in 15 career contests with the Green Bay Packers on the offensive line.
• He is also on the hands-team on special teams, recovering a pop-up kick in the 27-20 win over the San Diego Chargers earlier this season.
• Mathews is starting at quarterback for former head coach Kent Austin in Hamilton and has completed 65 percent of his passes for 1,456 yards and six touchdowns with eight interceptions and has scored six times on the ground.
• Tasker, in his third season with Hamilton, has caught 65 passes for 903 yards and six touchdowns.
 
NATIONAL CHAMPIONS
• Cornell holds claim to five national titles in its storied football history.
• The Big Red claimed at least a share of the 1915 (Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, National Championship Foundation and Parke Davis), 1921 (Helms, Houlgate, National Championship Foundation and Parke Davis), 1922 (Helms, Parke Davis), 1923 (Sagarin) and 1939 (Litkenhous, Sagarin) titles.
• All five teams went undefeated and dominated their opponents.
• The 1915 team was 9-0 and outscored its opponents 287-50 with four shutouts.
• The 1921, 1922 and 1923 squads each went 8-0 and outscored their opponents 392-21, 339-27 and 320-33, respectively.
• The teams allowed more than one touchdown in a game just once during that 24-game span while scoring 40 or more points 14 times.
• The 1939 team was 8-0 and defeated Syracuse, Penn State and Ohio State.
 
60TH SEASON OF IVY LEAGUE ATHLETICS
• Throughout the 2015-16 season, the Ivy League will be celebrating its 60th season with impactful content across IvyLeagueSports.com, The Ivy League Digital Network and the League's social media outlets.
• Be on the lookout for the #IvyAt60 hashtag to keep up the coverage of the League's 60th season.
 
NEXT UP
• Cornell will return home for its final game of the season on Schoellkopf Field when it meets Columbia on Saturday, Nov. 14 at 12:30 p.m.
• The Big Red will honor its 21 seniors prior to the game.
• For the sixth time, the winner of the game will take home the Empire State Bowl. Cornell leads the Empire State Bowl series 3-2 after last year's exciting 30-27 victory in New York City.
• This will be the 103rd meeting on the gridiron between the programs, with Cornell leading 63-36-3.