QUICK HITS
• Cornell and Dartmouth, two storied college football programs with one of the most interesting series histories, will meet for the 100th time on the gridiron when the teams meet on Saturday, Nov. 5 at 1:30 p.m. at Schoellkopf Field.
• The game will be broadcast on the Ivy League Digital Network, while local listeners can tune in to WHCU 95.9 FM/870 AM to listen to Barry Leonard and Brandon Roth.
• Both teams enter the game desperate for a win, with Cornell out to snap a four-game skid and the Big Green - coming off a 2015 Ivy League title - still looking for its first Ancient Eight victory.
• Cornell is looking to get healthy after a 56-7 loss at the hands of Princeton last weekend, the Big Red's worst defeat at Schoellkopf Field since 1983 (60-7 loss to Colgate) and the largest margin of defeat in any game since 2003 (59-7 loss at Penn).
• The Big Red, who had gone a combined 2-18 over the last two seasons, opened the year 3-0 before three straight competitive losses heading into the Princeton contest.
• Cornell will attempt to buck history, as the Big Green has won seven straight meetings between the teams.
• Cornell-Dartmouth series is tied with the Cornell-Penn are the second-longest uninterrupted active series in the Football Championship Subdivision, as the teams have met every season since 1919, a span of 97 years.
• Its trails only the Lafayette-Lehigh series, which has been played every year since 1897.
• The two teams have met 47 times in Ithaca, with Cornell holding a slim 24-23 lead (Dartmouth has won three straight).
• Cornell and Dartmouth have also had matchups at the old Polo Grounds and Fenway Park, and in areas as seemingly random as Troy, N.Y. and Buffalo, N.Y.
• It's the 76th anniversary of the famous 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.
• A win over the Big Green would also be the fourth time this season Cornell has avenged a 2015 loss and would give the Big Red wins over defending champions from both the Ivy League (Dartmouth) and the Patriot League (Colgate).
  • David Archer '05, the Roger J. Weiss '61 Head Coach of Cornell Football, is in his fourth season at the helm of the Big Red (8-29 overall, .216; 5-24, Ivy, .172).
• Archer is the seventh-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.

ABOUT DARTMOUTH
• The Big Green sports a 3-4 overall record (0-4 Ivy) after last weekend's narrow 23-21 home loss to Harvard.
• The defending Ancient Eight champions are winless in Ivy play after going unbeaten against non-conference foes, defeating New Hampshire (22-21), Holy Cross (35-10) and Towson (20-17).
• The running tandem of Ryder Stone (267 yards, two touchdowns) and Miles Smith (252 yards, two touchdowns) have combined for 519 yards and four touchdowns while averaging a healthy 5.2 yards per carry.
• Jack Heneghan has gotten the lion's share of snaps under center, throwing for 1,745 yards and nine touchdowns against eight interceptions.
• Heneghan's favorite target is Hunter Hagdorn, who has caught 32 passes for 420 yards and is one of seven pass catchers with double figure receptions.
• Dartmouth continues to have one of the conference's top defenses, allowing just 19.7 ppg. and 368.9 ypg.
• Folarin Orimolade leads the Big Green with 57 tackles, including 10.5 for a loss and 6.0 sacks while also forcing three fumbles and breaking up three passes.
• Jeremiah Douchee has blocked three kicks and both Isiah Swann and Bun Straton have two interceptions each.
• Dartmouth grad Buddy Teevens in in his second go-around as head coach at his alma mater and sports a 78-87-2 record in those 16 seasons and 112-164-2 in 26 years at four schools (Dartmouth, Maine, Tulane, Stanford).
• Teevens helped the Big Green win a share of the 2015 Ivy League title.

THE SERIES
• This will be the 100th meeting between Cornell and Dartmouth, with the Big Green holding a 58-40-1 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 23 meetings being decided by a touchdown or less (Dartmouth leads 13-10 during that stretch).
• The Big Green has won seven straight meetings in the series, including a 21-3 win last season in Hanover, N.H.
 
A WIN OVER DARTMOUTH WOULD ...
• make Cornell 4-4 overall, doubling the combined win total from the last two seasons (2-18).
• snap a seven-game losing streak at Dartmouth.
• give the Big Red a win in the 100th meeting between the two squads.
• make the Big Red 2-2 at home this season and end a two-game losing streak.
• avenge a 2015 loss for the fourth time this season.
• mean Cornell can claim wins over the defending Ivy League (Dartmouth) and Patriot League (Colgate) regular season champions.
• be the 636th in program history (13th-most in the Football Championship Subdivision).

LAST TIME VS. DARTMOUTH
• Game Story I Box Score I Highlights
• The Big Red defense did yeoman's work against a high-powered Dartmouth offense, but the 24th-ranked Big Green defense met the challenge and then some in a 21-3 victory over Cornell at Memorial Field.
• Cornell forced a pair of turnovers, held the Big Green to 3-of-5 scoring in the red zone and gave up just 419 yards of offense despite being on the field for 83 plays, but Dartmouth surrendered just 194 yards of offense, including 33 yards after halftime.
• After allowing a go-ahead field goal on Cornell's second drive of the contest, Dartmouth held the Big Red to 74 yards in the final three quarters of play.
• Senior JJ Fives had nine tackles, including two sacks, and sophomore Nick Gesualdi posted four tackles with a forced fumble that he recovered.
• Sophomore Sean Scullen made seven stops, recovered a fumble and broke up a pass and freshman Mason Banbury had a tackle for loss and a forced fumble.
• Junior Jackson Weber had a game-high 12 tackles and sophomore Seth Hope chipped in with a career-high 10.
• Senior Luke Hagy ran for 65 yards on 17 carries, including 34 yards on the game's first drive before Cornell turned the ball over on downs. '
• He also caught three passes for 34 yards, becoming the first player in Ivy League history to surpass 2,000 rushing and 1,500 receiving yards in a career.
• On special teams, Chris Fraser averaged a healthy 42.6 yards on five punts and freshman Zach Mays had the team's lone points with a 30-yard field goal in the first quarter, the first make of his career.
• Dartmouth's Ivy League Player of the Year candidate Dalyn Williams completed 20-of-32 passes for 203 yards and a touchdown and also rushed for a score.
• Three different Big Green players tallied at least 50 yards on the ground, with Ryder Stone scoring once.
• Ryan McManus caught his first touchdown of the season in the second quarter.
• Defensively, Danny McManus and Colin Boit each had interceptions and all-league linebacker Will McNamara had five stops, including a tackle for loss, and broke up a pass.



LAST TIME OUT - PRINCETON 56, CORNELL 7
• Game Story I Box Score I Highlights
• Junior John Lovett accounted for seven touchdowns - four passing, two running, one receiving - and Princeton's defense bottled up Cornell all day in a 56-7 win at Schoellkopf Field.
• Lovett was 10-of-11 passing for 194 yards and four scores, ran for 47 yards on six carries with two touchdowns and caught two passes for 19 yards and reached the end zone once for an offense that piled up 645 yards of offense and 32 total first downs in the win, its fourth straight over the Big Red.
• Senior Ben Rogers hauled in his fifth touchdown of the season early in the third quarter and Dalton Banks completed 25-of-40 passes for 214 yards and a score while turning the ball over once.
• Sophomore Reis Seggebruch had 12 tackles, senior Justin Solomon had 10 and classmate Jackson Weber had nine to go along with a pair of pass breakups.
• Junior James Eaton had his first two career sacks in the loss.
• Senior punter Chris Fraser averaged 42.2 yards on nine punts with three longer than 50 yards and two downed inside the 20.
• The Tigers had a 100-yard rusher (Ryan Quigley - 102 yards on nine carries), a 100-yard receiver (Barnes - 170 yards on seven receptions) and a two-headed quarterback that combined to go 27-of-34 for 392 yards and five touchdowns without a turnover.
• Chad Kanoff was 17-of-23 for 198 yards and a score of his own.
• In the first half alone, Lovett accounted for all five Tiger touchdowns - runs of 3 and 10 yards, passes of 35 and 2 yards and a 7-yard reception.



NOTING THE PRINCETON GAME
• Senior linebacker Jackson Weber had nine tackles, giving him 199 for his career - just one shy of becoming the 23rd Cornellian to reach 200 tackles.
• The 56 points allowed is the most by a Big Red team since falling to Dartmouth 59-31 during the 2007 season, while the 645 yards allowed is the second-most allowed in school history, behind a Brown team that gained 690 yards in a 56-40 loss to Brown in 2000.
• Junior James Eaton had his first two career sacks for the Big Red.
• Four of Princeton's scoring drives took less than two minutes.
• With his 214 passing yards, sophomore Dalton Banks moved into 15th place on the school's single-season list (1,709 yards), while his 13th touchdown placed him seventh.
• Senior Ben Rogers caught his 10th career touchdown pass, becoming the 12th player in school history to reach that milestone.
• Junior Ryan Weigel, who also competes for the Big Red track team as a sprinter, earned his first varsity action and returned three kickoffs for 49 yards, including a 32-yard return that ranks as the longest of the season by a Cornell player.
• Senior Chris Fraser continued to separate himself from other Cornell and Ivy League punters by ending the day with 66 career punts inside the 20, 45 punts of 50 or more yards and a school-record 47 punts fair caught.
• Fraser has punted footballs 8,722 yards in his career, just 52 yards short of Mike Baumgartel's record (8.774).

THE FIFTH-DOWN GAME
• The 2016 meeting between the Big Red and Big Green is also the 76th 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.



MILESTONE WATCH
• Senior captain Jackson Weber needs one tackle to become the 23rd player in school history to record 200 career stops.
• Senior captain Ben Rogers needs 339 yards from scrimmage to become the 11th Cornellian to surpass 3,000 all-purpose yards in a career.
• Senior wide receiver Collin Shaw is 68 receiving yards short of 1,000 for his career - he would be the 23rd player in school history to reach that milestone.
• Junior Nick Gesualdi has 10 career interceptions, good for seventh all-time at Cornell. An 11th would move him into third in Cornell history.
• Senior Chris Fraser needs 53 punting yards to take over Cornell's all-time lead in that category (current record holder - Mike Baumgartel '05 with 8,774).
• Junior Nick Gesualdi needs nine tackles to reach 175 for his career.

TEAM NOTES TO KNOW
• With three wins, Cornell has surpassed its win total from the previous two seasons combined (2-18).
• Cornell is 2-2 on the road in 2016, matching the total of the last three seasons combined (2-13).
• Cornell's 3-0 start was just the ninth of its kind for the Big Red since the formation of the Ivy League in 1956 (1959, 1966, 1967, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1994, 1999, 2016).
• The 23-point deficit against Colgate was the largest a Big Red team has overcome to win since erasing a 28-0 halftime lead en route to a 29-28 win at Harvard in 2000.

OFFENSIVE NOTES TO KNOW
• Sophomore Dalton Banks' 454 passing yards in the win at Colgate ranks eighth on the school's single-game list, while his four touchdowns were one shy of a school record.
• Banks' five touchdowns responsible for (four passing, one rushing) against the Raiders tied a school history set four times by Jeff Mathews, twice by Ed Marinaro and once by Marty Sponaugle.
• Banks became the sixth Cornell quarterback to have a 400-yard passing game.
• Sophomore Chris Walker is just the 34th player in school history to record multiple 100-yard rushing games.
• Senior wide receiver Collin Shaw (932) is within striking distance of becoming the 23rd Cornellian to surpass 1,000 career receiving yards, joining classmate Ben Rogers, who hit that milestone at No. 16 Harvard.
• Four different players on the Big Red roster have at least one 100-yard receiving game: Ben Rogers and Collin Shaw - 2, Marshall Deutz and James Hubbard - 1.
• Rogers has caught 16 passes for 274 yards (17.1 yards per catch) with five touchdowns over his last five games.
• Thirteen different receivers have caught a pass so far for the Big Red this season, one more than all of last season.

DEFENSIVE NOTES TO KNOW
• With 10 career interceptions, junior Nick Gesualdi is tied for seventh on the school's career list and is the most by any Cornellian in 21 years (Doug Knopp '96 with 13).
• Five different players have led the team in tackles over the first seven games (Bucknell, Daniel Crochet -11; Yale and Sacred Heart, Jackson Weber - 11 and 8; Colgate, Justin Solomon - 15; Harvard, Nick Gesualdi -11; Brown and Princeton, Reis Seggebruch - 15 and 12).
• Seven different players have at least one game with double figure tackles (Daniel Crochet, Kurt Frimel, Nick Gesualdi, Reis Seggebruch, Justin Solomon, Jackson Weber, D.J. Woullard).
• Cornell's 11 interceptions are nearly triple the Big Red's total of 2015 (four).
• Senior linebacker Jackson Weber needs one tackle to reach 200 in his career.

SPECIAL TEAMS NOTES TO KNOW
• Cornell's kickers have put 23-of-29 kickoffs into the end zone this season. In all, 18 of the 19 kickoffs have been touchbacks.
• Freshman Nickolas Null is 1-of-2 on field goals, 8-of-9 on PATs and has six touchbacks on 12 kickoffs.
• The Big Red has already blocked two kicks this season, matching last season's total.
• The Big Red is 5-of-6 on field goals this season after making just 4-of-11 attempts in 2015.
• Senior Chris Fraser has averaged at least 40 yards per punt in 22 of his last 23 games and was named Ivy League Special Teams Player of the Week in the other after pinning all three Colgate punts inside the 11 earlier this year en route to a 36.0 yards per punt average.
• Of his last 32 punts covering five games, Fraser has pinned 15 inside the 20.
• Fraser averaged 44.6 yards per punt on eight kicks against Sacred Heart with a school-record six being downed inside the 20.
• Fraser has averaged 40.0 yards per punt in 34 of his 37 career games with the Big Red.
• His 8,722 yards punted is equivalent to traveling 4.96 miles in his career.
• Jelani Taylor has six special teams tackles to lead the coverage unit.

MAYS NAMED IVY LEAGUE SPECIAL TEAMS PLAYER OF THE WEEK (Sept. 19) • Sophomore place-kicker Zach Mays was named the Ivy League Special Teams Player of the Week after an outstanding performance in the Big Red's season-opening win at Bucknell.
• Mays opened the scoring for the Big Red with a career-long 41-yard field goal and booted through all three extra-point kicks.
• Maybe even more impressive was his efforts on kickoffs. Mays booted all five of his kickoffs through the end zone for touchbacks, helping Cornell control field position in the 24-16 comeback win against the Bison.
• The Big Red joins Southern Utah as the lone teams in the country to allow no kickoff returns this season to lead the Football Championship Subdivison (FCS).
 
BANKS, MAYS EARN IVY WEEKLY HONORS (Sept. 26)

• Sophomore quarterback Dalton Banks was named Ivy League Offensive Player of the Week and classmate Zach Mays earned Special Teams Player of the Week for the second straight Monday when the conference announced the weekly awards on Sept. 26.
• Banks posted his first 300-yard passing game in the 27-13 win over Yale, completing 23-of-32 passes for 306 yards and two touchdowns without a turnover.
• Banks threw scoring passes of 10 and 43 yards as the Big Red built a 24-3 halftime lead and spread the ball around among 12 different receivers.
• He also ran for 20 yards on 13 carries.
• Mays has continued to be one of the top weapons in the Ancient Eight on special teams, converting field goals of 37 and 28 yards, making all three extra-point kicks and putting four of his five kickoffs through the end zone for touchbacks.
• The fifth kickoff was returned, the first time an opponent has brought a ball out of the end zone, but Yale couldn't make it to the 20.

BANKS, FRIMEL, FRASER TAKE HOME IVY WEEKLY HONORS (Oct. 3) • Sophomore quarterback Dalton Banks was named Ivy League Football Offensive Player of the Week for the second straight week, and had plenty of company on the list of weekly award winners from the conference.
• He was joined by junior linebacker Kurt Frimel (Defensive Player of the Week) and senior punter Chris Fraser (Special Teams Player of the Week) as weekly award winners.
• Banks tied a school record with five touchdowns in the 39-38 victory over No. 25 Colgate. He helped lead a comeback from down 28-5 in the first half by completing 25-of-45 passes for 454 yards and four scores while also running for a touchdown. 
• None of his completions were more important than his final one - a perfect 19-yard strike to Collin Shaw in the back right corner of the end zone that gave the visitors their first lead with 0:28 remaining. 
• The 454 passing yards rank eighth in a single game in school history, while his four passing touchdowns were one shy of a school mark. 
• Frimel had a career-high 10 tackles with 2.0 for a loss and a sack in the win over No. 25 Colgate. 
• He was in on arguably the two biggest defensive plays of the day, as his third-down sack early in the second quarter was recorded as a safety, getting Cornell on the board and giving the visitors some momentum after falling behind 21-0. 
• He then plugged a cap and corralled a Colgate runner for a 1-yard loss on fourth-and-1 from the Cornell 42, giving the ball back to the Big Red and setting up Banks' heroic throw to Shaw that proved to be the game winner. 
• Seven of his 10 tackles on the day were on plays that gained two yards or less, including a stop for no gain on a third-and-1 late in the third quarter than set up the offensive possession that allowed the Big Red to get within 38-33 entering the fourth.
• Fraser punted three times against the Raiders and pinned the defending Patriot League champs inside their own 7 all three times. 
• He averaged 36.0 yards per punt and made Colgate start at their own 2, 7 and 4. 
• The last of those, early in the second quarter, set the scene for Frimel's sack on third down to effectively start the Big Red comeback. 

BIG RED RANKED AMONG TOP 100 COLLEGE FOOTBALL PROGRAMS IN HISTORY
• Cornell was ranked as one of the top 100 football programs of all-time according to the Associated Press in a ranking released in August 2016.
• At No. 72, the Big Red ranked ahead of a number of Bowl Championship Subdivision (BCS) schools and second among Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) programs.
• Only Penn (No. 66) placed higher among current FCS schools, while other Ivy League teams on the list included Dartmouth (No. 87), Yale (No. 90), Princeton (No. 81) and Columbia (No. 99).
• Few collegiate football programs have the storied history of Cornell.
• With more than 120 seasons of football in the books, the Big Red has claimed five national titles, won more than 600 games and  has  had  legendary  players  and  coaches  perform  on  historic  Schoellkopf Field.
• Names such as Glenn "Pop" Warner and Heisman Trophy finalist and NCAA record-breaker Ed Marinaro have suited up for  Cornell,  while  seven  College  Football  Hall  of  Famers  have  set  the  strategy  as  head  coaches.
• In all, 138 All-Americans and 11 National Football Hall of Fame members have played for the Big Red.
• The top 10 schools on the list, done to celebrate 80 years of the Associated Press poll, were Ohio State, Oklahoma, Notre Dame, Alabama, USC, Nebraska, Michigan, Texas, Florida State and Florida.

YOUR 2016 FOOTBALL CAPTAINS
• Seniors Miles Norris (ILB), Ben Rogers (WR), Matt Sullivan (TE) and Jackson Weber (ILB) were elected as team captains for the 2016 season.
• Norris is the program's 17th two-year captain (Jeff Mathews '14 is the lone three-time captain).
• Norris ranked fourth on the team in tackles (48) and paced the squad in forced fumbles (two) as a junior linebacker in 2015.
• The two-year starter and three-year letter winner has posted 134 tackles with 11.0 for a loss with 5.5 sacks, three pass breakups, two forced fumbles, one fumble recovered and a blocked kick over his career.
• Rogers returns to the Big Red for a fifth season at wide receiver after ranking among the Ivy League and the nation's top all-purpose yardage leaders.
• He became the 22nd Cornellian to reach 1,000 career receiving yards (1,067) and is within striking distance of becoming the 11th with 3,000 career all-purpose yards (2,662).
• Sullivan will begin his third season as a key cog on the offense from his tight end position.
• An excellent pass catcher and punishing blocker, he has hauled in 55 passes for 545 yards and four touchdowns over the last three seasons.
• Weber, a consistent starter at linebacker over the past three seasons, is the team's active leading tackler (199).
• A three-year letter winner, he has started 34 consecutive games and led the team with 54 tackles a season ago.

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.
• Two Cornell sports (football and men's golf) have been publicly recognized each year since the APR was first released and are among just 110 teams across the country in all sports with that accomplishment.
• Cornell's score of 991 (out of 1,000) this past year is the highest in school history (the four highest scores in program history have come over the last four years - 987, 987, 986, 991).
• Only five FCS schools have been honored each year in football (Cornell, Dartmouth, Davidson, Penn and Yale), with four 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.

CORNELL ATHLETICS HALL OF FAME ADDS TWO GRIDDERS
• A pair of Cornell football legends were inducted into the school's Athletics Hall of Fame on Sept. 24.
• All-American and two-time NFL Super Bowl champion Kevin Boothe '05 and top 10 all-time rusher Scott Oliaro '92 were among 10 inductees.
• Boothe was a three-time first-team All-Ivy pick and four-year starter for the Big Red at offensive tackle.
• He became just the fourth Cornell player to earn first-team all-league honors three times.
• A sixth round pick in the NFL Draft by the Oakland Raiders, Boothe played a decade in the NFL and won two Super Bowl rings with the New York Giants, including as a starter in 2011.
• One of Cornell's most versatile offensive players, Oliaro holds the single-game rushing record (288 yards) and the single-game all-purpose yardage record (395 yards), ranks seventh all-time in career touchdowns, eighth all-time in career all-purpose yards and 10th all-time in career rushing yards.
• He led the team in receptions in 1989 and 1990, points in 1990 and 1992, and rushing yards in 1992.
• Oliaro was named to the All-Ivy second team in 1990 and 1992.
• He was named one of the top 50 athletes in Vermont sports history by Sports Illustrated.

BIG RED INVOLVED IN STORIED RIVALRIES
• The Big Red is involved in three of the top 20 most-played rivalries in the FCS.
• The Cornell-Penn series ranks fifth in most games played, a total that will reach 123 this season.
• The 103 meetings between Cornell and Columbia ranks 14th, while the Cornell-Dartmouth rivalries stand 19th with 100 games played.
• Right behind that is the series with Princeton (99 meetings) and Colgate (98 meetings), which sit right outside the top 20.
• 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 97 years. They trail only the Lafayette-Lehigh series, which has been played every year since 1897.
 
STATING THE STATES
• Cornell's 114-player roster is made up of student-athletes from 31 states, as well as Canada, South Africa and the District of Columbia.
• A team-high 10 players come to Cornell from California, Pennsylvania and New York.
• Nine players are from Maryland, eight players are from Texas and seven apiece come from Michigan and Virginia.
 
CORNELL FOOTBALL AT 129 YEARS
• This is the 130th year since the start of Cornell football, but it will be the 129th 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 635-512-34 (.552) in its 129 years of football.
• The program's 635 wins rank 13th among all FCS schools.
• Over the years, Cornell has taken on 89 different opponents, with its most frequent opponent being Penn (122 meetings).
 
CORNELLIANS IN THE PROS
• Two Cornellians were on NFL opening day rosters in 2016.
• Bryan Walters '10, one of the Big Red's all-time greats at wide receivers, entered his seventh NFL season overall and second with the Jacksonville Jaguars.
• He spent the previous three seasons with his hometown Seattle Seahawks with a Super Bowl ring to his name in 2014.
• He also had spent time with the San Diego Chargers and the Minnesota Vikings.
• Walters, a wide receiver and special teams returner, entered the season having played in 32 career games with two starts.
• He caught 41 passes for 452 yards and a touchdown, returned six kickoffs for 123 yards and returned 43 punts for 282 yards.
• Fourth-year offensive lineman JC Tretter '13 was an FCS All-American before being drafted in the fourth round of the NFL Draft by the Green Bay Packers in 2013.
• He was named the team's starting center in 2016 and has played in 24 contests with three starts entering the year.
• Tretter suffered an injury during official team activities (OTA) and missed his first NFL season, and was slated to be the Packers' starting center in 2014 before a preseason injury.
• Has seen action at both tackle spots and left guard as well as at center.
 
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.
 
NEXT UP
• Cornell will hit the road for the final time in 2016 when it visits Columbia on Saturday, Nov. 12 at 1 p.m. at Wien Stadium.
• The game will be played with the Empire State Bowl on the line.
• The Big Red leads the all-time series 64-36-3 and has won three straight meetings to give it a 4-2 edge in the Empire State Bowl series.