QUICK HITS
• Cornell will attempt to send its seniors out win a win, reclaim the Trustees' Cup and potentially end an Ivy League championship run by one of its fiercest rivals when the Big Red hosts the Penn Quakers on Saturday, Nov. 19 at 12:00 p.m. at Schoellkopf Field.
• The game will be televised Fox College Sports, while local listeners can tune in to WHCU 95.9 FM/870 AM to listen to Barry Leonard and Jason Weinstein.
• Cornell will honor its 26 seniors in a pregame ceremony prior to kickoff.
• The Big Red will then try and win a trophy game for the second straight week when it plays for the Trustees' Cup for the 22nd time.
• Penn holds a 14-7 edge in the Trustees' Cup series and a 71-46-5 in the 122 previous meetings between the programs.
• The 122 games played makes it the fifth-oldest series in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS).
• Cornell and Penn have played annually every season since 1919, a span of 97 years - the second-longest uninterrupted active series in the FCS behind Lafayette-Lehigh (119 years).
• Sixty of those years, Cornell and Penn played Thanksgiving Day contests at Franklin Field, including every season from  1897-1938 with the exception of 1918, when the Big Red's season was cancelled due to the escalation of World War I.
• The Big Red is coming off an exciting 42-40 win at Columbia last weekend to snap a five-game losing skid and guarantee the program's first winning road record in 22 years.
• Sophomores engineered much of the offense, as Chris Walker ran for 178 yards and three touchdowns and Dalton Banks completed 24-of-37 passes for 267 yards and two scores while running for a third.
• For his performance, Walker was named Ivy League Offensive Player of the Week for the first time in his career after posting his third 100-yard rushing game.
• Junior Nick Gesualdi also had a monster game with seven tackles, an interception, a forced fumble at the goal line and a stop on a game-tying two-point conversion attempt in the fourth quarter by the Lions that proved to be the difference in the game.
• Senior All-America punter Chris Fraser averaged 44.0 yards on six punts with a long of 57 yards, but it was his 33-yard reception on a fake punt in the third quarter that changed the game's momentum.
• One play later, the Big Red scored to take the lead for good.
• Penn is 6-3 (5-1 Ivy) and would claim at least a share of its second straight Ivy League title with a win.
• Cornell has played Penn five previous times in a season finale when the Quakers were playing for a title (1-4).
• A win over the Quakers 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 (Penn) 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 (9-30 overall, .231; 6-21, Ivy, .222).
• 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 PENN
• The Quakers enter the final weekend of the season with a 6-3 overall mark (5-1 Ivy) and has won six of its last seven entering the season finale
• Penn bumped Harvard from atop the conference standings, creating a three-way tie between the Quakers, Crimson and Princeton Tigers, with a 27-14 showcase win on Friday evening at Franklin Field.
• Featuring a balanced offense directed by senior Alek Torgersen, a first-team All-Ivy selection in 2015, the Quakers also have the league's leading rusher (Tre Solomon) and leading receiver (Justin Watson).
• Torgersen ranks second in the conference in passing efficiency (145.0) and has posted 1,947 yards and 16 touchdowns through the air and six scores himself on the ground.
• Solomon has 734 rushing yards and seven touchdowns and Watson has caught 78 passes for 1,009 yards and eight touchdowns, including the game-winning 3-yard reception with 0:15 left in the win over Harvard.
• The defense scored twice in the win over the Crimson and is allowing just 369.2 yards per game this season.
• Mason Williams ranks second to Cornell's Nick Gesualdi in interceptions this season in the Ancient Eight with five.
• Colton Moskal has 83 tackles to lead the Penn defense, while reigning Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week Louis Vecchio has 8.5 tackles for a loss, 4.5 sacks, an interception, three pass breakups and two forced fumbles.
• Second year head coach Ray Priore had spent 16 seasons as defensive coordinator and secondary coach and nine as the associate head coach under legendary Al Bagnoli.
• He won an Ivy title in his first season and will be looking for a second straight championship with a win this weekend.

THE SERIES
• This will be the 123rd meeting between Cornell and Penn, with the Quakers holding a 71-46-5 lead in the series.
• The series is the fifth-most played in college football history.
• The two teams first met in 1893, a 50-0 Penn win.
• Eleven years ago, Cornell claimed a 16-7 win at Franklin Field for the 600th victory in program history.
• Last season, the Quakers retained possession of the Trustees' Cup with a 3421 win at Franklin Field and have won two games in a row between the teams.
 
A WIN OVER PENN WOULD ...
• send the seniors out with a victory on Schoellkopf Field.
• make Cornell 5-5 overall, the program's first season at .500 since 2011 and just the second time in the last nine seasons.
• snap a two-game Quakers win streak in the series while returning the Trustees' Cup to South Hill.
• cut the Quakers' lead in the all-time series to 71-47-5 overall and 14-8 in the Trustees' Cup series.
• give David Archer '05 a 6-2 all-time record in Megabowl games (Empire State Bowl vs. Columbia, Trustees' Cup vs. Penn).
• be the 637th in program history (13th-most in the Football Championship Subdivision).

LAST TIME VS. PENN
• Game Story I Box Score
• Senior Luke Hagy walked off the field to hundreds of Cornell fans, including many friends and family, cheering him and his fellow seniors off the field as Penn celebrated an Ivy League title in the background.
• Just minutes before, Hagy broke three tackles to land in the end zone in his final play in a Big Red uniform.
• He lingered a moment on the field after embracing his teammates and walked into a somber locker room, where hours earlier each senior had been given a brick with their names on it to symbolize at all 22 had laid down the foundation that eventually will get Cornell celebrating at midfield like the Quakers were doing on this day.
• In the end, attempting to play spoiler to its most spirited rival, Penn's fast start was too much for the Big Red to overcome as the Quakers clinched a share of the Ivy League title and retained the Trustees' Cup with a 34-21 victory at Franklin Field.
• Penn scored 2:24 in, was up 13-0 with less that five minutes off the clock and had a 20-0 lead before the midway point of the first quarter, and Cornell couldn't recover agaisnt the onslaught.
• The Big Red attempted to claw back behind the arm of senior Robert Somborn, who completed 23-of-38 passes for 301 yards and two touchdowns, but the Big Red spotlight largely shined on Hagy.
• The senior running back had 17 carries for 81 yards and caught five passes for 105 yards and ended in the end zone on his final collegiate play.
• Hagy ended his career fourth in all-purpose yardage (3,997), fifth in touchdowns (26), sixth in rushing yards (2,336 yards) and ninth in receiving yards (1,582), and earlier this season became the first Ivy League player to surpass 2,000 yards rushing and 1,500 yards receiving in a career.
• Somborn was responsible for all three Big Red touchdowns, diving over from the 1 early in the second quarter, then throwing for two more in the second half.

LAST TIME OUT - CORNELL 42, COLUMBIA 40
• Game Story I Box Score I Highlights
• The Cornell seniors have never had to watch Columbia take the Empire State Bowl back to their locker room.
• Even on an emotional senior day for the Lions, the Big Red made sure they would never have to.
• Cornell used explosive plays on offense and key plays when they were needed on defense and special teams to retain the bowl for the fourth straight year after an exciting 42-40 victory over Columbia at Wien Stadium.
• The two teams combined for 82 points and 1,069 yards of offense.
• In both games, the Big Red ended the game in front and celebrated with the Empire State Bowl in hand.
• The four wins on the season doubles the victory total the Big Red compiled in the previous two years combined (2-18).
• It was the first time Cornell finished with a winning road record since 1994 - a span of 22 years - and highlighted the program's march forward.
• The Big Red stopped a game-tying two-point conversion attempt, scored an insurance touchdown on a long run, intercepted a pass to end a late drive, intelligently killed clock and recovered an on-sides kick attempt after Columbia scored to get back within 42-40 with two minutes to play.
• Sophomores engineered much of the offense, as Chris Walker ran for 178 yards and three touchdowns and Dalton Banks completed 24-of-37 passes for 267 yards and two scores while running for a third.



NOTING THE COLUMBIA GAME
 • Cornell's 42 points were the most scored in a game since the Big Red claimed a 42-41 triumph at Penn to close the 2013 campaign.
• The Big Red didn't allow a sack for the first time in a game since a contest at Yale in 2011.
 • Senior Collin Shaw became the school's 23rd 1,000-yard receiver with four catches for 44 yards, giving him 1,008 for his career.
• Junior Nick Gesualdi had his sixth interception of the season, good for seventh in a season at Cornell.
• Gesualdi also bumped his career total to 11, tied for third-most in a career.
• Sophomore Chris Walker posted his third 100-yard game of the season with a career-best 178 yards.
• He scored his first three career touchdowns as well, finding the end zone after runs of 27, 28 and 71 yards.
• The 178 yards were the most by a Cornell player since Chad Levitt ran for 218 yards in a 1996 game at Yale.
• Senior Ben Rogers had three catches for 57 yards and a touchdown, moving into the school's top 20 list for career receiving yards (1,147 - 19th overall).
• Sophomore Dalton Banks moved into the top 10 for single-season passing yards (2,192 - ninth) and up to 16th on the career list.
• With a team-best 10 tackles, senior Jackson Weber moved into the top 10 at Cornell with 215 (19th).

THE TRUSTEES' CUP
• Since 1995, the winner of the Cornell-Penn football game has been awarded the Trustees' Cup.
• Alumni from Penn and Cornell gathered at the New York Penn Club on Sept. 6, 1995 for the dedication of the Trustees' Cup, which thereafter has been presented to the winner of the annual football game.
• The idea evolved from a series of discussions between officials and alumni of both universities, focusing on what would be the best way to honor one of college football's most celebrated rivalries.
• The decision was made to establish an award to be presented at an annual luncheon, with the winning team taking the prize home and displaying it for a year.
• Penn leads the Trustees' Cup series 14-7 and has won two straight.

CORNELL LOOKING TO PLAY SPOILER
• Cornell and Penn will be meeting in a season finale for the 10th time since 1972 with one or both playing for at least a share of the Ivy League title.
• The teams have also played numerous times with a sole share of the title on the line, but a share had already been clinched.
• The Quakers have played spoiler twice, beating the Big Red in both 1995 and 1999 to keep Cornell from a title.
• Penn is 4-1 when it plays Cornell for at least a share of the title, winning in 1986, 1998, 2000 and 2015 and losing in 1988.
• The two teams have played each other for the title three times, with Cornell winning in 1988 and Penn winning in 1986 and 2000.
 
Year   Team            Result           Notes
1971   Cornell         Cornell, 41-13   In Ed Marinaro's final game at Cornell, Big Red keeps pace with Dartmouth, finishing 6-1
1986   Cornell, Penn   Penn, 31-21      The Quakers won a de facto title game between two Ivy unbeatens in the final weekend at Schoellkopf Field
1988   Cornell, Penn   Cornell, 19-6    Cornell joined Penn atop the standings with a 6-1 record for its first Ivy title since 1971
1990   Cornell         Cornell, 21-15   The Big Red finishes 6-1 and claims a share of the Ivy title with Dartmouth after beating the Quakers
1995   Cornell         Penn, 37-18      Quakers spoil Cornell's chances by topping the Big Red, allowing Princeton to win solo with tie with Dartmouth
1998   Penn            Penn, 35-21      Penn gets the win to claim a solo title in conjunction with a Yale upset loss to Harvard
1999   Cornell         Penn, 20-12      Big Red falls to Quakers to fall out of first, Brown and Yale each win to share the title
2000   Cornell, Penn   Penn, 45-15      In a battle of 5-1 teams, Quakers claim an Ivy title with a 30-point win at Schoellkopf Field
2016   Penn            Penn, 34-21      Quakers claim a three-way share of the title with Dartmouth and Harvard with the victory

FINAL GAME FOR BIG RED SENIORS
• The Cornell football program's 26 seniors will be playing their final game this weekend.
• Cornell's seniors are TE Nick Bland, DL Corey Dean, WR Marshall Deutz, DL Drew Diedrich, OL Alex Emanuels, OL John Foster, P Chris Fraser, S Jaivon Gibbs, OL Flint Geier, PK Michael Hobson, WR Brady Malone, OL Islam Mohamed, OL Dan Morin, LB Miles Norris, PK Joe Pierik, WR Ben Rogers, CB Eric Sade, WR Collin Shaw, S Justin Solomon, QB Robert Somborn, DL Michael Staples, TE Matt Sullivan, CB Luis Uceta, OL Jake Waltman, LB Jackson Weber, WR Jordan Young.

MILESTONE WATCH
• Senior captain Ben Rogers needs 255 yards from scrimmage to become the 11th Cornellian to surpass 3,000 all-purpose yards in a career.
• Junior Nick Gesualdi has 11 career interceptions, good for third all-time at Cornell and needs two to move into second.
• Gesualdi needs 17 tackles to reach 200 for his career, and would become the 24th player in school history to reach that mark.
• With 2,341 yards of offense this season, sophomore Dalton Banks will climb to seventh on the school's single-season list with 39 yards against Penn.
• Banks is ninth on the season passing yardage list with 2,192 yards and needs 14 to move to eighth and 63 for seventh.
• Sophomore Chris Walker has 607 rushing yards and needs 127 yards for the highest total by a Big Red player in 10 years (Luke Siwula, 885 in 2006).

TEAM NOTES TO KNOW
• With four wins, Cornell has doubled its win total from the previous two seasons combined (2-18).
• Cornell finished 3-2 on the road in 2016, surpassing the total of the last three seasons combined (2-13) and guaranteed the program's first winning road mark since 1994.
• 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 27th player in school history to record at least three 100-yard rushing games.
• Senior wide receivers Ben Rogers (1,147) and Collin Shaw (1,008) became the 22nd and 23rd Cornellians to surpass 1,000 receiving yards.
• 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.
• 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 11 career interceptions, junior Nick Gesualdi is tied for third on the school's career list and is the most by any Cornellian in 21 years (Doug Knopp '96 with 13).
• 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 14 interceptions are nearly quadruple the Big Red's total of 2015 (four).

SPECIAL TEAMS NOTES TO KNOW
• Freshman Nickolas Null is 3-of-4 on field goals, 16-of-17 on PATs and has nine touchbacks on 23 kickoffs.
• The Big Red has already blocked two kicks this season, matching last season's total.
• The Big Red is 7-of-8 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 24 of his last 25 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.
• Fraser has averaged 40.0 yards per punt in 36 of his 39 career games with the Big Red.
• Fraser averaged 44.6 yards per punt on eight kicks against Sacred Heart with a school-record six being downed inside the 20.
• His 9,162 yards punted is equivalent to traveling 5.21 miles in his career.
• Jelani Taylor has eight special teams tackles to lead the coverage unit.

FIVE NAMED TO CoSIDA ACADEMIC ALL-DISTRICT TEAM
• Cornell football had five players named to the 2016 CoSIDA Academic All-District 1 team that was announced on Nov. 3.
• All five will be on the national ballot for the 2016 CoSIDA Academic All-America team.
• Junior running back Jack Gellatly (3.75 GPA, Government) has 139 rushing yards on 4.6 yards per carry with one touchdown and has caught eight passes for 77 yards while playing in six of the team's nine games thus far.
• Senior offensive lineman Jake Waltman (3.71 GPA, Communication) has started five contests at left guard, helping the Big Red offense improve its scoring average, total offense numbers and lower its sacks allowed per game over a season ago.
• Senior linebacker Jackson Weber (3.72 GPA, Government), a four-year starter and senior captain, is the team's third-leading tackler (67) and has added 4.0 tackles for loss, six pass breakups and an interception in his final season.
• Junior defensive lineman Seth Hope (3.83 GPA, Applied Economics and Management) paces the Big Red defensive line with 38 tackles and has added 4.5 tackles for a loss and two sacks while starting all nine contests.
• Senior defensive lineman Michael Staples (3.74 GPA, Biometry and Statistics & Applied Economics and Management) is a three-year starter who lines up at nose guard and has 11 tackles, 2.5 tackles for a loss and a sack for a defense ranking among the Ivy leaders in takeaways.
• The five members of the District 2 team were the most of any school.
• The Big Red has had 12 football players earn a total of 16 appearances on the CoSIDA Academic All-America team dating back to 1977.

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. 

WALKER NAMED IVY CO-OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK (Nov. 14) • Sophomore running back Chris Walker was named the Ivy League co-Offensive Player of the Week after putting up one of the best rushing performances by a Cornell player in recent history at Columbia.
• Walker ran for 178 yards and three touchdowns in the Big Red's 42-40 victory for the Empire State Bowl.
• The sophomore, who ranks among the Ancient Eight's leading rushers, had scoring runs of 27, 28 and 71 yards - his first three career touchdown runs.
• His 71-yard run in the fourth quarter gave Cornell the insurance it needed to take home the fourth straight win over its New York rival.
• In all, Walker had three runs of at least 25 yards in the contest and his 178 yards is the most by any Cornell player in a game since Chad Levitt had 218 yards in a 1996 contest at Yale.

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 (1,147) and is within striking distance of becoming the 11th with 3,000 career all-purpose yards (2,746).
• 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 62 passes for 613 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 (215).
• A three-year letter winner, he has started 36 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 104 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 636-513-34 (.552) in its 129 years of football.
• The program's 636 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
• The 2016 season is complete and the Big Red will kick off 2017 with a road contest at Delaware on Saturday, Sept. 16, 2017.