QUICK HITS
• The Cornell football team will attempt to do something no Big Red squad has done in more than 20 years — finish a campaign with a winning road record.
• The Big Red will have its chance to do just that when it plays in its home away from home, Columbia's Wien Stadium, on Saturday, Nov. 12 at 1:00 p.m.
• 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 Howie Borkan.
• A victory in the annual Empire State Bowl matchup would complete the Big Red's road slate with a 3-2 record, its first winning mark outside of Schoellkopf Field since going 3-2 in 1994.
• To do so, Cornell will need to snap a five-game skid after opening the year with three straight victories.
• Four of the five losses have come by a touchdown or less and each of those were decided on the final drive.
• Cornell and Columbia are two programs on the way up and will be looking to build forward momentum and close the 2016 season strong.
• The Big Red has had the better of the series recently, winning three straight to take a 4-2 lead in the Empire State Bowl series.
• Established in 2010, the Empire State Bowl had been the unofficial nickname of the Cornell-Columbia series for many years.
• The trophy currently resides in Ithaca following last year's 3-0 triumph at Cornell's Schoellkopf Field.
• The series will move to week 10 of the season starting in the 2018 campaign.
• The two teams have a long history, having met 104 times dating back to 1889 — the 14th-most played series among Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) teams and the second-most played series in Big Red football history (Cornell-Penn will play for the 120th time in the final weekend of the season).
• The Big Red's semi-annual game in New York City draws a large alumni crowd, who also take to the streets for the Sy Katz '31 Parade.
• Katz, an avid supporter of all things Cornell, fell in love with the Big Red Band in the 1970s and decided it needed its own parade.
• With the help of friends at the Cornell Club-New York, he managed to get a police permit to march one city block — over the years, the tradition has taken on a life of its own, but the mission remains the same: to give the Big Red Band a grand time to shine.
• The 23rd Katz Parade begins at 5:30 p.m. and marches three blocks down Fifth Avenue from Rockefeller Center to the Cornell Club.
  • 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 (8-30 overall, .211; 5-21, Ivy, .192).
• 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 COLUMBIA
• Columbia brings a 2-6 record into this weekend's matchup after a narrow 28-21 home loss to Ivy League unbeaten Harvard.
• The Lions have dropped consecutive games since a 9-7 win over Dartmouth on its Homecoming on Oct. 22.
• Like the Big Red, Columbia will attempt to stave off a slow start, having been outscored 115-29 in the first half of games this season.
• Despite gaining just 285.5 yards per game on offense, the Columbia defense has kept the Lions in games by surrendering just 345.8 yards per outing.
• Alan Watson leads the Lions with 364 rushing yards and complements Anders Hill (1145 passing yards, five touchdowns) and Skyler Mornhinweg (256 yards, two touchdowns) at quarterback.
• Josh Wainwright (32 receptions, 318 yards) and Scooter Hollis (30 receptions, 271 yards) are the favorite targets.
• Connor Nizialek leads the Ivy League in punting average (44.0), though all short field duties are taken by Matthew Panton.
• Oren Milstein has made 9-of-10 field goals, including 6-of-7 beyond 30 yards, and has been named Ivy League Rookie and Special Teams Player of the Week twice.
• Defensively, Gianmarco Rhea ranks among the Ivy League leaders in tackles (first, 88), tackles for loss (second, 13.0) and sacks (sixth, 5.0).
• Head coach Al Bagnoli returns for a second season on the Columbia sidelines after a legendary career at Penn.
• Bagnoli spent 23 years at Penn, where he totaled a 148-80 overall record and 112-49 record in the Ivy League with nine conference championships.
• Bagnoli is 4-14 on the sidelines at Columbia.

THE SERIES
• This will be the 104th meeting between Cornell and Columbia, with the Big Red holding a 64-36-3 lead in the series.
• The two teams first met in 1889, a 20-0 Cornell win.
• Cornell won last season's matchup between the two teams 3-0 in Ithaca.
• The squads have been evenly matched for more than two decades, with Cornell holding a narrow 14-13 lead over the last quarter century.
 • Cornell had previously won 12 straight contests, the longest streak in the series by either team.
 
A WIN OVER COLUMBIA WOULD ...
• make Cornell 4-5 overall, doubling the combined win total from the last two seasons (2-18).
• extend its win streak over the Lions to four straight games.
• give the Big Red a 5-2 lead in the Empire State Bowl series.
• make Cornell 3-2 on the road this season, giving the Big Red its first winning road mark since going 3-2 in 1994.
• give David Archer '05 a 5-2 all-time record in Megabowl games (Empire State Bowl vs. Columbia, Trustees' Cup vs. Penn).
• be the 636th in program history (13th-most in the Football Championship Subdivision).

LAST TIME VS. COLUMBIA
• Game Story I Box Score I Highlights
• The Big Red defense posted its first shutout in 22 years, special teams contributed the only points of the day and the Cornell offense ran out the clock when it needed to in ensuring the Empire State Bowl stays in the trophy case on East Hill.
• In a game full of emotion, the home team earned a hard-fought 3-0 win over Columbia at Schoellkopf Field, sending the Big Red's seniors out with a win in their final home game.
• Freshman Zach Mays' 35-yard field goal in the first quarter was the lone scoring and Cornell's defense did the rest.
• The Big Red forced a season-high three turnovers, limited the Lions to 302 yards of offense and allowed only one drive of more than seven plays or 35 yards - Columbia's final one of the day when a 44-yard field goal into the wind fell well short.
• Needing to eat out the final 5:07 to snap a nine-game skid dating back to last year, Cornell pounded out three first downs, with sophomore Jack Gellatly running for 16 yards for the first and converting a third-and-1 against a stout Lion defense for the second.
• The third came courtesy of sophomore quarterback Jake Jatis, who went around the end for 16 yards on a decisive third-and-5 and then slid in bounds, allowing the Big Red to get into victory formation two plays later.
• The defense made plays all day, with senior JJ Fives recording seven tackles and a sack and fellow captain Rush Imhotep making six stops.
• Junior Miles Norris posted a game-high eight stops and forced a fumble that was recovered by sophomore Seth Hope.
• Sophomores Sean Scullen and Nick Gesualdi also intercepted passes, as the Cornell defense forced turnovers on the first three Columbia possessions of the second half, turned the Lions over on downs on the fourth and forced the visitors into a missed field goal on the fifth after a Kurt Frimel sack on third down knocked them out of effective field goal range.
• Cornell won despite amassing just 193 yards of offense, including a hard-gained 60 rushing yards on 24 carries by Luke Hagy.
• Junior punter Chris Fraser flipped field position despite primarily kicking into the win, averaging a solid 41.2 yards on his eight punts, including pinning the Lions inside their own 5 prior to the Lions' last possession that ended in the missed field goal.



LAST TIME OUT - DARTMOUTH 17, CORNELL 13
• Game Story I Box Score I Highlights
• Dartmouth went into Cornell's playbook in the fourth quarter and duplicated the Big Red's first quarter dominance, but the Big Green's touchdowns canceled out the home team's field goals en route to a 17-13 win at Schoellkopf Field.
• The Big Green scored twice and dominated time of possession in the fourth quarter, holding the football for 13:11 and running 28 plays to Cornell's eight.
• It converted 6-of-7 third downs, completely flipping the script on a dominant Big Red first quarter to open the 100th meeting between the rivals.
• Cornell held the ball for 12:55 and ran 20 plays to four for the Big Green while converting on 6-of-8 third down opportunities.
• The only difference between the two quarters - Cornell scored two field goals despite drives of 13 and 16 plays.
• Dartmouth scored touchdowns to cap 12- and nine-play drives.
• Jack Heneghan found Charles Mack from 7 yards out with 6:42 left in regulation to takes its first lead of the day a little more than four minutes after scoring its first touchdown on a 1-yard plunge by Miles Smith.
• Smith ended the afternoon with 119 yards on 25 carries, becoming the first Big Green player to surpass 100 yards in a game in more than two years.
• Cornell sophomore quarterback Dalton Banks completed 28-of-43 passes for 216 yards and a touchdown, a 4-yard acrobatic, juggling catch by junior tight end Hayes Nolte in the back of the end zone that gave the home team a 13-3 lead with 4:26 left in the third quarter.
• Cornell's offense was otherwise bottled up, collecting 270 yards of offense in the game despite three separate scoring drives of at least 13 plays, including a 17-play, 86-yard drive that took more than half of the third quarter to develop.
• Nick Gesualdi had 10 tackles to lead the Big Red, while Kurt Frimel made eight stops, including one for a loss.
• Justin Solomon was credited with four tackles and also intercepted a pass and broke up two others.
• Senior All-America punter Chris Fraser averaged 44.0 yards on four punts, pinning two kicks inside the 20.



NOTING THE DARTMOUTH GAME
 • The game served as the 100th meeting between the two programs meaning the Big Red has now reached the century mark in games played in three series (Penn - 122, Columbia - 102) and will reach that mark next year against two more schools (Colgate, Princeton).
• Senior Jackson Weber had six tackles, including the 200th of his varsity career. He is the 23rd Big Red player to reach that milestone.
• Senior Justin Solomon posted his third interception of the season, good for second on the team.
• With 220 yards of total offense, sophomore Dalton Banks surpassed 2,000 yards for the season, and his 2,071 yards ranks 11th-best in school history for one year.
• With 23 receiving yards, senior Ben Rogers moved into 21st place on Cornell's career list (1,090 yards).
• Senior punter Chris Fraser became the school's career punting yards leader, as his total of 8,898 yards surpassed Mike Baumgartel '05 (8,774).
• Freshman Nickolas Null had his first career game with multiple field goals, connecting on kicks of 20 and 22 yards in the first quarter.
• Dartmouth evened the series at 24-24 in 48 all-time meetings in Ithaca.

THE EMPIRE STATE BOWL
• Officially established in 2010, the Empire State Bowl has been the unofficial nickname of the Cornell-Columbia series for many years.
• Cornell leads the series 4-2 and has won three straight to claim the lead.
• The trophy currently resides in Ithaca following last year's 3-0 triumph at Cornell's Schoellkopf Field.
• Cornell's other wins in the series came in 2011 (62-41), 2013 (24-9) and 2014 (30-27).
• Columbia won the first-ever Empire State Bowl in 2010 with an exciting last-minute 20-17 victory at Wien Stadium to capture the traveling trophy.

MILESTONE WATCH
• Senior captain Ben Rogers needs 312 yards from scrimmage to become the 11th Cornellian to surpass 3,000 all-purpose yards in a career.
• With 1,090 yards, Rogers is 40 receiving yards shy of joining the school's career top 20 list.
• Senior wide receiver Collin Shaw is 36 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.
• Gesualdi needs 24 tackles to reach 200 for his career, becoming the 24th player in school history to reach that mark.
• Sophomore quarterback Dalton Banks is 59 passing yards shy of joining the top 10 single-season passing yardage list.
• He needs 75 yards to post the school's 10th 2,000-yard passing game.
• With 14 scores, Banks needs one passing touchdown to move into sixth on the single-season list and four to join the top five.

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.
• A win over the Lions would give Cornell three road wins in a season (3-2) and the first winning road mark since going 3-2 in 1994.

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 (964) 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 20 passes for 297 yards (14.9 yards per catch) with five touchdowns over his last six 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 eight games (Bucknell, Daniel Crochet -11; Yale and Sacred Heart, Jackson Weber - 11 and 8; Colgate, Justin Solomon - 15; Harvard and Dartmouth, 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 12 interceptions are triple the Big Red's total of 2015 (four).

SPECIAL TEAMS NOTES TO KNOW
• Cornell's kickers have put 26-of-33 kickoffs into the end zone this season. In all, 19 of the 33 kickoffs have been touchbacks.
• Freshman Nickolas Null is 3-of-4 on field goals, 9-of-10 on PATs and has seven touchbacks on 16 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 23 of his last 24 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 36 punts covering six games, Fraser has pinned 17 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 35 of his 38 career games with the Big Red.
• His 8,898 yards punted is equivalent to traveling 5.06 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 (1,090) and is within striking distance of becoming the 11th with 3,000 career all-purpose yards (2,689).
• 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 (205).
• A three-year letter winner, he has started 35 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 635-513-34 (.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
• The Big Red will close out the season with a home matchup against defending Ivy League champion Penn on Saturday. Nov. 19 at 12 p.m. at Schoellkopf Field.
• The game, which will be televised by Fox College Sports, will serve as the final home game for the Big Red's 26 seniors.
• The winner will also take home the Trustees' Cup.