HEAD COACH DAVID ARCHER '05
• Fifth season directing the Big Red football program (10-35 overall, .222; 7-23, Ivy, .233).
• Became youngest Division I head football coach in the country when he was named the Roger J. Weiss '61 Head Coach of Football on Jan. 3, 2013.
.• Led team to three-game improvement in 2016, tied for program's biggest turnaround since 1986.
• The 2016 win over Colgate was the first top 25 victory since 2007, first top 25 road win since 1950.
• Is 5-3 in season-ending Trophy games against Columbia (Empire State Bowl) and Penn (Trustees Cup).
• Has developed 23 All-Ivy selections, two Ivy league Rookies of the Year and four FCS All-Americans in four years as head coach.
• Spent six seasons as an assistant coach at his alma mater, including the last four seasons as the recruiting coordinator.
• Coached the fullbacks, tight ends, running backs, offensive linemen and linebackers during his tenure as an assistant.
• His three recruiting classes as coordinator yielded 55 first-year players that earned varsity action and 21 that captured at least one start.
• Was a three-year starter and team captain in 2004 while playing on the offensive line.

ABOUT BROWN
• Brown stands at 2-3 on the year (0-2 Ivy) after last weekend's 53-0 home loss to Princeton.
• The Bears have lost three of the last four after opening the 2017 season with a 28-23 win over Bryant, though Brown swept the home state series with a 24-21 win over Rhode Island.
• Senior defensive end Richard Jarvis ranks among the nation's top pass rushers, entering last weekend second nationally with 1.25 sacks per game and is also among the nation's leaders in tackles for loss (7.5) and forced fumbles (four).
• Thomas Linta has taken a majority of snaps under center and has thrown for 677 yards and five touchdowns, while Nicholas Duncan and Jeffrey Jonke has also earned time at quarterback, combining for 369 yards and one touchdown.
• Freshman running back Darius Daies leads the Bears with 177 rushing yards and three scores, while Jakob Prall (31 catches, 322 yards) has been the favorite target out wide in the passing game.
• Head coach Phil Estes is in his 20th season on the Brown sidelines and sports a 114-80 career record (76-58 Ivy League) with three Ivy League titles (1999, 2005, 2008).
• The Bears have been one of the most consistent programs in the Ancient Eight, finishing in the top half of the standings in 16 of the 19 seasons Estes has patrolled the sidelines.

THE SERIES
• This will be the 65th meeting between Cornell and Brown, with the Bears holding a 37-26-1 advantage.
• The two teams first met in 1895, a 6-4 Cornell win.
• Brown has won 14 of the last 16 meetings, with Cornell's last win coming in 2007, an exciting 38-31 overtime win at Schoellkopf Field.
• The Bears won last year's contest 28-21 in double overtime in Providence, R.I. on Fox College Sports.

A WIN OVER BROWN WOULD ...
• give Cornell a 2-4 record.
• make Cornell 2-1 in Ivy play for the first time since 2000.
• give Cornell a 37-31-2 mark in Homecoming games dating back to 1948.
• snap Brown's nine-game win streak in the series.
• even the Big Red's record at 2-2 in home games this season.
• narrow the Bears' lead in the all-time series to 37-27-1.
• be the 638th in program history (13th-most in the Football Championship Subdivision).

BIG RED ON HOMECOMING
• Cornell football has a 36-31-2 record dating back to 1948 in Homecoming games.
• The Big Red dropped Yale 27-13 last season at Schoellkopf Field on Sept. 24 in front of 15,493 fans.
• Cornell is 8-4 on Homecoming in the last 12 seasons and 2-2 under head coach David Archer '05.

CORNELL ON TCAM WEEKEND
• The Big Red is 5-9 all-time on Trustee Council Weekend, including 1-5 against Brown.
• Cornell's last win over the Bears came on TCAM Weekend in 2007, a 38-31 victory over their guest.
• The Big Red's last win on TCAM Weekend came in 2012, a wild 37-35 triumph over Princeton.

DESTINY AWAITS
• Cornell enters the second half of the season with the first of five consecutive Ivy League games.
• At 1-1 in conference action and with games against the conference's unbeatens (Columbia and Dartmouth), the Big Red controls its own destiny this late in the season for the first time since 2008.

LAST TIME THEY MET
• Cornell rallied from a two-touchdown second half deficit to send the game into double overtime, but Brown used key special teams plays and an opportunistic offense in the extra sessions to claim a 28-21 victory at Brown Stadium.
• Brown did not have a scoring drive of longer than 49 yards, though it scored on a 79-yard Alex Jette punt return.
• Jette scored three times for the Bears, with touchdown catches of 18 and 2 yards to go along with the punt return.
• The Big Red defense, which defended six drives that started inside Cornell territory and yielded just seven points off those drives, got a career-high 15 tackles with 2.5 for a loss and a sack from sophomore Reis Seggebruch and 14 tackles and an interception from Nick Gesualdi.
• Sophomore Dalton Banks completed 21-of-37 passes for 201 yards and three touchdowns, but was also intercepted twice.
• Seniors Marshall Deutz, Ben Rogers and Matt Sullivan each had touchdown catches.
• When the offense was forced to punt, Chris Fraser averaged 41.7 yards per kick with two of his seven downed inside the 20.
• WIll Twyman, the Ivy League's leading tackler, added 17 stops to his total and had 2.5 for a loss to lead Brown.
• Jette had 196 all-purpose yards and Linta threw a pair of touchdowns.
• Brown extended its win streak over the Big Red to nine games.
• Cornell played its 11th overtime game in program history, dropping to 5-6 in games that go an extra session.
• The Big Red is now 2-1 in OT games against Brown, 1-4 on the road and 3-4 against Ivy teams.



LAST TIME OUT
• John Burdick kicked a school-record four field goals, including three in the decisive third quarter, and Bucknell's defense held strong to knock off Cornell 26-18 at Schoellkopf Field.
• Burdick kicked field goals of 38, 33 and 28 yards in the second half to snap a 10-10 tie.
• Cornell scored late and added a two-point conversion in the final minute, but the Bison recovered the on-sides kick and ran out the clock to earn the win.
• Bucknell limited Cornell to 287 yards and took advantage of the home team's poor field position all day.
• The Bison offense was opportunistic, putting points on the board three times on drives of 25 yards or fewer.
• Chiarolanzio, who was 11-of-16 passing for 176 yards and two touchdowns, led an offense that registered just 306 yards itself.
• Both Butler and Jack Horan, who had a 64-yard catch-and-run touchdown in the first quarter, hauled in scores and Joey DeFlorio carried 20 times for 99 yards.
• Defensively, Ben Richard had a game-high 11 tackles and Simeon Page recorded a pair of sacks.
• Cornell's defense got 11 tackles from first-time starter Maxwell McCormick, with reigning Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week Cyrus Nolan added six tackles, a sack and 1.5 tackles for loss.
• Banks completed 17-of-28 passes for 160 yards and a touchdown to Owen Peters, while Jake Jatis had a 9-yard scoring toss to Davy Lizana.
• Freshman SK Howard, earning his first varsity playing time, carried 18 times for 73 yards.



NOTES VS. BUCKNELL
• Sophomores Davy Lizana and Owen Peters each scored their first career touchdowns in the loss.
• Freshman SK Howard had 18 carries for 76 yards in his first varsity appearance.
• Making their first career starts were Cyrus Nolan (DL) and Maxwell McCormick (LB), who ended as the team's top two leading tacklers.
• Senior Jake Jatis' touchdown pass in the third quarter was the first since his freshman season (2014).
• With two tackles, senior Nick Gesualdi jumped into the top 20 in school history (216).
• Senior Collin Shawn moved up to 18th on the school's all-time receiving list with 1,200 yards.
• The Big Red defense allowed just 306 yards and has surrendered just 799 yards total in its last three contests - the fewest a Big Red team has allowed in a three-game stretch since the final three games of 2005 (615 yards).

NEXT UP
• After four consecutive games at Schoellkopf Field, the Big Red returns to the road to visit Princeton on Saturday, Oct. 28 at 7 p.m. at Princeton Stadium.
• The contest will be televised by NBC Sports Network.
• The contest promises to be another in a long line of exciting games between the programs.
• Peppered with last-second finishes, crazy endings and upsets galore, eight of the last 13 contests have been decided by a touchdown or less, with that stretching to 11 of the last 17 meetings and 18 of the last 27.
• Thirteen games have been decided by a field goal or less or in overtime during a 27-year span.