HEAD COACH DAVID ARCHER '05
• Fifth season directing the Big Red football program (9-34 overall, .210; 6-23, Ivy, .207).
• 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 HARVARD
• Harvard has won consecutive games to reach 2-1 on the season after a dominant 41-2 victory at Georgetown last weekend.
• Since a season-opening 17-10 setback at Rhode Island, the Crimson have outscored its opponents 86-30.
• Returning first-team All-Ivy League wide receiver Justice Shelton-Mosley is one of the league's most dangerous weapons on offense and special teams as a returner.
• The four leading rushers on the Crimson average a combined 6.6 yards per carry, while Harvard averages 194.3 rushing yards per game - a mark that ranks 34th in the country.
• Harvard's defense has caused nine turnovers through three games.
• The Crimson have been excellent on the road in the last decade, going 39-12 over its last 51 games.
• Harvard has the highest winning percentage in the FCS since 2001 (132-30, .815).
• Head coach Tim Murphy is in his 24th season directing the Harvard program.
• He has won 165 games on the Crimson sidelines (second all-time among Ivy League coaches) with nine conference titles.

THE SERIES
• Cornell and Harvard will be meeting for the 82nd time dating back to the first meeting in 1890.
• Harvard leads the all-time series 47-32-2.
• The Crimson owned the early series, capturing the first 10 games (1890-1913), while Cornell 11 won straight from 1986-1996.
• Harvard has won 15 of the last 16 contests, with the Big Red's last win coming during the 2005 campaign, a 27-13 victory at home.
• The Crimson won last year's meeting 29-13 at Harvard Stadium.

A WIN OVER HARVARD WOULD ...
• give Cornell a 1-3 record.
• even the Big Red's record at 1-1 in home games.
• be the first over Harvard since 2005, snapping an 11-game skid vs. the Crimson.
• narrow the Big Red's lead in the all-time series to 47-33-2.
• be the 637th in program history (13th-most in the Football Championship Subdivision).

LAST TIME THEY MET
• No. 16/22 Harvard got up on Cornell quick, and unlike Colgate a week prior, was able to keep the Big Red at arm's length the rest of the way to remain unbeaten with a 29-13 win at Harvard Stadium.
• The Crimson picked off Big Red sophomore quarterback Dalton Banks on the visitors' first play from scrimmage and scored two plays later and never trailed in extending its win streak over Cornell to 11 games.
• Three turnovers and seven penalties – including four that extended Harvard drives – were more than Cornell could overcome.
• The Big Red defense held a high-octane Harvard offense averaging better than 500 yards to 388 yards on 80 plays and kept the visitors in the game most of the night.
• Junior Nick Gesualdi had 11 tackles, a sack and an interception in the loss, while classmate Kurt Frimel made six stops, had a forced fumble and broke up a pass.
• Justin Solomon had five stops with a sack and a blocked kick and Ryan Kelley made a pair of tackles for loss.
• Offensively, Dalton Banks was 19-of-39 passing for 257 yards and two touchdowns to go along with 29 rushing yards, but was also intercepted three times.
• Eight different players caught passes, with Ben Rogers hauling in four passes for 80 yards and two touchdowns.
• The Big Red offense had 337 yards of offense with just 80 of it coming against a Crimson defense that annually ranks among the best in the country against the run.
• With his 29-yard touchdown reception in the fourth quarter, senior Ben Rogers became Cornell's 22nd player to reach 1,000 career receiving yards (1,003).



LAST TIME OUT
• Junior quarterback Dalton Banks passed for 239 yards and the Big Red had more total offense than Colgate, but the visitors' defense came up with four interceptions and eight sacks to power the Raiders to a 21-7 victory at Schoellkopf Field.
• Banks accounted for the day's lone touchdown from Cornell on a 1-yard keeper.
• He set up the play with a completion to senior tight end Hayes Nolte on a second-and-24, and the extra point after the score cut the Colgate (2-3) lead in half with 1:25 to play in the third quarter.
• Colgate answered right back with a 15-play drive in which it soaked up nearly seven minutes and restored its two-touchdown lead after a 7-yard pass to the end zone from Grant Breneman to Malik Twyman.
• Senior Collin Shaw had five receptions for 60 yards, enough to move him into the school's career top 20 list with 1,163 yards - good for 19th in Cornell history.
• Senior James Hubbard had three catches for 37 yards, reaching the 50-catch milestone.
• Colgate cut the deficit in the series to 49-47-3 in a series that dates back to 1896.
• Senior Kurt Frimel had a pair of sacks over a span of three Colgate plays from scrimmage, giving him his first career multi-sack contest.
• Junior linebacker Reis Seggebruch tied a career high with 15 tackles, matching his performance against Brown in 2016. He upped his career total to 99 stops.
• Senior Justin Solomon made five tackles, surpassing 100 for his career (102)
• Junior Cyrus Nolan had his first career sack.
• Sophomore Owen Peters, who earned his first career start, made a career-high five catches for 50 yards.
• Also earning a first career start was sophomore offensive lineman Matt Wells.
• The 270 yards allowed was the fewest by a Big Red defense since 2009, when Cornell surrendered just 238 yards in a 33-9 victory over Bucknell.
• It was also the best defensive performance against the Raiders since a 2007 game that Colgate mustered just 265 yards in a 17-14 Big Red win.



CFA AWARDS HONORS FOUR, WELCOMES BACK '71 IVY CHAMPS AND '48-'52 TEAMS
• Cornell Football welcomes back the Ivy League championship 1971 football squad, as well as members of the Big Red from the 1948-52 teams, this weekend.
• In addition, the Cornell Football Association will honor both Mark Allen '74 and George Arangio '65 with the Louis J. Conti Lifetime Achievement Award, Phillip Ratner '66 with the Joseph P. King Memorial Award and Leo Reherman '88 with the Fallen Comrade Award at their Awards Day.

NEXT UP
• Cornell returns to Ivy League play with its second of four consecutive home contests when Harvard visits Schoellkopf Field on Saturday, Oct. 7 at 1:30 p.m.
• The teams will be meeting for the 82nd time dating back to the first meeting in 1890.
• Harvard leads the all-time series 47-32-2 and has won 14 of the last 16 contests.
• The Big Red's last win came during the 2005 campaign, a 27-13 victory at home.