HEAD COACH DAVID ARCHER '05
• Fifth season directing the Big Red football program (11-35 overall, .239; 8-23, Ivy, .258).
• 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 PRINCETON
• At 5-1 (2-1 Ivy) after a 52-17 rout at Harvard, the Tigers' biggest win over the Crimson in 50 years, Princeton has now won nine of its last 10 games overall starting with last year's 56-7 triumph over the Big Red.
• After opening the Ivy season with a 28-24 home loss to Columbia, the Tigers have averaged nearly 52 points per game in winning three straight, including league games over Harvard and Brown.
• Princeton's explosive offense the strong arm of Chad Kanoff (1,885 passing yards, 17 touchdowns), the sure hands of Jesper Horsted (712 receiving yards, eight touchdowns) and Stephen Carlson (548 receiving yards, six touchdowns) and the quick burst of Charlie Volker (432 rushing yards, nine touchdowns) behind an offensive line that has surrendered just six sacks.
• Defensively, the Tigers lead the Ivy League and rank third nationally in rushing defense (71.5 ypg.) with senior linebacker and 2016 Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year finalist Kurt Holuba leading the way with 16 tackles, four sacks and three pass breakups.
• Mike Wagner has 6.5 sacks, 9.0 takcles for loss, ranking second in the conference in both, while CJ Wall has three interceptions.
• Special teams features place-kicker Tavish Rice (7-of-8 field goals, 23-of-27 on PATs) and the apt-named Tiger Bech on returns (10.3 yards on six punt returns, 24.4 yards on 12 kickoff returns).
• Head coach Bob Surace is one of only two men to win an Ivy League title as both a player and head coach.
• Surace sports a 38-38 record, though it is 36-20 over the last six years after going 2-18 over his first two seasons.

THE SERIES
• This will be the 100th meeting between Cornell and Princeton, with the Tigers holding a commanding 61-36-2 advantage.
• The two teams first met in 1891, a 6-0 Princeton win.
• In all, 15 of the last 21 meetings have been decided by a touchdown or less.
• Princeton has won four straight games over the Big Red, including last season's 56-7 victory in Ithaca.

A WIN OVER PRINCETON WOULD ...
• give Cornell a 3-4 record.
• make Cornell 3-1 in Ivy play for the first time since 2000.
• snap Princeton's two-game win streak in the series.
• narrow the Tigers' lead in the all-time series to 61-37-2.
• give the Big Red wins over both Harvard and Princeton in the same season for the first time since 2000.
• be the 639th in program history (13th-most in the Football Championship Subdivision).

WILDEST SERIES IN COLLEGE FOOTBALL?
• 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.
• During that nearly three-decade span, an amazing run of exciting games have been played between the teams.
• Since 2000, when the series moved to Halloween week ...
2000 — Cornell blocked a PAT with 11 seconds left to win by one
2002 — a Princeton rally from a 25-10 deficit in the fourth quarter ended with a 32-25 Tiger win
2004 — a blocked Tiger PAT late in the fourth gave the Big Red a win
2005 — Derek Javarone of Princeton booted a game-winning field goal in OT to set an Ivy League record for career field goals
2006 — Cornell handed Ivy champ Princeton its only league loss in 2006
2007 — a Peter Zell 47-yard field goal fell short at the horn in a 37-34 Tiger win
2008 — the Big Red nearly rallied from a 12-point deficit in the final 45 seconds, with a pass into the end zone falling incomplete as time ran out in a 31-26 loss
2009 — Tommy Wornham connected with Trey Peacock for a 78-yard touchdown late in the fourth quarter gave Princeton a 17-13 win.
2010 — Emani Fenton broke up a two-point conversion that would have tied the game in the fourth quarter and then intercepted a pass with the Tigers in chip-shot field goal position with 23 seconds remaining for a 21-19 Big Red win
2011 — Cornell won 24-7, but even that was in a rare October Nor'easter than dropped eight inches of snow during the game
2012 — John Wells connected on a 23-yard field with 50 seconds left after missing a game-tying PAT attempt earlier in the fourth quarter
2013 — the Ivy champions were too much for the Big Red in a 53-20 Tiger victory that saw Tiger quarterback Quinn Epperly set an NCAA FCS record by opening the game with 29 consecutive completions and finished the day with six total touchdowns.
2014 — the teams combined for 65 points, 897 total yards (including 681 yards through the air) in a 38-27 Princeton victory
2015 — those numbers were even bigger in 2015 — 68 points and 908 total yards in a 47-21 Tigers win
2016 — en route to Ivy League Player of the Year honors, 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 triumph

DESTINY AWAITS
• Cornell enters the second half of the season with the second of five consecutive Ivy League games.
• At 2-1 in conference action and with games against the conference's only unbeaten (Columbia) and two of the league's four one-loss teams (Princeton, Dartmouth), the Big Red controls its own destiny this late in the season for the first time since 2000.
• That season, Cornell opened 5-1 and played Penn in the season finale with a chance to claim a share of the Ancient Eight title — a game Penn would go on to win 45-15 at Schoellkopf Field.
• Standing at 2-1 that season, Cornell earned a narrow 25-24 victory at home against Princeton before wins over Dartmouth and Columbia set the table for the winner-take-all matchup with the Quakers.

LAST TIME THEY MET
• 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.



LAST TIME OUT
• For the first time since 2000, the Cornell football team will head into the second half of an Ivy League season with title aspirations.
• A stingy defense and dominant running game led to a  34-7 victory over Brown on Homecoming at Schoellkopf Field.
• The Big Red defense limited Brown to 161 yards - including 59 over the first three quarters - for its lowest total in any game since 2005, all while allowing the Bears to convert just once in 13 third-down attempts.
• The offense piled up a season-best 504 yards and dominated time of possession as nine different ball-carriers toted the football 53 times for 276 yards.
• Special teams put six of seven kickoffs through the end zone for touchbacks, was perfect on two field goals and netted 44.2 yards per punt.
• Everyone who got in on the action contributed, along with 13,514 Homecoming revelers in the Crescent that provided extra motivation in ending Brown's nine-game win streak in the series.
• For the second straight week, a first-time starter at linebacker led the team in tackles as Mo Bradford had four stops in place of senior captain Kurt Frimel.
• Making their first career starts, sophomore David Jones had a pair of pass breakups and classmate Jelani Taylor had an 8-yard sack and a forced fumble.
• Sophomore tailback Harold Coles ran six times for 65 yards and a pair of touchdowns.
• Junior Chris Walker carried 16 times for 66 yards and a score and senior Jack Gellatly had a team-best 74 yards on seven carries, including a career-long 60-yard jaunt, as well as his second career touchdown.
• When he wasn't handing it off, junior Dalton Banks completed 19-of-26 passes for 228 yards and spread the ball around to eight different receivers.
• Junior place-kicker Zach Mays booted a pair of field goals to put the Big Red ahead early.
• Sophomore Nickolas Null averaged 44.2 net punting yards on five attempts to help the Big Red dominate the field position battle.



NOTES VS. BROWN
 • The 27-point victory margin was the largest in a home win since opening the 2013 campaign with a 45-13 triumph over Bucknell in the coaching debut of David Archer '05.
• Cornell held a 40:20-19:40 edge in time of possession, the first time with more than 40 minutes since holding the ball for 44:07 in a 2005 win over Columbia.
• Senior Collin Shaw moved to 16th on the school's receiving yards list with 1,246.
• The win was the biggest for the Big Red over Brown since 1990 - also a 34-7 home win for Cornell.
• No defensive player had more than four tackles, no receiver had more than four catches and only returning first-team All-Ivy running back Chris Walker had more than seven rushing attempts.
• After turning the ball over 11 times in its first three games (0-3), Cornell has given the ball away just three times in its last three (2-1) contests.
• Three Big Red players made their first career starts - David Jones at corner, Jelani Taylor at strong safety and Mo Bradford at middle linebacker.

NULL NAMED IVY LEAGUE SPECIAL TEAMS PLAYER OF THE WEEK
• Sophomore punter/place-kicker Nickolas Null was named Ivy League Special Teams Player of the Week after the Big Red topped Brown 34-7 on Oct. 21, snapping a nine-game skid against the Bears.
• He averaged 44.2 yards per punt on five kicks without allowing a return yard (netting 44.2 yards per punt) in a game that the Big Red dominated field position, then took over in the second half after an injury to starting place-kicker Zach Mays and hit all three PATs and, more importantly, put all three kickoffs through the end zone for touchbacks.

NEXT UP
• Cornell will visit Dartmouth on Saturday, Nov. 4 at 1:30 p.m. at Memorial Field in Hanover, N.H.
• The Big Green squeaked out a 17-13 victory over the Big Red a season ago, extending its lead in the all-time series to 59-40-1.
• Dartmouth has won eight consecutive matchups between the two programs.