HEAD COACH DAVID ARCHER '05
• Fifth season directing the Big Red football program (9-33 overall, .214; 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 COLGATE
• After opening the year with a 20-14 win at No. 23 Cal Poly, the Raiders have dropped three consecutive games against stiff competition (No. 9 Richmond, FCS Buffalo and Furman).
• Colgate has historically been among the top rushing teams in the country, and this year is no different, averaging 147.5 yards on the ground to lead the Patriot League.
• Defensively, junior linebacker T.J. Holl ranks first nationally in tackles (52) and tackles per game (13.0 per game) for a unit that has been tested by some of the nation's best offenses early.
• Colgate captains for 2017 are Pat  Afriyie and Alec Wisniewski on defense, and Ryan Paulish and Max Hartzman on offense.
• Under fourth-year head coach Dan Hunt, a longtime Colgate assistant, the Raiders have gone 20-20 (13-4 in Patriot League play) and won the 2015 conference title.

THE SERIES
• Cornell and Colgate will be meeting for the 99th time dating back to the first contest in 1896 with the Big Red holding a narrow 49-46-3 lead.
• The Big Red owned the early series, going 13-0-1 in the first 14 games (1896-1911), while also posting nine and seven-game win streaks before 1951.
• Colgate has had the better of the series since 1975, capturing 30 of the last 38 meetings, including 10 straight (1993-2005) before the Big Red commenced on a two-game win streak.
• The Raiders had won seven consecutive contests prior to last season's epic 39-38 comeback in Hamilton, N.Y., the Big Red's first road win at Colgate since 1992.

CORNELL vs. THE PATRIOT LEAGUE
• Cornell has a 132-80-7 record against the seven current members of the Patriot League football conference, including a 49-46-3 edge over Colgate.
• The Big Red has advantages over Bucknell (43-13), Fordham (4-3-0), Georgetown (2-1-0), Holy Cross (5-0-0), Lafayette (14-8-2) and Lehigh (15-9-2).
• Cornell will also play Bucknell at Schoellkopf Field on Oct. 14. 

A WIN OVER COLGATE WOULD ...
• give Cornell a 1-2 record.
• even the Big Red's record at 1-1 in non-league games.
• make the Big Red 1-0 at home this season.
• be the second straight over Colgate, a first since 2006-07.
• give Cornell wins in its home opener in consecutive years for the first time since winning three straight from 2011-13.
• extend the Big Red's lead in the all-time series to 50-46-3.
• give Cornell a 106-64-5 (.620) record all-time in the month of September.
• be the 637th in program history (13th-most in the Football Championship Subdivision).

LAST TIME THEY MET
• Sophomore quarterback Dalton Banks found senior wide receiver Collin Shaw in the back corner of the end zone with 28 seconds left to rally Cornell to a 39-38 win at No. 25/-- Colgate at Andy Kerr Stadium.
• The victory snapped a seven-game losing streak against ranked teams, with the last win over a Top 25 team coming in a 14-7 victory over No. 15 Princeton on Oct. 28, 2006.
• The last win for the Big Red over a ranked team on the road? That came in 1950, when the Big Red earned a 13-6 win over No. 13 Penn at Franklin Field.
• A year ago, Cornell fell behind big (28-7) and rallied to within a touchdown and had four plays within the Raiders' 10 in the final minute to tie the game, but fell short.
• This time, the Big Red fell down big (28-5), got within 38-33 in the third quarter and promptly turned the ball over three straight times.
• Unlike the 2015 season when a fourth-down pass fell to the ground, this time the fourth time was a charm.
• Banks capped off a 454-yard passing day with his fourth touchdown through the air and fifth total of the day by finding Shaw in the back right corner of the end zone with a defender draped over him.
• Chris Walker added 110 rushing yards on 13 carries and James Hubbard caught five passes for 105 yards and a highlight-reel 63-yard touchdown off a deflected pass on Cornell's final play of the third.
• Justin Solomon had a career-high 15 tackles for the Big Red, while Kurt Frimel notched 10 with two for a loss.



LAST TIME OUT
• Yale used a big second half to remain unbeaten, pulling away from Cornell for a 49-24 victory on Saturday afternoon at the Yale Bowl.
• Yale piled up 35 points and nearly 300 rushing yards after halftime, overcoming a first half that saw the Big Red seemingly dominate, but end on the short side of a 14-10 score at the break.
• Both Zane Dudek and DeShawn Salter ran for more than a 100 yards after halftime as the home time grounded out 297 yards on 28 carries in the final two quarters after posting just 55 yards on 11 carries in the first 30 minutes.
• The Bulldogs capitalized on one of the turnovers for a pick-six, and scored the go-ahead touchdown on a two-minute drive to end the half.
• Junior quarterback Dalton Banks completed 26-of-45 passes for 272 yards and two touchdowns, including his 20th and 21st varsity score through the air.
• Freshman Eric Gallman was his favorite target, catching nine passes for a Cornell freshman single-game record 97 yards.
• Both James Hubbard (57 yards) and Chris Walker (19 yards)  caught touchdown passes and sophomore Harold Coles posted his first career 100-yard rushing game, including a 90-yard gallop for a score in the fourth  quarter.
• That run was the second-longest run in school history.
• Senior Nick Gesualdi had his 12th career interception - third-most in school history - and classmate Kurt Frimel hadf seven tackles, including one for a loss and a forced fumble. 



CORNELL, COLGATE PARTICIPATE IN "COACH TO CURE MD"
• For the 10th year in a row, college football coaches nationwide will join together in support of the Coach To Cure MD program.
• The annual effort has raised more than $1.5 million dollars to battle Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (Duchenne).
• On the weekend of September 30th, American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) members will wear Coach To Cure MD patches on the sidelines and college football fans will be asked to donate to research projects supported by Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy (PPMD), the largest, most comprehensive nonprofit organization in  the U.S. focused entirely on Duchenne.  
• Football fans can help support the fight to end Duchenne by either going online to CoachtoCureMD.org or by texting the word CURE to 50555 to make a $10 donation in honor of this year's anniversary.
• Last year, more than 11,350 college coaches at more than 620 different institutions participated in Coach To Cure MD events.
• Duchenne muscular dystrophy is the most common fatal genetic disorder diagnosed during childhood and primarily affects boys across all races and cultures.
• People with Duchenne develop progressive muscle weakness that eventually causes loss of mobility, wheelchair dependency and a decline in respiratory and cardiac function.
•  Currently, there is no cure for Duchenne and limited therapeutic options exist.

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.