Football Takes Its Shot At Unbeaten #12 Princeton Friday Night On ESPNU

Jake Stebbins looks into the Colgate backfield during a game on Oct. 19, 2019 at Schoellkopf Field in Ithaca, N.Y.
For the third week in a row, freshman linebacker Jake Stebbins was named Ivy League Football Rookie of the Week.

STREAKS, STORYLINES & SIDEBARS 
• The Cornell football team will look to slow down a Princeton buzz-saw when the Ivy-leading and 12th-ranked Tigers visit Schoellkopf Field on Friday, Nov. 1 at 6:00 p.m. in a game that will be televised nationally on ESPNU. 
• Bill Spaulding and Jack Ford will be in the broadcast booth as the Big Red attempts to win its first Friday game in 127 years (since a 16-0 victory over Manhattan Athletics Club on Nov. 18, 1892) - Big Red is 0-5 since. 
• The defending Ivy League champions bring a 16-game win streak into the contest and as heavy favorites, but crazy things have happened in a series that has been played on or around Halloween since 2000. 
• Peppered with last-second finishes, crazy endings and upsets galore, nine of the last 15 contests have been decided by a touchdown or less, with that stretching to 12 of the last 19 meetings and 19 of the last 29.  
• During that stretch, Cornell knocked off a ranked unbeaten Tiger squad in 2006 at home (14-7). 
• Last year’s 66-0 Princeton win came nearly a year to the day after Cornell came back from a 12-point fourth quarter deficit for a 29-28 victory over a defending league champion Tigers’ squad in 2017. 
• In that win, Nickolas Null kicked a 43-yard field goal with 28 seconds left, closely mirroring the 41-yarder he hit with nine seconds remaining in last weekend’s 37-35 win over Brown.  
• Cornell snapped a four-game skid overall and picked up its first three-game win streak over the Bears since 1990-93, before any current member of the Big Red was born. 
• The Big Red offense came alive with a season-high 37 points and 470 yards, while the defense and special teams made huge plays in the final minute to lift Cornell to the shootout win. 
• Princeton brings in one of college football’s most potent offenses, ranking second in the FCS in scoring, and among the top 10 in nearly every defensive category. 

LOOKING FORWARD, LOOKING BACK 
• This year’s version of the Big Red returns 14 starters (six offense, eight defense), as well as its punter, placekicker, long-snapper and return specialists from a year ago.  
• Cornell went 3-7 in 2018 with a pair of league losses to top-half teams by less than a touchdown (Yale, Columbia).  
• The Big Red defeated Harvard for the second straight season for the first time since 1999 and 2000, and hammered previously unbeaten Sacred Heart at home, 43-24.  
• Cornell rallied from a double-digit deficit at Brown for a 34-16 victory, the Big Red’s first win in Providence, R.I. since 2002 and its first consecutive victories over the Bears since 1993 - before any current member of the team was born.  
• Cornell’s seven losses came against teams that sported a cumulative 53-21 record, including four to nationally ranked opponents (Colgate, Delaware, Princeton and Dartmouth).  
• Colgate reached the national quarterfinals and Delaware earned a spot in the FCS Playoffs, while Princeton went undefeated (10-0) and joined fellow Ivy rival Dartmouth (9-1) in the final top 25 poll.  
• Cornell also faced seven of the nation’s top 20 defenses, but still had its most successful season running the ball since 2006 (156.1 yards per game).  
• Six Big Red players earned All-Ivy honors, with Harold Coles (RB) and David Jones (CB) both finding a spot on the second team.  
• The Cornell football team was picked to finish seventh in the Ivy League’s annual preseason poll.  
• For the fourth times in five seasons, the Big Red will look to surpass the prediction from the poll.  
• After being picked to place eighth in 2017, the Big Red finished tied for fifth and entered November in the thick of the Ivy race for the first time since 2000.  
• The Big Red was chosen to finish eighth in 2016, then started the year 3-0 and took sixth in the final league standings.  
• The year before it was eighth in the poll and didn’t end there either.  
• The 2017 season saw Cornell climb to fifth in the Ivy standings at 3-4 and was in contention for the Ivy title in November for the first time since 2000.  
• The team’s three Ivy wins were the most since 2011 and tied for the best Ivy record by the program in more than a decade.  
• With six more wins, Cornell will reach 650 all-time (13th all-time in FCS history).  
• With three more wins at Schoellkopf Field, the Big Red would close out 300 all-time victories at the historic facility, the fourth-oldest FCS stadium (opened in 1915). Only Penn’s Franklin Field (1895), Harvard Stadium (1903) and the Yale Bowl (1914) are older.  

David Archer '05 

The Roger J. Weiss '61 Head Coach of Football

• Seventh season directing the Big Red football program. 
• 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. 
• The 2017 season saw Cornell in contention for the Ivy title in November for the first time since 2000. 
• That team’s three Ivy wins were the most since 2011 and tied for the best Ivy record by the program in more than a decade. 
• Led team to three-game improvement in 2016, tied for program’s biggest turnaround since 1986. 
• 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. 
• Has developed 36 All-Ivy selections, two Ivy league Rookies of the Year, two Academic All-Americans and four FCS All-Americans in six years as head coach.

David Archer, 2017
Head coach David Archer '05

ABOUT PRINCETON
• The unbeaten Tigers have won 16 consecutive games and have been equally dominant on both the offensive and defensive sides of the ball. 
• Princeton ranks third nationally in total offense and second in scoring while posting a No. 12 ranking in total defense and is No. 5 in scoring defense. 
• Coming off a 30-24 win over Harvard in a battle of unbeatens and with a showdown with unbeaten and nationally-ranked Dartmouth on the horizon, the Tigers are in the midst of its toughest stretch of the season. 
• Speedster Collin Eaddy leads the rushing attack with 401 yards and seven scores on the ground (nine overall), while first-year quarterback starter Kevin Davidson has emerged as an Ivy Player of the Year candidate with 1,854 passing yards and 18 touchdowns against just two interceptions. 
• Five different receivers have scored multiple touchdowns through the air, with Jacob Birmelin leading the way with team-highs of 35 receptions and 545 yards along with three scores. 
• Princeton’s defense has forced 12 turnovers, while the offense has coughed it up just twice through six games. 
• James Johnson has a team-best 40 tackles, with Jeremiah Tyler not far behind with 36 stops, including eight for a loss. 
• Head coach Bob Surace, a three-time finalist for FCS Coach of the Year honor, sports a 54-42 record, though it is 52-22 over the last eight years after going 2-20 in his first 22 games on the sidelines. 

THE SERIES 
• This will be the 102nd meeting between Cornell and Princeton, with the Tigers holding a commanding 62-37-2 advantage.  
• The two teams first met in 1891, a 6-0 Princeton win.  
• In all, 16 of the last 23 meetings have been decided by a touchdown or less.  
• The Big Red snapped Princeton’s four-game win streak in the series with a 29-28 comeback win in New Jersey in 2018, but the Tigers earned payback a year later in a 66-0 win. 

A WIN OVER PRINCETON WOULD ... 
• make Cornell 3-4 on the season. 
• even the Big Red’s record at 2-2 in Ivy play. 
• give Cornell two wins in its last three games against the Tigers. 
• be the first win over a ranked opponent since defeating No. 25 Colgate 39-38 in 2016.  
• give the Big Red a victory over a ranked opponent at Schoellkopf Field since topping No. 15/18 Princeton 14-7 during the 2006 campaign. 
• be the 645th 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, nine of the last 15 contests have been decided by a touchdown or less, with that stretching to 12 of the last 19 meetings and 19 of the last 29.  
• Fourteen games have been decided by a field goal or less or in overtime during a 29-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 horne 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 to give 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 for a 37-35 Big Red win. 
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 — 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. 
2017 — Cornell erases a 12-point fourth quarter deficit, with Nickolas Null kicking a 43-yard field goal with 28 seconds left for a 29-28 win at Princeton.  
2018 — The Tigers run out to a 45-0 lead and pours it on for a 66-0 victory at Princeton Stadium. 

BIG RED VS. RANKED OPPONENTS 
• Cornell will be playing its first ranked opponent of the season and its fourth in the last two seasons when it welcomes No. 12 Princeton to Schoellkopf Field. 
• The last time the Big Red topped a ranked opponent was in 2016 when Cornell rallied for a 39-38 triumph over then No. 25 Colgate - the team’s first win over a ranked squad on the road since 1954. 
• Dating back to 1936, the Big Red is 10-40-1 against teams ranked in the top 25. 
• The highest ranked win Cornell has had was when it topped No. 4 Ohio State 23-14 on Oct. 28, 1939 in Columbus, Ohio. 
• Cornell last defeated a ranked Princeton team (No. 15/18) in 2006 when it knocked off an unbeaten Tigers teams 14-7 on Oct. 28, 2006 at Schoellkopf Field. 

Princeton football statistics, 2019 matchup

LAST TIME THEY MET: Princeton 66, Cornell 0
Oct. 27, 2018 I Princeton, N.J.
GAME STORY I BOX SCORE

• The unbeaten, nationally-ranked Tigers turned nearly every Cornell mistake into points and made a rainy, blustery day that much worse in a 66-0 win over the Big Red at Princeton Stadium.  
• The Tigers jumped out to a 45-0 halftime lead, taking advantage of three early Cornell turnovers and a blocked punt to pile up 333 yards of offense at the break.  
• The nation’s top-ranked scoring offense scored six first half touchdowns - all less than 3 yards - and rolled to victory in a series that otherwise had been decided by a field goal or less 14 times in the last 28 years.  
• The Princeton offense, which entered the game scoring 48 points per outing, converted on seven straight series to end the first half .  
• Of Princeton’s 10 scoring drives, only one was greater than 57 yards. The home team’s average starting field position was midfield. 
• Junior David Jones had his seventh career interception, while senior Reis Seggebruch had a game-high eight stops.  
• Senior Mason Banbury had seven tackles and junior Jelani Taylor notched six.  
• Junior Harold Coles became the 30th Cornellian to surpass 1,000 career rushing yards - he ended the afternoon with career 1,010 yards 
• Freshman Delonte Harrell led the way for the offense with 42 rushing yards on 12 carries.  
• In all, the Big Red posted 139 rushing yards against a Princeton defense that ranked 11th nationally, allowing just 97 yards each contest.  
• In all, 10 different receivers had at least one catch from quarterbacks Dalton Banks (8-of-18, 70 yards, four interceptions) and Richie Kenney (5-of-11, 134 yards). 
• Charlie Volker had three touchdown runs and quarterback John Lovett had 192 yards of total offense and was responsible for a pair of touchdowns.  
• TJ Floyd led the defense with two interceptions and Anthony Siragusa had a team-best seven tackles, including 1.5 for a loss.  

David Jones, ready to defend against a Harvard wide receiver in 2018, was named Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week on Sept. 23, 2019.
David Jones had his seventh career interception in the loss at Princeton.
SK Howard carries the ball against Brown during an NCAA football game at Schoellkopf Field in Ithaca, N.Y. on Oct. 26, 2019.
SK Howard carries the ball against Brown during an NCAA football game at Schoellkopf Field in Ithaca, N.Y. on Oct. 26, 2019.

LAST TIME OUT: Cornell 37, Brown 35
Oct. 26, 2019 I Ithaca, N.Y.
GAME STORY I BOX SCORE I BEYOND THE BOX SCORE I GALLERY I HIGHLIGHTS I FEATURE

• Senior Nickolas Null’s 39-yard field goal in the final 10 seconds lifted Cornell to a 37-35 win over Brown in a wild Saturday afternoon Ivy League football showdown on Schoellkopf Field. 
• In a game that featured 991 yards of offense and a pair of lead changes in the final 4:17, it was the Big Red that made the key plays late in all three phases in the final minute to lift the team to victory. 
• The defense forced a turnover on downs, stopping the Bears on a fourth-and-6 from the Big Red 12 when senior Jake Watkins broke through the Brown line and sacked Brown’s EJ Perry for a huge 16-yard loss to keep the score at 35-34.  
• Starting at the Big Red’s own 28 instead of the 12 or closer, junior quarterback Richie Kenney went to work.  
• He found Eric Gallman for a 15 yard completion, followed by a 26-yard connection to John Fitzgerald to get Cornell into field goal range.  
• Cornell took a quick 7-yard pass to Owen Peters to get a little closer for Null, whose  third field goal of the day hit the left goalpost and bounced through for the game winner. 
• Kenney completed 23-of-35 passes for a career-best 332 yards and a touchdown to Fitzgerald.  
• Owen Peters led the way with eight catches for 110 yards, his second career 100-yard receiving game, while junior SK Howard ran 21 times for a career-high 121 yards and two touchdowns.  
• In all, Cornell had 470 yards of offense and the line didn’t allow a sack. 
• Null added field goals of 38 and 29 to his 41-yard winner, while also connecting on all four extra-point kicks.  
• Senior captain Jelani Taylor had nine tackles, an interception and three other pass breakups, while rookie Jake Stebbins posted a game-high nine tackles with 1.5 for a loss, a sack and a pass breakup.  
• Watkins had eight stops, the game-changing sack and a pass breakup.  
• Sophomore Eric Stoxstill-Diggs notched seven tackles, including a sack, and returned a punt that bounced off a Brown player 46 yards for a touchdown. 

Cornell football players line up for practice during the 1938 season, a moment to remember during college football's 150th season.
Members of the 1938 Big Red team practice for an upcoming game.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL AT 150 (#CFB150) 
• This is the 133rd year since the start of Cornell football, but it will be the 132nd 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 collected five national titles (1915, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1939), won more than 600 games and  has  had  legendary  players  and  coaches  perform  on  historic Schoellkopf Field.  
• 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.  
• Cornell is the only Ivy League school to be ranked No. 1 in the weekly Associated Press poll, holding the top ranking for three weeks (10/15-10/29) of the 1940 season.  
• The No. 1 ranking ended with the historic “Fifth Down Game” against Dartmouth.  
• 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  (including Warner,  Gil  Dobie  and  Carl  Snavely)  and  multiple-time  Super  Bowl  winner  George  Seifert  have  set  the  strategy  as  head  coaches.  
• 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 126 this season.  
• The 106 meetings between Cornell and Columbia ranks 14th, while the Cornell-Dartmouth rivalries stand 19th with 102 games played.  
• Right behind that is the series with Princeton (102 meetings) and Colgate (100 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 99 years.  
• They trail only the Lafayette-Lehigh series, which has been played every year since 1897.  
• 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). 
• Cornell was involved in one of the most historic games in college football history, the “Fifth Down Game.” 
• Played on Nov. 16, 1940 in Hanover, N.H., the top-ranked Big Red improved to 6-0 with a 7-3 victory over Dartmouth, scoring on the game’s final play. 
• After reviewing game film on Monday, Coach Carl Snavely and acting athletic director Robert J. Kane wired Dartmouth officials to tell them Cornell scored on an inadvertent fifth down. 
• Though there were no rules compelling the outcome to be changed, in an unprecedented act of sportsmanship, the Big Red relinquished claims to the win.  
• The Big Green accepted the forfeit, winning the contest 3-0. 
• It remains the only time a collegiate sporting contest has been decided off the field after the completion of a game.  

CORNELL FOOTBALL AT 132 (#CFB150) 
• The Big Red has an overall record of 644-532-34 (.547) in its 132 years of football.  
• The program’s 644 wins rank 13th among all FCS schools.  
• Over the years, Cornell has taken on 91 different opponents, with its most frequent opponent being Penn (125 meetings).  

BIG RED 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.

Longtime assistant coach Pete DeStefano roams the sidelines in a game against Harvard on Oct., 7, 2017 at Schoellkopf Field in Ithaca, N.Y. The Big Red defeated the Crimson 17-14.
Pete DeStefano is in his 30th year on the sidelines for Cornell football.

DeSTEFANO ANNOUNCES RETIREMENT 
• Pete DeStefano, the longest tenured assistant football coach in Cornell history, has announced that he will retire after the completion of the 2019 season, his 30th on the Big Red sidelines.
• A constant on the sidelines for the Big Red since 1990 on the defensive side of the ball, he coached or recruited 36 All-Ivy League players during his tenure. 
• He is currently in the seventh year as the program's first Director of Player Personnel, Alumni, Community and Career Programs. 
• His role is instrumental in the off-field development of Cornell's student-athletes from the time they reach campus until long after they graduate as alumni and fans of the Big Red.  

HOLM, TAYLOR NAMED CO-CAPTAINS 
• Seniors George L. Holm III and Jelani Taylor will serve as team captains for the 2019 season. 
• The duo will provide steadying leadership as college football celebrates its 150th season this fall.
• Holm, a 6-4 offensive lineman from Richmond, Va., emerged as a starter late in the 2018 season and saw action in each of the team's 10 contests to earn his first varsity letter. 
• Holm helped the Big Red rush for 1,561 yards and 13 touchdowns, the most rushing yards in a season since 2006 (1,821). 
• Taylor, a 5-11 safety from Beecher, Mich., was a first-team academic all-district selection after leading the team in tackles (72) and passes defended (nine) a year ago. 

The Cornell Big Red football captains George Holm (67) and Jelani Taylor (23) pose for portraits on Aug. 19, 2019 on Schoellkopf Field in Ithaca, NY.
George L. Holm III and Jelani Taylor are the 2019 Big Red football captains.

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 in 13 of the 14 seasons since 2004-05, when the scores were first tabulated.  
• Cornell’s score of 987 (out of 1,000) this past year was tied for the fourth-highest in school history (the seven highest scores in program history have come over the last seven years - 987, 987, 986, 991, 988, 992, 987), but was just outside the top 10 percent. 
• The 992 APR score this year is also the 25th-highest among all Division I football schools. 
• 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. 

ACADEMIC SUCCESS 
• Cornell football had two players named to the 2018 CoSIDA Academic All-District 1 team. 
• Harold Coles ‘20 (3.48 GPA, Applied Economics & Management) and Jelani Taylor ‘20 (3.85 GPA, Hotel Administration) were both selected to represent the Big Red. 
• Cornell’s 10 members on the District 2 team over the last three years are the most of any school. 
• The Big Red has had 13 football players earn a total of 18 appearances on the CoSIDA Academic All-America team dating back to 1977. 

CORNELLIANS IN THE NFL 
• Seventh-year offensive lineman JC Tretter ‘13 will be beginning his third season with the Cleveland Browns after spending his first four pro seasons with the Green Bay Packers. 
• The FCS All-American was taken in the fourth round of the NFL Draft by the Packers in 2013. 
• He was named the Packers’ starting center in 2016 and played in 31 contests with 10 starts. 
• Has seen action at both tackle spots and left guard as well as at center during his career. 

CORNELLIANS IN PRO FOOTBALL 
• Kevin Boothe ‘05 – TitleDirector, Football Development and Strategy, NFL. 
• Buck Briggs ‘76 – Vice President for Arbitration and Litigation, NFL (Retired). 
• Zac Canty ‘09 – Northeast Area Scout, Arizona Cardinals 
• Andrew Johnson ‘15 – Scout, Cincinnati Bengals 
• Jeff Mathews ‘14 – QB, Toronto Argonauts, CFL 
• Ty Siam ‘11 – Football Operations Analyst, New York Giants 
• Luke Tasker ‘13 – WR, Hamilton Tiger-Cats, CFL 

CORNELL, IVY LEAGUE FOOTBALL FEATURED ON ESPN+ 
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• ESPN+ is available on all of ESPN’s existing platforms: Website, mobile app, OTT (Apple TV/Roku) app.

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CORNELL ATHLETICS HALL OF FAME ADDS FORD '09 
• Nathan Ford ‘09 was among 10 new members that were inducted into the Cornell University Athletics Hall of Fame on Oct. 5.  
• Ford captained both the football and baseball teams, earning All-Ivy League honors in both sports.  
• He was an honorable mention All-Ivy pick as a senior.  
• The three-year starter at quarterback led the Ivy League in both passing (281.5 yards per game) and total offense (284.9 yards per game), ranking 12th and eighth nationally in those categories, respectively, in his final season.  
• Set school records for completion percentage in a career (.607), consecutive completions (17) and single-game completion percentage (.833, 25-of-30 vs. Dartmouth).  
• Ford had four career 300-yard games and two 400-yard efforts, including a 39-of-63 passing day for 438 yards and two scores in the comeback win at Lehigh, finding teammate Jesse Baker in the end zone from 20 yards out as time expired to win the game.  
• His 6,266 passing yards ranked eighth in Ivy history and second at Cornell, while his 6,707 yards of offense places him ninth in the Ancient Eight.  
• Ford accounted for 37 career touchdowns (26 passing, 11 rushing). 

NEXT UP 
• The Big Red begins its final road swing of the season when it visits Penn on Saturday, Nov. 9 at 1:30 p.m. at Franklin Field. 
• It will be the 126th all-time meetings between the teams with the Quakers in the lead 74-46-5.  
• The series is the fifth-most played in college football history. 
• The game will be played for the Trustees’ Cup, with Penn leading 17-7 for the trophy.   

Photos by Princeton Athletics, Dave Burbank, Madison Epperson, Eldon Lindsay, Patrick Shanahan and Darl Zehr

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