ITHACA, N.Y. -- Seniors Harold Coles and Jelani Taylor were named first-team All-Ivy League to headline eight Big Red picks after a vote by the Ancient Eight's head coaches it was announced Tuesday by the conference office. Senior David Jones, sophomore Hunter Nourzad and freshman Jake Stebbins were named to the second team, while senior John Fitzgerald and classmate Nickolas Null captured honorable mention accolades, with Null earning citations as both a place-kicker and punter.

Coles bumped up to the first team after capturing second team accolades as a running back last fall. He is ranked 25th nationally and second in the Ivy League in rushing yards per game (92.4 ypg.) while averaging 5.94 yards per carry in nine contests. His yards per carry number sits 17th nationally and paces the Ancient Eight. Coles had four 100-yard rushing games, including three in Ivy contests. The senior tied a career high with 141 yards on 16 carries at Ivy League co-champion Yale and ran for a 74-yard touchdown to cap a 15-carry, 111-yard effort in the win over No. 12 Dartmouth, the league's other co-champ. The two-time first-team academic all-district pick posted 122 yards on 21 carries with a pair of touchdowns in the season-ending 35-9 win over Columbia. He surpassed the 2,000-yard mark in the triumph over the Lions, graduating No. 8 on Cornell's career rushing list and finishing first in career yards per rush.

Taylor, who is a finalist for the William V. Campbell Trophy, earned his first All-Ivy honor with his first-team selection. The senior co-captain ranked first on the team and second in the Ivy League with 76 tackles. He also led the squad in passes defended (14), interceptions (three) and forced fumbles (two). He ranked third in the conference in passes defended (14th nationally) and second in interceptions (47th nationally) and fumbles forced. Taylor forced at least one turnover in five Ivy games. In Ivy games only, the safety paced the conference in tackles (62, 8.9 per game) and fumbles forced (two), was second in interceptions (three) and third in passes defended (13). The two-time first-team academic all-district pick added 2.0 tackles for loss, a fumble recovery for a touchdown and a two-point conversion breakup from his safety position and was named Ivy Defensive Player of the Week once. Taylor had a monster game at Harvard with 12 tackles, a half-tackle for loss, an interception and three pass breakups and returned a fumble 87 yards for a touchdown, the longest fumble return in school history, vs. Colgate. He was a hero against Brown, posting a game-high nine tackles, intercepting a pass and breaking up three others in a 37-35 win over Brown while also making a stop on a two-point conversion, getting a fourth down stop early in the second to turn the ball over on downs, and springing Eric Stoxstill-Diggs' 46-yard punt return for a touchdown with the key block on the return. He was credited with nine tackles, a half-tackle for loss, a forced fumble and an interception against No. 12 Princeton and registered a game-high 11 tackles with a forced fumble in the win over No. 12 Dartmouth. Taylor ranks in the top 30 all-time in Cornell history in tackles and his 30 passes defended is fifth in Big Red history.

Nourzad anchored the offensive line with 10 starts at right tackle. Despite having only one returning starter, the line helped Cornell increase its scoring average, total offense and rushing touchdown totals from a season ago. The Big Red allowed one sack or less in five of the team's games. He helped plow the way for an offense that rushed for 263 yards and three touchdowns in a win at Marist and opened holes for teammate Harold Coles' career-best 141-yard performance at Ivy preseason favorite Yale as the Big Red line surrendered just one sack. Nourzad paved the way for 470 yards of offense and 37 points without allowing a sack in the win over Brown. Cornell had four games with more than 400 yards of total offense – including two 200-yard rushing games and five with at least 250 passing yards.

Stebbins is one of 24 players nationally named a finalist for the Jerry Rice Award for FCS Freshman of the Year. The three-time Ivy League Rookie of the Week placed second on the team in tackles (58) and tackles for loss (6.5), as well as first in sacks (4.5) and forced fumbles (two) in 10 games at linebacker. He was fifth in the Ancient Eight in fumbles forced, eighth in sacks and 19th in tackles for loss despite starting just three games. Stebbins stands fourth nationally in sacks among freshmen in the FCS. He became the first Big Red rookie to register double figure tackles in a game since 2005 (Tim Bax with 10 at Dartmouth) with his 10-tackle, one-sack effort vs. Georgetown. He was also named Ivy League Rookie of the Week after posting seven tackles with 1.5 sacks and a forced fumble at Harvard and the following week after posting six tackles, including two for a loss and a sack, along with a forced fumble that was recovered and returned 87 yards for a touchdown vs. Colgate. Stebbins made nine tackles, with 1.5 for a loss and a sack, as well as a pass breakup, in the win over Brown.

For the second straight season, Jones earned a spot as a second-team cornerback. He tied for second on the team with 58 tackles and was sixth in the Ivy League with nine passes defended (two interceptions, seven pass breakups) to go along with 4.0 tackles for loss, 2.0 sacks and a forced fumble in 10 starts. Jones was named Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week after a season-opening win at Marist that saw him make five tackles, record 1.5 tackles for loss, an interception and three pass breakups. He posted a team-high seven tackles at Ivy champ Yale, had eight tackles with a sack and forced a fumble against No. 12 Princeton and posted six tackles with an interception in the win over No. 12 Dartmouth. Jones was credited with six stops and a pass breakup in the season finale win over Columbia. Jones graduates in the top 10 in school history in interceptions (nine) and passes defended (26).

Fitzgerald earned his first All-Ivy honor after catching 20 passes for 226 yards and a touchdown while also ranking as a sixth offensive lineman in the blocking schemes. Fitzgerald caught four passes for 68 yards and a touchdown, hauling in a huge 26-yard reception on the game-winning final drive as Cornell rallied past Brown. He caught multiple passes in six games this season and racked up 350 career receiving yards as a three-year letter winner.

Null was recognized as both a place-kicker and punter for the second time in three seasons. He led the Ivy League and ranked 58th nationally with his 39.5 yard average on punts with 16 downed inside the 20 and seven going at least 50 yards. In Ivy games only, the senior led the conference in total punts, punts inside the 20 (11), 50-yard punts (5) and punts that were fair caught (15). He was also fifth in the Ancient Eight in field goals per game (0.67, 83rd nationally). Null connected on a PAT and a 49-yard field goal, a career-long and the sixth-longest in school history, while punting eight times at Harvard and booted a game-winning, 41-yard field goal with nine seconds left to give the Big Red a 37-35 win over Brown. That capped a day that saw him go 3-for-3 on field goals (38, 29, 41 yards) and 4-of-4 on PATs while also averaging 42.0 yards on three punts with one downed inside the Brown 5. He booted a pair of field goals and averaged 36.0 yards per punt with three downed inside the 20 on seven attempts in the win at No. 12 Dartmouth. Cornell's all-time leader in field goal percentage (16-of-21, .762), he ranks second in nearly every punting category behind four-time first-team All-Ivy punter Chris Fraser. Null was a second-team place-kicker and honorable mention punter as a sophomore in 2017 before missing a majority of 2018 due to injury.

Cornell finished the 2019 season with a 4-6 overall record (3-4 Ivy) and earned an upper division finish for the first time since 2006 with a fourth place finish. The Big Red defeated Ivy co-champ and 12th-ranked Dartmouth on the road and trailed the other Ivy champ, Yale, 20-16 with under two minutes to play. Two of its losses came by a single point. Head coach David Archer has now had 44 All-Ivy selections in his seven seasons.

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ROOKIE OF THE YEAR 
Aidan Borguet, Harvard (Fr., RB – Franklinville, N.J.) 
 
COACH OF THE YEAR
Buddy Teevens, Dartmouth 
 
FIRST TEAM ALL-IVY
Offense
Zach Sammartino, Dartmouth (Sr., OL – Pittsburgh, Pa.) 
Liam Shanahan, Harvard (Sr., OL – Marlborough, Mass.) 
Greg Benoche, Penn (Sr., OL – Delray Beach, Fla.) 
Alex Deters, Princeton (Sr., OL – Cincinnati, Ohio) 
Dieter Eiselen, Yale (Sr., OL – Stellenbosch, South Africa) 
EJ Perry, Brown (Jr., QB – Andover, Mass.) 
* Kurt Rawlings, Yale (Sr., QB – Bel Air, Md.) 
Harold Coles, Cornell (Sr., RB – Erie, Pa.) 
Karekin Brooks, Penn (Sr., RB – Marietta, Ga.) 
JP Shohfi, Yale (Sr., WR – San Marino, Calif.) 
Reed Klubnik, Yale (Sr., WR – Austin, Texas) 
Rory Schlageter, Columbia (Sr., TE – Maplewood, N.J.) 
 
Defense
Jackson Perry, Dartmouth (Sr., DL – Las Vegas, Nev.) 
Niko Lalos, Dartmouth (Sr., DL – Akron, Ohio) 
Brogan McPartland, Harvard (Sr., DL – Stephens City, Va.) 
Prince Emili, Penn (Sr., DL – New City, N.Y.) 
Nigel Alexander, Dartmouth (Sr., LB – Orlando, Fla.)
* Jack Traynor, Dartmouth (Sr., LB – Lake Forest, Ill.) 
Jordan Hill, Harvard (Jr., LB – Silver Spring, Md.) 
* Jeremiah Tyler, Princeton (Jr., LB – Detroit, Mich.) 
Jelani Taylor, Cornell (Sr., DB – Beecher, Mich.) 
* Isiah Swann, Dartmouth (Sr., DB – Queen Creek, Ariz.) 
Isaiah Wingfield, Harvard (Jr., DB – Burlington, N.J.) 
Delan Stallworth, Princeton (Jr., DB – Cincinnati, Ohio) 
 
Special Teams
Sam Tuckerman, Yale (Sr., K – Bexley, Ohio) 
Jon Sot, Harvard (So., P – Clark, N.J.) 
* Mike Roussos, Columbia (So., RS – New Port Richey, Fla.) 
 
SECOND TEAM ALL-IVY^
Offense
Chad Broome-Webster, Brown (Jr., OL – Orlando, Fla.) 
Hunter Nourzad, Cornell (So., OL – Marietta, Ga.) 
Evan Hecimovich, Dartmouth (Jr., OL – Lisle, Ill.) 
Eric Wilson, Harvard (Jr. OL – Minnetrista, Minn.) 
Henry Byrd, Princeton (So., OL – Nashville, Tenn.) 
Sterling Strother, Yale (Sr., OL – Moraga, Calif.) 
Jared Gerbino, Dartmouth (Sr., QB – Rush, N.Y.) 
Devin Darrington, Harvard (Jr., RB – Forest Hill, Md.) 
Collin Eaddy, Princeton (Jr., RB – Raleigh, N.C.) 
Zane Dudek, Yale (Jr., RB – Kittanning, Pa.) 
Drew Estrada, Dartmouth (Sr., WR – Argyle, Texas) 
Ryan Cragun, Penn (So., WR – San Juan Capistrano, Calif.) 
Jacob Birmelin, Princeton (Jr., WR – Royal Palm Beach, Fla.) 
Carson Bobo, Princeton (So., TE – Birmingham, Ala.) 
 
Defense
Michael Hoecht, Brown (Sr., DL – Oakwood, Ohio) 
Daniel DeLorenzi, Columbia (Sr., DL – Cedar Grove, N.J.) 
David Chalmers, Dartmouth (Sr., DL – Leesburg, Va.) 
Sam Wright, Princeton (Jr., DL – Lawrenceville, Ga.) 
Spencer Matthaei, Yale (Sr., DL – Bayville, N.Y.) 
Jake Stebbins, Cornell (Fr., LB – Cranberry Township, Pa.) 
Brian O'Neill, Penn (Jr., LB – Roseland, N.J.) 
Zach Evans, Penn (Sr., LB – Harrison, N.Y.) 
Ryan Burke, Yale (Sr., LB – Huntington Beach, Calif.) 
David Jones, Cornell (Sr., DB – Sugar Land, Texas) 
Ryan Roegge, Dartmouth (Sr., DB – Marietta, Ga.) 
Darren Stanley, Dartmouth (Jr., DB – Conway, S.C.) 
Malcolm Dixon, Yale (Sr., DB – Gardena, Calif.) 
 
Special Teams
Tavish Rice, Princeton (Sr., K – Miami, Fla.) 
Will Powers, Princeton (Fr., P – Manhattan Beach, Calif.) 
Drew Estrada, Dartmouth (Sr., RS – Argyle, Texas) 
 
HONORABLE MENTION ALL-IVY
Offense
Parker Coogan, Columbia (Sr., OL – Kingwood, Texas) 
James Lee, Harvard (Jr., OL – San Diego, Calif.) 
Brent Holder, Princeton (Sr., OL – Chicago, Ill.) 
Cameron Warfield, Yale (Jr., OL – Washington, D.C.) 
Kevin Davidson, Princeton (Sr., QB – Danville, Calif.) 
Jakob Prall, Brown (Sr., WR – Tipp City, Ohio) 
Livingstone Harriott, Brown (Sr., WR – Central Islip, N.Y.) 
Hunter Hagdorn, Dartmouth (Sr., WR – Manvel, Texas) 
Emerson Logie, Brown (Sr., TE – New Canaan, Conn.) 
John Fitzgerald, Cornell (Sr., TE – Baltimore, Md.) 
Jake Guidone, Dartmouth (Jr., TE – East Walpole, Mass.) 
 
Defense
Nasir Darnell, Harvard (Jr., DL – Matawan, N.J.) 
Joey DeMarco, Princeton (Sr., DL – Del Mar, Calif.) 
Scott Valentas, Columbia (Fr., LB – Wichita, Kan.) 
Cameron Kline, Harvard (Sr., LB – Alpharetta, Ga.) 
Joey Goodman, Harvard (Sr., LB – Marietta, Ga.) 
James Johnson, Princeton (Jr., LB – Moorestown, N.J.) 
Rodney Thomas II, Yale (Jr., LB – Pittsburgh, Pa.) 
Ben Mathiasmeier, Columbia (Jr., DB – Katy, Texas) 
Benjamin McKeighan, Columbia (Sr., DB – Scottsdale, Ariz.) 
Niko Mermigas, Dartmouth (Jr., DB – Wexford, Pa.)  
Cole Thompson, Harvard (Sr., DB – Folsom, Calif.) 
TJ Floyd, Princeton (Sr., DB – Jacksonville, Fla.) 
Melvin Rouse II, Yale (Jr., DB – East Charlotte, N.C.) 
 
Special Teams
Alex Felkins, Columbia (Fr., K – Tulsa, Okla.) 
Nickolas Null, Cornell (Sr., K – Bradenton, Fla.)
Nickolas Null, Cornell (Sr., P – Bradenton, Fla.)
Jacob Birmelin, Princeton (Jr., RS – Royal Palm Beach, Fla.) 
 
^ Second Team Expanded Due to Ties in Voting
* Unanimous Selection