Cornell will close out its 2024 home schedule and celebrate its seniors when it welcomes Dartmouth to Schoellkopf Field on Saturday, Nov. 16 at 1 p.m. The Big Red and first-year head coach Dan Swanstrom will find a Big Green team waiting for them that enters the day tied for first place in the Ivy League standings and has become a model of consistency - something Swanstrom is trying to build on East Hill. On the 84th anniversary of the Fifth-Down Game, the Big Red will attempt to make a national splash against a Dartmouth squad that has spent several weeks nationally ranked and is 7-1 entering the week.

• Dartmouth enters the week 7-1 overall and is tied with Harvard atop the Ancient Eight standings at 4-1.
• The Big Green are looking to close out an unbeaten road campaign, bringing a 4-0 record away from home into the contest. They are chasing their first unbeaten road mark since 2021.
• Dartmouth's wins over Penn (20-17), Yale (44-43 in OT) and Columbia (24-21) have come by a total of seven points.
• The Big Green's formula is tried and true, leading the conference in rushing offense (170.1 ypg.) and rushing defense (103.1 ypg.), dominating time of possession (15th nationally at 32:04) while taking care of the football (second nationally in fewest turnovers with five).
• Q Jones sits second int he Ivy League in rushing (643 yards), while Grayson Saunier has reached the end zone seven times on the ground with five touchdown passes as well.
• Saunier splits snaps behind center with Jackson Proctor, who has completed 68 percent of his passes for 998 yards and eight touchdowns.
• Paxton Scott paces the team in receptions (34) and receiving yards (411), with Chris Corbo pulling down six touchdowns receiving.
• Braden Mullen, Ejike Adele and Josiah Green rank 2-3-4 in the conference in sacks. 
• Dartmouth sports one of the nation's best place-kickers in Owen Zalc, who has made 13-of-15 field goals, including making 11-of-12 from inside of 50 yards and booting two more beyond 50.
• Second-year head coach Sammy McCorkle is 13-5 since taking over the program following the passing of longtime head coach Buddy Teevens.
• Dartmouth was one of three teams that shared the 2023 title with a 5-2 conference record.
 

The Series

• This will be the 107th meeting between Cornell and Dartmouth, with the Big Green holding a 63-42-1 lead in the series.
• The two teams first met in 1900, a 23-6 Cornell win. 
• The two teams have been fairly evenly matched in the last three decades, with 14 of the past 30 meetings being decided by a touchdown or less (Dartmouth leads 18-12 during that stretch).
• The Big Green had won 10 straight meetings in the series, prior to 2019, when Cornell spoiled its undefeated season with a 20-17 victory in Hanover, N.H. 
• Dartmouth won the 2023 meeting in Hanover, N.H. with a 30-14 victory.
 

The Fifth Down Game

• The 2024 meeting between the Big Red and Big Green is also the 84th anniversary of the famed Fifth-Down Game.
• Played on Nov. 16, 1940 in Hanover, N.H., top-ranked Cornell 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.
 

2024 Dartmouth Football Head Coach

Head Coach: Sammy McCorkle (Florida '97)
     Record at Dartmouth: 13-5, 2nd year
     Overall Record: 13-5, 2nd year
 

2024 Dartmouth Football Information

2024 Captains: Josiah Greene, Braden Mullen, Jackson Proctor
2023 Record: 6-4
     Home/Away/Neutral: 4-1/2-3/0-0
2023 Ivy League Record/Finish: 5-2 (t-1st)
Starters Returning/Lost: 13/9
Offensive Starters Returning/Lost: 8/3
Defensive Starters Returning/Lost: 5/6
 

Dartmouth Football Historical Information

First Year of Football: 1881
Overall All-Time Record: 740-471-46 (.607)
Overall Ivy League Record: 276-180-9 (.603)