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Princeton Game Notes 2015 Princeton Tigers Football 1957, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1969, 1989, 1992, 1995, 2006, 2013 Ivy League champions 2015 Princeton Football YALE (5-3, 2-3 IVY) AT PRINCETON (5-3, 2-3 IVY) Nov. 14, 2015 • 1 pm • powers Field at priNcetoN stadium TV/Video ................................................Ivy Digital Network Last At Site .................. PRINCETON 59, Yale 23 (11/16/13) Radio/Audio ................... 103.3 FM/GoPrincetonTigers.com Last Five Years ....................................................... Yale 3-2 All-Time Series ....................................Yale leads 75-52-10 Current Streak ............................................................Yale 1 Last Meeting ....................YALE 44, Princeton 30 (11/15/14) Next Week....... at Dartmouth (11/21 • 12 pm • ASN/ILDN) FOLLOWING THE TIGERS ON TWITTER Princeton Athletics .......@PUTigers Live Coverage ......@PUTigers_Live Princeton Football .....@PUTigerFootball Follow Along Princeton’s showdown with Yale will be streamed live on the Ivy League Digital Network, with Princeton Dan Loney and Dave Giancola providing the call. You can also listen live on 103.3 FM WPRB, as well as on wprb.com. Tigers Historic Rivalry Head Coach ........................................ Bob Surace This is the 138th meeting between Princeton and Yale, making it the longest- 2015 PRINCETON SCHEDULE running rivalry in the Ivy League and the second-longest active rivalry in all of college Sept. 19 Princeton 40, LAFAYETTE 7 football (Lehigh and Lafayette will play for the 151st time next weekend). Yale leads the all-time se- Sept. 26 PRINCETON 52, Lehigh 26 ries 75-52-10, but the two teams have split the last two, the last four, and the last six meetings. No Oct. 2 PRINCETON 10, Columbia 5 team has won more than two straight games in this series over the last decade. Oct. 10 PRINCETON 44, Colgate 20 Yale won last year’s game 44-30, thanks in part to a 405-yard passing game by quarterback Morgan Roberts. Current Princeton senior co-captain Matt Arends had 10 tackles and in interception Oct. 17 BROWN 38, Princeton 31 in the game. Oct. 24 HARVARD 42, Princeton 7 Oct. 31 PRINCETON 47, Cornell 21 Home Cooking Nov. 7 PENN 26, Princeton 23 (OT) Since the start of the 1994 season, Princeton has gone 5-0 at home only once (2006). The Tigers Nov. 14 Yale at Princeton^ ......................1 pm will have the opportunity to match that performance today, as they have gone 4-0 at Powers Field Nov. 21 Princeton at Dartmouth& ........ 12 pm this season. The Tigers are averaging 38.3 points per game at home this season, a total that is even ^ - Ivy Digital Network & - American Sports Network more impressive when you consider they only scored 10 in a driving rainstorm against Columbia (all games on 103.3 FM) in early November. Yale Home Cooking II One trend that Princeton would like to keep alive for one more week, and only one more week Bulldogs — ever since the Tigers’ 40-7 opening-day win at Lafayette, the home team has won every game this season. Head Coach .......................................... Tony Reno 2015 YALE SCHEDULE Close But No Cigar Sept. 19 Yale 29, COLGATE 28 In two of Princeton’s three losses this season, the Tigers had the ball in a tie game with less Sept. 26 YALE 33, Cornell 26 than two minutes remaining. At Brown, Princeton quarterback Chad Kanoff was hit on a pass at- tempt and intercepted; at Penn, Princeton had a 35-yard field goal blocked at the end of regulation. Oct. 3 Yale 27, LEHIGH 12 Oct. 10 DARTMOUTH 35, Yale 3 Oct. 17 Yale 21, MAINE 10 A PRINCETON WIN WOULD … Oct. 24 PENN 34, Yale 20 • complete Princeton first perfect home season since 2006, second since 1993 Oct. 31 Columbia 17, YALE 7 • secure Princeton’s second winning season in the last nine years Nov. 7 YALE 41, Brown 14 • give Princeton three wins over Yale in four years for first time since 1992-95 Nov. 14 Yale at Princeton ........................1 pm • be Princeton’s second Senior Day victory in the last six years Nov. 21 Harvard at Yale ......................2:30 pm Week 9: Yale (5-3, 2-3 Ivy) at Princeton GoPrincetonTigers.com 1 Princeton Game Notes 2015 Princeton Tigers Football 1957, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1969, 1989, 1992, 1995, 2006, 2013 Ivy League champions That Winning Feeling Princeton needs one more victory for its second winning season over the last nine years. Between Pronunciation Guide 2007-11, the Tigers went 18-42 (.300). Since the start of the 2012 season, the Tigers have gone 23-15 Adomitis .................................add-oh-MY-tiss (.605). Bieck ....................................................BEEK Colcolough..................................... coal-KLEE Head Of The Class Desiré .............................................deh-zir-A The Princeton Class of 2015, which still has three games remaining, will be the first graduating Dreher ............................................. DRAY-er class without a single losing season (5-5, 8-2, 5-5, 5-2) since the Class of 1995. Dziak ................................................... ZACK In the two years prior to the arrival of the Class of 2015, Princeton went 2-18. Fekula ............................................ feh-CO-la Frusciante .............................. fruh-SEAN-tee Cup Of Joe Holuba ...........................................ho-LOU-ba Junior Joe Rhattigan, who missed the Brown game due to injury and was limited at Harvard, has Ivanisevic ......................... ivan-eh-seh-VITCH averaged 117.5 rushing yards per game over the last two weeks, and he has scored three touchdowns Kanoff ........................................... cah-NOFF over that stretch. Rhattigan currently ranks fourth in the Ivy League with 74.9 rushing yards per Kappatos .....................................cap-a-TOSE game; Yale sophomore Deshawn Salter stands one spot ahead of Rhattigan at 78.3 yards per game. Kuehm ................................................. KEEM Rhattigan ran the ball 30 times last weekend; it was the most carries for one Princeton player since Surace (Head Coach) .......................sur-ACE Chuck Dibilion rushed 31 times for 178 yards and three touchdowns in a 2011 game against Yale. Sweigart .................................... sw-EYE-gart Conversion Chart Joe Rhattigan ran the ball on 10 plays when Princeton faced either 3rd or 4th and short (2 yards or fewer). He was successful on eight of them, and he followed one of the misses with a conversion on the next play. Double Trouble Eleven Princeton players have rushed for double-digit touchdowns in a season at least once in their careers. Over the last decade, only Quinn Epperly (18, 2013) and Jordan Culbreath (10, 2008) have achieved that feat. John Lovett needs one more to become the 12th, and he needs three more to move into the single-season Top 10 at Princeton. Dr. Dré Princeton senior Dré Nelson achieved a rare double in his last home game; he both returned a kickoff 100 yards (probably closer to 103) for a touch- down and scored on a one-yard touchdown run. The return touchdown was the third of his career, while it was the sixth rushing touchdown of his career. Nelson is averaging 6.3 yards per carry and 13.4 yards per catch this season. An All-Ivy League returner in 2014, Nelson is averaging 27.9 yards per return, 10th-best in all of FCS football. Thank You, Class of 2016! Top Row (L to R): Garrett Gosse, Alex Dixon, Dylan White, Seth DeValve, Grayson Fisher, Alex Walter, Isaiah Barnes, Britt Colcolough, Tom Yetter, Jack Woodall. Middle Row: Matt Arends, Caleb Slate, Ian McGeary, Travis McHugh, Dan Dreher, Andrew Frisby, Chris Smith, Marcus Stroud, Ray Han. Bottom Row: Dré Nelson, Max Lescano, Khamal Brown, Kedric Bostic, Anthony Gaffney, Evan Kappatos, John Hill, Nolan Bieck, DiAndre Atwater. Not Pictured: Spenser Huston. Week 9: Yale (5-3, 2-3 Ivy) at Princeton GoPrincetonTigers.com 2 Princeton Game Notes 2015 Princeton Tigers Football 1957, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1969, 1989, 1992, 1995, 2006, 2013 Ivy League champions Tackling The Issue Following Princeton safety Dorian Williams, a two-year starter at free safety and an All-Ivy League honoree last year, ranks second in the Ivy League in tackles (66). The only player who ranks ahead of Williams, who Princeton had 10 stops last weekend against Penn, in the Ivy League is Yale defensive back Hayden Carlson, who Football has 71 tackles this season. The Official Athletics Web Site Cool Hand Luke Complete coverage of Princeton football, including pre-game stories and post-game Junior inside linebacker Luke Catarius has started the last three games following an injury to All-Ivy recaps, audio and video interviews, gameday starter Rohan Hylton during the Brown game. In the first 24 games of his Princeton career, Catarius re- coverage, schedules and statistics, podcasts, corded 20 tackles. In the last four, he has made 37 tackles, including a career-best 14 last week at Penn. feature stories, TigerBlog and a full history of the oldest program in college football can all be found on GoPrincetonTigers.com. An Olson Twin Junior lineman Birk Olson paced the Tiger defense with two sacks in the 47-21 win over Cornell last Audio/Video Information on the upcoming broadcast, both weekend. After recording only six tackles last season, Olson leads all defensive linemen with 29 this home and away, will be available each week season, and he has a Princeton-best four sacks on the year. both in this release and on GoPrinceton- Tigers.com. Dan Loney will broadcast the action for all Just For Kicks 10 Princeton games this season on 103.3 FM Senior placekicker Nolan Bieck moved into a tie for second place on the all-time field goals list at Princ- WPRB; those games can be heard free on eton last weekend when he made three in the overtime loss at Penn. He has made 38 career field goals, GoPrincetonTigers.com. which is tied with his former kicking coach, Taylor Northrop ’02.