2018 Princeton Football Penn (6-3, 3-3 Ivy) at #9 Princeton (9-0, 6-0 Ivy)
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Princeton Game Notes 2018 Princeton Tigers Football 1957, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1969, 1989, 1992, 1995, 2006, 2013, 2016 Ivy League champions 2018 Princeton Football PENN (6-3, 3-3 IVY) AT #9 PRINCETON (9-0, 6-0 IVY) 11/17/18 • 1 PM • POWERS FIELD AT PRINCETON STADIUM TV/Video ................................................................... ESPN+ Last At Site .........................PRINCETON 28, Penn 0 (2016) Radio/Audio ............................WPRB 103.3 FM/TuneIn App Last Five Years ..............................................Princeton 3-2 All-Time Series ............................ Princeton leads 66-42-1 Current Streak ..........................................................Penn 1 Last Meeting .........................PENN 38, Princeton 35 (2017) Next Week.......................................... Happy Thanksgiving! FOLLOWING THE TIGERS ON TWITTER/INSTAGRAM Twitter .............................. @PUTigerFootball/@PUTigers Princeton Insta ... @PUTigerFootball/@PrincetonAthletics Lights, Camera, Action The 9th-ranked Princeton Tigers will play their 2018 season finale Saturday at 1 pm against Princeton Penn. The game will be streamed live on ESPN+, and Cody Chrusciel (play by play), Dave Giancola (analyst), Ivy Standings Tigers and Jon Mozes (sideline) will broadcast the game. You Ivy Overall Head Coach ........................................ Bob Surace can also listen to Patrick McCarthy (play by play), Tom Team W L Pct. W L Pct. Criqui (analyst) live on TuneIn Radio and WPRB 103.3 FM. Princeton 6 0 1.000 9 0 1.000 2018 PRINCETON SCHEDULE Dartmouth 5 1 .833 8 1 .889 Sept. 15 Princeton 50, BUTLER 7 Movin’ On Up Penn 3 3 .500 6 3 .667 Sept. 22 PRINCETON 51, Monmouth 9 Princeton is now ranked ninth in the AFCA Coaches Yale 3 3 .500 5 4 .556 Sept. 28 Princeton 45, COLUMBIA 10 Poll, which is the highest Princeton has been ranked in Harvard 3 3 .500 5 4 .556 Oct. 6 PRINCETON 66, Lehigh 7 either poll since Division I-AA/FCS level began in 1978. Columbia 2 4 .333 5 4 .556 Cornell 2 4 .333 3 6 .333 Princeton also moved to #11 in the FCS Stats media poll; Oct. 13 PRINCETON 48, Brown 10 Brown 0 6 .000 1 8 .111 both are two spots higher than the previous week. Oct. 20 Princeton 29, HARVARD 21 This is the highest any Ivy League team has been ranked since 1993, when Penn moved to #8 in Oct. 27 PRINCETON 66, Cornell 0 The Sports Network I-AA poll. Nov. 3 PRINCETON 14, Dartmouth 9 Nov. 10 Princeton 59, YALE 43 Raising Ivy Nov. 17 Penn at Princeton+ ....................1 pm With its win over Yale, Princeton clinched a share of the program’s 12th Ivy League champion- + - ESPN+ ship, as well as its second in three years and third in six years. The last time Princeton won three $ - NBC Sports Phil. (all games on Princeton TuneIn) Ivy League titles over a six-year span was 1964, 1966 and 1969. Penn Going For Seconds The 1964 Princeton team is the only one in school history to go 7-0 in league play since the Ivy Quakers League officially formed before the 1956 season. Head Coach ..........................................Ray Priore Han Solo 2018 PENN SCHEDULE Of Princeton’s 12 Ivy League championships, only three have come as outright titles (1957, 1964, Sept. 15 PENN 34, Bucknell 17 1995). The 1995 Tigers clinched the solo championship with a game-tying field goal on the final play Sept. 22 PENN 30, Lehigh 10 of the season finale. Thus, the last team to win its finale to claim an outright title was (you guessed it) the 1964 Tigers. Sept. 29 DARTMOUTH 37, Penn 14 Oct. 6 Penn 31, SACRED HEART 27 Oct. 13 PENN 13, Columbia 10 A TIGER WIN WOULD … Oct. 19 Yale 23, PENN 10 • clinch Princeton’s fourth outright Ivy League title, and 1st since 1995 (12 overall) Oct. 27 Penn 13, BROWN 7 • clinch Princeton’s first perfect season since 1964 (both Ivy and overall) Nov. 2 Penn 20, CORNELL 7 • give Princeton its second perfect Ivy mark since league play officially began in 1956 Nov. 10 Harvard 29, PENN 7 • give Princeton its first season with double-digit wins and no losses since 1903 (11-0) Nov. 17 Penn at Princeton ......................1 pm Week 10: Penn (6-3, 3-3 Ivy) at #9 Princeton (9-0, 6-0 @PUTigerFootball GoPrincetonTigers.com 1 Princeton Game Notes 2018 Princeton Tigers Football 1957, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1969, 1989, 1992, 1995, 2006, 2013, 2016 Ivy League champions Top Of The Line Princeton ranks either first or second in the Ivy League in every major offensive and defensive Princeton Football team statistic; the Tigers are first in scoring, total and rushing offense, and they are second in pass- By The Numbers … ing offense, as well as total/scoring/rushing/passing defense. 1 ...................latest Princeton ranking among Point, Counterpoint universities by U.S. News & World Report Princeton has the nation’s top-ranked scoring offense at 47.6 points per game. The Tigers also 6 .............................home games this season, have the No. 3 total offense and the No. 6 rushing offense, thanks in large part to a 489-yard effort on the most for Princeton since 2010 the ground last weekend against Yale. 9 ........ Princeton football games on ESPN+ or Targeting Other Tigers ESPNU this season as part of Princeton has scored 428 points this season, the second-highest total in Ivy League history. The the Ivy League on ESPN partnership Tigers need nine points to match the Ivy record, which was set by Princeton during its 2013 Ivy cham- 11 ......................... Ivy League Championships pionship season. That team was led by Ivy League Offensive Player of the Year Quinn Epperly, a senior won by Princeton since the league quarterback who once mentored a freshman teammate named John Lovett. Let’s see how his career officially formed in 1956 progressed … 15 .................. Princeton players picked in the You Gotta Lovett NFL Draft; three were taken Senior quarterback John Lovett, the 2016 Ivy League Offensive Player of the Year, can set an Ivy in the last six years League record today with one rushing touchdown. He has rushed for at least one score in 19 straight 22 .............career interceptions by Dean Cain, games, which tied Yale’s Mike McLeod (2006-08) for the league record last week. former “Superman” star; total Lovett is the second player in team history with at least 40 rushing TDs (41); he had two in the win remains an Ivy League record at Yale. Keith Elias ’94 has the record with 49. He also has a chance at breaking Princeton’s career completion percentage mark; he is currently at 66.0%, while Jason Garrett has the record at 66.5%. 26 ...................Princeton players and coaches who are in the College Football Hall of Fame Lovett Or Leave It John Lovett has played in 25 games since 28 ................ national titles won by Princeton; Last Year’s Box Score no college football program can claim more the start of the 2015 season; Princeton is 21-4 At Franklin Field • Nov. 4, 2017 in those games, including 17-2 in the last 19. 42 ..................number worn by 1951 Heisman Princeton (5-3, 2-3) 7 0 14 14 - 35 Lovett has only played in one Penn game, Trophy recipient Dick Kazmaier; Penn (4-4, 2-3) 7 10 7 14 - 38 a 28-0 victory in 2016 that helped the Tigers no Princeton player has worn the number since clinch a share of that championship. He rushed First quarter Pr - Carlson 22 pass from Kanoff (Rice 72 .....Princeton’s total first-team All-America kick), 11:10; Pe - Willows 1 run (Soslow kick), 6:08. for a one-yard touchdown in that game. honorees; John Lovett (2016) is the most recent Second quarter Pe - Soslow 34 FG, 11:54; Pe - Wil- lows 12 run (Soslow kick), 2:52. Born To Run Third quarter Pe - Watson 36 pass from Fischer- 92 ...... catches by Jesper Horsted last season, Sophomore Collin Eaddy rushed for 266 Colbrie (Soslow kick), 12:49; Pr - Horsted 17 pass which set a Princeton single-season record from Kanoff (Rice kick), 4:32; Pr - Horsted 9 pass yards in Princeton’s 59-43 win at Yale last from Kanoff (Rice kick), 3:17. weekend, the sixth-highest single-game total 96 ....yards in the longest rushing TD in program Fourth quarter Pe - Brooks 2 run (Soslow kick), in program history. He opened the game with a history, set by Charlie Volker at Brown last year 12:14; Pr - Volker 1 run (Rice kick), 8:47; Pr - Volker 3 run (Rice kick), 4:26; Pe - Watson 15 pass 75-yard touchdown run on the first play, and he 193 ........ career receptions for Kevin Guthrie, from Fischer-Colbrie (Soslow kick), 1:12. added a 17-yard run on Princeton’s next play the all-time Princeton leader Attendance 9,073 from scrimmage (following an interception). Statistics ....................... Princeton ........Penn He had three career rushing touchdowns 1869 ........the year of the first college football First downs ............................ 28 .................30 entering that game, and he doubled that total game, played between Rutgers and Princeton Rushing Yards ........................ 97 ................317 by scoring three at the Yale Bowl. Att-Comp-Int .....................45-32-0 ........ 20-17-0 1878 ........... Princeton’s first “Big Three” title; Passing Yards ....................... 351 ...............214 the University celebrates with a bonfire on Total Yards ............................ 448 ...............531 So Close Punts-Net ...........................2-35.5 ...........1-14.0 The single-game team rushing record for Cannon Green when the Tigers sweep Harvard and Yale Fumbles-Lost ....................... 1-1 ............... 4-2 Princeton is 491 yards, set Oct. 5, 1957 against Penalties-Yards ................... 6-56 ............ 10-94 Columbia. Princeton rushed for 489 against 3rd-Down Conversions .........5 of 8 ........... 7 of 12 3,474 ........passing yards by Chad Kanoff in 2017, Time of Possession..............23:41 ...........