Princeton Game Notes 2015 Princeton Tigers Football 1957, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1969, 1989, 1992, 1995, 2006, 2013 Ivy League champions 2015 Princeton Football PRINCETON (4-1, 1-1) AT #15 HARVARD (5-0, 2-0) Oct. 24, 2015 • 12 pm • Harvard Stadium TV/Video .... American Sports Network/Ivy Digital Network Last At Site ......Princeton 51, HARVARD 48, 3ot (10/26/13) Radio/Audio ................... 103.3 FM/GoPrincetonTigers.com Last Five Years .................................................Harvard 3-2 All-Time Series ............................ Princeton leads 54-46-7 Current Streak ..................................................... Harvard 1 Last Meeting .............Harvard 49, PRINCETON 7 (10/25/14) Next Week.........vs. Cornell (10/31 • 3:30 pm • ILDN/ASN) FOLLOWING THE TIGERS ON TWITTER Princeton Athletics .......@PUTigers Live Coverage ......@PUTigers_Live Princeton Football .....@PUTigerFootball Follow Along Princeton’s showdown with Harvard will be televised on the American Sports Network (check Princeton local listings) and streamed live on the Ivy League Digital Network (subscription required). Scott Sudikoff and Jack Ford will call the action on the American Sports Network. Each of Princeton’s Tigers remaining games are scheduled to be streamed through the Ivy League Digital Network, and four of the five will also be shown on the American Sports Network. Head Coach ........................................ Bob Surace You can also listen live on WPRB 103.3 FM, as well as WPRB.com. 2015 PRINCETON SCHEDULE Sept. 19 Princeton 40, LAFAYETTE 7 The Last Time … Sept. 26 PRINCETON 52, Lehigh 26 The last time Princeton visited Harvard remains the last loss that the Crimson has suffered. Oct. 2 PRINCETON 10, Columbia 5 On Oct. 26, 2013, the Tigers overcame two different overtime deficits for a 51-48 triple-overtime Oct. 10 PRINCETON 44, Brown 20 victory at Harvard. Eventual Bushnell Cup winner Quinn Epperly set Princeton records for comple- tions (37) and passing touchdowns (six) in the win; both records were set on the final play of the Oct. 17 BROWN 38, Princeton 31 game, a six-yard pass to Roman Wilson in the third overtime period. Oct. 24 Princeton at Harvard& ............ 12 pm Oct. 31 Cornell at Princeton& ..........3:30 pm Twice As Nice Nov. 7 Princeton at Penn& ................. 12 pm The Tigers are now looking for their first back-to-back wins on the road against Harvard since Nov. 14 Yale at Princeton^ ......................1 pm the 1993 (21-10) and 1995 (14-3) seasons, and only their second since the 1980 season. Nov. 21 Princeton at Dartmouth& ........ 12 pm Between 1995 and 2005, Princeton lost four road straight road games at Harvard by an average ^ - Ivy Digital Network & - American Sports Network of 3.5 points per game. In the three losses between 2005 and 2013, the average margin was 22.7 (all games on 103.3 FM) points. Harvard Name And Rank Harvard is ranked 15th in the latest Stats FCS National Top 25. The last time Princeton defeated Crimson a nationally ranked team came during its last trip to Boston, when the Tigers knocked off the 23rd- ranked Crimson. Head Coach ....................................... Tim Murphy 2015 HARVARD SCHEDULE Rush To Judgment Sept. 19 Harvard 41, RHODE ISLAND 10 Two of the Ivy League’s strongest units will go head-to-head Saturday. Princeton is currently Sept. 26 HARVARD 53, Brown 27 ranked second in the Ivy League with 199.6 rushing yards per game, and it has rushed for eight touchdowns in the last two games. Harvard has the league’s second ranked rushing defense (72.6), Oct. 2 HARVARD 45, Georgetown 0 and it has allowed only two rushing touchdowns all season. Oct. 10 Harvard 40, CORNELL 3 Oct. 17 Harvard 42, LAFAYETTE 0 A PRINCETON WIN WOULD … Oct. 24 Princeton at Harvard ............... 12 pm • be Princeton’s first win over a ranked team since Oct. 26, 2013 (#22 Harvard) Oct. 30 Dartmouth at Harvard ..........7:30 pm • be the first time Princeton has won back-to-back games at Harvard since 1993-95 Nov. 7 Harvard at Columbia .................1 pm • be only the second time Princeton has won consecutive games at Harvard since 1980 Nov. 14 Penn at Harvard ....................... 12 pm • keep Princeton in control of its championship position in the Ivy League race Nov. 20 Harvard at Yale ......................2:30 pm Week 6: Princeton (4-1, 1-1 Ivy) at #15 Harvard (5-0, 2-0 GoPrincetonTigers.com 1 Princeton Game Notes 2015 Princeton Tigers Football 1957, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1969, 1989, 1992, 1995, 2006, 2013 Ivy League champions Lovett Or Leave It Princeton sophomore John Lovett has become one of the most versatile offensive threats in the Ivy League, as 2015 Ivy League well as one of the most proficient scorers in the nation. Lovett leads Princeton and ranks in the Ivy Top 10 in both Preseason Poll receptions (17) and receiving yards (232); he ranks second on the team in completions (10) and passing yards (92), Pos. School (1st Place) ..... Points and he ranks third on the team in rushes (32) and rushing yards (184). 1. Harvard (11) ................. 130 Lovett has also scored eight touchdowns this season, including seven (6 rush, 1 pass) in the last two games. 2. Dartmouth (4) ..................116 His eight touchdowns are the most in the Ivy League. 3. Yale (1) ...............................98 4. Princeton ....................... 82 Double Trouble 5. Brown (1) ...........................80 Only 11 Princeton players have rushed for double-digit touchdowns in a season at least once in their careers. 6. Penn ..................................51 Over the last decade, only Quinn Epperly (18, 2013) and Jordan Culbreath (10, 2008) have achieved that feat. John 7. Columbia ...........................29 Lovett has seven rushing touchdowns through the first five games of the season. 8. Cornell ...............................26 That Winning Feeling Despite the loss last weekend, junior Chad Kanoff became the first Princeton quarterback to win the first four starts of his career in nearly a quarter century. The last one to do it shared his first name; Chad Roghair won his first five starts of the 1991 season. Kanoff threw for a career-high 321 yards in last week’s 38-31 loss at Brown, which included a 10-yard touchdown pass to Scott Carpenter in the fourth quarter. He is completing 57.3% of his passes this season and averaging 214.8 yards per game; if you take out the Week 3 game vs. Columbia, which was played in torrential rains and gusty winds, he would be averaging 262.3 yards per game. Long Journey Ahead Chad Kanoff connected with senior running back Dré Nelson on a 63-yard pass play to open the second half last weekend. That was Princeton’s longest offensive play since Oct. 27, 2012, when Connor Michelsen hit Roman Wilson for a 72-yard touchdown at Cornell. It was also the first pass play of more than 50 yards since Week 1 of the 2013 season. Cup Of Joe Junior Joe Rhattigan, who missed last week’s game against Brown due to injury, earned his first career start against Colgate when both seniors DiAndre Atwater and Dré Nelson were injured. Rhattigan led the Tigers with 66 rushing yards, and he scored his fourth touchdown of the season. Rhat- tigan has scored at least once in three of the four games he played this season. On the season, Rhattigan is averaging 5.1 yards per carry and 69.8 yards per game. He has eight rushing touchdowns in his career, including the only Princeton score in last year’s loss to Harvard. Catching On During the preseason scrimmage his freshman year, Isaiah Barnes suffered a season-ending (and potentially career-threatening) ankle injury. Barnes has worked his way back and had a career performance with eight catches for 92 yards two weeks ago in the win over Colgate. Barnes currently ranks second at Princeton with 13 receptions and 171 receiving yards this season. Call A Carpenter Junior tight end Scott Carpenter, an All-Ivy honoree last year, had only three catches in the first four games of the season, but he came back with five last weekend against Brown. His fourth-quarter touchdown catch (10 yards) evened the score at 31-31, and he caught a two-point conversion pass earlier to tie the score at 24-24. Carpenter, who is tied with Trevor Osborne for the team lead in touchdown catches this season (2), has caught each of Princeton’s last two successful two-point conversions. Pronunciation Guide Adomitis .................................add-oh-MY-tiss Pitch And Catch Bieck ....................................................BEEK While John Lovett has gotten the majority of the attention for his triple-threat role in the offense, Colcolough..................................... coal-KLEE senior Kedric Bostic has also been an efficient utility player on the offensive side this season. Bostic Desiré .............................................deh-zir-A has caught 10 passes, fourth-most on the team, and he has also completed all four of his passing Dreher ............................................. DRAY-er attempts this season, including a 42-yard pass to Lovett for a touchdown at Brown last weekend. All Dziak ................................................... ZACK three quarterbacks touched the ball on that play, as Kanoff took the snap and handed off to Bostic, Fekula ............................................ feh-CO-la who rolled right and found Lovett for the score. Frusciante .............................. fruh-SEAN-tee Holuba ...........................................ho-LOU-ba Welcome Matt Ivanisevic ......................... ivan-eh-seh-VITCH Princeton senior Matt Arends has been a starter in the Ivy League since Week 5 of the 2012 sea- Kanoff ........................................... cah-NOFF son, and he earned All-Ivy League recognition during the 2013 championship season. He may have Kappatos .....................................cap-a-TOSE had one of his best all-around games last weekend; he recorded 12 tackles, including eight solo Kuehm ................................................. KEEM stops, and two tackles for loss. He added two pass breakups, a sack, an interception and a blocked Surace (Head Coach) .......................sur-ACE field goal at Brown.