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Princeton Game Notes 2019 Princeton Tigers Football 1957, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1969, 1989, 1992, 1995, 2006, 2013, 2016, 2018 Ivy champions HARVARD (4-1, 2-0 IVY) AT NO. 13/13 PRINCETON (5-0, 2-0 IVY) POWERS FIELD AT PRINCETON STADIUM 10/26/19 • 1:00 PM The NCAA’s FCS stats leaders page is dotted with single digit numbers next to Princeton and Harvard Ivy Standings Princeton up and down the page, signaling that those two Ivy Overall Head Coach .......................................... Bob Surace teams are in the top 10 nationally in a whole bunch Team W L Pct. W L Pct. (10th season at Princeton, 53-42; of categories. Princeton 2 0 1.000 5 0 .000 12th overall, 71-45) Dartmouth 2 0 1.000 5 0 .000 The number that matters the most for this week, Harvard 2 0 .000 4 1 .000 2019 PRINCETON SCHEDULE though, is 3-0. As in, which of these two teams will Yale 1 1 .000 4 1 .800 Sept. 21 BUTLER (ESPN+).....................W, 49-7 come out of Saturday’s game with a 3-0 Ivy League Columbia 1 1 1.000 2 3 .400 Sept. 28 at Bucknell ...........................W, 56-23 Penn 0 2 .000 2 3 .400 record. Oct. 5 COLUMBIA (ESPN+) ................W, 21-10 Brown 0 2 1.000 1 4 .200 Oct. 11 LAFAYETTE (ESPNU) ...............W, 28-3 Cornell 0 2 1.000 1 4 .200 Princeton and Harvard meet for the 112th time Oct. 19 at Brown (ESPN+) ..................W, 65-22 with a lot on the line for both beyond just the longtime rivalry. They are both heading Oct. 26 HARVARD (ESPN+) ....................1 p.m. into the weekend tied with Dartmouth atop the Ivy League standings at 2-0 and are both Nov. 1 at Cornell (ESPNU) ....................6 p.m. looking to position themselves to make a serious run for a championship. Nov. 9 vs. Dartmouth ** (TBA) ........3:30 p.m. Princeton vs. Harvard Nov. 16 YALE (ESPN+) ............................1 p.m. Five storylines Nov. 23 at Penn (ESPN+) ........................1 p.m. ** at Yankee Stadium Ivy standings Each Ivy League team has played five games and has five games to play. There are Harvard three teams currently 2-0, the aforementioned Princeton, Harvard and Dartmouth. Head Coach .........................................Tim Murphy (26th year at Harvard/178-75; The next three weekends will be something of a round-robin among them. After this 33rd overall, 210-121-1) weekend’s Princeton-Harvard game, the Crimson will then host Dartmouth next Satur- day before Princeton and Dartmouth meet at Yankee Stadium on Nov. 9. 2019 HARVARD SCHEDULE Sept. 21 at San Diego ..................... L, 31-23 Game Day This is hardly a three-team Seot. 27 BROWN ............................. W, 42-7 race, of course. Yale and Colum- Oct. 5 HOWARD ......................... W, 62-17 TV/Video .....................................................ESPN+ bia enter the weekend with one Oct.12 CORNELL ........................ W, 35-22 Radio/Audio ............. WPRB 103.3 FM/TuneIn App league loss each, and every re- Oct.19 at Holy Cross ................... W, 31-21 maining game for each team in Oct.26 Princeton ............................ 1 p.m. All-Time Series ..............Princeton leads 56-48-7 the league is an Ivy game. Nov. 2 DARTMOUTH ....................... 1 p.m. First Meeting .. Harvard 1g,2t, Princeton1t (1898) Nov. 9 at Columbia ......................... 1 p.m. Last Meeting .......Princeton 29, Harvard 21 (2018) Nov.16 PENN .................................... noon Nov.23 at Yale .....................................TBA Last Five Meetings ................... Harvard leads 3-2 @PUTigerFootball GoPrincetonTigers.com 1 Princeton Game Notes 2019 Princeton Tigers Football 1957, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1969, 1989, 1992, 1995, 2006, 2013, 2016, 2018 Ivy champions National leaders Princeton is in the top 10 in the FCS in 24 different stats. Harvard is in the top 10 in Princeton Football 10 different stats. By The Numbers … One of the stats in which they’re both ranked in the top 10 is scoring offense, where Princeton leads the Ivy League and is second nationally at 43.8 points per game. Har- 1 .......................Kevin Davidson’s FCS ranking vard is second in the Ivy League and 10th in the country at 38.6 points per game. in completion percentage, passing efficiency rating and average yards per attempt. Individually, Harvard has four players in the top 10 in a statistical category. Princ- 1 ............. players in Princeton football history eton has two, but they’re ranked in five different categories. with at least two career games with at least five toucdown passes (Kevin Davidson). Collin Eaddy is sixth in the country in scoring, with 10.5 points per game. The other four are all quarterback Kevin Davidson, who is seventh in the country in passing 2 ..............FCS teams in the top five nationally yards per game (308.4). in both scoring offense and scoring defense (Princeton and Kennesaw State) He’s also first in three pretty good ones to be first in: completion percentage, pass- 2 ...................................Princeton seniors who ing efficiency rating and average yards per attempt. caught their first career touchdown passes in the win over Brown - Sam Johnson, Zach Block that kick Kelly Back in the third quarter of the 2015 game against Columbia, Princeton had a punt blocked that turned into a safety in a 10-5 Tiger win. 3 ...................................unbeaten FCS teams - North Dakota State, Princeton and Dartmouth Why bring that up now? 11 ...... first-half receptions by Jacob Birmelin It was the last punt against Princeton to be blocked. Since then, Princeton has punt- last week against Brown; he finished with 12. ed 154 times without having one blocked. 13 ........................Princeton’s rank in both the Harvard, in 2019, has been on the opposite end of that. The Crimson are a punt- FCS coaches’ poll and the STATS FCS poll. blocking machine, with an FCS best five blocked punts in five games. In fact, Harvard 15 ........ consecutive Princeton wins, the most has blocked five of the 34 punts its opponents have attempted. That’s one block every since 1964-65 6.8 punts. 31 ....... touchdowns Princeton has scored this Streaking year (16 rushing, 15 passing). Harvard lost its opener at San Diego but has won four straight since. 31 ... receptions by Jacob Birmelin, who leads Princeton’s last loss was in the 2017 season finale against Dartmouth. Since then, the Ivy League Princeton has won 15 straight, trailing only the 28 straight won by North Dakota State 33 .................................. team-best tackles for in the FCS. linebacker James Johnson; his brother Tom led the team in tackles last year The current winning streak is Princeton’s longest since the 1964 and 1965 teams won 17 straight between them. The only longer streak than that in program history 43.8 .........points per game that Princeton has was the school record of 24 straight, a run that began in 1949 and lasted until 1952. averaged through five games to rank second in the FCS Sack exchange 51 .....wins by Bob Surace in his last 73 games, a Harvard leads the FCS in sacks, with 5.2 per game. Princeton is second in the league percentage of .698 in fewest sacks allowed, at 1.20 per game. 91 .. rushing yards against Brown by senior Tyler That’s six sacks allowed in five games, or less than one total sack allowed for half Campbell; he had 86 for his career prior to that. the season more than Harvard averages per game. 154 ........ consecutive punts by Princeton without having one blocked; Harvard has blocked five For its part, Princeton is second in the Ivy League (and 11th nationally) with 3.0 punts in five games this season. sacks per game. The progression of sacks per game by Princeton, though, suggests the Tigers are heating up in getting to the quarterback: 0, 2, 4, 4, 5. In other words, that 1869 ........ the year of the first college football was two sacks in the first two games and then 13 in the next three. Princeton also has game, played between Rutgers and Princeton nine sacks in two Ivy League games; Harvard has 11 in two league games. @PUTigerFootball GoPrincetonTigers.com 2 Princeton Game Notes 2019 Princeton Tigers Football Other notes 1957, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1969, 1989, 1992, 1995, 2006, 2013, 2016, 2018 Ivy champions Following * Princeton and Harvard first met in 1877, when they split a pair of games. Princeton leads the all-time series 56-48-7. The Tigers * Princeton defeated Harvard 29-21 last year in Cambridge in one of only two games The Official Athletics Website the Tigers played in their perfect season that was decided by fewer than two touchdowns Complete coverage of Princeton football, including pre-game stories and post-game and one of three that was decided by fewer than 35. recaps, audio and video interviews, gameday coverage, schedules and statistics, podcasts, * Princeton ranks second in the Ivy League and fourth in the FCS in scoring defense at feature stories, and a full history of the oldest program in college football can all be found 13.0 points allowed per game. on GoPrincetonTigers.com. * Princeton and Kennesaw State are the only FCS teams ranked in the top five in both GoPrincetonTigers.com/150 Complete coverage of everything and any- scoring offense and scoring defense. The only other team ranked in the top 10 in both is thing related to the 150th anniversary cel- North Dakota State. ebration. Audio/Video * Jacob Birmelin leads the Ivy League with 31 receptions. A week ago against Brown, Information on the upcoming broadcast, both he had 12 receptions, including 11 in the first half, to become the 11th Princeton player home and away, will be available each week with at least 12 catches in a game.