Princeton Game Notes 2015 Princeton Tigers Football 1957, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1969, 1989, 1992, 1995, 2006, 2013 Ivy League champions 2015 Princeton Football COLUMBIA (0-2, 0-0) AT PRINCETON (2-0, 0-0) Oct. 2, 2015 • 7 pm • pOwers Field at princetOn stadium TV/Video ............................................ NBC Sports Network Last At Site ............. PRINCETON 53, Columbia 7 (10/5/13) Radio/Audio ................... 103.3 FM/GoPrincetonTigers.com Last Five Years ..............................................Princeton 4-1 All-Time Series ............................ Princeton leads 68-15-1 Current Streak .................................................. Princeton 4 Last Meeting ..............Princeton 38, COLUMBIA 6 (10/4/14) Next Week..............home v. Colgate (10/10 • 1 pm • ILDN) FOLLOWING THE TIGERS ON TWITTER Princeton Athletics .......@PUTigers Live Coverage ......@PUTigers_Live Princeton Football .....@PUTigerFootball Friday Night Lights Princeton will open its 2015 Ivy League season Friday night at 7 pm in a nationally televised Princeton showdown with Columbia. The game will be the first of five Ivy League games that will be televised as part of a Friday night package on the NBC Sports Network. Former Princeton offensive lineman Tigers Ross Tucker ’01 will join play-by-play announcer Paul Burmeister in calling the game. This will be Princeton’s first Friday night game since Sept. 21, 2012, when Georgetown earned Head Coach ........................................ Bob Surace a 21-20 win on Powers Field. Over the last decade, Princeton has played five non-Saturday (four 2015 PRINCETON SCHEDULE Fridays, one Thursday) games and have gone 2-3 in them. The last win came Oct. 26, 2007, a 34-31 Sept. 19 Princeton 40, LAFAYETTE 7 victory over Cornell. Sept. 26 PRINCETON 52, Lehigh 26 Oct. 2 Columbia at Princeton! .............7 pm Rush To Judgment Oct. 10 Colgate at Princeton^ ................1 pm Princeton has the nation’s fifth-ranked rushing offense, which averages 276 yards per game and Oct. 17 Princeton at Brown& ............... 12 pm has scored seven touchdowns. The Tigers rushed for 308 yards against Lafayette in the opener, Oct. 24 Princeton at Harvard& ............ 12 pm which was the most for Princeton since the last time it hosted Columbia (315 on Oct. 15, 2013), and Oct. 31 Cornell at Princeton& ..........3:30 pm it scored four rushing touchdowns last weekend against Lehigh. Nov. 7 Princeton at Penn& ................. 12 pm In the last two games against Columbia, Princeton has averaged 291.5 rushing yards and scored Nov. 14 Yale at Princeton^ ......................1 pm seven rushing touchdowns. Nov. 21 Princeton at Dartmouth& ........ 12 pm ^ - Ivy Digital Network ! - NBC Sports Network High Five & - American Sports Network Princeton’s top five rushers are all averaging at least 5.0 yards per carry, and five different run- (all games on 103.3 FM) ners have scored at least one touchdown this year. Senior DiAndre Atwater ranks second in the Ivy League with 93.0 yards per game, while junior Joe Rhattigan is tied for the Ivy lead with three Columbia rushing touchdowns. Lions Conversion Chart Princeton leads all FCS teams with a 69% conversion rate on third downs, a total that included a Head Coach .......................................... Al Bagnoli 14-for-18 performance at Lafayette. Part of the reason Princeton has been so good on third downs 2015 COLUMBIA SCHEDULE has been its execution on the first two downs, which has allowed the Tigers short conversion at- Sept. 19 FORDHAM 44, Columbia 24 tempts. Of Princeton’s 54 third-down conversions, 31 have come on runs, 21 on passes and two Sept. 26 Georgetown 24, COLUMBIA 16 on penalties. Oct. 2 Columbia at Princeton ...............7 pm Oct. 10 Wagner at Columbia ..................6 pm A PRINCETON WIN WOULD … Oct. 17 Penn at Columbia .................3:30 pm Oct. 24 Columbia at Dartmouth .............3 pm • give Princeton its first 3-0 start since 2006 and its fourth in 20 years Oct. 31 Columbia at Yale .................12:30 pm • extend Princeton’s winning streak over Columbia to five games Nov. 7 Harvard at Columbia .................1 pm • be Princeton’s 10th win over Columbia during the last 12 years Nov. 14 Columbia at Cornell ...........12:30 pm • be Princeton’s first Friday night victory since Oct. 26, 2007 Nov. 21 Brown at Columbia ...............7:30 pm • assure Princeton a spot in a four-way tie for first place heading into Week 4 Week 3: Columbia (0-2, 0-0 Ivy) at Princeton (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 Poll Position Friday’s game will be between two teams looking to improve on their finish in the 2015 Ivy League media pre- 2015 Ivy League season poll. Princeton was picked to finish fourth, while Columbia was picked to finish seventh. Neither team Preseason Poll received a single first-place vote. Pos. School (1st Place) ..... Points 1. Harvard (11) .....................130 A Good Point 2. Dartmouth (4) ..................116 Princeton has scored 92 points this season, the most for this program over the first two games since the 1950 3. Yale (1) ...............................98 team scored 100 in its first two games. 4. Princeton ....................... 82 The 1950 team, by the way, would go on to win Princeton’s 28th national championship. It was led by Dick 5. Brown (1) ...........................80 Kazmaier, who would become the Tigers’ lone Heisman Trophy winner the next season. 6. Penn ..................................51 7. Columbia ........................ 29 Ahead Of The Game 8. Cornell ...............................26 Princeton has led for 91:25 of a possible 120:00 of game action this season. It has trailed for only 1:11. Strong Arm Of The Law Junior Chad Kanoff is in his first season as the Princeton starter. His first collegiate drive ended in an interception; since that pass, Kanoff has com- pleted 30 of 51 passes (59%) for 426 yards, four touchdowns and zero interceptions. He is also 2-0, making him only one of two Tiger quarterbacks (Jeff Terrell, 2005) over the last 25 years to win their first two collegiate starts. Lovett Or Leave It Following the 2015 spring season, Bob Surace referred to John Lovett as a potential “triple-triple” threat. What seemed like hyperbole at the time may have been far from it. Last weekend, in only his second collegiate game, Lovett led the team with 71 receiving yards, ranked second with 33 passing yards and ranked third with 59 rushing yards. That followed a Lehigh game when he had two touches that accounted for a total of two yards, one rushing and one passing. Both of those went for touchdowns. Cup O’ Joe Junior Joe Rhattigan already has seven rushing touchdowns in his career, including three over the first two weeks of this season. He scored from eight and 12 yards out last weekend, and he dragged a pair of Lafayette defenders into the end zone on the latter rush. Call For A Carpenter Junior Scott Carpenter, an All-Ivy League tight end last season, made his first catch of the season an important one last weekend. He caught a 30- yard touchdown pass from Kanoff to open a 38-19 lead in the fourth quarter. Carpenter caught 20 passes last year, including a season-best four in the win over Columbia. Turn The Paige Junior linebacker RJ Paige returned an interception 36 yards for a touchdown last weekend to open an 18-point lead over Lehigh. The Tigers did not score a single defensive touchdown during all of the 2014 season. Mr. Do It All Junior Dorian Williams had one of the best individual defensive games you will ever see last week- end. He recorded 12 tackles, including 11 solo stops. On a fourth-down attempt, he stripped the Pronunciation Guide Lehigh quarterback of the ball and set up a Princeton recovery. The most spectacular play of all Adomitis .................................add-oh-MY-tiss came late, when he ripped the ball away from a receiver and returned it 39 yards to set up a Tiger Bieck ....................................................BEEK touchdown. Colcolough..................................... coal-KLEE Williams, an All-Ivy League honoree last season, currently ranks fourth in the league with 18 Desiré .............................................deh-zir-A tackles on the season. Dreher ............................................. DRAY-er Dziak ................................................... ZACK Sack Exchange, Part 1 Fekula ............................................ feh-CO-la Princeton leads the Ivy League in sacks with seven this season. Junior Henry Schlossberg had two Frusciante .............................. fruh-SEAN-tee of Princeton’s three last weekend, and he shares the Ivy League lead with teammate Kurt Holuba, Holuba ...........................................ho-LOU-ba who has had one in each of the last two games. Ivanisevic ......................... ivan-eh-seh-VITCH Kanoff ........................................... cah-NOFF Sack Exchange, Part 2 Kappatos .....................................cap-a-TOSE The Princeton offensive line, which features two new starters this season in Jack Knight (left tack- Kuehm ................................................. KEEM le) and Tom Yetter (center), hasn’t allowed a single sack this season and has been at the forefront of Surace (Head Coach) .......................sur-ACE the top rushing offense in the Ivy League. Sweigart .................................... sw-EYE-gart Week 3: Columbia (0-2,