2018 Princeton Football #20 Dartmouth (7-0, 4-0) at #14 Princeton (7-0, 4-0)
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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 #20 DARTMOUTH (7-0, 4-0) AT #14 PRINCETON (7-0, 4-0) 11/3/18 • 1 PM • POWERS FIELD AT PRINCETON STADIUM TV/Video ................................................................... ESPN+ Last At Site ..............PRINCETON 38, Dartmouth 21 (2016) Radio/Audio ............................WPRB 103.3 FM/TuneIn App Last Five Years ............................................Dartmouth 4-1 All-Time Series .......................... Dartmouth leads 49-44-4 Current Streak ................................................ Dartmouth 1 Last Meeting .............DARTMOUTH 54, Princeton 44 (2017) Next Week.................. Princeton at Yale • Nov. 10 • 12:30 pm FOLLOWING THE TIGERS ON TWITTER/INSTAGRAM Twitter .............................. @PUTigerFootball/@PUTigers Princeton Insta ... @PUTigerFootball/@PrincetonAthletics Lights, Camera, Action 17th-ranked Princeton returns home to Powers Field this Saturday to take on #20 Dartmouth Princeton in a 1 pm showdown for first place in the Ivy League. Cody Chrusciel (play by play), Coffee Jones (analyst) and Ivy Standings Tigers Lisa Roman (sideline) will call the game live on ESPN+, Ivy Overall Head Coach ........................................ Bob Surace as well as NBC Sports Philadelphia and NBC Sports Team W L Pct. W L Pct. Boston, while Patrick McCarthy (play by play) and Tom Princeton 4 0 1.000 7 0 1.000 2018 PRINCETON SCHEDULE Criqui (analyst) will handle the broadcast on both TuneIn Dartmouth 4 0 1.000 7 0 1.000 Sept. 15 Princeton 50, BUTLER 7 and WPRB 103.3 FM. Penn 2 2 .500 5 2 .714 Sept. 22 PRINCETON 51, Monmouth 9 Yale 2 2 .500 4 3 .571 Movin’ On Up Cornell 2 2 .500 3 4 .429 Sept. 28 Princeton 45, COLUMBIA 10 Oct. 6 PRINCETON 66, Lehigh 7 Princeton (7-0, 4-0 Ivy) is currently ranked 14th in the Columbia 1 3 .250 4 3 .571 Harvard 1 3 .250 3 4 .429 AFCA FCS Coaches’ Top 25 Poll, the highest Princeton Oct. 13 PRINCETON 48, Brown 10 Brown 0 4 .000 1 6 .143 has been ranked in more than 25 years, and it moved to Oct. 20 Princeton 29, HARVARD 21 18th in the STATS FCS Top 25 media poll. Oct. 27 PRINCETON 66, Cornell 0 Dartmouth (7-0, 4-0 Ivy) moved to #20 in the AFCA Coaches Poll this week, and it also broke into Nov. 3 Dartmouth at Princeton+$ ........1 pm the FCS Stats Media Poll for the first time this fall (#24). Nov. 10 Princeton at Yale+ ...............12:30 pm The last time Princeton played a Top-25 game was Oct. 22, 2006, when 21st-ranked Princeton Nov. 17 Penn at Princeton+ ....................1 pm rallied past #15 Harvard 31-28 on its way to the program’s first Ivy title in 11 years. + - ESPN+ $ - NBC Sports Phil. (all games on Princeton TuneIn) Seventh Heaven This is the first time Princeton has been 7-0 since 1995, and it is only the third time (1993, 1995) Dartmouth since 1965 that the Tigers have been undefeated entering Week 8 of the season. Big Green Elite Eight Head Coach ...................................Buddy Teevens Princeton has had only one eight-game winning streak in the last 23 years, a run between the opener and the finale of the 2013 Ivy League championship season. That stretch ended at the hands 2018 DARTMOUTH SCHEDULE of Dartmouth in a 28-24 thriller on a snowy Memorial Field. Sept. 15 DARTMOUTH 41, Georgetown 0 It’s Been A While Sept. 22 Dartmouth 34, HOLY CROSS 14 This is the first time two undefeated Ivy League teams have met in November since 2001, when Sept. 29 DARTMOUTH 37, Penn 14 Harvard beat Penn 28-21. Princeton’s last such game came in 1993, a 30-14 loss at Penn. Oct. 5 Dartmouth 41, YALE 18 Oct. 13 DARTMOUTH 42, Sacred Heart 0 A TIGER WIN WOULD … Oct. 20 Dartmouth 28, COLUMBIA 12 • improve Princeton to 8-0 for the 1st time since 1995 & 3rd (95/93) in 53 years Oct. 27 DARTMOUTH 24, Harvard 17 • clinch Princeton’s second 8-game win streak in the last 23 years (2013) Nov. 3 Dartmouth at Princeton ............1 pm • give Princeton its first win over a Top 20 opponent since #15 Harvard in 2006 Nov. 10 Dartmouth at Cornell ...........1:30 pm • give Princeton sole possession of first place in the Ivy League with two weeks left Nov. 17 Brown at Dartmouth ..................1 pm Week 8: #20 Dartmouth (7-0, 4-0 Ivy) at #14 Princeton @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 Elite Company Princeton and Dartmouth are two of the eight Division I teams that are currently undefeated, and two Princeton Football of the four unbeaten programs at the FCS level (#1 North Dakota State and #11 Colgate are the other By The Numbers … two). The four FBS unbeatens are #1 Alabama, #2 Clemson, #3 Notre Dame and #9 Central Florida. 1 ...................latest Princeton ranking among History Lesson universities by U.S. News & World Report This is the third time in more than 100 years that Princeton and Dartmouth have both been 6 .............................home games this season, undefeated/untied during a November game, and both are memorable moments in program history: the most for Princeton since 2010 Nov. 23, 1935: 56,000 packed Palmer Stadium on a snowy Saturday to see Princeton move to 8-0 on the season with a 26-6 win over Dartmouth, which fell to 8-1. The game will be remembered for a 9 ........ Princeton football games on ESPN+ or fan coming out of the stands on a Princeton 3rd-and-goal at the 3 and joining the Big Green defensive ESPNU this season as part of line before officials could stop the play. Princeton still got two yards on the play and scored on the en- the Ivy League on ESPN partnership suing play to secure the win. The game ended shortly after that play, and the fan was never identified. 11 ......................... Ivy League Championships Nov. 20, 1965: The longest Princeton winning streak of the last 60+ was a 17-game stretch be- won by Princeton since the league tween the perfect 1964 season and the first eight games of 1965. The season finale saw Dartmouth officially formed in 1956 record its longest passing play (at the time) in program history, a 79-yard strike that helped the visi- tors to a 28-14 win at Palmer Stadium. 15 .................. Princeton players picked in the NFL Draft; three were taken They Know How To Win in the last six years The two head coaches in this game, Princeton’s Bob Surace and Dartmouth’s Buddy Teevens, are 22 .............career interceptions by Dean Cain, the only two men to have ever won an Ivy League title as both a player and a head coach. Surace was former “Superman” star; total an All-Ivy League center on the 1989 championship team, and he was the head coach of the 2013 and remains an Ivy League record 2016 Ivy champions. 26 ...................Princeton players and coaches Last Year’s Box Score We’re Honored who are in the College Football Hall of Fame At halftime of Saturday’s game, past win- At Memorial Field • Nov. 18, 2017 ners of the Dr. Harry Roemer McPhee Award 28 ................ national titles won by Princeton; no college football program can claim more Princeton (5-5, 2-5) 6 7 14 17 - 44 will be honored. The McPhee Award goes an- Dartmouth (8-2, 5-5) 3 17 0 34 - 54 nually to a member of the football squad who 42 ..................number worn by 1951 Heisman has demonstrated the qualities of durability First quarter P - Volker 1 run (kick blocked), 9:32; Trophy recipient Dick Kazmaier; D - Smith 29 FG, 4:45. and fortitude. Among the recipients are Surace no Princeton player has worn the number since Second quarter P - Horsted 7 pass from Kanoff (Rice (1989), Ross Tucker (2000) and the 2016 All-Ivy kick), 14:28; D - Stone 3 run (Smith kick), 10:16; D - duo of Luke Catarius and Rohan Hylton. 72 .....Princeton’s total first-team All-America Gerbino 4 run (Smith kick), 2:04; D - Smith 25 FG. honorees; John Lovett (2016) is the most recent Third quarter P - Volker 1 run (Rice kick), 9:43; P - Peaks And Valleys Volker 3 run (Rice kick), 7:00. 92 ...... catches by Jesper Horsted last season, Fourth quarter D - Gerbino 1 run (Smith kick), 14:58; Between 2001 and 2009, Princeton won eight which set a Princeton single-season record P - Rice 42 FG, 13:17; D - Gerbino 4 run (Smith of nine meetings against Dartmouth. Between kick), 11:06; P - Carlson 20 pass from Kanoff (Rice kick), 8:24; D - Hagdorn 49 pass from Heneghan 2010 and 2017, Dartmouth won seven of eight; 96 ....yards in the longest rushing TD in program (Smith kick), 5:18; P - Horsted 29 pass from Kanoff the lone exception was 2016, when Princeton history, set by Charlie Volker at Brown last year (Rice kick), 3:02; D - Gerbino 2 run (Smith kick), clinched the Ivy title with a 38-21 home win. 0:02; D - Roegge 10 fumble recovery. 193 ........ career receptions for Kevin Guthrie, Attendance 3,081 Back To The Sixties the all-time Princeton leader Statistics ....................... Princeton ... Dartmouth From 1935 through September of 2018, 1869 ........the year of the first college football First downs ............................ 27 .................32 Princeton had scored at least 66 points in a game, played between Rutgers and Princeton Rushing Yards ........................ 51 ................343 game one time, a 66-0 win over Williams in Att-Comp-Int .....................46-37-1 .......