Princeton (1-7, 0-5) at Yale (6-2, 4-1) Princeton Football 2010 Pr I N C E T O N (1-7, 0-5) a T Ya L E (6-2, 4-1) Date/Time
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11/13: Princeton (1-7, 0-5) at Yale (6-2, 4-1) Princeton Football 2010 PRINCETON (1-7, 0-5) AT YALE (6-2, 4-1) Date/Time ....................................Nov. 13/12 p.m. All-Time Series ..............................Yale 72-50-10 Field ...................................................... Yale Bowl Last Year .........................PRINCETON 24, Yale 17 Location ..................................New Haven, Conn. Last At Site .............. YALE 14, Princeton 0 (2008) TV ..................................................................none Last Five Years ........................................Yale 3-2 Radio .............. 103.3 FM/GoPrincetonTigers.com Current Streak ................................... Princeton 1 Princeton Ga m e No t e s • We e k 9 Tigers a Fe W Fa s t Fa c t s to Ge t Yo u Re a d Y … Head Coach ............... Bob Surace (first season) Overall Record .......................................... 19-10 We Meet Again (And Again) • The most played rivalry in the Ivy League will be re- Record at Princeton ......................................1-7 newed Saturday when Princeton meets Yale for the 133rd time. The second-most played rivalry in the league is Yale-Harvard (126), while Princeton’s second-most played rivalry is Career vs. Yale ..............................................0-0 against Harvard (103). 2010 PRINCETON SCHEDULE Just A Second • The Princeton-Yale rivalry is the second-longest active rivalry in the Sept. 18 LEHIGH 35, Princeton 22 nation. Princeton has played both teams that are currently in the midst of the longest rivalry; Sept. 25 PRINCETON 36, Lafayette 33^ (2 ot) Lehigh and Lafayette will meet Nov. 20 for the 146th time. Princeton split with both teams, Oct. 2 COLUMBIA 42, Princeton 14 defeating Lafayette in overtime and falling to Lehigh in the season opener. Oct. 9 Colgate 44, PRINCETON 10* Oct. 16 Brown 17, PRINCETON 13* Bowl-ed Over • Princeton’s last trip to the Yale Bowl resulted in a 14-0 shutout loss Oct. 23 Harvard 45, PRINCETON 28* during a rainy Saturday afternoon in New Haven. The Tigers managed only 153 yards of total Oct. 30 CORNELL 21, Princeton 19 offense and committed four turnovers in the loss. Nov. 6 Penn 52, Princeton 10!# Rallying Cry • Princeton’s second-to-last trip to the Yale Bowl provided one of the most Nov. 13 Princeton at Yale .................. 12 p.m. memorable victories in this series. Playing for a share of the Ivy League lead, the Tigers ral- Nov. 20 Dartmouth at Princeton* ....... 1 p.m. lied from a trio of 14-point deficits and received 445 passing yards from eventual Bushnell Cup winner Jeff Terrell in a 34-31 road victory. Princeton and Yale would go on to share the 2006 ^ — Lafayette Sports Network Ivy League championship. * — Verizon FIOS ONE ! — Versus Network # — SIRIUS Satellite Radio From Beginning To End (Zone) • In its last four trips to the Yale Bowl, Princeton has scored four touchdowns, and each one of them came in the 2006 victory. In the 2002, 2004 Yale and 2008 games, Princeton kicked a total of four field goals for all of its points. Better To Share • Prior to 2006, the last time Princeton and Yale shared the Ivy League Bulldogs title was in 1989, when current Tiger head coach Bob Surace’90 was an All-Ivy senior center. Both teams went 6-1, with the Bulldogs rallying for a 14-7 win over Princeton at Palmer Head Coach .......Tom Williams (second season) Stadium. In the season finale, Princeton defeated Cornell 21-7 and Harvard defeated Yale Overall Record ............................................10-8 37-20 to give Princeton its first Ivy League title in 20 years. Record at Yale ........................................... same Career vs. Princeton .....................................0-1 Cowboy Up • Jason Garrett’89, a former teammate of Princeton head coach Bob Surace 2010 YALE SCHEDULE and the 1988 Bushnell Cup winner as the Ivy League Player of the Year, was named the head Sept. 18 YALE 40, Georgetown 35 coach of the Dallas Cowboys on Nov. 8, 2010. He is the first Princeton graduate to be a head coach in the National Football League. Sept. 25 Yale 21, CORNELL 7 Oct. 2 Albany 23, YALE 20 On The Road Again • Princeton is looking for its first road victory of the season in its Oct. 9 Yale 23, DARTMOUTH 20 last attempt. The last time Princeton went winless on the road is 1999. Oct. 16 YALE 7, Fordham 6 Oct. 23 Penn 27, YALE 20 The Crystal Ball • Senior Day and the 2010 season finale will be Nov. 20 on Powers Oct. 30 YALE 31, Columbia 28 Field against Ivy League rival Dartmouth. Princeton has a six-game win streak over the Big Nov. 6 Yale 27, BROWN 24 Green, including the 276-yard rushing effort by Jordan Culbreath in a 28-10 victory in 2008. Nov. 13 Princeton at Yale .................. 12 p.m. Members of the Class of 2010 will be honored before the game. The game can be heard live Nov. 20 Yale at Harvard ..................... 12 p.m. on 103.3 FM and GoPrincetonTigers.com, and seen live on GoPrincetonTigers.TV. Princeton Football 2010 www.GoPrincetonTigers.com 1 11/13: Princeton (1-7, 0-5) at Yale (6-2, 4-1) Princeton Football 2010 off e N s i v e No t e s a N d aN e c d o t e s … League in receiving touchdowns with five apiece. Kerr caught his fifth last weekend for the lone score against Penn, while Peacock caught Elite Eight three touchdowns and ran for a fourth in the two previous weekends. Senior co-captain Jordan Culbreath will likely miss the rest of the The Ivy League leader in receiving touchdowns is Andrew Kennedy, season after injuring his knee against Penn. If that is the case, Cul- who has caught seven for Yale. breath ends his career with 1,935 rushing yards at Princeton. That total is eighth most all-time at Princeton and 15 behind the career total of On The Matt 1951 Heisman Trophy winner Dick Kazmaier. Senior Matt Zimmerman was one of three Princeton captains to start Culbreath, whose inspirational comeback from aplastic anemia was the season, but he is the last one standing after injuries to both Steven the subject of a 10-minute feature during the VERSUS pregame show Cody and Jordan Culbreath. Zimmerman will start his 28th game this last week, was one of two unanimous first-team All-Ivy League selec- weekend; his only missed game since the 2008 season opener was the tions in 2008 after rushing for 1,260 yards; that total ranks fourth best Cornell game that season. He has started the last 21 games for Prince- in Princeton history. ton, the longest active streak on the team. Doing Yardwork Head Of The Class Senior Trey Peacock continues to have one of the best receiving sea- Matt Zimmerman has excelled both on and off the field in his career. sons in Princeton history. He ranks fifth in the nation with 107.4 re- The economics major from Mountainside, N.J., was recently named ceiving yards per game and seventh in the country with 7.6 receptions a first-team Academic All-District selection and will be eligible for per game. He has 859 receiving yards this season, which is already Academic All-America honors. fifth most in Princeton history, and he is on pace to become the fourth Princeton wideout to record more than 1,000 receiving yards in a single Flag Football season. Here is the full list, along with Peacock’s projected numbers: Princeton has had four penalties or fewer in each of the last six games, including only two penalties against Cornell. In each of the last Player ............................. Year ......................Rec...................Yards six games, Princeton has been the lesser-penalized team. Derek Graham .........................1983 ...........................84 ...........................1,321 Kevin Guthrie ...........................1983 ...........................88 ...........................1,260 Road Trip Kevin Guthrie ...........................1982 ...........................75 ...........................1,003 Trey Peacock (projected) .........2010 ...........................76 ...........................1,074 Princeton’s two most successful offensive days, in terms of yardage, have both come on the road. The Tigers gained 528 yards (136 rush- Four Alive ing/392 passing) in the season opener at Lehigh), and they gained 403 Both Trey Peacock and Andrew Kerr are tied for second in the Ivy (189/214) two weeks ago at Cornell. At Princeton Stadium • Nov. 14, 2009 A S T EAR ALE Yale (4-5, 2-4) 0 3 7 7 - 17 L Y : PRINCETON 24, Y 17 Princeton (3-6, 2-4) 14 0 7 3 - 24 A brilliant team effort and the coming of age for a sophomore quarterback carried Princeton First quarter P - Gunter 3 run (Bologna kick), 8:38; to an emotional and hard-fought 24-17 victory over Yale during Senior Day on Powers Field at P - Wornham 2 run (Bologna kick), 2:35. Princeton Stadium. Second quarter Y - Barnes 26 FG, 12:14. Senior Kenny Gunter ran for 119 yards and a touchdown; it was Princeton’s first 100-yard Third quarter P - Zimmerman 30 run (Bologna kick), rushing game of the season, and it couldn’t have come at a better time. Combined with the play 11:04; Y - Balsam 33 pass from Witt (Mante kick), 4:21. of Wornham, who was nearly flawless with a 16-for-23 passing day and a 55-yard rushing day, Fourth quarter Y - Bannon 1 run (Mante kick), 11:42; the Princeton offense posted its biggest scoring effort of the season. P - Bologna 27 FG, 4:36. Part of the credit goes to the Princeton defense, which forced four turnovers and scored Attendance 9,483 on most of them. Four players recorded eight tackles apiece, including Dan Kopolovich, who recorded an interception, two pass breakups and a game-ending fourth-down tackle just short Statistics ..........................