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Princeton Game Notes 2014 Princeton Tigers Football 1957, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1969, 1989, 1992, 1995, 2006, 2013 Ivy League champions 2014 Princeton Football PRINCETON (1-1, 0-0) AT COLUMBIA (0-2, 0-0) Oct. 4, 2014 • 12:30 pm • Kraft field at Wien Stadium TV/Video ...................................Ivy League Digital Network Last At Site ............... Princeton 33, COLUMBIA 6 (9/29/12) Radio/Audio ................... 103.3 FM/GoPrincetonTigers.com Last Five Years ..............................................Princeton 3-2 All-Time Series ............................ Princeton leads 67-15-1 Current Streak .................................................. Princeton 3 Last Year ................................. PRINCETON 53, Columbia 7 Next Week...................................at Colgate (Oct. 11, 1 pm) FOLLOWING THE TIGERS ON TWITTER Princeton Athletics .......@PUTigers Live Coverage ......@PUTigers_Live Princeton Football .....@PUTigerFootball The Journey Begins Princeton’s quest for a second straight Ivy League championship will begin Saturday on Robert Princeton Kraft Field at Wien Stadium when the Tigers open Ivy play at Columbia. You can purchase tickets by calling 888-LIONS-11, or you can buy them online at GoColumbiaLions.com. Tigers If you can’t make the game, you can watch it online through the Ivy League Digital Network, or you can listen to it over the radio (WPRB 103.3 FM) or online (wprb.com). This is one of three Head Coach ........................................ Bob Surace Princeton games remaining on the Ivy Digital Network; the Brown game will be streamed online, 2014 PRINCETON SCHEDULE as well as available on NBC Sports Regional networks, and the Yale game will be exclusively on Sept. 20 SAN DIEGO 39, Princeton 29 the Ivy Digital Network. Sept. 27 PRINCETON 56, Davidson 17 Oct. 4 Princeton at Columbia^ ......12:30 pm 20/20 Vision Oct. 11 Princeton at Colgate ..................1 pm Prior to the Sept. 29, 2012 Princeton-Columbia game at Wien Stadium, the Tigers had a 1-19 Oct. 18 Brown at Princeton!^ ............3:30 pm record in its previous 20 games. In the 20 games since, starting with a 33-6 win over the Lions, Oct. 25 Harvard at Princeton# ...............1 pm Princeton has gone 14-6, won the 2013 Ivy League championship and broke both the Ivy League Nov. 1 Princeton at Cornell& ........12:30 pm records for scoring offense and total offense. Nov. 8 Penn at Princeton@ ..............3:30 pm Nov. 15 Princeton at Yale^ ...............12:30 pm Magic In The Middle Nov. 22 Dartmouth at Princeton# ..........1 pm Princeton has now won 11 straight games that didn’t either begin or end a season. ^ - Ivy Digital Network ! - NBC Sports Regional # - ESPN3 & - Fox College Sports Elite Eight @ - NBC Sports Network (all games on 103.3 FM) Princeton has won eight of its last nine games at Columbia, including a 33-6 win there in 2012. The lone loss came in the Ivy League debut for head coach Bob Surace (2010), when Columbia Columbia scored 35 unanswered points in a 42-14 victory. Overall, Princeton holds a 67-15-1 edge over Columbia, and has won 75% (33 of 44) of the road Lions games in this series. Head Coach .................................Pete Mangurian Grounded 2014 COLUMBIA SCHEDULE In last season’s 53-7 win over Columbia, Princeton had 12 players combine to rush for 315 yards Sept. 20 Fordham 49, COLUMBIA 7 and three touchdowns, including a career-high 98 yards for Dré Nelson, who is coming off a two- Sept. 27 ALBANY 42, Columbia 7 touchdown game against Davidson. On the flip side, the Tiger defense limited the Lions to -6 yards Oct. 4 Princeton at Columbia ...... 12:30 pm rushing on 19 attempts. Oct. 11 Columbia at Monmouth ........... 1 pm A PRINCETON WIN WOULD … Oct. 18 Columbia at Penn .................... 1 pm Oct. 25 Dartmouth at Columbia ...... 1:30 pm • be Princeton’s fourth-straight win in the series Nov. 1 Yale at Columbia ............... 12:30 pm • move Princeton into a four-way tie for first place in the Ivy League Nov. 8 Columbia at Harvard ................ 1 pm • move Princeton above the .500 mark for the season Nov. 15 Cornell at Columbia .......... 12:30 pm • end a two-game road losing streak, dating back to last season Nov. 22 Columbia at Brown ........... 12:30 pm • would make Princeton 8-1 in the last three Octobers Week 3: Princeton (1-1, 0-0 Ivy) at Columbia (0-2, 0-0) GoPrincetonTigers.com 1 Princeton Game Notes 2014 Princeton Tigers Football 1957, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1969, 1989, 1992, 1995, 2006, 2013 Ivy League champions Poll Position For the first time since 1992, Princeton was picked first in the annual Ivy League preseason laSt WeeK poll. The reigning Ivy League champion Tigers received nine of 17 first-place votes and topped fellow co-champion Harvard (which received the other eight) by one point in the preseason poll. At Princeton Stadium • Sept. 27, 2014 Dartmouth, Penn and Yale held the next three spots. Davidson (1-4) 3 7 7 0 - 17 Princeton would love to break a recent trend in the voting, as no preseason favorite has won Princeton (1-1) 22 17 3 14 - 56 the outright Ivy League title in a decade. First quarter P - Nelson 89 kickoff return (Bieck kick), 14:46; D - Smith 22 FG, 10:39; P - Epperly 4 run Out Of The Gates (Carpenter pass from Roth), 9:05; P - Epperly 6 run While neither team will win the Ivy League today, one team will likely lose all margin for error (Bieck kick), 4:29. Second quarter P - Epperly 1 run (Bieck kick), 14:58; the rest of the season. It has been more than 30 years, specifically the 1982 season, that a team C - Rogers 4 run (Smith kick), 10:33; P - Nelson 23 earned a share of the Ivy League title with two losses. run (Bieck kick), 9:18; P - Bieck 31 FG, 2:39. Third quarter D - Morris 12 pass from Douglas The First Step (Smith kick), 4:01; P - Bieck FG 1:42. Fourth quarter P - Epperly 10 run (Bieck kick), Over the last 20 years, only two teams won the Ivy League title after losing their first league 13:30; P - Powers 9 run (Bieck kick), 3:24. game. Harvard shared the 2008 title with Brown despite losing to the Bears, while Brown won the Attendance 15,205 2005 outright title despite losing its opener to the Crimson. Statistics ........................Davidson .... Princeton Point It Out First downs ............................ 24 .................24 Princeton scored 56 points last weekend in its home win over Davidson, marking the sixth time Rushing Yards ........................ 67 ................233 Att-Comp-Int .....................47-30-0 ........ 26-20-0 in the last 11 games that Princeton has reached the 50-point mark. Prior to that, Princeton had Passing Yards ....................... 269 ...............245 reached the 50-point mark six times in 478 games, dating back to a 51-14 win over Cornell in Total Yards ............................ 336 ...............478 Week 5 of the 1963 season. Punts-Net ...........................6-28.3 ...........1-28.0 Fumbles-Lost ....................... 2-1 ............... 3-1 Penalties-Yards ................... 8-74 ............. 6-46 Return To Sender 3rd-Down Conversions ........7 of 19 ........... 2 of 7 Princeton opened its win over Davidson last weekend with an 89-yard kickoff return for a Time of Possession..............39:38 ............ 20:22 touchdown by Dré Nelson. It was Princeton’s first game-opening kickoff return touchdown since Individual Leaders the Tigers’ last trip to Wien Stadium, when then-freshman Anthony Gaffney returned the opening Rushing: D - Rogers 14-39, TD; Keil 8-24. kick 94 yards for a score. P - Epperly 16-118, 4 TDs; Atwater 6-41. Passing: D - Douglas 44-29-0, 260 yds, TD. P - Epperly 18-15-0, 176 yds. I’m Honored Receiving: D - Huelskamp 9-82; Morris 6-60, TD. Sophomore Rohan Hylton became Princeton’s first Ivy League individual award winner of the P - Kelley 6-72; Costello 3-48. season when he was named the Defensive Player of the Week following the 56-17 win over Da- vidson. Hylton recorded a career-best 11 tackles, including 1.5 for losses, and he became Princeton’s first played with double-digit tackles this season. 30 For 30 Thirty has been the magic number for Princeton recently. In its last 13 games, the Tigers are 9-0 in games they have scored 30 or more points and 0-4 in games they have scored 29 or fewer. Those four losses have either been in season openers or season finales. Just Quinn, Baby Senior quarterback Quinn Epperly rushed for four touchdowns in the 56-17 victory over Davidson last week. For his career, Epperly has 31 rushing touchdowns, third-most in Princeton history. He needs one to match Judd Garrett for second on the all-time Princeton list, and he needs 18 to tie Keith Elias for first. His 31 touchdowns also ranks 12th most in Ivy League history. Multiplication Tables Senior quarterback Quinn Epperly has now accounted for multiple touchdowns in 12 straight Pronunciation Guide games, dating back to last season. In fact, he has accounted for at least three touchdowns in 11 (4) Epperly .............................................epp-er-LEE (8) Bieck ........................................................BEEK straight games. (11) Kanoff ............................................. cah-NOFF His first career passing touchdown came at Wien Stadium, a 44-yard pass to Roman Wilson in the (12) Michelsen .....................................MIKE-el-son fourth quarter of a 33-6 victory. (34) Zeuli ...................................................ZOO-lee (41) Kappatos .......................................cap-a-TOSE At A Loss (44) Desiré ...............................................deh-zir-A (46) Leicht ................................................... LIGHT Senior co-captain Mike Zeuli, who moved from strong-side linebacker to weak-side in the offsea- (72) Sweigart ..................................... sw-EYE-gart son, has thrived through two weeks. He leads the Ivy League in both sacks (1.5 per game) and tackles (79) Colcolough ......................................coal-KLEE for loss (3.3).