2009 Princeton Football Princeton (1-4, 0-2) at Harvard (3-2, 2-0)
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2009 Princeton Football www.GoPrincetonTigers.com Princeton (1-4, 0-2) at Harvard (3-2, 2-0) Date/Time .............................Oct. 24/12 p.m. All-Time Series ..... Princeton leads 52-42-7 Field ...................................Harvard Stadium Last Year ...........Harvard 24, PRINCETON 20 Location ........................... Cambridge, Mass. Last At Site ..........HARVARD 27, Princeton 10 TV ...........................................................none Last Five Years .......................... Harvard 3-2 Radio .......103.3 FM/GoPrincetonTigers.com Current Streak ...............................Harvard 2 Princeton Ga m e No t e s • We e k 6 Tigers Old Friends • The Princeton-Harvard rivalry is the second-oldest in Princeton history and the seventh-oldest in Ivy League history. This will be the 102nd meeting, with Princeton hold- Head Coach .......... Roger Hughes (10th season) ing a 52-42-7 advantage. Overall Record .......................................... 44-50 Record at Princeton .................................. same Close Calls • With the exception of a 27-10 score two seasons ago, the Princeton-Har- Career vs. Harvard ........................................2-7 vard rivalry has been especially close when played at Harvard Stadium. Here is a summary of 2009 PRINCETON SCHEDULE games played between 1997 through 2005: Sept. 19 The Citadel 38, PRINCETON 7 1997 - Harvard 14, Princeton 12 Tied 5-5 after three quarters, Princeton took a 12-5 lead on a 65-yard Sept. 26 Princeton 17, LEHIGH 14 pass from Harry Nakielny to Ryan Crowley, but three Harvard field goals, including one that was tipped at Oct. 3 Columbia 38, PRINCETON 0 the line of scrimmage and still went in, gave the Crimson a two-point win. Oct. 8 Colgate 21, PRINCETON 14 (2 ot) 1999 - Harvard 13, Princeton 6 After a 52-yard field goal by Princeton’s Taylor Northrop evened the Oct. 17 BROWN 34, Princeton 17 score at 6-6 with 3:34 remaining, Harvard drove to the 1-yard-line with few seconds remaining. Quarterback Oct. 24 at Harvard ............................ 12 p.m. Brad Wilford scored on a keeper to clinch the win with two ticks left on the clock. Oct. 31 CORNELL* ............................. 1 p.m. 2001 - Harvard 28, Princeton 26 Taylor Northrop had a chance to win it with seven seconds remaining, but his 47-yard field goal attempt sailed just wide left. Nov. 7 at Penn% ........................... 3:30 p.m. 2003 - Harvard 43, Princeton 40 (ot) Princeton tied the game on a 43-yard touchdown pass from Matt Nov. 14 YALE# ..................................... 1 p.m. Verbit to Blair Morrison with 3:24 remaining in regulation and could have won it with a 42-yard Derek Ja- Nov. 21 at Dartmouth ................... 12:30 p.m. varone field goal with seconds remaining, but the kick was wide left. Javarone put Princeton ahead 40-37 with an OT field goal, but Garrett Schires connected on a four-yard touchdown pass to Rodney Byrnes for * — Verizon FIOS ONE % — The Comcast Network the winning score. ! — Versus Network ^ — ESPNU (DirecTV 609) # — The YES Network (DirecTV 622) 2005 - Princeton 27, Harvard 24 Princeton ended a nine-year drought when eventual All-America se- lection Jay McCareins returned a fourth-quarter kickoff 93 yards for the winning points. Harvard Digging Out • Princeton is in unfamiliar territory heading into the second half of its season. For the first time since 1999, the Tigers started out the Ivy League season with two Crimson consecutive losses. Head Coach ..............Tim Murphy (16th season) Two Bad • Recent history says that losing two Ivy League games might be too much too Overall Record .....................................132-99-1 overcome. It has been 27 seasons since a 5-2 league record was good enough to earn a share Record at Harvard ................................... 100-54 of the Ivy title (1982: Harvard, Penn and Dartmouth). Career vs. Princeton ...................................11-4 2009 HARVARD SCHEDULE Rallying Cry • Princeton held a 14-3 lead over Harvard after one quarter last season be- Sept. 19 HOLY CROSS 27, Harvard 20 fore falling 27-24 on a late touchdown by Gino Gordon. Sept. 25 HARVARD 24, Brown 21 Oct. 3 Harvard 28, LEHIGH 14 Tackling The Issue • Junior linebacker Steven Cody leads the Ivy League and ranks Oct. 10 Harvard 28, Cornell 10 third in the nation with 13.3 tackles per game this season. Cody has recorded double-digit Oct. 17 Lafayette 35, HARVARD 18 tackles in four straight games, including 16 apiece against Columbia and Colgate. Oct. 24 PRINCETON ......................... 12 p.m. Oct. 31 DARTMOUTH ........................ 12 p.m. Great Britton • Senior linebacker Scott Britton ranks 10th nationally and third in the Ivy Nov. 7 at Columbia ..................... 12:30 p.m. League with 11.2 tackles per game. Unfortunately for Princeton, Britton suffered a season- Nov. 14 PENN.................................... 12 p.m. ending knee injury in the second quarter against Brown. Britton had already recorded seven Nov. 21 at Yale ................................... 12 p.m. tackles in the game and was coming off Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week honors after recording 16 stops, including 2.5 for losses, and a sack against Colgate. 28 National Champions • Nine Ivy League Champions • Named One Of Street & Smith’s Top 10 Programs Of All Time 2009 Princeton Football www.GoPrincetonTigers.com Man In The Middle • Junior Jon Olofs- son will move from the outside into the middle STATI S TICAL LEADER S linebacker position to replace Scott Britton. John Callahan will take over as the starting PRINCETON HARVARD nickel linebacker for Olofsson. Rushing Rushing Tommy Wornham ......... 49 att., 2 TD, 44.8 y/g Gino Gordon ................. 63 att., 2 TD, 67.0 y/g Welcome Matt • Sophomore Matt Wakul- Passing Passing chik has recorded collegiate firsts in each of Tommy Wornham ...166-91-6, 4 TD, 157.6 y/g Collier Winters ... 159-83-3, 8 TD, 181.4 y/gm the last two weeks. He started his first game Receiving Receiving against Colgate when Cart Kelly was injured, Trey Peacock ............... 27 rec., 1 TD, 48.4 y/g Chris Lorditch ............. 20 rec., 2 TD, 57.6 y/g and he recorded his first career interception Scoring Scoring last weekend against Brown. Wakulchik cur- Ben Bologna ...............13 points (2 FG, 7 PAT) Patrick Long .............20 points (2 FG, 14 PAT) rently ranks third on the team with 33 stops. Kicking Kicking Ben Bologna .........2/6 FG, long of 31, 7/7 PAT Patrick Long .....2/4 FG, long of 30, 14/14 PAT Wakam Sock ’em • Junior Glenn Wakam Tackles Tackles has quietly had a strong season as a first-year Steven Cody .... 53 tks, 20 solo, 3.0 TFL, 1 INT Collin Zych......38 tkls, 32 solo, 6 BrUp, 2 INT starter. He leads the team with five pass break- ups, including three against Colgate, and has 22 tackles, including 3.5 for loss. He recovered a fumble last weekend against Brown. Swinging Cates • Senior Wilson Cates has recorded two interceptions in the last four games and made 10 tackles two weeks ago against Col- gate. Cates, a defensive co-captain, ranks fifth on the team with 32 tackles. Head Of The Class • Senior defensive back Dan Kopolovich was named a semifinalist for the 2009 William V. Campbell Trophy (formerly known as the Draddy Trophy), an honor given by the National Football Foundation to honor the best both on the field and in the classroom. Tommy Boy • Sophomore Tommy Wornham both ran for a touchdown and threw for a touchdown last weekend against Brown. He has recorded multiple touchdowns in consecutive games after throwing for two scores in the double-overtime loss to Colgate. At Powers Field on Princeton Stadium • Oct. 25, 2008 LA S T YEAR : HARVARD 24, PRINCETON 20 Harvard (5-1, 2-1) 3 7 7 7 - 24 Princeton (2-4, 1-2) 14 0 3 3 - 20 Despite a brilliant 154-yard rushing effort by junior Jordan Culbreath, the Princeton football team failed to capitalize on several opportunities and watched a late lead slip away in a 24-20 First quarter P - Culbreath 1 run (Bologna kick), 11:58; H - Long 25 FG, 8:39; P - Culbreath 10 run home loss to defending Ivy League champion Harvard Saturday on Powers Field. Gino Gordon’s (Bologna kick), 2:33. last touchdown run gave the Crimson its winning margin with 3:34 to go and left Princeton with Second quarter H - Lorditch 15 pass from Pizzotti a 2-4 record. (Long kick), 8:46. Third quarter H - Pizzotti 33 run (Long kick), 13:19; Princeton, which led by as much as 14-3 in the first half, grabbed a 20-17 lead with 7:16 P - Bologna 23 FG, 2:22. remaining when Ben Bologna converted on a 28-yard field goal. The 16-play, 87-yard drive gave Fourth quarter P - Bologna 28 FG, 7:16; H - Gordon the Tigers a late lead, but it also gave Harvard plenty of time to score and go ahead. The Crimson 6 run (Long kick), 3:34. Attendance 10,189. converted on a 4th-and-1 midway through the drive on a short pass from Chris Pizzotti to Jason Miller, and followed it up with a 35-yard pass to Matt Luft, who got the ball to the Princeton 6. Two Statistics ........................ Harvard ..... Princeton plays later, Gordon went up the middle for the winning points. First downs ............................ 16 .................24 The Tigers’ final opportunity started off well, as Meko McCray returned the kickoff 31 yards to Rushing Yards ..................... 29-88 .......... 48-177 the Princeton 42. A five-yard pass from Brian Anderson to Will Thanheiser gave Princeton 2nd- Att-Comp-Int .....................26-17-0 ........ 29-15-1 and-5, but an incompletion and a sack left the Tigers with a tough 4th-and-18 situation. Flushed Passing Yards ....................... 247 ...............176 Total Yards ...........................