Princeton Game Notes 2019 Princeton Tigers Football 1957, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1969, 1989, 1992, 1995, 2006, 2013, 2016, 2018 Ivy champions NO. 12/12 PRINCETON (7-0, 4-0 IVY) VS. DARTMOUTH (7-0, 4-0 IVY) YANKEE STADIUM • THE BRONX, N.Y. • 11/9/19 • 3:30 PM A week-long celebration of the past will end with a massive game in the present. The Ivy League has not had a long history of un- beatens who meet this late in the season. Now, Ivy Standings Princeton while it might not exactly be an annual tradition, it will once again be 7-0 Princeton against 7-0 Dart- Ivy Overall Head Coach .......................................... Bob Surace mouth for the second straight year. Team W L Pct. W L Pct. (10th season at Princeton, 55-42; Princeton 4 0 1.000 7 0 .000 Last year’s game was an epic between two of 12th overall, 73-45) Dartmouth 4 0 1.000 7 0 .000 the best teams the Ivy League has seen in recent 2019 PRINCETON SCHEDULE memory, a game Princeton eventually won 14-9 Yale 3 1 .750 6 1 .857 on Powers Field at Princeton Stadium. This year’s Harvard 2 2 .500 4 3 .571 Sept. 21 BUTLER (ESPN+).....................W, 49-7 game features two nationally ranked teams and Penn 1 3 .000 3 4 .429 Sept. 28 at Bucknell ...........................W, 56-23 Cornell 1 3 .333 2 5 .286 has the added dimension of being played at Yankee Oct. 5 COLUMBIA (ESPN+) ................W, 21-10 Stadium, as Dartmouth celebrates its 250th anni- Columbia 1 3 .333 2 5 .286 Oct. 11 LAFAYETTE (ESPNU) ...............W, 28-3 versary and Princeton celebrates its role as hav- Brown 0 4 .000 1 6 .143 ing competed in the first college football game 150 Oct. 19 at Brown (ESPN+) ..................W, 65-22 years ago Wednesday, Nov. 6, 1869, against Rutgers. Oct. 26 HARVARD (ESPN+) ................W, 30-24 Princeton, ranked ninth by the FCS coaches and 10th by the media, has won 17 Nov. 1 at Cornell (ESPNU) ..................W, 21-7 straight. Dartmouth, ranked 13th in both polls, has won 19 of its last 20. Nov. 9 vs. Dartmouth ** (ESPNU) ...3:30 p.m. Nov. 16 YALE (ESPN+) ............................1 p.m. Princeton vs. Dartmouth Nov. 23 at Penn (ESPN+) ........................1 p.m. Five storylines ** at Yankee Stadium Unbeatens in November Dartmouth This will be the seventh time the Ivy League has had unbeaten teams play against each other in November. The entire list: Head Coach ..........Buddy Teevens (20th season at Dartmouth/103-92-2); 29th overall, 137-169-2 1964 — Princeton (7-0) def. Yale (6-0-1), 35-14 1965 — Dartmouth (8-0) def. Princeton (8-0), 28-14 2019 DARTMOUTH SCHEDULE 1968 — Harvard (8-0) and Yale (8-0) tied, 29-29 Sept. 21 at Jacksonville .................. W, 35-6 1993 — Penn (7-0) def. Princeton (7-0), 30-14 2001 — Harvard (7-0) def. Penn Sept. 28 COLGATE ........................... W, 38-3 Game Day (7-0), 28-21 Oct. 4 at Penn ............................ W, 28-15 2018 — Princeton (7-0) def. Oct. 12 YALE ................................ W, 42-10 TV/Video .................................................... ESPNU Dartmouth (7-0), 14-9 Oct. 19 at Marist............................ W, 49-7 2019 — Princeton (7-0) vs. Oct. 25 COLUMBIA ...................... W, 59-24 Radio/Audio ............. WPRB 103.3 FM/TuneIn App Dartmouth (7-0) Nov. 2 at Harvard ...........................W, 9-6 All-Time Series ............Dartmouth leads 49-45-4 As you can see, this is the first Nov. 9 Princeton ** ........................... 3:30 First Meeting ... Princeton 30, Dartmouth 0 (1897) time in Ivy history that two teams Nov. 16 CORNELL ....................... 1:30 p.m. Last Meeting .... Princeton 14, Dartmouth 9 (2018) will have met as unbeatens in Nov. 23 at Brown .......................12:30 p.m. November for two straight years. Last Five Meetings .............. Dartmouth leads 3-2 Also, the league had two of these @PUTigerFootball GoPrincetonTigers.com 1 Princeton Game Notes 2019 Princeton Tigers Football 1957, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1969, 1989, 1992, 1995, 2006, 2013, 2016, 2018 Ivy champions games in the 25 years prior to last year’s meeting and now has the second one in two years. Princeton Football Winning By The Numbers … Princeton and Dartmouth are a combined 33-1 since the start of the 2018 season, with that lone loss in the game last year between them. 0 ....................................... losses by Princeton and Dartmouth between them, making them Also since the start of last year, the teams have combined to outscore their oppo- two of the three unbeaten teams in the FCS nents 1,340-417. If you take out the 14-9 Princeton win last year, that goes to 1,303- (North Dakota State) 394, or an average of 40.7-12.3. 1 ...Kevin Davidson’s career rank at Princeton Top of the charts in completion percentage and average yards per completion Princeton and Dartmouth are two of the three unbeaten FCS teams, along with North Dakota State. Those three teams also happen to rank 1-2-3 in the country in 2 ..........games this season that Princeton has scoring defense (Dartmouth 10.1, North Dakota State 11.7, Princeton 13.7). trailed at the half (Columbia, Harvard) Princeton and Dartmouth also rank 1-2 in the league in scoring offense (Princeton 5 ...... times in Princeton history that the team 38.6, Dartmouth 37.1). Princeton is seventh in the FCS in scoring offense, while Dart- mouth is 13th. has had at least a 17-game winning streak Princeton, North Dakota State and Kennesaw State are the only three teams in the 6 ... times prior to this that the Ivy League has FCS ranked in the top 10 in scoring offense and scoring defense. had two unbeaten teams with at least seven wins face each other, including last year Princeton and Dartmouth also rank 1-2 in either order in the league in rushing when Princeton defeated Dartmouth 14-9 offense, team passing efficiency offense, defensive passing efficiency rating, fewest sacks allowed, third down conversion percentage and fewest penalties. 7 ................. Kevin Davidson’s rank all-time in career touchdown passes at Princeton with In fact, Princeton and Dartmouth are the two least penalized teams in the FCS, in 24 (in eight career starts) number and in yards. 9 .................................. Princeton’s rank in the The 150th FCS coaches’ poll (10th in the STATS poll) Princeton and Rutgers played in the first college football game back on Nov. 6, 1869, 13 ................... Dartmouth’s rank in both polls in New Brunswick, where the College Avenue Gym now stands. Rutgers won the game six goals to four. 14 rushing touchdowns between Collin Eaddy and Ryan Quigley Among the rules: * players could bat the ball with their hands but couldn’t pick it up and possess it 17 ..................consecutive Princeton wins, the * there were 25 players on each side * full contact was permitted most since 1964-65; that streak ended with a * the object was to kick the ball into a goal loss to a Dartmouth team that came into the * there would be 10 total goals in the game game with nine straight wins, as does this Dartmouth team When the game ended, the Rutgers players hosted the Princeton players in a meal before the Tigers took the train back to Princeton. The teams played one week later at 24 ..................tackles in the last two weeks by Princeton, and it was the home team who won again, eight goals to zero. It’s unclear Jeremiah Tyler; he had 23 for the year prior why the game was called after the eighth goal. to that Princeton would win its next 10 games after that one, running its first winning streak 49 .................................. team-best tackles for to 11 straight before a loss to Yale in 1876. They didn’t play a lot of games back then. linebacker James Johnson; his brother Tom led the team in tackles last year Fast forwarding through 150 years, the current Tigers have won 17 straight games after going 10-0 a year ago and now 7-0 to start this season. Here are the only times in 53 .....wins by Bob Surace in his last 75 games, a all of those 150 years that Princeton has ever won 17 or more games in a row: percentage of .707; he was 2-20 prior to that * 2018-19 (17, active) * 1964-65 (17) 1869 ........ the year of the first college football * 1949-52 (24, school record) game, played between Rutgers and Princeton * 1896-97 (19) * 1893-94 (18) 1942 .......... the last year that Princeton played Yankee Stadium history in Yankee Stadium, defeating Navy 10-0 and losing to Army 40-7 five weeks later Princeton has played in Yankee Stadium before, though not this one. In fact, the old Yankee Stadium was still fairly new when the Tigers played there. Princeton actually played two games there in the 1942 season, defeating Navy 10-0 and then falling to Army 40-7 five weeks later. @PUTigerFootball GoPrincetonTigers.com 2 Princeton Game Notes 2019 Princeton Tigers Football 1957, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1969, 1989, 1992, 1995, 2006, 2013, 2016, 2018 Ivy champions The only other time that Princeton played at Yankee Stadium was when it played Co- Following lumbia on Dec. 9, 1931. That wasn’t a full 60-minute game, actually. Instead, it was a four-team postseason round-robin for charity, with 48-minute games. The first featured The Tigers Cornell and Penn, which ended 0-0 and Cornell awarded the win as a three-judge panelt ruled that the Big Red had been the better team.