#YellCornell 2019 Cornell Big Red Football // Game 9 // at Dartmouth 2019 CORNELL BIG RED FOOTBALL Game Notes DEPTH CHART AT A GLANCE CORNELL (2-6, 1-4 IVY) AT #12 DARTMOUTH (8-0, 5-0 IVY) OFFENSE SATURDAY, NOV. 16, 2019 • 1:30 P.M. • HANOVER, N.H. • MEMORIAL FIELD (11,000) WR 2 Owen Peters 5 Turner DePalma LT 67 George L. Holm III 73 Will Swope BIG RED BIG GREEN LG 69 Robert Fatovic 76 Zach Rode Head Coach: David Archer Head Coach: Buddy Teevens Record at CU: 17-51 (7th year) Record at Dartmouth: 104-92-2 (20th year) C 68 Jack Burns 66 Bennett Van Dellen Career Record: Same Career Record: 138-169-2 (30th year) RG 59 John Christian Riffle 75 Nick Busher GAME 9 Last Game: lost at Penn, 21-20 (11/9/2019) Last Game: won vs. Princeton, 27-10 (11/9/2019) RT 64 Hunter Nourzad 73 Will Swope TE 88 John Fitzgerald 85 Ryan Fitton DARTMOUTH LEADS THE SERIES 61-40-1 • DARTMOUTH WON LAST MEETING 35-24 (NOV. 10, 2018 IN ITHACA, N.Y.) WR 18 Eric Gallman II 83 Devan Cross STREAKS, STORYLINES & SIDEBARS WR 3 Alex Kuzy 29 Phazione McClurge QB 11 Richie Kenney 13 Dez’mond Brinson • The Cornell football team will have a second opportunity in three weeks to pick up a signature win when it visits RB 20 Harold Coles 25 SK Howard No. 12 Dartmouth on Saturday, Nov. 16 at 1:30 p.m. at Memorial Field in Hanover, N.H. DEFENSE • Tyler Murray and Matt Goldstein will be in the ESPN+ broadcast booth as the Big Red attempts to defeat a ranked DE 90 Nathaniel Weber 64 Michael Gillooley Ivy team for the first time since 2006. NT 55 Maxton Edgerly 96 Onome Kessington • For the 101st consecutive season, Cornell and Dartmouth will meet on the gridiron as the two teams have met DT 36 Cyrus Nolan 50 William Baker RLB 19 Mo Bradford 32 Christoph Sontich every year since 1919 — making it the second-longest uninterrupted active series in college football, tied with MLB 39 Lance Blass 30 Jake Stebbins Cornell-Penn and trailing only Lafayette-Lehigh (123 straight years). WLB 12 Malik Leary or 46 Justin Bedard • The Big Red has been knocking on the door of a breakthrough all season, and it will now take its shot at spoiling CB 25 David Jones 8 Demetrius Harris SS 23 Jelani Taylor 22 Mbaba Sow Dartmouth’s Ivy championship run — at least momentarily. X 9 Logan Thut 14 Eric Stoxstill-Diggs • With a win, the Big Green would clinch at least a share of the Ancient Eight title and win its 11th consecutive game WS 3 Jake Watkins 17 Isaiah Hogan and 21st in its last 22 contests. CB 10 Michael Irons 8 Demetrius Harris • Cornell, meanwhile, will be attempting to win its first game over a ranked Ivy team since defeating then unbeaten SPECIAL TEAMS and eventual Ivy champ Princeton in 2006, 14-7, and its first ranked Ancient Eight team on the road since topping PK 99 Nickolas Null 53 Garrett Patla P 99 Nickolas Null 33 Koby Kiefer No. 13 Penn 13-6 on Nov. 25, 1950 — before the creation of the Ivy League. KR 25 David Jones 18 Eric Gallman II • Dartmouth has won 10 straight against the Big Red and hasn’t lost to Cornell in Hanover since 2005 (21-10). PR 25 David Jones 18 Eric Gallman II LS 86 Thomas Ferrara 43 Richard Besselman LOOKING FORWARD, LOOKING BACK H 33 Koby Kiefer 2 Owen Peters • This year’s version of the Big Red returns 14 starters (six Coles (RB) and David Jones (CB) both finding a spot on offense, eight defense), as well as its punter, placekicker, the second team. 2019 IVY LEAGUE STANDINGS long-snapper and return specialists from a year ago. • The Cornell football team was picked to finish seventh Ivy Overall • Cornell went 3-7 in 2018 with a pair of league losses in the Ivy League’s annual preseason poll. School W - L Pct. W - L Pct. Streak to top-half teams by less than a touchdown (Yale, • For the fourth times in five seasons, the Big Red will Dartmouth 5 - 0 1.000 8 - 0 1.000 á10 Princeton 4 - 1 .800 7 - 1 .875 â1 Columbia). look to surpass the prediction from the poll. Yale 4 - 1 .800 7 - 1 .875 á4 • The Big Red defeated Harvard for the second straight • After being picked to place eighth in 2017, the Big Red Columbia 2 - 3 .400 3 - 5 .375 á1 Harvard 2 - 3 .400 4 - 4 .500 â3 season for the first time since 1999 and 2000, and ham- finished tied for fifth and entered November in the thick Penn 2 - 3 .400 4 - 4 .500 á2 mered previously unbeaten Sacred Heart at home, 43-24. of the Ivy race for the first time since 2000. CORNELL 1 - 4 .200 2 - 6 .250 â2 Brown 0 - 5 .000 1 - 7 .125 â7 • Cornell rallied from a double-digit deficit at Brown for • The Big Red was chosen to finish eighth in 2016, then start- Ivy League Schedule/Results: a 34-16 victory, the Big Red’s first win in Providence, R.I. ed the year 3-0 and took sixth in the final league standings. WEEK 8 since 2002 and its first consecutive victories over the • The year before it was eighth in the poll and didn’t Saturday, Nov. 9, 2019 Bears since 1993 - before any current member of the end there either. Yale 59, Brown 35 Columbia, 17, Harvard 10 (OT) team was born. • The 2017 season saw Cornell climb to fifth in the Ivy Penn 21, Cornell 20 • Cornell’s seven losses came against teams that sported standings at 3-4 and was in contention for the Ivy title Dartmouth 27, Princeton 10 a cumulative 53-21 record, including four to nationally in November for the first time since 2000. WEEK 9 ranked opponents (Colgate, Delaware, Princeton and • The team’s three Ivy wins were the most since 2011 Saturday, Nov. 16, 2019 Penn at Harvard, 12 p.m. Dartmouth). and tied for the best Ivy record by the program in more Brown at Columbia, 1 p.m. • Colgate reached the national quarterfinals and Dela- than a decade. Yale at Princeton, 1 p.m. Cornell at Dartmouth, 1:30 p.m. ware earned a spot in the FCS Playoffs, while Princeton • With six more wins, Cornell will reach 650 all-time (13th went undefeated (10-0) and joined fellow Ivy rival all-time in FCS history). WEEK 10 Dartmouth (9-1) in the final top 25 poll. Saturday, Nov. 23, 2019 • With three more wins at Schoellkopf Field, the Big Red Harvard at Yale, TBA • Cornell also faced seven of the nation’s top 20 defenses, would close out 300 all-time victories at the historic Dartmouth at Brown, 12:30 p.m. Princeton at Penn, 1 p.m. but still had its most successful season running the ball facility, the fourth-oldest FCS stadium (opened in 1915). Columbia at Cornell, 1:30 p.m. since 2006 (156.1 yards per game). Only Penn’s Franklin Field (1895), Harvard Stadium (1903) • Six Big Red players earned All-Ivy honors, with Harold and the Yale Bowl (1914) are older. 2019 SCHEDULE & RESULTS at Marist at Yale* GEORGETOWN at Harvard* COLGATE BROWN* #12PRINCETON* at Penn* at #12 Dartmouth* COLUMBIA* Sept. 21 Sept. 28 Oct. 5 Oct. 12 Oct. 19 Oct. 26 Nov. 1 Nov. 9 Nov. 16 Nov. 23 Poughkeepsie, N.Y. New Haven, Conn. Ithaca, N.Y. Cambridge, Mass. Ithaca, N.Y. Ithaca, N.Y. Ithaca, N.Y. Philadelphia, Pa. Hanover, N.H. Ithaca, N.Y. Tenney Stadium (5,000) The Yale Bowl (61,446) Schoellkopf Field (21,500) Harvard Stadium (30,323) Schoellkopf Field (21,500) Schoellkopf Field (21,500) Schoellkopf Field (21,500) Franklin Field (52,598) Memorial Field (17,000) Schoellkopf Field (21,500) Red Fox Network ESPN+ ESPN+ ESPN+ ESPN+ ESPN+ ESPNU ESPN+ ESPN+ ESPN+ W, 21-7 L, 16-27 L, 8-14 L, 22-35 L, 20-21 W, 37-35 L, 7-21 L, 20-21 1:30 p.m. 1:30 p.m. Dartmouth leads 61-40-1 Cornell leads 65-38-3 5 National Titles • 3 Ivy League Titles • 32 First-Team All-America Selections • 160 First-Team All-Ivy League Selections • Page 1 2019 Cornell Big Red Football // Game 9 // at Dartmouth www.CornellBigRed.com ABOUT DARTMOUTH David Archer ’05 • The 12th-ranked Dartmouth Big Green are a perfect 8-0 this season and 20-1 over its last 21 THE ROGER J. WEIss ’61 HEAD COACH OF FOOTBALL games after a thorough 27-10 beating of Princeton last weekend at Yankee Stadium. • The Big Green has the inside track for its 26th Ivy title on the gridiron and its second in the • Seventh season directing the Big Red football program. last five years, with a win giving Dartmouth at least a share of the title. • Became youngest Division I head football coach in • Dartmouth’s defense, ranked fifth overall and first in scoring defense, is led by senior captains the country when he was named the Roger J. Weiss Jack Traynor (59 tackles, 4.5 tackles for loss, two interceptions) and Isiah Swann (20 tackles, ‘61 Head Coach of Football on Jan. 3, 2013. • The 2017 season saw Cornell in contention for the two interceptions). Ivy title in November for the first time since 2000. • Opposing offenses are averaging just 292.3 yards per game and are scoring just 10.1 points • That team’s three Ivy wins were the most since 2011 per outing.