Cornell Game Notes at Dartmouth • Memorial Field (Hanover, N.H.) Saturday, Nov. 3, 2007 • Page 1 CORNELL AT D ARTMOUTH ORNELL SATURDAY , N OV . 3, 2007 • 12:00 P.M. ET C MEMORIAL F IELD (17,000) • H ANOVER , N.H. TELEVISION : YES N ETWORK F OOTBALL 2007 RADIO : WHCU-AM 870 FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT C ORNELL SID J EREMY H ARTIGAN AT (607) 255-9788 JH295@C ORNELL .EDU • F AX : (607) 255-9791 • H OME /C ELL : (607) 351-1675 2007 C ORNELL F OOTBALL Cornell Looks For Fifth Win of 2007 At Dartmouth On YES SCHEDULE /R ESULTS (4-3, 1-3 I VY ) SEPTEMBER 15 BUCKNELL ............................................W, 38-14 ITHACA, N.Y. — Two teams attempting to $ nish strong at a crossroads of their season meet when 22 * at No. 21 Yale .........................................L, 12-51 Cornell visits Dartmouth on Saturday, Nov. 3, at 12 p.m. at Memorial Field. The Big Red (4-3, 1-3 Ivy) 29 at Georgetown ......................................W, 45-7 and the Big Green (2-5, 2-2 Ivy) will square o! on the YES Network as part of the Ivy League’s televi- OCTOBER sion package. 6 * HARVARD................................................L, 15-32 13 COLGATE (TW Syracuse).................. W, 17-14 Coming o! a heartbreaking 34-31 loss at Princeton, a young Big Red squad will attempt to gain 20 * BROWN .........................................W, 38-31 (OT) the con$ dence needed to win on the road, while goals of seven wins (the most since 1999) and a 26 * at Princeton (ESPNU) ..........................L, 31-34 winning Ivy League record (the third in the last four seasons) are still within reach. Dartmouth, also a NOVEMBER young team, will attempt to continue its momentum after picking up wins over Penn and Columbia 3 * at Dartmouth (YES) ........................12:00 p.m. and throwing a scare into Ancient Eight leader Harvard on the road last weekend. 10 * COLUMBIA ...........................................1:00 p.m. It was a mixed bag for Cornell on a rainy Friday night in Princeton, as the o! ense piled up 418 17 * at Penn ................................................. 1:00 p.m. *Ivy League game yards of total o! ense and scored 31 points, but turned the ball over six times. The defense forced Home games in CAPS; all times local the Tiger passing game into a 10-of-24 performance for just 96 yards, but missed tackles in the run game allowed Princeton to rush for 277 yards. The special teams totalled 173 return yards and blocked GAME I NFORMATION GAME #8 ...........................................................Cornell at Dartmouth a punt, but also allowed a fake $ eld goal for a touchdown and lost a fumble on a return. All-in-all, KICKOFF .......................................Saturday, Nov. 3, at 12:00 p.m. ET anyone who watched the nationally televised game on ESPNU saw a Big Red team on the brink of SITE ...............................................................Memorial Field (17,000) Hanover, N.H. breaking through. 2007 R ECORDS ................................................... Cornell (4-3, 1-3 Ivy) Cornell will face a con$ dent Dartmouth team that already has matched last season’s win total Dartmouth (2-5, 2-2 Ivy) SERIES R ECORD ...........................................Dartmouth leads 50-39-1 overall and in conference action under head coach Buddy Teevens. The Big Green gave a great e! ort LAST M EETING ..........................................................Cornell won 28-25 last weekend at Harvard in a 28-21 loss as it was unable to overcome four turnovers. Cornell has won Nov. 4, 2006, in Ithaca, N.Y. RADIO .............................................................................WHCU 870 AM three straight contests between the two teams, and six of the last seven contests overall. Barry Leonard (play-by-play), Buck Briggs (color) LIVE S TATS ..........................Available at www.CornellBigRed.com LIVE V IDEO ....................................at www.GoPrincetonTigers.com A WIN OVER DARTMOUTH WOULD: TV ......................................................................................YES Network • improve the Big Red to 5-3 overall and 1-3 in Ivy play. TICKETS ...................................Available by calling (607) 254-BEAR • guarantee Cornell a .500 overall record for the third straight season. HEAD C OACH J IM K NOWLES ‘87 • narrow Dartmouth’s lead in the all-time series to 50-40-1. The Roger J. Weiss ‘61 Head Coach of Football Jim Knowles is • give the Big Red a four-game win streak against the Big Green. in his fourth season at the helm of the Big Red (19-18 overall, .514; 12-13 Ivy, .480) ... Knowles, an All-Ivy defensive end and • make Cornell 2-4 all-time in televised football games on the YES Network. three-year letter winner on the gridiron, was hired by his alma • snap a $ ve-game Ivy road losing streak. mater as head coach on Jan. 30, 2004. • be the 610th in program history (10th most in the Football Championship Subdivision). FOOTBALL S TAFF HEAD C OACH ......................................................................Jim Knowles THE CORNELL-DARTMOUTH SERIES: (Dartmouth leads 50-39-1) This will be the 91st meeting be- ALMA M ATER .................................................................Cornell ‘87 RECORD AT C ORNELL /Y RS ...........................19-18/Fourth season tween Cornell and Dartmouth, with the Big Green holding a 50-39-1 lead in the series. The two teams OVERALL R ECORD /Y RS . ..............................19-18/Fourth season $ rst met in 1900, a 23-6 Cornell win. The Big Red won last year’s matchup 28-25 in Ithaca, N.Y. The two ASST . C OACHES .............................Clayton Carlin (Def. Coord./DBs) Bruce Barnum (O! . Coord./Tight Ends/Running Backs) teams have been fairly evenly matched in recent years, with 10 of the last 14 meetings being decided Brian Coon (Asst. O! . Coord./O! ensive Line) by a touchdown or less (Cornell holds a 9-5 lead during that stretch). Pete DeStefano (Assoc. Defensive Coord./Def. Line) Zac Roper (Special Teams Coordinator/Safeties) David Archer (Linebackers) Joe Borich (Quarterbacks) Travis Burkett (O! ensive Assistant) MATCHUP A T A G LANCE Guy Holliday (Wide Receivers) DIRECTOR OF F OOTBALL O PERATIONS ................................. Rhett Ticconi COORDINATOR OF F OOTBALL A LUMNI R ELATIONS ...................Pete Noyes Cornell ..................................................... vs. ...............................................Dartmouth ATHLETIC T RAINERS ....................................Bernie DePalma/Jim Case Ithaca, N.Y. .................................................................Location ...........................................................Hanover, N.H. STRENGTH C OACH ............................................................... Tom Howley 1865 .............................................................................Founded ............................................................................1769 ATHLETIC C OMMUNICATIONS 13,700 .......................................................................Enrollment .........................................................................4,300 DIRECTOR (FB C ONTACT ) ............................................Jeremy Hartigan Ivy League ..............................................................Conference ..............................................................Ivy League E- MAIL ...........................................................jh295@cornell.edu OFFICE P HONE ...................................................... (607) 255-9788 Schoellkopf Field (25,597, turf) ......................... Stadium ...........Memorial Field (17,000, Natural Grass) ASSOCIATE D IRECTOR .............................................................. Julie Greco J. Andrew Noel, Jr. ......................................... Athletics Director .....................................................Josie Harper ASSISTANT D IRECTOR ..............................................................Kevin Zeise ASSISTANT D IRECTOR ..................................................Lindsey Mechalik 1887 ..................................................................First Year of Football .................................................................1881 ACCOUNTS R EPRESENTATIVE .....................................Marlene Crockford 609-448-34 (.574) ................................... All-Time Football Record ....................................642-408-46 (.607) BIG R ED H OTLINE ...........................................................(607) 255-2385 WEB S ITE ....................................................www.CornellBigRed.com Jim Knowles (Cornell ‘87) ..................................Head Coach ....................Buddy Teevens (Dartmouth ‘79) 19-18, Fourth Year ..........................................Record at School ......................................32-43-2, Eighth Year WEATHER .COM F ORECAST 19-18, Fourth Year .............................................Career Record .........................................32-43-2, Eighth Year Saturday calls for partly cloudy (20 percent chance of rain), with a high temperature of 50° and a low of 37° (as Multiple/Multiple ......................................... O! . & Def. Systems .........................................Multiple/Multiple of Oct. 29). 5-5 (3-4 Ivy) ...........................................................2006 Record ...........................................................2-8 (2-5 Ivy) Cornell Game Notes at Dartmouth • Memorial Field (Hanover, N.H.) Saturday, Nov. 3, 2007 • Page 2 NOTES