Final 2016 Ivy League Football January 9, 2017 #IvyFootball #OneIvy FINAL STANDINGS LEAGUE NOTES • Penn and Princeton shared the 2016 #IvyFootball Ivy League Overall title with matching 6-1 League records. Record Pct. PF PA Record Pct. PF PA Streak • It’s the second-straight title for Penn and 18th Princeton 6-1 .857 252 74 8-2 .800 346 164 W 4 overall, tying the Quakers with Dartmouth for most Penn 6-1 .857 204 117 7-3 .700 277 213 W 2 among Ivy programs. Harvard 5-2 .714 163 145 7-3 .700 262 210 L 2 •Penn head coach Ray Priore is just the second Brown 3-4 .429 135 179 4-6 .400 204 265 L 1 head coach in Ancient Eight history to win a title Yale 3-4 .429 118 177 3-7 .300 203 339 W 1 in each of his first two seasons (Dartmouth’s Jack Cornell 2-5 .286 143 225 4-6 .400 230 310 L 1 Crouthamel won three from 1971-73). Columbia 2-5 .286 147 204 3-7 .300 185 247 W 1 • For the Tigers, the title is their 11th overall and Dartmouth 1-6 .143 124 165 4-6 .400 201 213 L 2 second under head coach Bob Surace, as the team previously won in 2013. 2016 BUSHNELL CUP RECIPIENTS • Junior John Lovett finished the season with 20 Dartmouth senior linebacker Folarin Orimolade rushing touchdowns, the sixth Ivy all-time to reach and Princeton junior running back John Lovett 20 rushing TDs in a single year and first since Yale’s were unveiled as the Ivy League’s 2016 Football Players of the Year and Asa S. Bushnell Cup Tyler Varga in 2014. recipients in front of a capacity crowd at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City. Orimolade was named Defensive Player of the Year and Lovett received Offensive Player of Year before a live audience on The Ivy League Digital Network (ILDN) at a special press conference and reception co-hosted by the National Football Foundation (NFF) and presented by the Pasadena BUSHNELL FINALISTS Tournament of Roses. Penn junior wide receiver Justin Watson, Princeton junior running back John Lovett, Dartmouth senior DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR linebacker Folarin Orimolade and Tigers junior Orimolade is the first-ever Dartmouth defensive player to receive the Bushnell Cup, and the first Big Green to defensive lineman Kurt Holuba were named the be named Player of the Year since Nick Schwieger in 2010. Orimolade is Dartmouth’s seventh overall Bushnell finalists for the 2016 Asa S. Bushnell Cup, which Cup recipient; that group includes his head coach Buddy Teevens (1978). Orimolade is the sixth Bushnell honors the Ivy League Football Players of the Year. Cup winner to come from a team that finished in the bottom half of the League standings, joining Cornell’s Jeff Mathews (2011), Dartmouth’s Schwieger (2010), Cornell’s Derrick Harmon (1983), Columbia’s John Witkowski (1982) and Doug Jackson (1975) and Princeton’s Walt Snickenberger (1974). Orimolade led the nation with 5.0 forced fumbles and ranked 16th with 9.0 sacks, while leading the Ivy League in both categories. He finished second in the League in tackles for a loss (14.5) and fifth in tackles (83), taking home two Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week honors this season. He recorded two sacks in a single contest three separate times this season and for his efforts received his second-straight first-team All-Ivy honor after a vote by the League’s eight coaches. OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR Lovett is the second Tiger to be named Offensive Player of the Year since the League began honoring both Offensive and Defensive recipients in 2011, joining Quinn Epperly (2013). Overall, Lovett is the 10th Tiger to be receive the Bushnell Cup and the first since Mike Zeuli shared Defensive Player of the Year honors in 2014. Lovett is the fourth Princeton player to earn the Bushnell Cup over the past five years, following Mike Catapano (2012), Epperly (2013) and Zeuli (2014). Lovett is the sixth player to receive the Bushnell Cup prior to his senior year over the last 10 seasons, joining Princeton’s Epperly and Harvard’s Zack Hodges (2013), Cornell’s Jeff Mathews (2011), Dartmouth’s Nick Schweiger (2010) and Yale’s Mike McLeod (2007). Lovett played running back, quarterback and even wide receiver for the Tigers. He ran the ball 98 times for 411 yards and a Princeton program record 20 touchdowns, which led the FCS. He became the sixth Ivy to rush for at least 20 touchdowns in a single season and the first since 2014 Bushnell Cup Winner Tyler Varga of Yale. Lovett also completed 51 passes in 77 attempts for 582 yards and 10 touchdowns, while catching 26 passes for 235 yards and one touchdown. In total, Lovett accounted for 31 touchdowns this season, including a Princeton record seven in the Tigers’ win over Cornell in which he recorded four rushing touchdowns, two passing touchdowns and one receiving touchdown. Lovett leads the nation not only in rushing touchdowns but also scoring, and he ranks in the top 10 in the Ivy League in rushing yards, yards per game and yards per carry. Web: IvyLeagueSports.com | #ILDN: IvyLeagueDigitalNetwork.com, ILDN.tv Facebook: TheIvyLeague | Instagram: IvyLeagueSports | Twitter: @IvyLeague, @Ivy_Football 2016 Ivy League Football Final 2 BUSHNELL CUP FINALISTS Penn junior wide receiver Justin Watson, Princeton junior running back John accounted for 31 touchdowns this season, including a Princeton record seven in Lovett, Dartmouth senior linebacker Folarin Orimolade and Tigers junior the Tigers’ win over Cornell in which he recorded four rushing touchdowns, two defensive lineman Kurt Holuba were named the finalists for the 2016 Asa S. passing touchdowns and one receiving touchdown. Lovett leads the nation not Bushnell Cup, which honors the Ivy League Football Players of the Year. only in rushing touchdowns but also scoring, and he ranks in the top 10 in the Ivy League in rushing yards, yards per game and yards per carry. The four Ivy football standouts will travel to New York City for the Bushnell Cup Presentation, co-hosted by the National Football Foundation (NFF) and sponsored DEFENSIVE by the Pasadena Tournament of Roses, Monday, Dec. 5 at the Waldorf Astoria Folarin Orimolade, Dartmouth Hotel. The event will begin at 12:30 p.m. and will be broadcast live and free of Dartmouth senior linebacker Folarin Orimolade was placed on the watch list for charge on The Ivy League Digital Network (ILDN). the FCS Defensive Player of the Year before the season began, and he backed up the recognition. Named a finalist for the Buck Buchanan Award as the nation’s This year’s presentation will mark the seventh-consecutive year that the NFF top defensive player among FCS programs, Orimolade led the nation with 5.0 has partnered with the Ivy League to recognize the conference’s offensive and forced fumbles and ranked 16th with 9.0 sacks, while leading the Ivy League in defensive players of the year, and the third-straight season the ceremony is both categories. sponsored by the Pasadena Tournament of Roses. Orimolade finished second in the The two offensive and two League in tackles for a loss (14.5) defensive finalists along with their and fifth in tackles (83), taking respective head coaches will be home two Ivy League Defensive on hand as Ivy League Executive Player of the Week honors this Director Robin Harris unveils the season. He recorded two sacks winners’ names in front of a packed in a single contest three separate crowd of media representatives, times this season and for his efforts NFF Board members and Ivy received his second-straight first- League football alumni, dignitaries team All-Ivy honor after a vote by and friends. the League’s eight coaches. 2016 ASA S. BUSHNELL CUP Kurt Holuba, Princeton FINALISTS A key member of the Princeton OFFENSIVE defensive unit that led the Ivy Justin Watson, Penn League in scoring defense, total For the second consecutive defense and rushing defense season, Quakers junior receiver was junior defensive lineman Kurt Justin Watson led the Ivy League Holuba, who led the Ivy League in receptions (89), yards (1,115) with 7.0 sacks in conference play and touchdowns (8), en route to his second straight unanimous first-team All-Ivy and finished second with 8.0 sacks overall. Holuba ranks tied for 24th in the nation selection. For good measure, he led the Ivy League in all-purpose yards with in sacks, leading a team that ranked fifth nationally in rushing defense and 15th 1,248. A preseason member of the FCS National Offensive Player of the Year in total defense. watchlist, Watson did not disappoint, as he is third in the FCS in receptions-per- game (8.9), fifth in yards-per-game (111.5) and eighth in total receiving yards. Holuba, the Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week after a three-sack He was recently named one of 15 finalists for the Walter Payton Award as FCS performance against Harvard, recorded at least a half sack in five of the last six National Offensive Player of the Year. games, and he finished with 34 tackles from his defensive line position. Over his last six games, Watson had 60 receptions for 684 yards and five ASA S. BUSHNELL CUP HISTORY touchdowns, which would rank second, fourth and tied for fifth in the League, Presented annually since 1970, The Asa S. Bushnell Cup honors its namesake, respectively. Watson set new Penn single-season records in both receptions and a 1921 Princeton alumnus and the commissioner of the Eastern College yards.