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Princeton University Athletics
Yale 31, Princeton 28
August 16, 1999 | Football
Nov. 14, 1998
- Game Notes
New Haven, Conn. - On a day that featured almost everything, in the end all there was for Princeton was heartbreak.
The Tigers battled from behind all day to finally take the lead, only to see Yale come back 21 seconds later to pull out the victory that officially eliminated Princeton from the Ivy race. Yale, which won just one game a year ago, is still alive for a share of the title in the final week of the season.
One week after falling behind 21-0 to Penn, Princeton dug itself a 17-0 hole against Yale before beginning its comeback. The Bulldogs returned two interceptions for touchdowns to build that lead, but Princeton quarterback John Burnham shook that off to throw second quarter touchdowns to Phil Wendler and Ryan Crowley to make it 17-14 at intermission.
After a Yale score made it 24-14 in the third, Burnham again brought the Tigers back, capping a 14-play, 83-yard drive with a four-yard touchdown pass to Ray Canole.
Princeton then took its brief lead when Craig Foote intercepted a Joe Walland pass and returned it 29 yards for a score with 8:47 remaining. That 28-24 lead lasted just one play, as Walland redeemed himself with a 76-yard touchdown pass to Jake Fuller after the kickoff for the winning score.
Burnham threw for 249 yards and three touchdowns, though he was hurt by six interceptions.
Game Notes
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YALE (4-4, 3-2)
The Date Nov. 14, 1998 The Kickoff 12:30 p.m. The Site Yale Bowl, New Haven, Conn. The Series Yale leads 64-46-10 Last Year Princeton defeated Yale 9-0 Last Week Princeton lost to Pennsylvania 27-14 Yale defeated Cornell 28-21 The Coaches Princeton: Steve Tosches (12th season, 74-42-2) Yale: Jack Siedlecki (10th season, 60-26-2) TV/Radio The game can be heard live on the Princeton Radio Network, which includes flagship station WHWH AM 1350 in Princeton and WHTG AM 1410 in Eatontown. The game can also be seen live on RCN, which will televise the game Tuesday at 8 p.m. The Storyline Princeton and Yale play to stay in the Ivy League racePENNSYLVANIA at PRINCETON
The 90th meeting
This Week's Note of the Week
- Mirror, mirror - Princeton has 351 rushing attempts, 1,591 passing yards and an average time of possession of 32:30 per game, Yale has 353 rushing attempts, 1,609 passing yards and an average time of possession of 32:04 per game.
- Log-jamming - Princeton and Yale are tied for second in the Ivy League
with Brown and Harvard at 3-2, Penn is in first place at 4-1. Harvard is
at Penn this week, while Brown is at Dartmouth.
- History lesson - Only twice in Ivy League history has a team with more
than one loss earned a share of the championship (1973, 1982).
- History lesson II - Princeton has defeated Yale in six of the last
seven
meetings, with the only loss coming in 1995, when the Tigers were outright
Ivy League champion.
- Airing it out - Princeton has 1,591 passing yards, more than it had in
any
of the last four complete seasons.
- Phil it up - Phil Wendler has two 100-yard receiving days this year (vs. Lehigh and Penn). No other Princeton player has had one since Marc Washington against Colgate in 1994, and no other Princeton wide receiver has one since Marc Ross against Yale in 1993.
- In a rush - Princeton allowed 146 rushing yards in its first four Ivy
League games combined. Penn's Jim Finn had 164 rushing yards against
Princeton last week.
- In a rush II - Princeton has allowed two 100-yard rushers in its last
11
games, Jim Finn in 1997 and Jim Finn in 1998.
- More rushing - Princeton went from being ranked first in Division I-AA
in
rushing defense last week to being ranked third this week.
- Burnham, baby, Burnham - John Burnham has three straight 200-yard
passing
games, making him the first Princeton quarterback since Joel Foote in 1993
to accomplish that. The last Princeton quarterback with four straight
200-yard passing days was Jason Garrett in 1987.
- Burnham, baby, Burnham II - John Burnham has four 200-yard passing
games
this season. The last Princeton quarterback with more than that in a
season was Jason Garrett, who had eight in 1987.
- Burnham, baby, Burnham III - John Burnham had 14 completions against
Penn,
and eight of them were for at least 20 yards.
- A league of his own - Matt Evans leads the Ivy League and is third in
Division I-AA in punting average. Evans has led the Ivy League in punting
as both a sophomore and junior.
- Sounding like a broken record - Matt Evans set the Princeton record
for
punting yards in a season as a sophomore (40.7), broke it as a junior
(41.1) and is on the verge of breaking it again (44.6).
- Feeling grand - Princeton's four tailbacks (Nathan McGlothlin, Damien
Taylor, Kyle Brandt and Derek Theisen) have combined for 1,001 rushing
yards.
- Spreading it around - Derek Theisen leads Princeton with 90 carries.
No
Princeton team under Steve Tosches has ever had its top rusher have fewer
than 138 carries for a season (Erik Hamilton in 1990).
- Join the club - Offensive tackle Justin Bennett has started 28
straight games. Should he start the last two games of this season, he would become
the seventh player and second offensive lineman (Carter Westfall) under
Steve Tosches to start at least 30 games.
- Quarterly report - Princeton allowed 21 first-quarter points to Penn
after allowing 19 first-quarter points in its first seven games combined.
- Quarterly report II - Princeton has scored 75 points in the second
quarter and 87 points in the other three quarters combined.
- Quick strikes - Penn scored three touchdowns in a 2:23 second span of
the first quarter against Princeton. Prior to that, Princeton had only allowed
three touchdowns in two of its first seven games.
- Okay, smart guy - Alex Sierk has been named a Burger King
scholar-athlete
($10,000 to the University's general fund) and a National Football
Foundation and College Hall of Fame scholar-athlete ($18,000 postgraduate
scholarship). Sierk has a 3.97 grade-point average in molecular biology
and is headed for a career as a surgeon.
- Salters in the wound - Jim Salters, who leads Princeton with 85
tackles, has the second-highest grade-point average on the team (a 3.60 in
electrical engineering).
- Getting his kicks - Alex Sierk has 36 career field goals, second
all-time in Ivy League history. The league record is 38, set last year by
Dartmouth's Dave Regula.
- Yo, Adrian - Rocky Fittizzi has blocked seven punts in the last 15
games.
- Sack daddy - David Ferrara has 12 sacks in eight games. The school
single-season record is 14.5, set by Brian Kazan in 1991.
- Career day - Mike Veronesi (17) and David Ferrara (16) each had a
career high in tackles against Penn.
- Zero tolerance - Princeton has three shutouts in a season for the
first time since 1965.
- By Djordje - Djordje Citovic has six receptions for 156 yards, an
average of 26.0 yards per catch.
- Everybody loves Raymond - Ray Canole has caught at least one pass in
every
game last year and this year.
- Everybody loves Ryan - Ryan Crowley needs six receptions in the last
two
games to become the first Tiger receiver since Michael Lerch in 1991 with
at least 42 catches in a season.
- Improve-isation - Princeton needs to win one of its last two to equal
its
Ivy League winning total of the last two years combined.
- 1-2 punch - Yale's Joe Walland and Princeton's John Burnham rank 1-2
in
rushing among Ivy quarterbacks.
- Flag day - There were 18 penalties in the Princeton-Penn game.
- Earth-quakers - Penn led Yale 14-0 at the end of the first quarter two
weeks ago and led Princeton 21-0 at the end of the first quarter last
week.
- Young gun - Princeton linebacker Drew Babinecz is the only player to
win
Ivy League Rookie of the Week twice this year.
- Coming attractions - The final week of the Ivy season: Dartmouth at Princeton, Penn at Cornell, Harvard at Yale and Brown at Columbia.
Probable Two-Deeps
Princeton Offense WR 15 RAY CANOLE (Sr., 6-1, 195, Minooka, Ill.) 19 Phil Wendler (Sr., 6-3, 195, Kent. Wash.) LT 72 JUSTIN BENNETT (Sr., 6-3, 295, Tulare, Calif.) 66 John Raveche (So., 6-4, 285, Hoboken, N.J.) LG 57 HAMIN ABDULLAH (Jr., 6-3, 280, Jacksonville, Fla.) 68 Brian Herdman (Sr., 6-4, 285, Canonsburg, Pa.) C 61 BERNARD MARCYK (Jr., 6-2, 270, Absecon, N.J.) 62 Brian Wilson (So., 6-2, 275, Springfield, Pa.) RG 52 JOHN AMBURGY (So., 6-4, 270, Clearwater, Fla.) 65 Ross Tucker (So., 6-5, 280, Wyomissing, Pa.) RT 76 DENNIS NORMAN (So., 6-3, 270, Marlton, N.J.) 74 Steve Lamberton (Sr., 6-4, 280, Wynnmoor, Pa.) TE 82 TOM STANLEY (Sr., 6-4, 250, Delray Beach, Fla.) 84 Djordje Citovic (So., 6-5, 230, Middleburg Heights, Ohio) WR 5 RYAN CROWLEY (Sr., 6-0, 185, Norfolk, Neb.) 3 Danny Brian (Jr., 5-9, 170, Escondido, Calif.) H-B 89 JASON GLOTZBACH (Sr., 6-3, 245, Redlands, Calif.) 24 Bruce Erb (Jr., 6-0, 220, Pequannock, N.J.) QB 4 JOHN BURNHAM (Sr., 6-3, 205, Washington, D.C.) 16 Jon Blevins (So., 6-3, 200, Westlake, Ohio) or 18 Pat Minnihan (Sr., 6-1, 185, Sycamore, Ill.) TB 34 KYLE BRANDT (So., 6-0, 200, Lincolnshire, Ill.) and 40 Nathan McGlothlin (Sr., 6-2, 230, Lebanon, Va.) and 29 Derek Theisen (Jr., 5-11, 200, Avon Lake, Ohio) and 32 DAMIEN TAYLOR (Jr., 5-11, 200, Virginia Beach, Va.)Princeton Defense DE 95 DAVID FERRARA (Jr., 6-3, 250, Ramsey, N.J.) 90 David Atchison (So., 6-2, 235, Sunnyvale, Calif.) DT 58 Douglas Silverman (Jr., 6-2, 245, Potomac, Md.) 60 Preston Tims (Jr., 5-11, 245, Boardman, Ohio) DT 63 TUMOANA WEBSTER (So., 6-0, 340, Aukland, N.Z.) 99 Brian Latzke (Sr., 6-3, 270, Brookfield, Ill.) DE 56 DAN SWINGOS (Sr., 6-4, 240, Brecksville, Ohio) 96 Jason Rotman (So., 6-4, 240, Deerfield, Ill.) LB 54 JIM SALTERS (Sr., 5-11, 205, Pullman, Wash.) 51 Mike Higgins (So., 5-11, 205, Ho Ho Kus, N.J.) LB 7 MIKE VERONESI (Sr., 6-0, 195, Dyer, Ind.) 36 Craig Foote (Jr., 6-2, 220, Aurora, N.Y.) LB 50 CHUCK HASTINGS (Jr., 6-2, 210, Trenton, Mich.) 41 Drew Babinecz (Fr., 6-2, 220, West Chester, Pa.) CB 8 GERRY GIURATO (Jr., 5-10, 175, Jacksonville, Fla.) 39 Garrett Fittizzi (Jr., 5-9, 165, Voorheesville, N.Y.) SS 30 Rocky Fittizzi (Sr., 5-9, 185, Voorheesville, N.Y.) 33 Dave Richie (Jr., 5-10, 180, Coal Township, Pa.) FS 22 RYAN DEMLER (Jr., 6-2, 185, Escondido, Calif.) 28 Andrew Frank (So., 5-10, 175, Sterling Heights, Mich.) CB 43 Brian Beem (Fr., 5-9, 175, Atlanta, Ga.) 39 Garrett Fittizzi (Jr., 5-9, 165, Voorheesville, N.Y.)
Princeton Specialists PK 2 ALEX SIERK (Sr., 6-1, 180, Bettendorf, Iowa) KO 6 TAYLOR NORTHRUP (Fr., 5-11, 175, Jupiter, Fla.) P 20 MATT EVANS (Sr., 6-1, 185, Bellaire, Texas) LS 91 TODD HELFRICH (Jr., 6-3, 225, Northbrook, Ill.) H 86 CHUCK MINERVINO (Sr., 6-0, 190, Roseland, N.J.) PR 15 RAY CANOLE (Sr., 6-1, 195, Minooka, Ill.) KR 34 KYLE BRANDT (So., 6-0, 200, Lincolnshire, Ill.)