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Princeton University Athletics
Tigers Host Big Red In Football
October 23, 2001 | Football
Oct. 23, 2001
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CORNELL (0-5, 0-3) at PRINCETON (1-4, 1-2)
The Date Oct. 27, 2001
The Kickoff 1:07 p.m.
The Site Princeton Stadium * Princeton, N.J.
The Series Princeton leads 51-30-2
Last Year Cornell defeated Princeton 25-24
Last Week Princeton lost to Harvard 28-26, Cornell lost to Brown 49-21
The Coaches Princeton: Roger Hughes (second season, 4-11), Cornell: Tim Pendergast (second season overall, 2-11, first season at Cornell, 0-5)
TV/Radio The game can be heard live on WHWH AM 1350 in Princeton and the Princeton Web site (www.GoPrincetonTigers.com), as well as on student-run station WPRB FM 103.3. The game is will be televised on RCN, which will televise the game live and on tape delay Tuesday at 8 p.m., and on CN8, which will televise the game live. The satellite coordinates for the game are GE2, KU Band, Transponder 12.
Upside down - The last time neither Princeton nor Cornell finished in the top half of the Ivy Leauge standings was 1984.
Catch 21.7 - Chris Roser-Jones has 239 return yards on 11 career interceptions, an average of 21.7 yards per return. The NCAA Division I-AA record is 25.8, held by Zach Bronson (McNeese State '97, now of the San Francisco 49ers), meaning Roser-Jones would tie the record by returning his next interception at least 71 yards. More catch 21.7 - Chris Roser-Jones is averaging 21.7 yards per interception return, which is 3.6 yards greater than the Princeton career record for average yards per reception.
Catch 132 - Chris Roser-Jones has 132 yards in interception returns this season. Only two Tigers (Chisom Opara with 327, Mike Chiusano with 136) have more receiving yards.
Young guns - Princeton has used four freshman defensive tackles and four sophomore defensive tackles.
Change of season - Princeton and Cornell met in either the first week or the last week of the season every year from 1976 to 1999 before the schedule changed last year. Princeton and Cornell opened the season against each other every year from 1990-99.
In a rush - Cameron Atkinson and David Splithoff have combined for 601 of Princeton's 694 rushing yards (87%).
Cameron crazy - Cameron Atkinson is averaging 5.6 yards per carry, the highest total by a Princeton back since Keith Elias averaged 5.7 in 1993.
More Cameron - Cameron Atkinson has rushed for five touchdowns in the last three weeks.
Hand-y man - Blake Perry has 25 tackles and an interception in the last three weeks despite playing with fractures in both of his wrists.
Taylor made - Taylor Northrop ranks second all-time at Princeton and sixth all-time in the Ivy League in career field goals made. He needs one to tie Alex Sierk's Princeton record and six to tie Jason Feinberg's Ivy record, set last year at Penn.
More Taylor - Taylor Northrop leads Division I-AA in field goals per game (2.0).
Harvard heartbreak - Princeton's last three games at Harvard Stadium have seen the Tigers lose 14-12 on a last-minute field goal that grazed the crossbar (1997), 13-6 on a touchdown run from inside the one-yard-line as time expired (1999) and 28-26 on a missed 49-yard field goal on the final play (2001).
In case you forgot - On the final drive of last year's Princeton-Cornell game, backup quarterback Brian Danielewicz completed 5 of 6 passes for 78 yards, including a 24-yard touchdown pass to Chisom Opara with 11 seconds remaining, to pull Princeton to within 25-24. Cornell won the game when the extra point was no good after Taylor Northrop slipped on the ice as he planted his foot.
More forgot - Cornell's Ricky Rahne has thrown for 589 yards in two games against Princeton.
History lesson - The loser of the Princeton-Cornell game has not scored a touchdown in the Big Red's first two trips to Princeton Stadium.
The whammy - David Splithoff has started every game this season at quarterback for Princeton. The only two quarterbacks to start every game in a season for Princeton since 1990 are Chad Roghair (in 1991) and John Burnham (in 1998).
Moving up the charts - Chisom Opara has 80 career receptions, eighth-best all-time at Princeton. He needs one to tie Mark Rockefeller '89 for seventh and 16 to tie Cris Crissy '81 for sixth.
Ram tough - Princeton quarterback David Splithoff and St. Louis Rams quarterback Kurt Warner had the exact same stat lines this past week: 18 for 27, 219 yards, one touchdown.
Crossing the line - Freshman Ryan Watson has moved from tight end to defensive end after the injury to Joe Weiss. Watson is listed as the No. 2 man on the depth chart to Phil Jackman.
Tight squeeze - Tight end Mike Chiusano caught his first career touchdown pass last week against Harvard.
Keasey does it - Zak Keasey has 27 tackles in four games this season. He had seven all of last year as a freshman.
Spread it around - Fourteen different Princeton receivers have caught at least one pass.
Say it ain't so, Joe - Defensive end Joe Weiss will miss the remainder of the season after breaking his leg against Colgate.
Nine-ball - Princeton's game against Lafayette will not be made up, leaving the Tigers with a nine-game schedule for the first time since 1984.
Young guns - Of the 14 defensive linemen on Princeton's team, 13 are either freshmen or sophomores. The only upperclassmen is senior Phil Jackman, who is in his first full season of organized football.
Air ball - David Splithoff has thrown the three longest passes in Princeton Stadium history: 78 yards to Chisom Opara, 74 yards to Nate Lindell and 72 yards to Marty Cheatham.
Not so fast - Princeton has three Heptagonal sprint champions on its team: Paul Simbi, Patrick Schottel, Cameron Atkinson.
50-50 - Taylor Northrop is one of three placekickers in Ivy League history with two career 50-yard field goals. The others: Tim Mazzetti (Penn '77) and Mark Hall (Harvard '94). No kicker has had three career 50-yarders in Ivy history.
'Backer up - Princeton has had a first-team or second-team All-Ivy League linebacker every year since 1991.
More 'backer - Bob Farrell is the fifth Princeton captain in the last seven years to be a linebacker. The other four were all named first-team or second-team All-Ivy League.
Ice pop - Princeton center Roger Patterson is a native of Eagle River, Alaska. His father is an Alaska state trooper.
Horse-play - Princeton linebacker Rob Currey was named "Best Cattle Showman" at the 1998 Livingston County Fair in his hometown of Fowlerville, Mich.
Good as golden - The 2001 season marks the 50th anniversary of Dick Kazmaier's winning the Heisman Trophy.