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Princeton University Athletics
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October 09, 2001 | Football
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Oct. 9, 2001
PRINCETON (1-2, 1-0) at BROWN (1-2, 0-1)
The Date Oct. 13, 2001
The Kickoff 12:08 p.m . The Site Brown Stadium * Providence, R.I.
The Series Princeton leads 47-20
Last Year Princeton defeated Brown 55-28
Last Week Princeton lost to Colgate 35-10, Brown defeated Fordham 40-23
The Coaches Princeton: Roger Hughes (second season, 4-9), Brown: Phil Estes (fourth season, 24-9)
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 also the ECAC Game of the Week and will be televised live on NESN and on satellite at Ku Band GE 2 Transponder 3. The game can also be seen on RCN, which will televise the game on tape delay Sunday at 9 a.m. and Tuesday at 8 p.m.
Margin call - The average scoring margin for Princeton's first three games this season has been 27.3 points. The average scoring margin for Princeton's 10 games last year was 2.8 points.
More margin - The average scoring margin of the last four Princeton-Brown games has been 20.3 points.
Still more margin- Princeton's first three games have all been decided by at least 24 points. The last time Princeton played three straight games decided by at least 24 points was 1969, the last time Princeton played four straight games decided by at least 24 points was 1950. Injury update - Defensive end Joe Weiss made seven first-quarter tackles against Colgate before suffering a broken fibula. Weiss had surgery last Monday and is lost for the season.
More injury - Linebacker Chris Roser-Jones (hamstring) and Brandon Mueller (shoulder), both of whom missed the Colgate game, are expected to play against Brown.
Last injury - Chisom Opara was immobilized on the field for 20 minutes against Colgate after his head collided with a defensive player's thigh after a reception. Opara, Princeton's leading receiver, was taken from the field to the hospital, where x-rays were negative. He returned to the sideline in a neck brace in the third quarter, and his status for the Brown game is uncertain.
Hand-y man - Blake Perry, who had a career-high 11 tackles and an interception, has fractures in both of his wrists.
50-50 - Brown scored 53 points against Princeton two years ago. Princeton scored 55 points against Brown last year.
In case you forgot - David Splithoff completed 13 of 17 passes for 289 yards and three touchdowns in last year's 55-28 win over Brown. Splithoff, then a freshman making his first career start, was named Ivy League and ECAC Offensive Player of the Week.
First things first - Princeton ran 24 first down plays against Colgate and had zero or negative yards on 16 of those.
More first - Princeton averaged 2.7 yards on first down plays against Colgate in a 35-10 loss. Princeton averaged 7.2 yards on first down plays against Columbia in a 44-11 win.
League-alize - Roger Hughes is 4-4 in Ivy League games and 0-5 in non-Ivy League games as Princeton head coach.
Quarterly report - Of the 144 points scored in Princeton's first three games, 47 have been scored in the first and fourth quarters and 97 have been scored in the second and third.
More quarterly - Princeton has allowed three first-quarter points in three games.
Last quarterly - Princeton has outscored its opponents 27-20 in the first and fourth quarters and been outscored 60-37 in the second and third quarters.
The whammy - Taylor Northrop has made 12 straight field goals. The Princeton record is 15 straight, held by Alex Sierk '99.
Tight rope - Tight end Mike Chiusano has caught at least three passes in each game this season.
In a rush - Cameron Atkinson and David Splithoff have combined for 264 of Princeton's 316 rushing yards (83.5%).
Big deal - Princeton scored five touchdowns on plays of at least 47 yards against Brown last year.
More big - Last year's Princeton-Brown game featured 968 yards of offense.
Spread it around - Fourteen different Princeton receivers have caught at least one pass.
More spread - Princeton has 13 players in double figures in tackles.
Bait and tackle - Bob Farrell averaged 3.2 tackles per game a year ago. He has averaged eight tackles per game through three games this season.
More tackle - Zak Keasey had seven tackles last year as a freshman. He has 17 through three games this season.
History lesson - No team has won an outright Ivy League championship without winning its first game. Princeton, Penn, Harvard and Yale each won their first league game this season.
Standing still - Princeton, Harvard and Penn are the only three remaining teams unbeaten in the Ivy League.
Many happy returns - Andy Bryant returned a punt 56 yards for a touchdown against Brown a year ago for Princeton's only punt return for a TD since 1994.
More returns - Princeton's Andy Bryant and Brown's Chas Gessner rank 1-2 in the Ivy League in punt returns.
Moving up the charts - Taylor Northrop has 30 career field goals, third-best all-time at Princeton. He trails Alex Sierk '99 (36) and Chris Lutz '90 (32).
More charts - Taylor Northrop is in ninth place all-time in field goals in Ivy League history. He needs one to tie Chris Ingerslev (Brown '85) for eighth and 12 to tie Jason Feinberg (Penn '01) for first.
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.
Still more charts - Chisom Opara is 11th all-time at Princeton in career receptions with 74. He needs one more to tie William Skinner '74 for 10th and eight to move into seventh place.
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 six career touchdown passes. Of those six, three have been for at least 70 yards, four have been at least 50 yards and the average distance has been 51.3 yards.
More 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.