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Princeton University Athletics
Homecoming Game
November 13, 2001 | Football
Nov. 13, 2001
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PRINCETON (2-6, 2-4) at DARTMOUTH (1-7, 1-5)
The Date Nov. 17, 2001
The Kickoff 12:30 p.m.
The Site Memorial Field * Hanover, N.H.
The Series Dartmouth leads 41-35-4
Last Year Dartmouth defeated Princeton 42-37
Last Week Princeton defeated Yale 34-14, Dartmouth lost to Brown 41-16
The Coaches Princeton: Roger Hughes (second season, 5-13), Dartmouth: John Lyons (10th season, 49-40-1)
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 will be televised on RCN on tape delay Tuesday at 8 p.m.
Welcome home - Roger Hughes returns to Dartmouth for the first time since leaving the Big Green to become Princeton head coach in January 2000. Hughes was Dartmouth's offensive coordinator from 1992-99.
More home - Roger Hughes went 26-13-1 at Memorial Field during his time as Dartmouth's offensive coordinator.
Still more home - In addition to head coach Roger Hughes, Princeton has two other coaches who return to Dartmouth. Tiger offensive coodinator Dave Rackovan was running backs coach for the Big Green for eight years before coming to Princeton with Hughes, and Princeton special teams coordinator and wide receivers coach Adam Scheier was a four-time letterwinner at free safety for the Big Green before graduating in 1997. Pick off move - Chris Roser-Jones has 12 career interceptions for 297 career interception return yards, an average of 24.8 yards per return. To break the NCAA Division I-AA record of 25.8 yards held by Zach Bronson (McNeese State '97, now on the San Francisco 49ers), Roser-Jones would have to intercept a pass against Dartmouth and return it at least 39 yards.
More pickoff - Had Chris Roser-Jones returned his last interception at least 71 yards, he would have broken the NCAA Division I-AA record for interception return average in a career. Roser-Jones intercepted a pass against Yale last week on the Princeton 29 and would have broken the record had he returned it for a touchdown, but he was tackled at the 13 after a 58-yard return.
Game of inches - Harvard is undefeated and has clinched at least a share of the Ivy championship. Princeton lost to Harvard by two points, while Dartmouth had a 21-0 lead on Harvard before falling 31-21.
Taylor made - Taylor Northrop enters his final collegiate game with 38 career field goals, tied with Dave Regula (Dartmouth '97) for second all-time in the Ivy League. Jason Feinberg (Penn '01) has the league's career record with 41.
More Taylor - Taylor Northrop is 10 for 10 this season on field goal attempts inside 40 yards.
Still more Taylor - The average distance of Taylor Northrop's four missed field goals this season has been 51.3 yards. He hit the crossbar from 57 yards against Cornell in an attempt that would have been the longest field goal in Ivy history.
Last Taylor - Taylor Northrop was named Ivy League Special Teams Player of the Week this past week for the eighth time in his career.
Special delivery - Princeton kicked off seven times against Yale. The average starting position for the Bulldogs on those seven kickoffs was its own 16.9-yard-line.
Split decision - David Splithoff has taken 488 of 507 offensive snaps for Princeton this season (96.3%). A year ago, when Princeton used four starting quarterbacks due to injuries, no quarterback took more than 32% of the snaps (Jon Blevins).
Six yards and a cloud of dust - Cameron Atkinson is averaging 6.0 yards per carry (638 yards, 107 carries). Only four Princeton players have done so for a full season, most recently Keith Elias (6.4 in 1992) and including Dick Kamzaier (7.2 when he won 1951 Heisman Trophy).
Heating up - After completing one of his first five passes for 13 yards against Yale, David Splithoff completed his final six for 143 yards and two touchdowns.
Long range thinking - David Splithoff has thrown 10 career touchdown passes. Of those 10, seven have been for at least 39 yards, six have been for at least 50 yards and three have been for at least 70 yards.
Fresh face - Freshman B.J. Symanski, who caught two passes for 28 yards in the first six games of the season, had four catches for 140 yards and two touchdowns against Yale.
Quarter horse - David Splithoff will become the second Princeton quarterback in the last 10 seasons (along with John Burnham in 1997) to start every game in a season.
More quarter - David Splithoff has 281 rushing yards. The most ever by a Princeton quarterback since the Tigers went to the T formation in 1969 is 302 yards, by Brock Harvey 1995.
Get to the point - Princeton's average margin of victory in its two Ivy League wins is 26.5 points, Princeton's average margin of defeat in its four Ivy League losses is 6.8 points.
Keasey does it - Zak Keasey has averaged 11.5 tackles the last two weeks after averaging 6.3 tackles for the first six weeks.
Day at the Veach - Freshman Jon Veach has 109 yards on 21 carries the last two weeks. He had 16 carries for 49 yards in the first six games of the season.
Hand-y man - Blake Perry, who played for three weeks with two broken wrists, will miss the remainder of the season after undergoing surgery the week prior to the Penn game.
Moving up the charts - Chisom Opara has 88 career receptions, seventh-best all-time at Princeton. He needs eight to tie Cris Crissy '81 for sixth.
Passing fancy - David Splithoff is completing 59.6% of his passes. Only four times in the last 30 years has a Princeton quarterback completed better than 60% of his passes for a season (Jason Garrett 1987, 1988, Chad Roghair 1991, Bob Holly 1981).
Phil up - Phil Jackman, who leads Princeton in sacks, played two years of basketball before switching to football, a sport he had never played before last season.
Say it ain't so, Joe - Defensive end Joe Weiss has been out since 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.