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2017 Football Roster
Chad Kanoff
- Height:
- 6-4
- Weight:
- 225
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Pacific Palisades, Calif.
- High School:
- Harvard Westlake
At Princeton — 2017: became Princeton's 11th Bushnell Cup winner as the Ivy League Offensive Player of the Year after record-breaking season; unanimous first-team All-Ivy League quarterback … recipient of the Poe-Kazmaier Trophy, the top honor given by the football team at the Donald B Lourie '22 Football Banquet … broke the Princeton career record for passing yards with 7,510; previous mark was Doug Butler '86 (7,291)
… moved into sixth place in the Ivy League career passing yards list … broke the Princeton AND Ivy League record for single-season passing yards with 3,474; previous Ivy mark was Jeff Mathews (3,412, 2011) and previous Princeton mark was Butler (3,175, 1983) … broke the Princeton AND Ivy League record for single-season completion percentage with 73.2%; previous Ivy mark was Gavin Hoffman (70.5, 2000) and previous Princeton mark was Jason Garrett (68.2, 1988) … finished second in the Princeton rankings and fourth on the Ivy League rankings in career completion percentage (64.5%) … broke the Princeton pass efficiency single-season record and finished third on the Ivy list with 168.4; previous Princeton mark was 151.64, set by Quinn Epperly in 1983 … broke the Princeton record for single-season completions and finished third on the Ivy League single-season list with 284; previous Princeton mark was 224 (Butler, 1983) … only Brown's James Perry (309, 1999) and Eric Webber (289, 2000) completed more … broke the Princeton record for career completions and finished fourth on the Ivy League career list with 655; previous Princeton mark was 542 (Butler, 1983-85), and only Mathews (901), Perry (789) and Cornell's Ricky Rahne (678) had more in the Ivy League … broke the Princeton record and finished second on the Ivy League list for passing touchdowns with 29; previous Princeton mark was 25 (Butler/Epperly), and only Webber had more (30, 2000) … finished second on the Princeton career touchdown passes list with 43 (Butler threw 47) … set Princeton record and finished sixth on the Ivy League list with 11 consecutive games with at least one touchdown pass …
tied the Ivy League record for most 400-yard passing games (three) and 300-yard passing games (eight) in a single season … handed Harvard its worst home Ivy loss in 50 years (52-17) by going 31 for 35 for 421 yards and two touchdowns … added 454 passing yards and four touchdowns against eventual Ivy champion Yale. 2016: earned second-team All-Ivy League honors as starting quarterback after leading Princeton to the Ivy League championship … team tri-captain … completed 61.8% of his passes for 1,741 yards and six touchdowns … completed 21 of 25 passes for 230 yards and three touchdowns in 48-13 win at Columbia; named the Princeton Athlete of the Week and selected to the Ivy League honor roll following that game … completed 17 of 23 for 198 yards and a touchdown in 56-7 win at Cornell … ended season with 4,036 career passing yards, fifth most in Princeton history … helped Princeton lead the Ivy League in scoring (34.6), total (415.5), and rushing (183.2) yards … threw four interceptions in first two games of the season, and only threw two in the final eight games … recipient of the Richard W. Colman Scholar-Athlete Award at the season-ending Lourie Football Banquet. 2015: became first Princeton quarterback since Chad Roghair (1991) to win his first four collegiate starts … threw for 2,295 yards in first season as starter; total is sixth-most in Princeton history … completed 57.2 percent of passes and had eight touchdown throws … threw for 338 yards and three touchdowns against Yale; added 321-yard game at Yale … completed season-long pass of 63 yards against Columbia … posted season-best 41 rushing yards against Colgate. 2014: missed entire season due to injury. 2013: earned the Donold B. Lourie Award as the top offensive freshman … saw time late in victories over both Columbia and Cornell, though did not attempt a pass.
At Harvard Westlake — ranked 14th nationally among dual-threat quarterbacks by ESPN.com … named first-team All-CIF quarterback senior year … Co-Mission League Offensive MVP … two-time first-team all-league selection … threw for 3,400 yards and 38 touchdowns with a 63% completion rate senior year … recorded 85 career touchdowns (passing and rushing) … team captain … also played basketball and volleyball … helped team win CIF championship in basketball sophomore year … second-team All-CIF honoree … National AP Scholar with Distinction … CIF Scholar-Athlete Award recipient … San Fernando Valley Scholar-Athlete Award recipient … voted Best Male Athlete at Harvard Westlake.
Personal — born Oct. 6, 1994 … son of Chris and Mary Ellen Kanoff … father is an investment banker; mother is a corporate lawyer … has two older sisters, Katherine and Christine, and a younger brother James … enjoys music, basketball and surfing.
