Cornell-Brown Pregame Notes
- Cornell has won two games on the road already this season after just three in the previous four seasons combined, but to equal that stretch it will need to snap a six-game skid in Providence (last win, 10-7 in OT in 2002).
- The Bears have won eight straight and 13 of the last 15 meetings overall between the two programs.
- A win over Brown for the Big Red would avenge a 2015 loss for the fourth time this season.
- A win will make the Big Red 3-1 on the road this season, matching the road win total of the previous four seasons combined (3-17).
- Senior wide receiver Collin Shaw (861) is within striking distance of becoming the 23rd Cornellian to surpass 1,000 career receiving yards, joining classmate Ben Rogers, who hit that milestone at No. 16 Harvard.
- Four different players on the Big Red roster have at least one 100-yard receiving game: Ben Rogers and Collin Shaw have two; Marshall Deutz and James Hubbard have one each.
- Cornell’s kickers have put 22-of-24 kickoffs into the end zone this season, with the others going to the 1 and 2 yard lines. In all, 17 of the 24 kickoffs have been touchbacks.
- The Big Red is 5-of-5 on field goals this season after making just four on 11 attempts in 2015.
- Freshman Nickolas Null is 1-of-1 on field goals, 4-of-5 on PATs and has five touchbacks on seven kickoffs.
- The Big Red has already blocked two kicks this season, matching last season’s total.
- Senior Chris Fraser has averaged at least 40 yards per punt in 20 of his last 21 games and was named Ivy League Special Teams Player of the Week in the other after pinning all three Colgate punts inside the 11 earlier this year en route to a 36.0 yards per punt average. Of his last 16 punts covering three games, Fraser has pinned 11 inside the 20.
- With nine career interceptions, junior Nick Gesualdi is tied for ninth on the school’s career list and is the most by any Cornellian in 21 years (Doug Knopp ’96 with 13). Gesualdi also needs five tackles to reach 150 for his career.
- Four different players have led the team in tackles over the first five games (Bucknell, Daniel Crochet -11; Yale and Sacred Heart, Jackson Weber – 11 and 8; Colgate, Justin Solomon – 15; Harvard, Nick Gesualdi -11).
- Six different players have at least one game with double-figure tackles (Daniel Crochet, Kurt Frimel, Nick Gesualdi, Justin Solomon, Jackson Weber, D.J. Woullard).
- Cornell’s 10 interceptions are already more than double the Big Red’s total of 2015 (four).