More Culbreath And Davis

Jordan Culbreath went for 276 yards Saturday against Dartmouth, piling up the second-best single-game total in school history.

It was the 20th time in school history that a Princeton running back had reached at least 200 yards; Keith Elias six times by himself. It was also the third 200-yard game this decade for Princeton, after Cameron Atkinson had 233 against Dartmouth in '02 and Jon Veach had 205 against Harvard in '03.

Culbreath's performance reminded TigerBlog of watching Elias. Back in the early '90s, Elias was a virtual lock for 100 yards every Saturday, and he would do it the way Culbreath put together his big day Saturday: a bunch of five to eight yards run, coupled with a few 40 or 50+ ones tossed in. Watching Elias, TigerBlog always thought it was odd when he DIDN'T break one. It was the same with Culbreath the other day. You knew the ball was going to him, and it was strange when he was stopped for short yardage.

Some additional historic context for Culbreath: His 276 yards tied him for the fifth-best day in Ivy League history, and it would have been the school record at Columbia, Brown, Dartmouth or Penn.

The top five rushing days in league history:
323 - Matt Johnson, Harvard (at Brown, 11/9/91)
299 - Keith Elias, Princeton (vs. Lafayette, 9/26/92)
288 - Scott Oliaro, Cornell (at Yale, 11/3/90)
281 - Ed Marinaro, Cornell (vs. Harvard, 10/18/69)
276 - Jordan Culbreath, Princeton (vs. Dartmouth, 11/22/08)
276 - Mike McLeod, Yale (vs. Lehigh, 10/13/07)

Shifting over to basketball, Doug Davis scored 19 points in Princeton's 55-43 win over Army Sunday. He now has 58 points in his first three games; Judson Wallace had 52 for his entire freshman year.

Davis is also the first Princeton player to score at least 14 points in each of his first three games since Bill Bradley in 1962-63. Bradley's career low was 16.