ITHACA, N.Y. -- Here are some notes from Saturday's 37-35 win over Brown.
 

Special Teams 

• Senior Nickolas Null's 41-yard game-winning field goal was the first last-minute score to put the Big Red into the lead since Null hit a 43-yarder with 48 seconds left at Princeton on Oct. 28, 2017 to claim a 29-28 comeback victory.
• Since 2000, Cornell has scored in the final minute of the game or in overtime to win 11 times, with Null joining Trevor MacMeekin as the lone players to join in more than one of those wins. MacMeekin hit overtime field goals against Towson (19-yards) and Brown (42-yards) in 2002.
• The 41-yarder was the second-longest by a Cornell kicker in the final minute of a game to put the Big Red into the lead in the final minute since 1982 ... behind only the 43-yarder vs. Princeton in 2017.
• It was Null's third field goal of the game, one off a single-game school record and the most by a Cornell player since Null hit three in the same 2017 win over the Tigers.
• Sophomore Eric Stoxstill-Diggs took a punt return back for a touchdown 46 yards, the first punt return for a score by a Big Red player since Bryan Walters went 82 yards against Columbia in 2007.
• In fact, it was just Cornell's 11th punt return for a touchdown since 1946.
• It was the first special teams touchdown of any type since Justin Bedard brought back a blocked kick 18 yards last season against Harvard.

 

The Offense 

• Cornell had a 300-yard passer (Richie Kenney, 332), 100-yard receiver (Owen Peters, 110) and 100-yard rusher (SK Howard, 121) for the first time in the same game since a 38-35 win over nationally-ranked Colgate in 2016 (Dalton Banks 454 passing, James Hubbard 105 receiving, Chris Walker 110 rushing).
• Junior Richie Kenney's first 300-yard passing game was the first 300-yard effort by a Big Red quarterback since Dalton Banks threw for 322 yards against Penn on Nov. 19, 2016.
• The 322 passing yards ranks 28th on the school's single-game list.
• Junior SK Howard's 121 rushing yards was a career high, and his two rushing touchdowns doubled his career total entering the game.
• Howard has now scored three touchdowns over the last two weeks, with a score through the air last weekend vs. Colgate.
• Senior tight end John Fitzgerald scored his first career touchdown to go along with a 26-yard catch on the final drive that set up the game-winning field goal.
• Senior Owen Peters became the school's 24th 1,000-yard career receiver with his eight-catch, 110-yard effort.
• It was Peters' second career 100-yard receiving game and was just two yards off a career high.
• The team's 37 points are the most by a Big Red squad since putting up 43 points last season vs. Sacred Heart.
• The offensive line didn't surrender a sack in 36 dropbacks, the first time the Big Red didn't allow a sack in a game since Sacred Heart in 2018.

 

The Defense

• With three pass breakups and an interception, Jelani Taylor had his third career game with four passes defended - one off the school's single-game record.
• With is four passes defended, Taylor now has 26 for his career - good for No. 7 all-time at Cornell.
• Freshman Jake Stebbins has a sack in four consecutive games, the first player with sacks in at least four straight in the 21st century.
• Stebbins' 4.5 sacks is the most by a Cornell player since 2017 when Cyrus Nolan was credited with 4.5 and is tied for the second-most by a Big Red defender since 2007.
• Another half-sack this season would give him the most by a Cornell player since Zack Imhoff posted 8.5 in 2011.
• Senior Jake Watkins posted his second career tackle for loss, a 16-yard sack of Brown's EJ Perry on fourth down to give Cornell the ball back with a chance to go on its winning drive.
• The Big Red stopped all three fourth-down conversions by Brown, making the Cornell defense 9-for-10 in stopping opponents on fourth down this year (leads FCS, fourth in all of college football with at least five attempts).
• Senior David Jones made his 21st consecutive start, the most by any current Cornell player, and registered his 25th career pass defended (No. 9 all-time for the Big Red).
• The 521 yards allowed in the win in the most by a Cornell defense since surrendering 597 in a 2016 win over Colgate.