After a season-opening road win, an energized Cornell football team will face one of its toughest challenges of the year when it visits preseason Ivy League favorite Yale on Saturday, Sept. 28 at 1 p.m. at the Yale Bowl in New Haven, Conn. It will be the 82nd meeting between the two programs and the 20th straight year the teams will meet in their Ivy League openers.

• The Bulldogs opened its 2019 season by avenging a 2018 loss with a 23-10 victory over Holy Cross at the Yale Bowl.
• Yale's offense piled up 507 yards of offense and limited the Crusaders to just 237 yards and 11 first downs in the win.
• Kurt Rawlings accounted for two touchdowns, one on the ground and another through the air, and Zane Dudek was one of four players with at least 30 rushing yards, leading the Yale attack with 96 and a touchdown.
• Spencer Matthaei led a strong defensive effort with six tackles, including three for a loss and a sack.
• Yale was picked first in the Ivy League preseason media poll thanks in large part due to its 21 returning starts (11 on offense, 10 on defense).
• The Bulldogs are coming off a 5-5 season that included a 3-4 Ivy campaign, good for a fourth-place tie in the final conference standings.
• Eighth-year head coach Tony Reno has lifted Yale back to the top of the Ivy League, claiming the school's first outright conference title in 37 years in 2017.
• Reno is 38-32 overall and was the Division I football Coach of the Year in 2017 by the New England Football Writers and the Gridiron Club of Boston.
 

The Series

• Yale leads the all-time series 49-30-2 dating back to the first encounter in the 1889 season.
• Cornell's longest win streak over Yale is four games (1990-93), while the Bulldogs claimed seven straight victories over the Big Red (1973-79).
• The series has recently tilted toward the Bulldogs, who have won 13 of the last 18 meetings between the squads, though Cornell upset the 2008 preseason Ivy League favorites 17-14 at Schoellkopf Field.
• Yale leads 7-3 over the last 10 meetings, with the Big Red's last win a 27-13 victory the last time the two teams met in Ithaca (2016).
 

2019 Yale Football Head Coach

Head Coach: Tony Reno (Worcester '97)
     Record at Yale: 39-32, eighth season
     Overall Record: 39-32, eighth season
 

2019 Yale Football Information

2019 Captain: JP Shohfi
2018 Record: 5-5
     Home/Away/Neutral: 3-2/2-2/0-1
2018 Ivy League Record/Finish: 3-4 (t-4th)
Starters Returning/Lost: 21/1
Offensive Starters Returning/Lost: 11/0
Defensive Starters Returning/Lost: 10/1
 

Yale Football Historical Information

First Year of Football: 1872
Overall All-Time Record: 908-379-55 (.697)
Overall Ivy League Record: 246-180-8 (.576)