ITHACA, N.Y. -- Here are some notes from the Cornell football team's 34-20 win over Colgate on Friday.
 

INDIVIDUAL NOTES

• Logan Thut's 82-yard interception return for a touchdown was the fourth-longest in school history and 47th overall. Mark Broderick's 99-yard return against Brown in 1990 is the longest.
• In Cornell's more than 130 years of football, 10 defensive plays (interception or fumble returns) of 80 yards or longer have gone for touchdowns with two of those coming in the last two contests vs. Colgate (Jelani Taylor's 87-yard fumble recovery touchdown in 2019).
• Richie Kenney threw for 167 yards, becoming the ninth player in school history to surpass 3,000 yards (3,013). He's now three yards behind Robert Somborn '17 for eighth and 308 from moving to sixth.
• Over his last two games, senior Alex Kuzy has 13 receptions for 186 yards and has twice established new single-game receiving yards totals (92 vs. Harvard, 94 vs. Colgate).
• Both senior Lance Blass and sophomore Holt Fletcher have each been in on a tackle for loss in each of the team's first five games of 2021 - for Fletcher, they are the first five games of his career.
• For the second straight home game, a Big Red player's first career reception went for a touchdown. Against Colgate, Matt Robbert hauled in a 4-yarder from Jameson Wang and vs. VMI it was a 19-yard connection from Richie Kenney to Curtis Raymond III.
• Jake Stebbins added six tackles to his career total, moving to 98 over his two seasons.
• Quarterback Luke Duby's first career carry went 34 yards for a touchdown.
• Michael Irons had four pass breakups for the Big Red, the most in a single game since Jelani Taylor broke up three and added an interception two times in a three-game span during the 2019 campaign (at Harvard, vs. Brown).
• Freshman Jameson Wang became the first freshman in Cornell history to throw and rush for a touchdown in the same game and the second to record a passing and rushing score in the same year after Jeff Mathews in 2010.
• Wang's 84 rushing yards were also the most by a BIg Red quarterback in a game since Dalton Banks ran for 87 yards on 15 carries with a touchdown against Sacred Heart in 2015.
• The freshmen tandem of Wang and Eddy Tillman had 121 rushing yards, the most by any freshmen since Terry Smith had a rookie record 126 yards against Columbia in 1994.
• Among players earning their first varsity playing time were wide receiver Will Kenner (one reception, 13 yards), tight end Matt Robbert (one reception, 4 yards, touchdown), Tillman (five carries, 37 yards), Luke Duby (2-of-3 passing, 56 yards; one carry, 34 yards, touchdown) and offensive lineman Jackson Bradley (480 yards of offense, zero sacks).

TEAM NOTES

• The victory gave Cornell its first victory on a Friday since defeating Manhattan Athletic Club on Nov. 18, 1892 on the road — nearly 129 years ago. 
• Its last win at home on a day other than Saturday came on Monday, Oct. 9, 1916 vs. Gettysburg. The 26-0 Big Red win was the seventh game ever played on Schoellkopf Field.
• Cornell now leads the all-time series 50-49-3 and is the first squad to 50 victories.
• The Big Red is now 8-6 in night games (games played after 6 p.m. local time) since 2006 and is 3-2 since 2016 with victories over Bucknell, Princeton and Colgate.
• The Big Red's 50 victories over the Raiders is the second-most against any other opponent, trailing just Columbia (66).
• The Big Red's 27 first downs were its most in a game since also registering 27 at Brown in 2017 and the most in front of the home crowd since posting 29 vs. Princeton in 2012.
• It's the first time Cornell has had more than 230 yards rushing and passing in the same game since running for 284 and passing for 268 more against Fordham in 2009.
• Cornell allowed zero sacks for the second time this season and is allowing just 1.0 sacks per game in its five contests.
• The Big Red defense surrendered just 82 yards, its fewest in a game this season and its fewest allowed since Marist gained two yards on 20 carries in the 2019 season opener.
• Cornell has now scored a rushing touchdown in each game this season and in 10 straight overall, the longest streak by the Big Red since also recording 10 spanning the 2007-08 campaigns. The last time it had a longer streak was a 14-game span that included the five games of 1995 and the first nine games in 1996.
• The 10 pass breakups as a team is tied for the 10th-most in a single game in school history.
• Cornell's .818 completion percentage is the fourth-highest in a single game in school history with at least 20 attempts with the record at .870 (40-of-46) against Columbia in 2011.
• With its 480 yards, Cornell had 204 more than its opponent, the most by the Big Red in a game since it outgained Columbia 460-235 in 2018.