ITHACA, N.Y. -- Here are some notes from the Cornell football team's 31-21 loss to No. 22 VMI on Saturday.
 

TEAM

• Cornell now has a 93-36-4 record all-time in season openers (.72014) and 37-34-2 in Homecoming contests (.521).
• The game was the first ever season opener at home against a ranked opponent.
• The Cornell defense allowed a pair of rushing touchdowns in the opener after going three games without surrendering one, its longest streak since 2005.
• The Big Red offensive line has allowed just one sack over its last 111 dropbacks dating back to last season, including zero in the season opener. 
• The last time Cornell allowed one or fewer sack over a three-game span was 2008 when it didn't allow one over contests at Bucknell, at home against Yale and at Lehigh.
• Cornell is now 14-50-2 all-time against top 25 opponents, including 1-2 over its last five regular season games.
• The Big Red has made 20 consecutive PAT attempts after hitting all three in the season opener.
• Cornell is now 466-111-2 when scoring at least 20 points all-time (.807)
• The contest was the 1,100th played on a Saturday for the Big Red and the 175th in September.

 

INDIVIDUAL

• Senior wide receiver Thomas Glover had seven catches for 159 yards and a touchdown - all in the first half. He entered the game with three catches for 40 yards in his career.
• The 159 receiving yards is tied for 23rd in a single game in school history and is the most by a Big Red player since Lucas Shapiro had 165 in a 2014 contest against Princeton
• Seniors Ryan Fitton and Curtis Raymond III both had their first career catches come from big plays. For Fitton, it was a 40-yard catch in the second half as the Big Red attempted to rally, while Raymond hauled in a 17-yard touchdown in the third quarter to get the Big Red within a field goal.
• With his 273 passing yards and two touchdowns, senior quarterback Richie Kenney moved up the career passing lists. His 2,437 yards moves him to 16th on the school's list and is now 455 yards out of the top 10. His 11 career passing touchdowns makes him one of 19 to reach double figures and moves him within eight of hitting the top 10.
• Kenney also enters week two just 135 yards of total offense from 2,500.
• Senior SK Howard scored his fourth career rushing touchdown and fifth overall.
• Senior Scott Lees connected on all three PAT attempts for his first collegiate points.
• With his six tackles, senior captain Lance Blass has now made 88 stops and is 12 away from becoming the 137th player in more than 130 years of Cornell history hit triple figures in career tackles.
• Junior Jalyx Hunt, who entered the season with three career tackles, made six stops.
• Both junior Jake Stebbins and senior Kenan Clarke had career highs with two pass breakups, while Stebbins added a pair of quarterback hurries and Clarke chipping in two tackles for loss, including a sack.
• Senior Eric Diggs collected his second career interception.
• Senior Max Lundeen, making his first career start, forced a fumble.