ITHACA, N.Y. -- Here are some notes from the Cornell football team's 23-17 loss at defending Ivy League champion Yale on Saturday.
 

TEAM

• Yale extended its lead in the all-time series to 51-30-2 with its fourth straight victory.
• Cornell slipped to 28-35-2 in Ivy League openers and had its two-game Ivy League win streak snapped.
• Three of Cornell's last four defeats have come at the hands of a ranked team or a squad receiving votes in the national polls.
• The Big Red defense hasn't allowed a rushing touchdown in four of its last five contests.
• The last time Cornell scored a pair of touchdowns in the span of 75 seconds was during a 2013 game at Monmouth when Jeff Mathews scored on a 1-yard run with 3:50 remaining before halftime, then hit Grant Gellatly with a 15-yard touchdown pass 1:14 later. Along with a safety at 5:44, Cornell scored 16 points over the span of 3:08 in that game.
• The 14 penalties called against Yale are the most by a Big Red opponent since the Bulldogs also had 14 in 2017, while the 144 yards flagged are the most ever against Cornell, surpassing the 140 that went against Syracuse in 1958.
• The Big Red defense limited Yale to 88 rushing yards, the fewest surrendered by Cornell in New Haven since the Bulldogs posted 61 yards on 38 carries in 1980.
• Yale was limited to 2-of-11 on third downs, making Cornell opponents 6-of-28 over two games (good for just 21.4 percent).
• Prior to this season, the Big Red defense had limited opponents to under 25 percent on third-down conversions just four times in the previous 77 games. It has now done so in both contests to kick off 2021.
• Cornell has not scored in the first quarter in its two games this season.
• Cornell's 14 tackles for loss are the most over the team's first two games since 2017 when it also had 14 (Delaware 9.0, Yale 5.0).
• The Big Red surrendered two sacks, the first time it has allowed multiple sacks in a game since Penn had four in 2019. It had allowed just one over the previous three contests combined.

 

INDIVIDUAL

• In his first two games at wide receiver, Thomas Glover has 15 receptions for 200 yards. The last time a player opened with 15 catches and 200 yards in the first two matchups of the season was in 2012. Two players surpassed those numbers that year (Luke Tasker with 20 catches for 315 yards, Grant Gellatly with 19 receptions for 231 yards). In addition, Kurt Ondash had 16 receptions that season through two games.
• Senior Curtis Raymond III had a game-high 80 receiving yards after entering the contest with one catch for 17 yards for his career.
• Senior Devon Brewer's 50-yard catch was the first of his career.
• Both Curtis Raymond III (43 yards) and Devon Brewer (50 yards) had catches of at least 40 yards, the first time two different receivers hauled in passes of at least 40 yards since – the previous weekend against VMI when Thomas Glover (45) and Ryan Fitton (40) both hauled in long balls.
• Ten different players had catches for the Big Red, the most in a single game since 10 also caught balls in 2018 against Princeton.
• Senior Scott Lees booted his first career field goal to open the scoring for the Big Red with 5:21 remaining in the first half and is now 5-for-5 on PAT kicks after connecting on both attempts vs. Yale.
• Senior Ben Mays threw for 104 yards and a touchdown off the bench, the first Big Red quarterback to throw for more than 100 yards with a touchdown as a reserve since D.J. Busch had 112 yards and a score behind Ryan Kuhn in a 2004 matchup with Princeton, a 21-20 Big Red win.
• Junior Onome Kessington had his first career sack late in the first half.
• Junior Wallace Squibb broke up a pass, the first of his career.
• In his first career start, sophomore Holt Fletcher had a pair of tackles, both coming as tackles for loss.
• Junior Jalyx Hunt was credited with a pair of special teams tackles
• Yale's Griffin O'Connor became the first opposing quarterback to surpass 300 passing yards in a game since Brown's E.J. Perry tossed for 372 yards against the Big Red in 2019.