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Eddy Tillman runs the ball against Brown during the Big Red's 24-21 victory over the Bears on Oct. 22, 2022 at Brown Stadium in Providence, R.I.
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Beyond The Box Score: The Brown Game

10/24/2022 9:00:00 AM

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Here are some notes from Cornell's 24-21 win at Brown on Saturday, Oct. 22 at Brown Stadium.
 

Team Notes

  • The Big Red's 4-2 start is its best after six games since 2007.
  • The win also doubled the Big Red's 2021 win total (2-8).
  • With the victory, Cornell clinched its first winning road road since 1999.
  • Cornell extended its road win streak to three contests, matching its longest since 1990.
  • Cornell is now 3-3 in its last six Ivy road contests.
  • The Big Red has now blocked a kick in consecutive games for the first time since contests against Dartmouth and Columbia in November of 2014. 
  • Cornell is 3-1 in October this season, its first three-win October since 2017.
  • Each of the past three meetings with Brown have been decided in the final 35 seconds.
  • The Big Red has now won consecutive road games in Providence for the first time since the 1993 and 1995 seasons.
  • All four Cornell wins have come by six points or fewer. The last time the Big Red won four games by six points or less was in 2002 and the last time it did it more than four times was in 1911 (five times).
  • Cornell has won its last two contests by a combined seven points, its smallest margin in back-to-back wins since 2008 when it won consecutive games against Yale (17-14) and Lehigh (25-24) by a total of four points. It won the previous week against Bucknell 21-20, meaning it won three games by a total of five points.
  • The Big Red has allowed one sack or fewer in four of its six contests this season.
  • Cornel lis 3-0 this season and 16-5 all-time under head coach David Archer '05 when the Big Red has an advantage in rushing yards.
  • In Cornell's last two wins against Brown, the Big Red has surrendered a total of 56 first downs (31 in 2019, 25 in 2022).
  • Over the past two contests, Cornell has allowed opponents to score on just 6-of-11 trips to the red zone with just three touchdowns and have held teams to 2-of-6 on fourth down.
  • Conversely, the Big Red has converted seven consecutive fourth down chances.

Player Notes

  • Eddy Tillman's 130 yard effort was a career high and the most yards by a Big Red running back since Harold Coles piled up 141 yards at Yale on Sept. 28, 2019.
  • Tillman's 14 carries are tied for the fewest by a Big Red player with at least 130 rushing yards in a game, matching Stephen Liuzza vs. Fordham in 2009 (166 yards), Terry Smith against Yale in 1995 (148 yards) and Derrick Harmon against the Merchant Marine Academy in 1982 (142 yards).
  • With his nine tackles against the Bears, senior linebacker Jake Stebbins became the 26th player in school history to surpass 200 careet tackles (208, 25th).
  • Jameson Wang has accounted for 23 touchdowns (11 rushing, 12 passing), tied with the legendary Ed Marinaro for the most over their first 13 games in a Big Red uniform (23 rushing).
  • In fact, since 1946, Wang is just the eighth player in school history to account for 23 total touchdowns in an entire career.
  • Wang has accounted for three or more touchdowns in three of his last four contests. 
  • Matt Robbert became the second Big Red tight end to haul in a pair of touchdowns in the same game since 1973 when Cornell first initiated the position listing- joining William Enneking against VMI in the 2022 opener.
  • The four touchdowns between Robbert and Enneking are the most by the tight end position group in a season in school history.
  • Robbert is the first Cornell player to average at least 29.0 yards on three or more catches in a game since Lars Pederson caught three passes for 100 yards (33.3 ypc.) at Brown on Oct. 20, 2018.
  • Paul Lewis III and Noah Taylor each registered their first double-digit tackle game of their career with 10 apiece against the Bears.
  • Tight end Hunter Delor and wide receiver Will Kenner each made their first career starts.
  • Maxwell Van Fleet's field goal block was the first of his career.
  • With four PATs without a miss, Jackson Kennedy extended Cornell's streak of consecutive made PAT kicks to 53.

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