ABOUT YALE
• Yale opened its 2022 campaign at No. 12 Holy Cross and suffered a 38-14 defeat.
• The Bulldogs surrendered 571 yards to a powerful Crusaders’ offense, fell behind 38-7 midway through the fourth and dropped its season opener.
• The Bulldogs used a balanced offense (140 passing, 166 rushing) to pile up 306 yards and 19 first downs.
• Yale was picked fourth in the 2022 Ivy League preseason media poll.
• The Bulldogs feature seven returning All-Ivy League players — defensive end Clay Patterson (first team), cornerback Wande Owens (second team), wide receiver Mason Tipton (second team), punter Jack Bosman (second team), offensive lineman Kiran Amegadjie (honorable mention), defensive end Reid Nickerson (honorable mention) and safety Miles Oldacre (honorable mention).
• Eleventh-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 and claiming a share of the title in 2019.
• Reno is 52-39 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 51-30-2 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 15 of the past 20 meetings between the squads, though Cornell upset the 2008 preseason Ivy League favorites 17-14 at Schoellkopf Field.
• Yale leads 9-3 over the past 12 meetings, with the Big Red’s last win a 27-13 victory in Ithaca in 2016.
NOTES FROM THE LAST MEETING WITH YALE
• 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.
• 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 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.
THE SERIES
• Yale leads the all-time series 51-30-2 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 15 of the past 20 meetings between the squads, though Cornell upset the 2008 preseason Ivy League favorites 17-14 at Schoellkopf Field.
• Yale leads 9-3 over the past 12 meetings, with the Big Red’s last win a 27-13 victory in Ithaca in 2016.
LAST TIME OUT
RECAP I BOX SCORE I HIGHLIGHS I GALLERY I POSTGAME NOTES
• For months, Cornell head coach David Archer ‘05 has been stopping his players randomly on campus and having them sing the fight song, “Cornell Victorious,” along with him.
• On Saturday, after the Big Red’s season-opening 28-22 win over VMI at Foster Stadium, they understood why.
• Because when the time came to sing the song again, they needed to be prepared.
• All offseason, the Roger J. Weiss ‘61 Head Coach of Cornell Football, preached embracing preparation.
• When the moments came on Saturday - like William Enneking’s first two career receptions going for touchdowns, or Holt Fletcher’s pick-six, or Max Lundeen’s strip-sack - they took the opportunity.
• Cornell’s talented, but inexperienced group, grabbed hold of every opportunity they earned against the Keydets, then held on for dear life at the end in order to sing Cornell Victorious.
• The Big Red defense dominated for the first three quarters, forcing three turnovers with two more turnovers on downs, as well as picking up a huge goal-line stand.
• The team had six sacks and nine total tackles for loss. Cornell held the Keydets to -2 rushing yards.
• VMI posted 169 of its 356 total yards on its final two possessions in the game’s final five minutes when it was desperately trying to cut into Cornell’s lead, which was 28-2 at one point.
• On offense, quarterback Jameson Wang completed 5-of-10 passes for 42 yards and two touchdowns, both to Enneking - his first two career catches.
• Freshman running back Gannon Carothers had 16 carries for a game-high 57 yards and a touchdown in his first collegiate game.
• Senior linebacker Jake Stebbins made nine tackles, including two on the key goal-line stand in the first quarter, and added a tackle for loss, a half-sack and a fumble recovery.
• Fletcher’s 11-yard interception to the house, senior captain Demetrius Harris’ pick for 17 yards and Lundeen’s strip sack also highlighted the defensive effort.
