ITHACA, N.Y. -- Take a look back at the Big Red's 23-20 win over Lehigh on September 16, 2023, at Goodman Stadium with these notes below.

PLAYER NOTES

• With his 85 rushing yards, junior Jameson Wang now has 993 yards on the ground and needs just seven yards to become the 31st Big Red player to reach the 1,000 yard mark.
• With 293 passing yards, Wang upped his career total to 2,247, good for 18th at Cornell, and his two touchdown passes give him 20 - the 10th player to hit that mark.
• His 378 yards on total offense was the highest total since Dalton Banks piled up 332 yards vs. Brown in 2019.
• Sophomore Davon Kiser posted his first career 100-yard receiving game with 141 yards on four catches, the 143rd 100-yard game in school history.
• The total ranks 38th in a single game.
• Kiser entered the game with seven catches for 35 yards.
• His 235 all-purpose yards rank ninth in a single game at Cornell and are the most since Ben Rogers piled up 283 yards at Princeton in 2015.
• Senior Holt Fletcher became the first Cornellian with multiple interceptions in a game since David Jones picked off two passes against Sacred Heart in 2018.
• Fletcher also posted an interception in the 2022 opener at VMI.
• Senior Jackson Kennedy's 81-yard punt in the third quarter is tied for the second-longest kick in school history. He matched Mike Baumgartel's 2001 punt against Harvard and stands behind only a massive 88-yard punt by Bob Dean against Colgate in 1948.
• Coincidentally, Dean also has the longest pass completion in school history, a 98-yard touchdown connection to Norm Dawson against Navy in 1947.
• Kennedy's three field goals were tied for the third-most in a game in school history.
• His 11 kicking points are the seventh-most in a game in Cornell history.
• The Big Red has now connected on 62 consecutive PAT kicks as a team.
• With five tackles, senior captain Jake Stebbins moved into 14th place on the school's career list with 235, surpassing David Pitman '00 (234). Next up is Nick Gesualdi '18 with 250.
• Senior Manny Adebi blocked his fifth kick in seven varsity games, moving to No. 2 all-time at Cornell alongside Graham Rihn '09 and one behind Joel Sussman '06 for the school record.
• Junior Trey Harris surpassed 50 career tackles with his three stops (52) and doubled his career pass breakup total with two against Lehigh.

 

TEAM NOTES

• Dating back to last season, Cornell has won the time of possession battle in six straight contests, its longest streak since 2005 (also six games).
• In the first half alone, the Big Red had 22:31 in time of possession.
• The Big Red is now 95-36-4 all-time in season openers, including 16-19 on the road.
• Outside of New York (827 games), the Big Red has played more contests in Pennsylvania (129) than any other state. Next up is New Jersey with 59.
• Cornell is now 106-68-5 all-time in the month of September.
• The Big Red improved to 436-42-4 all-time when leading after three quarters.
• Cornell is now 82-51 all-time in games decided by three points or fewer.
• With two consecutive season opening wins on the road, the Big Red has earned wins in back-to-back lid-lifters for the first time since three in a row from 2007-09.
• Cornell improved to 17-9-2 in a series that dates back to 1887, and evened its record in Bethlehem against the Mountain Hawks at 2-2.
• The Big Red upped its mark against Patriot League teams to 136-86-7 and now sports a four-game win streak against teams from the conference.
• The Big Red is now 18-6 when it holds a rushing advantage over its opponents and 23-5 when it posts at least 300 yards on offense under head coach David Archer '05.
• After allowing just a single sack against Lehigh, the Big Red has surrendered just 26 in its last 21 games (1.2 per game) dating back to 2021 with 15 of the games surrendering no more than one.
• The defense allowed just 47 rushing yards, the third time in the past 11 games (and second time in the past three) it allowed 50 or less yards on the ground in a game (3-0 in those games).
• Cornell converted 6-of-16 third-down conversions (38 percent) against a Lehigh team leading the FCS in third-down efficiency defense (2-for-20, 10 percent) entering the day.
• The Big Red didn't surrender a first down to Lehigh until there was 1:19 left in the first half, the same time the Mountain Hawks surpassed 25 yards of total offense.
• The zero first downs allowed in the first quarter marks the first time the Big Red did not give up a first down throughout an entire quarter since November 5, 2022, when the team held Penn to none in the fourth quarter.
• The Big Red gave up 14 yards or fewer on 9-of-12 Lehigh possessions, with the home team scoring 13 points and piling up 128 of its yards on its final two drives of the contest.