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Jameson Wang and Sam Musungu celebrate a touchdown.
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BEYOND THE BOX SCORE: The Harvard Game

10/14/2024 9:00:00 AM

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Take a look back at the Friday night lights battle against Harvard on October 11, 2024, at Schoellkopf Field where Cornell fell to the Crimson, 38-20, with these notes below.

PLAYER NOTES

  • Jameson Wang accounted for three touchdowns (two passing, one rushing) in the contest, increasing his career total to 59 (37 passing, 22 rushing). That matches Ricky Rahne '02 for second on the school's career list, behind only Jeff Mathews '14 (81 total).
  • He is now responsible for 358 career points, surpassing Richy Rahne (354) for second all-time. He's now chasing just Mathews (486).
  • Wang needs three passing touchdowns to become the first Ivy League player to reach 40 passing and 20 rushing touchdowns in a career.
  • With his 22nd career rushing touchdown, Wang became the all-time leading scorer at Cornell for quarterbacks with 136 points, surpassing Hall of Famer Gary Wood '64.
  • Wang's 22nd rushing touchdown ties him for fifth place in the school record book, matching John McNiff '92.
  • He has made 24 consecutive starts at quarterback, the most for the Big Red since Dalton Banks '19 tied a school record with 30 straight from 2016-18.
  • Sophomore wide receiver Samuel Musungu became the 69th player in school history to surpass 500 career yards through the air as part of a six-catch, 84-yard day with a touchdown against Harvard. He needs one catch to reach 50, where he would join 56 other players in Cornell lore to reach that milestone.
  • Musungu has at least five catches and 77 yards in each game this season and has scored in three of four contests.
  • With two more PAT kicks, sophomore place-kicker Alan Zhao remains the team's leading scorer with 23 points.
  • Robert Tucker III's 39-yard rush on a fake punt was the longest by a Big Red player since Wang went on a career-long 53-yard gallop against Penn during the 2022 season.
  • In his first collegiate game, freshman Kandakai Sherman Jr. posted a tackle for loss.
  • Senior Luke Banbury made a pair of tackles for loss, giving him a team-best 3.5 on the season. He also paces the team in stops with 32.
  • Junior linebacker Joey Cheshire had a career-high seven stops for the Big Red, surpassing his single-game previous best of five.
  • Senior Ayden McCarter averaged a career-best 42.0 yards per punt on four kicks, including a career-long 49 yard effort.

TEAM NOTES

  • Cornell is now 2-10 all-time in games played on a Friday and 62-55-4 on non-Saturday contests.
  • Harvard entered the game second nationally in rushing defense (60.0 yards per game), but the Big Red more than doubled that total (146 yards), a season high against the Crimson defense
  • The Big Red has allowed one or fewer sacks in each of its first four games in a season for the first time in school history and two or fewer through four games since 2008 (two).
  • That stretch of one sack or fewer is now nine of the past 10 games dating back to last season.
  • The Big Red has also turned the ball over just twice in its first four games, tied for the fewest in the country and the best four-game stretch at Cornell since turning the ball over just once in a four-game span to begin the 2018 season.
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