Cornell football looks to get back above .500 in conference when it travels to Providence, R.I. for the 71st all-time meeting with Brown on Saturday, Oct. 26, at 12 p.m. at Richard Gouse Field at Brown Stadium. Cornell sits at 1-1 in the Ivy League after topping Yale on Homecoming and falling to Harvard on the teams' Friday night battle on ESPN2.
Brown Notes:
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Brown enters the week 2-3 with a season-opening road win over Georgetown, and an upset over Harvard in the team's first Ivy game of the season. Since starting 2-0, the Bears are on a three-game skid.
- Brown ranks fifteenth in the nation in passing offense, totaling 258.6 yards through the air per game.
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Fifth-year senior quarterback Jake Willcox is the leading rusher for the Bears, totaling 177 yards on 46 rushes. His longest rush was clocked at 20 yards, which he tallied against Harvard. He scored a rushing touchdown at Rhode Island. Freshmen running back Matt Childs is the team's second-leading rusher, posting 166 yards on 39 carries, including one for a touchdown. Junior running back Qwentin Brown is the go-to in the redzone, scoring five touchdowns on just 18 attempts, none for longer than 10 yards.
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Willcox has completed 111 of his 189 throws this season for 1288 yards. He connected on six passes for touchdowns. Willcox has thrown five interceptions in five games, including three last week against Princeton. He has only passed for fewer than 200 yards in one game this season.
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Childs has proven to be Willcox's favorite target. On his team-high 17 receptions, he has clocked 282 yards and two touchdowns. He averages nearly 17 yards per catch. Junior receiver Solomon Miller and fifth-year Mark Mahoney follow with 15 catches apiece. Miller has 225 yards and a score on the season while Mohoney has tallied 219 yards and three house calls.
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Brown returns first-team All-Ivy offensive lineman Jack Connolly, in addition to four other 2023 All-Ivy honorees in Willcox, running back Stockton Owen, kicker/punter Austin Alley, defensive back Isaiah Reed, linebacker Caleb Moorhead, and defensive lineman Kyle Philbin.
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Senior defensive back Tim Malo leads the Bears in tackles with 37. Malo has also tallied two interceptions this season.
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Moorhead and junior linebacker Sam Smith follow with 32 stops each.
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Owen Clarke and Quincy Eutsay both have tallied a forced fumble.
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Alley has punted 22 times for the Bears, averaging 39.68 yards per boot. Senior kicker Christopher Maron has made four of six field goal tries, his longest from 33 out. Maron is a perfect 14-for-14 on extra points.
The Series
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Brown has a 38-31-1 edge in the series, which began in 1895.
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Cornell has won five of the last six meetings, including a matchup in Rhode Island in 2022 where the Big Red pulled off a 24-21 victory. The Big Red had lost nine in a row until starting this stretch in 2017.
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Last season, Cornell's secondary stifled the league's top offense and the nation's No. 1 passing scheme at the time in a 36-14 win on Schoellkopf Field. In the game, Paul Lewis III caught the 49th pick-six in school history and the longest by a Big Red player since Rush Imhotep '15 brought one back 55 yards against Columbia in 2011.
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Brown is 20-14 when defending its home turf.
2024 Brown Head Coach
Head Coach: James Perry
Record at Brown: 14-30 (six seasons)
Overall Record: 26-40 (7 seasons, one at Bryant)
Ivy League Record: 9-19 (six seasons)
2024 Brown Football Information
2024 Captains: Quarterback Jake Willcox, offensive lineman Jack Connolly, defensive back Isaiah Reed, and linebacker Caleb Moorhead
2023 Record: 5-5 (3-4 Ivy)
Home/Away/Neutral: 2-3/3-2/0-0
2023 Ivy League finish: T-5th
Starters Returning/Lost: 13/9
Offensive Starters Returning/Lost: 7/4
Defensive Starters Returning/Lost: 6/5
Brown Football Historical Information
First Year of Football: 1878
Overall All-Time Record: 628-616
Overall Ivy League Record: 191-273
