ITHACA, N.Y. -- Take a look back into Cornell football's 67-49 loss to Penn at Scheollkopf Field on Saturday, November 9.
PLAYER NOTES
• Senior
Jameson Wang set a school record for touchdowns responsible for in a game (six), surpassing the previous record of five reached eight times previously.
• His five passing touchdowns ties the single-game record at Cornell, a mark he now shares with Jeff Mathews '13, who did it twice (vs. Columbia and at Penn in 2011).
• Wang's 401 passing yards marked the 17th 400-yard game in school history. He also is the seventh different Big Red quarterback to reach that milestone.
• Wang's 449 yards of total offense is the ninth-most in a game in school history.
• The senior quarterback upped his career rushing touchdown total to 26, matching Derrick Harmon '84 for fourth on the school's career list.
• That upped his career scoring total to 160 points, surpassing Luke Hagy '16 for sixth on the Big Red's list.
• Wang's big game upped his career total offense mark to 8,271 yards - passing Ricky Rahne '02 (7,994 yards) and becoming the second Big Red player to surpass 8,000 yards.
• He also now has 2,529 yards this season, the ninth-best mark by a Big Red player.
• Wang established a new Big Red record for touchdowns responsible for in a season with 28, surpassing Jeff Mathews '13 who had 26 in both 2011 and 2013.
• Wang's 2,167 passing yards in 2024 rank 13th in a single season.
• His 22 passing touchdowns ranks third and is three shy of the school record of 25 by Ricky Rahne '02 in 1999 and Jeff Mathews '13 in 2011.
• Wang stands second in career touchdowns responsible for with 75, just six shy of the Big Red record.
• With his 34 completions, Wang now has 624 for his career, moving him past Nathan Ford '09 (624) for third all-time at Cornell.
• Those completions give him 205 this season, moving him into Cornell's top 10 list at No. 10.
• Sophomore
Samuel Musungu became the 27th player in school history to surpass 1,000 career receiving yards, ending the day with 1,015 yards.
• His three touchdowns tied the single-game record previously done four times, the last time by Shane Savage at Penn to close the 2011 season.
• His nine receiving touchdowns this season is tied with Bill Murphy's 1967 total for fourth at Cornell.
• He became the 14th player to reach 10 career receiving touchdowns with his effort against Penn.
• Musungu now has 801 receiving yards this season, good for 11th best by a Cornellian, while his 69 catches are the fifth-most.
• With 14 catches, Musungu tied his career high, which also ranks as No. 2 in a game in school history. He is the only player to have 14 or more catches in two different games.
• It was his second straight and second career game surpassing 100 receiving yards.
• His 22 targets in the game were also the most since that stat was first kept in 2021.
• Sophomore place-kicker
Alan Zhao booted all five PAT attempts to up his season scoring total to 48 points - the fifth-highest scoring total by a kicker in a single season in Cornell history and one shy of third.
• Counting PATs (30-of-31) and field goals (6-of-6), Zhao has made 36-of-37 kicks this year.
• Junior
Robert Tucker III's 74-yard scoring run on a fake punt was the longest rush from scrimmage since Harold Coles also went 74 yards for a score against Dartmouth in the 2019 season.
• He is the first Big Red player to rush and receive a touchdown in the same game since Thomas Glover did so in 2022 at Colgate.
• He ran for 85 yards on just two carries in the contest - the fewest carries ever to pile up 85 yards or more. Stephen Liuzza ran the ball four times for 91 yards against Dartmouth in 2006, while Harold Coles needed four carries to tally 101 yards at Yale in 2017.
• Sophomore
Ryder Kurtz had four receptions for 101 yards to become the first Big Red tight end with a 100-yard receiving game since
Matt Robbert at Princeton in 2022.
• The four catches were the fewest in a 100-yard effort since Lars Pedersen hauled in three catches for 100 yards at Brown in 2018.
• Junior
Doryn Smith hauled in his third career touchdown reception and first of the season.
• Senior
Damon Barnes posted his first career game with double figure stops, posting 12, surpassing the eight he had two weeks ago at Brown.
• Sophomore
Johnny Williamson had a pair of pass breakups in the contest after entering with one in his first 10 career games.
TEAM NOTES
• Cornell has scored 40 or more points in consecutive games for the first time since 2011 when it ended the season with a 62-41 win at home vs. Columbia, then went on the road to top Penn 48-38.
• The 49 points matched last weekend's total vs. Princeton and are the fifth-most points in a game since the official formation of the Ivy League (1956).
• The Big Red's 569 yards of offense ranks tied for eighth in a single game all-time. It's the most since piling up 581 yards in a 2012 win over Monmouth.
• Cornell was 4-of-5 on fourth down, matching the most fourth-down conversions in school history (done six other times).
• The Big Red allowed multiple sacks (two) for the first time this season.
• The 60 combined first downs (Penn with 33, Cornell with 27) matches a school record set in 1905 in a win over Haverford when the Big Red had 56 of their own.
• The last time Cornell had separate rushing and passing plays that went for at least 50 yards was against Columbia in 2019 when Harold Coles had a 58-yard touchdown rush and Eric Gallman II caught a 51-yard pass from Richie Kenney.
• The 1,196 combined yards was the most in a game in Cornell history, surpassing the 1,183 yards for Cornell (581) and Monmouth (602) in 2012.
• Cornell's successful two-point conversion was the 87th successfully run since 1958 when the rule was first put in place. Sophomore
Jameson Wang has thrown for four, one fewer than the record of five by Ricky Rahne '02.