Cornell University Athletics

As a senior (2021)

• Opened eight games at guard, missing two contests due to injury.
• Started 15 consecutive games at left guard before missing the Brown and Princeton contests due to injury.
• Opened the win at Penn at right guard.
• Part of an offensive line that is first in the Ivy League in fewest sacks allowed (0.9) with three contests without allowing one.
• Key part of an offensive line that led the Ivy League and ranked fifth nationally with 0.9 sacks allowed per game – three fewer than any other Ivy school allowed.
• The offensive line allowed a school record-low nine sacks, destroying previous mark of 17 (done three times) despite ranking second in the Ivy in pass attempts.
• Was second in the Ivy and 16th nationally in fewest tackles for loss allowed (4.2 per game).
• The team averaged 121.7 yards rushing with 12 touchdowns on the ground despite not having one individual average more than 7.0 carries per game.
• The Big Red didn’t allow a sack against nationally-ranked VMI, Colgate or Penn and no more than two in any game.
 

As a junior (2020)

• Season canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
 

As a sophomore (2019)

• Served as the team's starter at left guard for all 10 games.
• Despite only one returning starter, part a line that helped an offense increase its scoring average, total offense and rushing touchdowns over the 2018 campaign.
• The line allowed one sack or less in five of the team’s seven Ivy games.
• Helped plow the way for an offense that rushed for 263 yards and three touchdowns in a win at Marist.
• Opened holes for teammate Harold Coles' career-best 141-yard performance at Ivy preseason favorite Yale as the Big Red line surrendered just one sack.
• Helped pave the way for an offense that piled up 470 yards of offense and scored 37 points without allowing a sack in the win over Brown.
• The team had four games with more than 400 yards of total offense – including two 200-yard rushing games and five with at least 250 passing yards.
 

As a freshman (2018)

• Did not see varsity action.

Prior to Cornell

• Fatovic was a two-time all-conference selection on the offensive line at Pine Crest HS.
• He captained the team as a senior after leading the team to a conference runner-up finish.
• Fatovic earned all-district and all-county honors as a junior.
• He also lettered in weight lifting, track and field, lacrosse and basketball during his high school career.
• He finished in the top three in both the district and the region in weight lifting three straight years.
 

Personal

• Robert Anthony Fatovic is the son of Robert Dean and Leeanna Fatovic and has a younger brother.
• His father was a member of the basketball team at Albright College.
• His uncle Ken was a four-year member of the Ithaca College football team and was part of the 1988 team that won the Division III national title.
• He is enrolled in the College of Engineering.