The Bulldogs defeated the Bears on Saturday in a 63-38 shootout in Providence. With Princeton’s loss to Dartmouth, Yale now finds itself tied for first place in the Ivy League with two games remaining. Given Dartmouth’s remaining schedule, Yale will likely need to go 2-0 down the stretch to claim a share of the title.
Grooms continued to add to his highlight reel finishing 18 of 26 for 330 passing yards and 3 touchdowns. Dudek was still out with an injury suffered in the UCONN game, so Reno opted for a running back by committee approach that proved successful. Alston led the pack with 84 rushing yards (6.5 yards per carry) and 2 touchdowns. Josh McKenzie looked solid adding 25 yards and a touchdown on just 4 carries. Peterson and McElwain also found success averaging 5.3 yards per carry and 4.3 yards per carry respectively. Rouse was unstoppable hauling in 5 catches for 119 yards and a touchdown. Carrington finished with 3 catches for 75 yards and a touchdown on a 65-yard pass from Grooms. Pantelis was one of the stars on Saturday with a receiving touchdown, a rushing touchdown on a fumble recovery and several great kick returns. The offensive line had one of its better performances this season as far as run blocking and an above average day in pass blocking. 3 sacks were allowed in the contest but 2 of the sacks appeared to be coverage sacks.
The defense did just enough to hold on for a victory yet without the offense’s 7 touchdowns, this would have been a very different game. Brown racked up 507 yards of total offense, 25 first downs and scored on all 3 trips to the redzone. Perry completed 56.8% of his passes for 261 yards and 3 touchdowns while running for another 74 net yards and catching a 64-yard touchdown on a trick play. Brown’s rushing attack accounted for 171 yards or 4.2 yards per carry as the Bulldogs failed to assert dominance at the line of scrimmage. Pass defense was a sore spot for Yale as Brown posted 336 passing yards for a 14.6 yards per catch average. Perry attacked the edges of Yale’s secondary finding open receivers all too often. Our defense’s depth was hampered by the absences of Owens and Awodiran who can hopefully bounce back for the final two contests. Freshman corner Sean Guyton saw extended playing time and intercepted Perry twice, one of which he returned for a touchdown. Pope was in the right place at the right time recovering a Brown fumble for a scoop-and-score touchdown. The two defensive scores by the Elis were backbreakers for the Bears who could not afford any offensive miscues to stay alive in this shootout. Our defensive coaches have much work to do over the next two weeks in trying to craft gameplans that will limit the Tigers and Crimson.
Bosman was perfect on all 9 PAT’s but missed a 41-yard field goal in the first quarter. Pantelis was explosive on kick returns with 4 returns for a whopping 152 yards. Princeton and Harvard will certainly be taking a hard look at their kickoff coverage with the threat of a long return by Pantelis.
18 replies on “Notes on the win over Brown”
Heads-up to those with ESPN+ but without ESPN-U. ESPN+ apparently does NOT stream games being broadcast on ESPN-U.
So, if you’re like me and pay for ESPN+ for all the Ivy games, don’t expect to be able to watch The Game unless your cable/satellite subscription includes ESPN-U.
Will there be a Yale JV Game on Nov 19th .
Other Ivies have JV games, why not us? It would help the program and delight the players who have no opportunity to pummel others.
Especially from the team up North.
There are a lot more players than normal on the rosters of all the Ivy teams. If there would have been any year to have a JV team it would have been this year.
The JV program was a disaster! They lost almost every game every year, and always to the team up North! Why put these kids into a losing situation? It can get to be an expectation when and if they are promoted to varsity.
Stop it, are you serious.?!! I would expect that from a Columbia fan. Never from a Yale fan.ever.
You has such a storied legacy, Football maybe wasn’t invented in New Haven. But it was perfected. So when I hear comments from Doonesbury and Rory. You guys are ignorant to what Yale and New Haven was..
Shame on you and people like you, who are CLUELESS.!! On how sacred this program means to the people that b’tch and moan. Because WE REMEMBER what it was .!! The Mid 1960’s to 1981 were the Golden Years. Sorry you weren’t there it was magical.
Yale should have left at that point. We would be playing in front of 60.000 people. Not 1,500.!!!
Yale , has to many rules for what Yale is now. People don’t want to be hassled about trivial BS.!! Not leaving to go to your car. Not being able to bring in your own food. Charging 3 YEAR OLDS.!!!
Thanks DKE for that fatal accident. GOD BLESS THAT WOMEN. Who lost her life because of some stupid young men.
YES I AM A PASSIONATE YALE FOOTBALL FAN. !!! What are you.?
Auto correct 2nd paragraph, Yale has such a storied history instead of legacy. Not you. Sorry
Excellent point by BULLDOG10JW – with over 125 players on the roster, if there was ever a year to have JV games, this would have been it.
Yet, Anonymous’ point about the lack of JV success under Reno – whatever the reasons – is valid. To wit:
JV record under Reno, all years:
1 win, 12 losses, 6 games canceled.
No JV games played since 2017.
0-4 vs. Harvard (last game 2016, a 68-0 loss)
Some of the players who went 0-4 over the span of 2015 and 2016 were probably contributors to the 2017 Ivy championship. So, I’m not sure why the JV program had been traditionally and historically bad…but it was.
Having said all that, I sure wish they still fielded a JV squad. Reward the guys who populate the sidelines on Saturdays with a chance to see some game-time action. And who knows, maybe you find a diamond in the rough that much sooner, and improve the varsity team as a result.
It was a social event , A precursor to The Game.?
Gentlemen; In the not to long distant past the Friday contest was known as the freshman game Saturday morning at tiger town before the varsity game.. notwithstanding with freshman eligibility to compete at the varsity level the contests evolved into the junior varsity game regardless of the result it was indeed nice start to the HYP weekends.
Mr. Old Blue , it was a great way to start the weekend. Nice to get reacquainted and reminisce of days gone by.
To shake ones hand , wish you well. If you your team did well. It made great conversations during the holiday table. Cheers to all in the spirit of those days. Which have been lost , but not forgotten by those who were privileged to witness those events. Sincerely missed .
Go Bulldogs, !! Go BLUE.!!! Rip that Tigers Head Off and crap down it’s NECK.!!
What would it be like if Yale had left the Ivies in 1981?
It would have been interesting to see new alignment; Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Penn with Vanderbilt, Northwestern, Duke, and Stanford. Non- league contests with the service academies.
Then JH’s dream of 60,000 in the Bowl might have come true.
Thank You David, what a difference that would have made. Not only for Yale , but the City of New Haven , and the State of Connecticut. If Yale had the foresight to do this. What kind of place the present would have been.?
I know Coach Cozza , was always apologetic about doing nothing. He got caught up in Giamati’s and Frank Ryan’s BS
Jim Mora Jr. named new head coach at UConn. Thought Reno may have been in consideration for that position.
WOW.!!! Good for UConn. Great hire for them
I may have to become a season , ticket holder. Finally a program worth watching. Sorry Reno.
Mora hasn’t done anything at UConn yet. They must have offered him a fortune or he wasn’t getting any offers. UConn has been at a terrible recruiting disadvantage – no league, losing record, “cold weather” team without a winning tradition. Mora will really have to recruit his tail off. Only plus they have is a TV contract. At UConn, Basketball is King, not football.