Back in Ivy Play
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | T |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yale (3-1) | 7 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 23 |
| Dartmouth (2-2) | 3 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 20 |
| Hanover, N.H. | Memorial Field | |||||
| Yale | Dartmouth |
|---|---|
|
Pa:
Patrick Witt - 238
Ru: Mordecai Cargill - 126 Rec: Gio Christodoulou - 69 |
Pa:
Kempe, Connor - 181
Ru: Schwieger, Nick - 128 Rec: Reilly, Michael - 124 |
| TEAM STATISTICS | Yale | Dartmouth |
|---|---|---|
| Passing Yards | 238 | 181 |
| Rushing Yards | 199 | 135 |
| Turnovers | 2 | 2 |
| Time of Poss. | 35:54 | 24:06 |
Heading to Hanover Saturday
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- Dartmouth Football Website
- Hanover Weather Report
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Yale (2-1, 1-0 Ivy) and Dartmouth (2-1, 0-1),
both coming off close losses last week, renew their ancient
gridiron rivalry at modernized Memorial Field (13,000) this
Saturday at 1:30 pm. The Bulldogs hope to stay perfect in league
play while the Big Green try avoid opening 2010 Ivy play with
consecutive defeats. The contest can be seen live on
dartmouthsports.com, while audio is available on WELI Radio
(AM-960), weli.com, wybc.com and on Sirius Satellite (130).
BLUE-GREEN
This is the 94th meeting between the Elis and the Big Green with
Yale leading the series 51-36-6. Dartmouth played at Yale Bowl for
46 consecutive years (1924-1970) because the crowds at New Haven
made it more profitable for both schools and there was no major
highway connecting the two. Twelve of the first 15 contests ended
in shutouts for Yale, the Blue has also had the recent upper hand
by winning the last seven, including three at Memorial Field.
DANES BLOCK BULLDOGS
A blocked punt (for a TD), field goal and PAT were all big in
Albany's 23-20 win over Yale last Saturday at the Bowl. The
Elis' defense allowed just 276 total yards and 14 first downs
but the other units did not enjoy the same success in Yale's
first loss of the year. Junior LB Jordan Haynes (Folsom, Calif.)
led the Blue with 11 total tackles, while sophomore Will McHale had
eight during a second straight solid defensive outing. Jordan Forney (Bloomington, Ind.), who was responsible for two of the
three home team scores, caught a 24-yard TD pass from Patrick Witt
(Wylie, Texas) and ran 28 yards for a score off a fake field goal.
The other Bulldog TD was a 16-yard strike from Witt (21-46, 231) to
Chris Smith (Midlothian, Va.). "We made too many
mistakes today," said Tom Williams, Yale's Joel E. Smilow '54 Head
Coach of Football. "We had a lot of maladies in the kicking game,
and we sputtered a little offensively … Albany is a good
football team, but we didn't play our best today."
STATS
Yale held the Danes to 116 rushing yards and 160 passing…
Twenty-one Bulldogs made solo tackles while five players combined
to make six for lost yardage… Yale and Albany combined to
convert just seven of 31 third downs while having 15 penalties for
120 yards… The Danes had the ball for 12:20 of the fourth
quarter while protecting a lead… The Elis were held to 81
rushing yards.
PENN BEATS DARTMOUTH IN OT
Dartmouth recovered from a 14-point, second-half deficit to tie the
game at 28, only to fall to the defending Ivy League champs in OT
last week at Franklin Field, 35-28. The Quakers (2-1, 1-0 Ivy)
amassed 427 yards of offense to defeat the Big Green for the 12th
time in the last 13 meetings, while Dartmouth lost its fourth
overtime contest in its last five dating back to the 2007 season.
Junior QB Conner Kempe (17-32, 239) matched a career-high by
tossing three TD passes. More than half of those yards (134) went
to junior Michael Reilly, who snared five throws including the
game-tying score near the end of the fourth quarter. Junior TE John
Gallagher hauled in a pair of passes in the end zone as well. Penn
scored on the opening possession of OT and then held Dartmouth,
which won the toss and elected to defend, on four downs.
DEFENSIVE DOGS
Yale's rushing defense ranks third among FCS teams with an
80.33 average, while the Elis are 17th in sacks (2.67) per game.
Both stats are tops among Ivy schools.
HAMMERING HAYNES
For the third straight game, junior LB Jordan Haynes (23-9-32) led
the Bulldogs in total tackles with 8-3-11 against Albany. The
National Football Foundation High School Scholar-Athlete from
Folsom, Calif., leads Yale in tackles and recovered fumbles (2) in
his first year as a starter. Haynes also scored Yale's first
TD of the year on a four-yard fumble return late in the first
quarter on Sept. 18.
LAST YEAR AT THE BOWL
Brook Hart threw for 390 yards, including three touchdowns, to lead
Yale to a 38-7 victory over Dartmouth. The longest play of the Yale
season happened that day, a 73-yard touchdown pass to WR Chris
Smith. DB Geoff Dunham led the Blue with six tackles. The Elis had
25 first downs compared to nine by the visitors.
WITT COMFORTABLE IN AIR
Junior QB Patrick Witt (Wylie, Texas), whose parents are both
commercial pilots, leads a passing attack that rates seventh in the
FCS with 290 yards per game. He threw for 231 last week with two
TDs and now has five scoring tosses in 2010 and 13 for his career.
Witt, who also ran for two TDs this season, was named Ivy League
co-Player of the Week (35-55, 407) on Sept. 20 after he threw for
400 yards (6th time it has happened at Yale) and scored the winner
against the Hoyas. He is also top five among Ivy QBs in total
offense and efficiency. A backup at Nebraska in 2008, Witt started
six games in 2009 and led the team with 1,449 yards and eight
TDs.
Witt in 2010
Game Att-Com, Yds
TD Int
Georgetown 35-55, 407
2 1
Cornell 18-32, 232
1 2
Albany 21-46, 231
2 1
Totals 74-133, 870
5 4
BIG DAY FOR FORNEY
Jordan Forney, the senior WR from Bloomington, Ind., scored two of
Yale's three TDs while hauling in a game-high four passes for
65 yards. Forney was holding for a field goal on the last play of
the first half when he took off and ran 28 yards for a score. That
followed a 24-yard TD catch. His 14 catches are tied for the team
lead, his 179 yards are second. Forney (career: 30 GP, 72-895, 9
TD) needs 14 catches to break into the top 10 on Yale's
career leader list.
LOTS OF TARGETS
Yale's QB connected with eight different receivers on
Saturday, nine overall this fall. Five different Elis have one TD
catch. Senior WR Gio Christodoulou (Miami, Fla.), who also has a
team-best 14 catches, tops the squad with 273 receiving yards. He
had a career-best nine catches for 124 yards against Georgetown.
Sophomore WR Chris Smith (Midlothian, Va.) and junior RB Alex Thomas (Ansonia, Conn.) have 12 grabs each. Senior TE Chris Blohm
(San Francisco, Calif.) played in every 2009 game but did not make
a catch. He entered this fall with one career reception but has now
snared 10 passes for 95 yards.
GIO HAS RETURN VALUE
Gio Christodoulou has two career punt returns for TDs and ranks
among the top 10 at Yale in career punt (424, 4th) and kickoff
(553, 10th) return yardage.
UP FRONT
Patrick Witt has been sacked twice in three games; Yale gave up 32
sacks in 10 games last fall. The offensive line has improved in
2010. Two seniors, two juniors and a freshman got the starts last
week on the offensive line. RT Wes Gavin (San Diego, Calif., 6-5,
275) made his second career start while LG Colin Kruger (Sarasota,
Fla., 6-3, 300) made his third. Senior center Jake Koury (Dublin,
Ohio, 6-2, 270), junior RG Gabe Fernandez (Honolulu, HI, 6-0, 273)
and senior LT Alex Golubiewski (Green Bay, Wis., 6-6, 280) all
started games in 2009.
CAPTAIN
Tom McCarthy '10 (Chester, N.J.), who battled a pre-season
injury but started the season opener, missed the second half of
Georgetown and all of the last two games with another injury. He
has been one of the leaders on the defensive line the last two
years. The second-team All-Ivy pick last fall was Yale's MVP
of the defensive line. McCarthy registered four sacks and eight
tackles for loss. He earned a medical hardship from his freshman
year and is now the fifth Yale captain since 2001 who has taken a
fifth year of eligibility.
THOMAS LEADS IVY
Despite a tough Albany game, Alex Thomas (17-30) leads the Ancient
Eight with 81 rushing yards per game this fall and has shown why he
is the most prolific (8,279 yards, 114 TDs) runner in Connecticut
High School history. The junior RB from Ansonia, who scored three
times in an opening day win, has 368 yards in his last four games.
His 124 yards (matched career-high vs. Harvard '09) and 6.9
average were game-highs at Cornell. Thomas, who added 15 pounds of
muscle over the summer, is second on the team with 12 catches.
KICKING
Senior P/PK Alex Barnes (Chesterfield, Mo.) has handled all the
punting (35.6) duties and most of the placekicking (0-4 on FGs)
opportunities this season.
FROSH IMPACT
San Diego natives OL Wes Gavin and RB Deon Randall, WR Cameron Sandquist (Redmond, Wash.), DT John Oppenheimer (Menlo Park,
Calif.) and DB Nick Okano (Los Angeles, Calif.) are the class of
2014 Elis who have seen varsity action this fall. Gavin is the only
starter among the newcomers.
YALE-DARTMOUTH NUMBERS
• The most points given up by a Dartmouth
football team were 113 in a shutout loss to Yale in 1884.
• Yale's five TD passes in 1968 were the
most ever scored on Dartmouth.
• The Elis surrendered the most passing
yards ever by a Big Green offense with 419 in 1992.
• Yale allowed the most completions for a
Big Green offense with 38 in 2001
• Green tossed a school-record nine
interceptions against Yale in 1939, while Dartmouth notched a
school record with six fumbles recovered against the Blue in
1953.
BULLDOG BITES
The Yale offense is 9th in the FCS with better than 432 yards a
game… The Blue has outscored opponents 81-65 and has a
10-point edge in second quarters, seven in the fourth… The
Elis are 8-for-12 on red zone trips… Yale has seven sacks
and three players have two each… The Carm Cozza Complex
(Yale football locker room) will be dedicated on Nov. 13 prior to
the game against Princeton… The "Y" painted on the center of
the Class of '54 Field measures 60 x 60 feet… Yale and
Dartmouth will play at the Yale Bowl in 2011 and 2012 as part of
the league schedule balancing… DT Greg Burkus '83 was
inducted into the New Haven Gridiron Hall of Fame on Sept. 23. He
and his brother, Ken '75, sponsored the 2010 Yale Football
Golf Outing.
COMMON SURNAME
Smith is the most common surname in America, so it's no
surprise that Yale has three (Caleb, Chris, McConnell) from
different classes on its roster. All three are on offense, two are
WRs (Chris, McConnell) and Caleb is an end. Chris and Caleb (West
Orange, N.J.) played in both games this fall, McConnell (Chagrin
Falls, Ohio) is looking for his first varsity action.
PRO UPDATE
Dick Jauron '73, who has spent 32 years in the NFL playing
and coaching, is the secondary coach for the Philadelphia
Eagles… TE Nate Lawrie '04, who played with UFL
Sacramento last year, signed with the Eagles on Aug. 9 but was
released on Sept. 3... Jeff Mroz '05 played QB in one 2010
game for the AFL Alabama Vipers… Pat Graham '01 is an
assistant coach for the New England Patriots… Michael
McDaniel '06 is an assistant in the UFL for San
Francisco.
CATCHING THE BULLDOGS
For the 13th consecutive season, all 10 Yale Football games can be
heard live on New Haven's News/Talk 960 WELI-AM and free
online at 960WELI.com. Ron Vaccaro '04 (play-by-play) and
Carm Cozza (color) have the call, which can be heard on AM radio
throughout Connecticut and across Long Island Sound, for their
sixth season together.
BARKING DOGS
Every third quarter this season, a different former Yale player
will join the WELI Radio broadcast. P.J. Collins '04
(Georgetown), Rick Fehling '74 (Cornell), Jay Pilkerton
'09 (Albany), Kevin Kelly '78 (Dartmouth), Joe Walland
'00 (Fordham), Bobby Fernandez '75 (Columbia), Matt
Polhemus '08 (Penn), Chuck Mercein '65 and Scott Rooth
'77 (Princeton) and Bill Primps '71 (Harvard) are the
2010 lineup.
JOEL E. SMILOW '54 HEAD COACH OF FOOTBALL
Tom Williams, the Joel E. Smilow '54 Head Coach of Football at
Yale, is in his second season at Yale and his second as a head
coach overall. Williams is 6-7 overall with the Bulldogs and is
facing Dartmouth for the second time. He came to New Haven after
two seasons as an assistant with the Jacksonville Jaguars and is in
his 13th season of college coaching. Williams has worked at his
alma mater, Stanford (under current Dartmouth head coach Buddy
Teevens), Hawaii, Washington and San Jose State. He has been part
of four Bowl Game appearances and two Bowl victories.
FIELD OF STREAMS
All six home games this season will be video streamed live (pay per
view) on yalebulldogs.com through Yale's All Access with Ron
Vaccaro and Carm Cozza providing the call.
PRACTICE
The Bulldogs, off on Mondays, are on the field at 7:30 a.m. (until
approx. 9:30) Tuesday and Thursdays, and 7:00 on Wednesdays behind
the baseball stadium. Fridays are walk-through days either at Yale
Bowl or on the road and times vary. Players and coaches are
available for interviews with working media following the practice
if there are no class conflicts. All schedules are subject to
change.
STUDENTS OF THE GAME
Broadcasts of Yale football, along with several other sports during
the year, are available on the Yale student station, WYBC, and can
be heard free on-line at wybc.com. Sports director LeRoy Cole
'12 heads each broadcast.
TUESDAYS AT MORY'S
Tom Williams, the Joel E. Smilow '54 Head Coach of Yale
Football, and some of his players are at the world famous
Mory's (306 York Street) every Tuesday (Sept. 14 through Nov.
16) at 2 p.m. for the Dick Galiette Yale Football Press Conference.
This event is limited to media only. Please contact Yale Sports
Publicity Director Steve Conn (steven.conn@yale.edu) if you would
like to attend.
YALE ON YES
Three of Yale's seven league games will air live on TV. Yale on YES
is back for 2010 with three (Fordham, Penn, Columbia) straight home
games that can be seen live on many cable systems as well as
DirecTV, AT&T U-verse and Verizon FiOS. The Yale-Harvard game
on Nov. 20 at Boston is the Ivy League Game of the Week on Versus,
the national sports cable TV company.
PERFORMANCE
A former Yale kicker (Brian Clarke '74) became a famous
(General Hospital, Eight is Enough) TV actor, and more recently
ex-Eli receiver (Kip Pardue '98) had a starring role as a QB
in the hit movie Remember the Titans. Sophomore QB Dez Duron (Shreveport, La.) has been singing since he was two and might
follow in that mode. He and his siblings sang for preaching tapes
mailed by their father. Their mom wrote Christian songs with videos
and tapes for kids called "Best Buddies." Duron, at 11,
and his siblings were signed to a Christian recording label. They
toured and made a CD. Duron got more involved in sports and stopped
singing with his family. He recently began making his own music,
including the recording of two songs that can be heard on Myspace.
There are also two youtube videos.
REACHING OUT
Junior RB Alex Thomas (Ansonia, Conn.) and Ansonia native John
Coughlin (Yale Football Office) spoke to 125 fourth graders last
week at John G Prendergast Elementary School in Ansonia... Junior
CB Drew Baldwin (Alexandria, Va.), co-chair of the Yale Black
Men's Union Community Outreach Committee, is in his third
year of outreach work. Baldwin is responsible for creating the
lesson plans and the calendar of events, working to promote
personal growth and development through educational activities.
"We try to do this through exposing the mentees to new ideas
and experiences and, most importantly, through building lasting
relationships between mentor and mentee. We work toward
trying to help these high school kids become young men. In
the Black Men's Union we measure success by how many lives we
impact. Because our mentoring program puts us in a position
to impact lives to a great extent, we take that responsibility very
seriously," said Baldwin (31-8-39 last year with two
interceptions), who has mentored over 30 kids. Classmate Jordan
Haynes works closely with Baldwin on the project.
JV STANDOUTS
Three different freshmen QBs threw TD passes but the Yale JV team
fell 39-20 to a talented Milford Academy team on Oct. 3. Henry Furman (Portland, OR) connected with freshman TE Trevor Peterson
(Camino, CA) for a 20-yard score, Kerr Taubler (Fresno, CA) hit
junior WR McConnell Smith (Chagrin Falls, OH) with a 12-yard
touchdown pass, and John Whitelaw (Hinsdale, IL) found freshman WR
Cameron Sandquist (Redmond, WA) on a 44-yard strike. Junior LB Ben Ashcraft (Charlotte, NC) had an interception along with a fumble
recovery and sophomore LB Dylan Drake (Plantation, FL) recorded two
sacks. The Yale JV team returns to action again on Oct. 31 against
Bridgton Academy. Here are the three remaining games.
Date Opponent
Time
Oct. 31 Bridgton Academy
Noon
Nov. 7 Army
Noon
Nov. 19 at Harvard
1:00
REISING FLIGHT
Senior OLB Jesse Reising (Decatur, Ill.), second on the team with
18 tackles after three starts, was home for the summer taking
classes to get his flight license before he completes Marine Corps
Officer Candidate School next year. The class valedictorian at
Eisenhower High School, he participated in various community
outreach activities through his Yale fraternity, including events
to raise money to fight prostate cancer, Relay for Life, and making
care packages for Navy SEALs in Afghanistan. Reising (3.75 GPA,
economics/political science), Yale's semifinalist for the
William V. Campbell Trophy (National Football Foundation
Scholar-Athlete Award), recently spent time in Washington, DC,
working closely with veterans' service organizations such as the
Wounded Warrior Project, American Legion and Disabled American
Veterans.
GOLDEN BLUE
This season marks the 50th anniversary of Yale's last perfect
football squad. The 1960 Elis, who shared the Lambert Trophy with
Navy, were Ivy champions and ranked 14th in the final Associated
Press poll, went 9-0. They will be honored during the weekend of
the Princeton game at the Bowl.
INDIVIDUAL WEEKLY AWARDS
Here are the weekly league or conference awards garnered by
Bulldogs:
Ivy League Offensive Player of Week: QB Patrick Witt (9/20)
Ivy League Honor Roll: LB Jordan Haynes & WR Chris Smith
(9/20); RB Alex Thomas (9/27); WR Jordan Forney (10/3)
ECAC Offensive Player of Week: QB Patrick Witt (9/20)
LEADERS COME TO YALE
The annual survey of Bulldogs produced the anticipated results;
Yale is a team full of leaders who produced as much off the field
as they did on it. Here is the 201 breakdown.
81 players were captains of their high school
football team
55 players were captains of another sport in
high school
57 players were a national honors society
member
8 players were class president at their
high school
8 players were student body president at
their high school
11 players were class valedictorian at their
high school
2 players were class salutatorian at their
high school
POPULAR DOGS
The following Yalies have distinguished themselves according to a
vote by their teammates.
DB Josh Grizzard (Jr, Zebulon, N.C.):
most humorous
DB Geoff Dunham (Jr, Dallas, Texas):
most intelligent
DB Adam Money (Sr, Whiteland, Ind.): most
vocal leader (not captain)
LB Jesse Reising (Sr, Decatur, Ill.):
most likely to be U.S.
President
QB Dez Duron (So, Shreveport, La.):
most interesting activity (musician)
best singer
RB Alex Thomas (Jr, Ansonia, Conn.):
strongest player
(pound-for-pound)
WR Jordan Forney (Sr, Bloomington, Ind.): most
involved in community outreach
ONE BIG LOCKER ROOM
High on the facility wish list of Tom Williams was moving his team
from multiple rooms at the Smilow Field Center to one large locker
area. That wish came to fruition in the form of the Carm Cozza
Complex. A dressing area designed by ProZone Lockers and meeting
rooms for coaches and players highlight the complex that will also
include a shrine to the hall of fame former Yale head coach.
ALOHA
"Hawaiian Fridays" are the rule in the Yale Football
Office. Show up without a Hawaiian shirt and you risk a fine. Three
coaches (Tom Williams, Ikaika Malloe, Doug Semones) have worked in
high school, college or pro football on the island while three
players, Gabe Fernandez (Honolulu), Kolu Buck (Kaneole) and Jake Semones (Haleiwa), grew up there.
YORKSIDE IN BOWL
The Yale Bowl may be in West Haven, but the press box has a taste
of New Haven with Yorkside Pizza & Restaurant serving slices
and salad on home Saturdays. Rather than interrupting your work
with a lunch at halftime, the food is now served on its arrival
before kickoff.
filed by Steve Conn, Yale Sports Publicity Director
