2-0 Ivy Showdown at the Bowl
| 00:11 - 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | T |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Penn (5-1) | 0 | 13 | 7 | 7 | 27 |
| Yale (4-2) | 3 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 20 |
| New Haven, Conn. | Yale Bowl | |||||
| Penn | Yale |
|---|---|
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Pa:
Ragone, Billy - 102
Ru: Colavita, B. - 73 Rec: Murray, Ryan - 38 |
Pa:
Patrick Witt - 331
Ru: Deon Randall - 30 Rec: Jordan Forney - 116 |
| TEAM STATISTICS | Penn | Yale |
|---|---|---|
| Passing Yards | 159 | 331 |
| Rushing Yards | 149 | 29 |
| Turnovers | 2 | 3 |
| Time of Poss. | 32:24 | 27:23 |
Yale Takes On Penn Saturday
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Welcome to the beginning of the
Ancient Eight stretch run. The two Ivy teams that are 4-1 overall
and 2-0 in league play square off Saturday at Yale Bowl on the
Class of 1954 Field. Yale, coming off a win at home over Fordham,
and No. 20 Penn, which beat Columbia on Saturday, kick at noon in
the second straight week of Yale on YES. In addition to the TV
broadcast on the YES Network (DirecTV 631), you can hear the game
on WELI Radio (AM-960), weli.com and wybc.com.
THE MATCHUP
The Quakers are ranked No. 20 in the latest Sports
Network/Fathead.com FCS Poll, while the Elis received 15 votes.
Penn's defense, which allows the fewest (69) rushing yards in
the country and is the Ivy's top overall unit, matches up
against a Yale offense that was without its top two runners last
week but still leads the league with 410 yards of offense per
game.
Team
Averages
OFFENSE
Y
P
Rushing Yards
143.4 213.2
Passing Yards
267.0 157.2
Total Offense
410.4 370.4
Scoring
22.2
24.4
DEFENSE
Y P
Rushing Yards 93.0
69.2
Passing Yards
229.6 180.2
Total Defense
322.6 249.4
Scoring
18.2
17.4
YALE-PENN
Yale leads the series against the Quakers 44-32-1, though Penn has
dominated in recent years, winning 14 of the last 18 meetings. The
rivals have split the last six games at New Haven. The Blue has won
every contest when scoring over 21 points except for a 48-30 Penn
victory in 1972 and 2003's 34-31 OT decision. Three of the last
seven meetings have gone to OT.
BULLDOGS GET PAST RAMS
Chris Dooley (Massapequa, N.Y.) got a hand on a 23-yard field goal
attempt midway through the fourth quarter that helped the Yale
football team preserve a 7-6 win over Fordham at Yale Bowl and the
Class of 1954 Field. Dooley, a sophomore DT, registered his
team's first blocked kick as the Bulldogs won a second
straight game and improved to 4-1 after finishing off the
non-league portion of the 2010 schedule. Fordham PK Patrick Murray,
who gave the Rams a 6-0 lead, had already connected on field goals
from 45 and 38 yards when he set up for the potential winner. The
Rams' defense and a blustery wind kept the Bulldogs off the
scoreboard until the first play of the fourth quarter. Brook Hart
(State College, Pa), who was 15-for-29 with 227 yards, found WR
Jordan Forney (Bloomington, Ind.) along the left sideline. Forney,
who caught the ball around the 15, broke a few tackles and dove
into the end zone for a 29-yard scoring play. "We ran a
crossing pattern and Chris Smith (Midlothian, Va.) took the safety
with him," said Forney. "Brook [Hart] made a great
throw and I got good blocking down field." The Bulldogs,
playing without injured starters at quarterback, running back
(first and second string) and offensive line (2), outgained the
Rams 317 to 308 but converted just three of 14 third downs. Yale
sophomore Javi Sosa (Miami, Fla.) led all runners with 74 yards on
24 carries. Fordham (2-5), which has lost four straight close
games, was led by the passing of Blake Wayne (25-42, 219) who also
led his team with 54 rushing yards. Yale junior LB Jordan Haynes
(Folsom, Calif.), who recovered the game's only fumble, led
all tacklers with nine solo stops and 12 overall. SS Adam Money
(Whiteland, Ind.) and FS Geoff Dunham (Dallas, Texas) each had
interceptions for the Blue while DTs Jake Stoller (Shaker Heights,
Ohio) and Reed Spiller (Portsmouth, N.H.) notched sacks.
QUAKERS BEAT LIONS
Penn scored on its opening drive last Saturday and never looked
back in a 27-13 win over Columbia at Franklin Field. Sophomore RB
Brandon Colavita rushed for 103 yards as the Quakers outgained the
Lions 281-44 on the ground and passed just five times all
afternoon. Penn opened with an 11-play, 75-yard drive that ended
with a QB Billy Ragone seven-yard touchdown scamper, while Columbia
went 59 yards in 12 plays on its first drive and got three points.
On a critical play at the end of the first quarter, the Quaker
defense turned momentum to the home team for the remainder of the
half. Senior DL Brian Wing got to Columbia quarterback Sean
Brackett and forced a fumble that Drew Goldsmith scooped up and ran
25 yards for a score. That put Penn up 14-3 with 26 ticks left in
the opening quarter. Penn safety Matt Hamscher, who sacked Brackett
twice for a loss of 14 yards and earned Ivy Defensive Player of the
Week honors, led a Quaker defense that held the highest scoring
offense in the Ivy League nearly three touchdowns below its scoring
average.
GOTTA HAVE HART
Senior QB Brook Hart, making his first start since week seven of
the 2009 season, threw for 227 yards and was sacked just once on a
windy day at the Bowl. His longest connection was a 47-yard throw
to Chris Smith. Hart completed all three passing attempts on the
drive that ended with his 29-yard scoring play to Jordan Forney in
the fourth quarter. He shared (4 games) the starting duties last
year and then took spring ball off to pitch for the Yale baseball
team.
SMITH HAS PURPOSE
Sophomore WR Chris Smith (Midlothian, Va.) led all players last
Saturday with 102 all-purpose yards. He had a team-high five
catches for 76 yards, including a game-best 47-yarder, and had a
kickoff return for 26 yards. Smith leads Yale with 23 catches in
five games.
CRUCIAL PUNT
Alex Barnes (Chesterfield, Mo.) had taken every punt this season,
and had even boomed one of his kicks 50 yards that was downed on
the one-yard line against Fordham. After making Yale's first
four punts last Saturday, Barnes suffered an injury and was not
available on the Elis' last possession. So with time running
down and the Bulldogs in need of a big kick, freshman Greg Carlsen
(Orlando, Fla.) trotted out for his first collegiate snap. Not many
people noticed the significance of the moment, even after the Rams
nearly blocked the kick that traveled a season-high 55 yards and
led to the Elis running out the clock.
GATOR
Greg Carlsen was a freshman at the University of Florida last year
and did not try out for the football team. He began missing the
game while attending UF contests. That's when he decided to send
his video around to some schools and see if anyone was interested
in his services. Carlsen, who was No. 1 out of 702 in his high
school class, owns his school's record for most punts (67) and
yardage (2,407) in a season. He was a first-team all-county and
all-metro punter for a two-time regional champion and a state
runner-up squad in the football crazy Sunshine State.
LAST YALE-PENN GAME
Two tough defenses went to battle in the rain at Franklin Field a
year ago, and the game was determined in a span of less than two
minutes late in the first quarter. A field goal and an interception
return for a touchdown gave Penn a 9-0 win. The Bulldogs managed to
get just 59 offensive plays with 163 total yards and 10 first
downs. Brook Hart got the start (8-13, 56 yards, 2 int) and was
replaced in the fourth quarter by Patrick Witt (8-15, 82).
2-0 IVY
Every league game is important, but winning the first two Ivy games
does not mean a championship. Yale won its first two Ivy games for
the fourth time in six years but the first since 2007. One (2006)
of those four resulted in a league title. Penn has gone 2-0 in five
of the last six seasons with only a 2009 championship.
DEFENSIVE DOGS
Yale's rushing defense ranks seventh among FCS teams with a
93-yard average, while the Elis are 14th in scoring defense (18.2).
The Blue is third in both categories among Ivy schools.
BANNON FIRE
Senior Shane Bannon is Yale's H-back, the guy who can block,
catch passes and run with the ball. He had a career-high six
catches at Hanover and snared two last week. Bannon now has 10
catches for 78 yards this fall. His first career carry resulted in
a TD at Princeton in 2009, his first catch went for a score against
Georgetown in 2008. Bannon, who nearly had to rule out playing in
2010 because of an injury, has not missed a practice in two
years.
SHOW ME THE MONEY
Senior SS Adam Money (Whiteland, Ind.) had a strong showing against
the Rams with an interception, two pass breakups and a downed punt
on the one-yard line. He is the active career interception leader
for Yale with seven, including two (77 vs. Brown '09, 60 vs.
Georgetown '08) taken back for scores. Money is a 2009 first-team
All-Ivy pick who needs two more interceptions to crack the school's
top 10 career list. He has also excelled in the classroom with a
3.46 GPA (biology major) and has been interviewing at medical
schools this fall.
MIAMI TWICE
A pair of fleet-footed offensive players from Belen Jesuit Prep in
Miami, Fla., has played big roles the last two weeks. Senior WR Gio
Christodoulou had eight catches over the two games and is second on
the team with 23 grabs. Sophomore RB Javi Sosa had 50 big yards
against Dartmouth in relief and then got his first career start
last week (24-74). His first career TD came on a seven-yard run at
Hanover.
MORE ON GIO
Gio Christodoulou, who had a career-best nine catches for 124 yards
against Georgetown on opening day, has two career punt returns for
TDs and ranks among the top 10 at Yale in career punt (460, 3rd)
and kickoff (553, 10th) return yardage. He passed Gary Fencik
'76 (443) for the No. 3 spot on the Yale career punt return
list.
HAMMERING HAYNES
Junior LB Jordan Haynes (34-18-52) led all tacklers last Saturday
with nine solos and 12 (season-high for Yale) overall. He also
recovered the game's only fumble as the Yale defense held a
Fordham offense averaging 24 points to just a pair of field goals.
Haynes has led the Bulldogs in total tackles in four of five games
this fall. 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.
YALE-PENN MEMORIES
2007: Yale's goal-line stand followed a TD run by Mike McLeod '09
in the third OT of an Eli win... 2006: Alan Kimball's '08 35-yard
field goal in OT gave Yale a 17-14 victory at New Haven... 2003:
Playing its first modern OT game, Yale fell to Penn at Franklin
Field (34-31) after erasing a 31-10 deficit. The Blue tied the game
with 32 seconds left but had a FG attempt blocked in the extra
session... 1991: Nick Crawford '92 rushed for a Yale QB
record 204 yards in a 31-12 Bulldog win at New Haven... 1987: WR
Bob Shoop '88 capped off a miraculous comeback at Yale Bowl
with a last-second TD reception in a 28-22 Yale victory... 1969: TV
star Jack Ford `72 intercepted a Penn pass and went 77 yards for a
score in a 21-3 Yale win... 1958: Herb Hallas '59 set a
school record with a 94-yard punt return, but it was the only
points in a 30-6 Quaker win.
EXPIRING TIME
Yale has scored game-winning TDs as time expired in the fourth
quarter twice this season. Patrick Witt dove into the end zone from
a yard out to erase a deficit against Georgetown on the
game's last play. Philippe Panico split the uprights at
Dartmouth with no time left. The Elis have not won a pair of games
in a season on the last play since 1937. In addition to the
two wins on the last play, the Blue also have a one-point win over
Fordham. "A win like this is character building... This team
has a lot of character," said Yale captain Tom McCarthy after
beating the Rams.
WITT MISSES GAME
Junior QB Patrick Witt (Wylie, Texas) missed practice last week and
the Fordham game with an injury. He was injured in the win at
Dartmouth but still managed to complete 28 passes for 238 yards
while scrambling to avoid being sacked. Witt, whose parents are
both commercial pilots, started the first four games and ranks
ninth in FCS total offense (280). Witt has 14 career TD passes to
go along with a pair of rushing TDs this season. Witt 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. A backup at Nebraska in 2008, Witt
started six Yale games in 2009 and led the team with 1,449 yards
and eight TDs.
THOMAS SAT OUT FORDHAM
Alex Thomas, who left the Dartmouth game with an injury, did not
suit up last Saturday at the Bowl. His backup, Mordecai Cargill,
was also out with an injury. Thomas certainly 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, leads the team with 284 yards and four TDs.
His 124 yards (matched career-high vs. Harvard '09) and 6.9
average were game-highs at Cornell. His 47-yard run at Cornell is
the longest run by a Bulldogs this fall. Thomas, who added 15
pounds of muscle over the summer, is fifth on the team with 13
catches.
LOTS OF TARGETS
Eleven Bulldogs have caught passes this fall while six different
Elis have a TD catch. Sophomore WR Chris Smith (Midlothian, Va.)
leads Yale with 23 for 234 yards. Senior WR Gio Christodoulou has
22 while classmate WR Jordan Forney (Bloomington, Ind.) is third
with 18 and senior TE Chris Blohm (San Francisco, Calif.) has 15
after not making a catch in any of the 10 games he played in 2009.
FRONT AND CENTER
Yale QBs have been sacked three times in five games, a far cry from
the 32 sacks given up in 10 games last fall. It's clear the
offensive line has improved in 2010. Freshman Wes Gavin (San Diego,
Calif., 6-5, 275) and senior Alex Golubiewski (Green Bay, Wis.,
6-6, 280) started at tackle last week. Junior Colin Kruger
(Sarasota, Fla., 6-3, 300) and senior John Pedersen (Great Falls,
Va., 6-7, 303) were the guards. Pedersen was filling in for Gabe
Fernandez (Honolulu, HI, 6-0, 273), who was out with an injury.
Junior Jeff Fell (6-5, 286, Garden City, N.Y.) was the starting
center in place of an injured Jake Koury (Dublin, Ohio, 6-2,
270).
CAPTAIN
Senior DE Tom McCarthy (Chester, N.J.), the Yale captain, has
started two straight games since missing games two and three with
an injury. He had a career-high 3-6-9 at Dartmouth and added four
tackles last week. His 13 total tackles ties him with classmate Joe
Young for the lead among linemen. The second-team All-Ivy pick last
fall (4 sacks) was Yale's MVP of the defensive line. 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.
PANICO GETS GOLD HELMET
Philippe Panico (Boston, Mass.), who kicked the game-winning field
goal on Oct. 9 at Dartmouth, was named the winner of the Oct. 13
Gold Helmet Award presented by the Gridiron Club of Greater Boston.
Panico, a sophomore making his first start, split the uprights from
19 yards out with no time on the clock to give the Bulldogs a 23-20
Ivy League victory. He set up for the kick with four seconds
left and booted the ball off the inside of the right post for his
first collegiate three-pointer. An all-league player at Buckingham
Browne & Nichols School, Panico owns the Massachusetts record
with a 58-yard field goal. He played on two championship teams and
was a two-time all-league golfer who won the league title his
junior year. Panico was named Boston Herald All-Scholastic while
receiving the Jack Grinold Eastern Massachusetts National Football
Foundation Scholar-Athlete Award.
FROSH IMPACT
San Diego natives OT Wes Gavin and RB Deon Randall, WR Cameron
Sandquist (Redmond, Wash.), DT John Oppenheimer (Menlo Park,
Calif.), TE Keith Coty, TE/LS Kyle Wittenauer (Richmond, Va.) and
DB Nick Okano (Los Angeles, Calif.) are the class of 2014 Elis who
have seen varsity action this fall. Gavin and Wittenauer (LS) are
the only starters among the newcomers but Randall has seen regular
action.
BULLDOG BITES
Yale leads the Ivy in passing and total offense and punt
returns… Three different players have led the Blue in
rushing in the first five games… Yale's two
interceptions against Fordham were a season-high… Javi
Sosa's 24 carries last week were a team-high for 2010…
Yale had six sacks in the first two games but has just three over
the last three Saturdays… The Elis have recovered a fumble
in four of the five games… The Blue has scored on the
opening drive in two of the five... Two of Yale's 2010
non-league opponents offer football scholarships, Albany and
Fordham… Yale's non-league opponents are a combined
9-12 this fall.
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 4-2 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 4-1 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.
COZZA BEING HONORED AT MIAMI
Former Yale Football Head Coach Carm Cozza, the winningest coach in
Ivy League history and a member of the College Football Hall of
Fame, will be honored at Miami University on Oct. 22 and 23 for
being one of the "Cradle of Coaches." Cozza, one of three former
Miami players included in that weekend's events, will have his
statue unveiled in a noon ceremony at Yager Stadium prior to the
Miami-Ohio University football game. He will also be introduced to
the crowd during the game. Greg Hall '77 will fill in for Cozza on
the WELI Radio broadcast this Saturday.
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 8-7 overall with the Bulldogs and 0-1
vs. Penn. 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, 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, Wednesday and Thursday 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
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. Chris Shearn
handles the play-by-play while former Yale defensive player Jack
Ford '72 and Ross Tucker, a former Princeton and NFL
offensive lineman, provide the color.
THE GAME OF THE WEEK
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.
REACHING OUT
Five Bulldogs recently visited the Boys and Girls Club of the Lower
Naugatuck Valley's Joel E. Smilow Clubhouse in Ansonia to
help kids learn the importance of eating healthy and staying
fit… Junior RB Alex Thomas (Ansonia, Conn.) and Ansonia
native John Coughlin (Yale Football Office) spoke to 125 fourth
graders this fall 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 SLATE
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 SEMIFINALIST FOR CAMPBELL TROPHY
Jesse Reising (Decatur, Ill.), a senior LB, has been named a
semifinalist for the William V. Campbell Trophy, a scholar-athlete
award handed out December 7 at the Waldorf Astoria in Manhattan by
the National Football Foundation. Reising, third on the team with
29 tackles after five starts, owns a 3.75 GPA with a focus on
economics and political science. He may be locked in on his majors
and football right now, but this Eli has his sights set on his
country. The Bulldog defensive standout was home last summer taking
classes to get his flight license before he completes Marine Corps
Officer Candidate School next year. Reising recently spent time in
Washington, DC, working closely with veterans' service
organizations such as the Wounded Warrior Project, American Legion
and Disabled American Veterans. Reising, the class valedictorian at
Eisenhower High School, also 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. Yale players are often
selected as semifinalists for the Campbell Trophy, but only 10 have
made the final squad picked as NFF Scholar-Athletes since Rick
McCarthy became the first in 1967. Casey Gerald, who spoke at the
national event representing all the scholar-athletes in 2008, was
Yale's last selection.
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); QB Patrick
Witt & DB Chris Stanley (10/11); LB Jordan Haynes (10/19)
ECAC Offensive Player of Week: QB Patrick Witt (9/20)
YALE COACHES PICK PLAYERS OF GAME
Here's who the Yale coaches honored after Saturday's game: Offense
(Patrick Witt, Shane Bannon, Mordecai Cargill, John Pedersen);
Defense (Joe Young, Jesse Reising, Chris Stanley); Special Teams
(Phillipe Panico, John Powers).
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.
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
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