NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Jameson Wang handed for a landing and ran for an additional TD, and Jackson Kennedy kicked the profitable 30-yard subject purpose as time expired to assist Cornell beat Yale 23-21 Saturday.
Nolan Grooms threw a 30-yard TD go to Mason Tipton that gave the Bulldogs a 21-20 lead with 3:14 to play however Wang led a 13-play, 56-yard drive —together with a third-and-10 go to Doryn Smith for a 22-yard achieve to midfield — to arrange Kennedy’s winner.
Wang accomplished 26 of 36 passes for 197 yards and a landing for Cornell (2-0, 1-0 Ivy League)
Yale (0-2, 0-1), which misplaced 49-24 to then-No. 5 (FCS coaches’ ballot) Holy Cross in its house opener, is 22-6 at house because the begin of the 2017 season however has misplaced back-to-back video games on the Yale Bowl.
Cornell went 70 yards in 12 performs — together with a fourth-down conversion — on the opening drive of the third quarter capped by Wang’s 1-yard run and, after Yale went three-and-out, the Massive Pink took over on the Bulldogs 40. Wang ran for six yards on a fourth-and-6 from the 18 to provide Colgate a contemporary set of downs to arrange his 3-yard TD go to Nicholas Laboy to take a 17-14 lead with 4:04 left earlier than the fourth quarter.
Tre Peterson opened the scoring with a 2-yard run and Grooms threw a deep go to Chase Nenad, who ran the ultimate 10 yards for a 48-yard TD to provide Yale a 14-0 lead going into the second quarter.
Yale, the defending Ivy League champion, has opened Ivy League play towards Cornell in each season since 2000 and is 16-7 in these video games.
Grooms was 7-of-18 passing for 129 yards with a TD and an interception and added 15 carries for 76 yards dashing for the Bulldogs.