2015 YALE FOOTBALL • 143RD SEASON • 14 IVY LEAGUE TITLES • 26 NATIONAL CHAMPIONS YALE AND MAINE MEET FOR FIRST TIME IN 78 YEARS NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The Yale Football Team, winners of three of its fi rst four games, gets another big road test Saturday with a 3:30 p.m. game at Maine. The fi rst meeting of the Bull- dogs (3-1, 1-1 Ivy) and Black Be ars (2-3, 2-1 CAA) in 78 years takes place at Harold Alfond Sports Stadium in Orono. It airs live on ABC in Bangor, on Fox College Sports Atlantic and on GAME INFORMATION the Yale Football Radio Network (ESPN Radio AM-1300 in New Haven). Date: Saturday, Oct. 17, 3:30 pm Site: Harold Alfond Stadium - Orono, Maine TV: ABC Bangor/ Fox College Sports Atlantic SERIES Stream: goblackbears.com The Bulldogs are 7-0-1 against the Bears but the teams have not met since a 26-0 decision in Yale Radio Ntwk: Ron Vaccaro ‘04, Steve Conn 1937. All eight games – the fi rst in 1913- were played in New Haven while Yale was a national FOOTBALL FACTS power, so the point totals are a lopsided 181 to 7. 2015 Overall Record: 3-1 YALE-MAINE 1937 2015 Ivy Record: 1-1 Home: 1-1 Road: 2-0 The last time Yale met Maine, the Bulldogs had a Heisman Trophy winner playing offense Athletic Director: Tom Beckett for the second straight season. Clint Frank, Yale’s second recipient, was in the lineup, but Al Conference: Ivy League Wilson had the game’s highlight by scoring on a 95-yard kickoff return as the Elis blanked the Stadium: Yale B owl, Class of ‘54 Field Black Bears 26-0 on Oct. 2 at Yale Bowl. Capacity: 61,446 Joel E. Smilow ‘54 Head Coach of Football: Tony Reno (Worcester ‘97) BLUE HANOVER Career Record: 18-16 (4th season) The Yale defense held one of the top offenses in the FCS scoreless for almost the entire fi rst Football Offi ce Phone: (203) 432-1490 quarter before the Elis eventually fell to Dartmouth 35-3 on Homecoming Day at Hanover. Yale All-Time Record: 887-363-55 The Bulldog defense was on the fi eld too much in the fi rst three quarters to sustain enough YALE ON AIR pressure to stay in the contest. Yale, missing fi ve starters on offense, ended up running three Flagship Radio: AM-960 WELI, AM 1300 ESPN more plays than the Big Green, but the Blue turned the ball over three times. Yale Ntwk: WDRC-1360, WWCO-1240, WMMW- . 1470, WSNG-610, WDRC FM-102.9 HD -3, iHeart BLACK BEARS REPORT Radio Maine is 2-3 overall and has won two of three in the Colonial Athletic Association. The Black Bears scored 20 in the fi rst quarter last Saturday on the way to 39-7 win at Albany. The guys SPORTS PUBLICITY from Orono beat Rhode Island but lost to Boston College, Tulane and Richmond. Director: Steve Conn (Football Contact) Assistants: Tim Bennett, Steven Lewis MATCHUP Stats: Bill Garfi eld (offi cial), Tim Cooney A Yale offense that averages 412 yards and 23 points matches up against a Maine defense that Phone: (203) 432-1455 Fax: 432-1454 allows 348 yards and 26 points. The Bulldog defense, which gives up 25 Mail: Box 208216 New Haven, CT 06520 points per outing, faces an offense that has put up 18 on average. In other words, the stats don’t mean anything. It’s an Ivy League school traveling MEDIA INFORMATION to play a full-scholarship school from a conference that plays a lot of FBS opponents. Yale Bowl Phones: 764-9244/5 E-Mail: [email protected] Website: yalebulldogs.com BULL-BEARS Yale Press Conference: Mory’s, Tuesdays, 12 Four members of the Yale staff recently played or coached at Maine. Jor- dan Stevens, the David D. Kelley Defensive Line Coach, captained the 2015 YALE SCHEDULE 2009 Black Bears and then spent two seasons there as a coach. Steve Date Opponent Result/Time (TV) Vashel, Yale’s Joel E. Smilow ’54 Defensive Coordinator, coached at Oro- Sept. 19 at Colgate 29-28 W no from 2009-11. Kevin Cahill, the pass game coordinator, was a Maine Sept. 26 CORNELL* 33-26 W coach from 2008-11. In addition, Yale’s director of football operations, Oct. 3 at Lehigh 27-12 W Chris Gennaro, played for the Black Bears from 2008-11. Oct. 10 at Dartmouth* 35-3 L Oct. 17 at Maine 3:30 (Fox) Oct. 23 at Penn* 7:00 (NBCSN) CAA FOOTBALL Oct. 31 COLUMBIA* 1:00 (Fox) The only Colonial Athletic Association teams Yale has faced on the gridiron are Maine, Wil- Nov. 7 BROWN* 12:30 (Fox) liam & Mary (1983, L; 1987, W). New Hampshire (1935, W) and Villanova (1907, W). A Nov. 14 at Princeton* 1:00 (ILDN) Nov. 21 HARVARD* 2:30 (NBCSN) 2001 Yale-Towson game was canceled because of the 9-11-01 attacks. * Ivy League Games Home games (in CAPS) 2015 YALE FOOTBALL GAME NOTES 2015 YALE FOOTBALL • 143RD SEASON • 14 IVY LEAGUE TITLES • 26 NATIONAL CHAMPIONS • 1ST TEAM TO 800 WINS • ANCIENT EIGHT Dartmouth and Harvard are 2-0 atop the league standings with Princeton (1-0) third and Yale (1-1) fourth. Everyone else is still seeking their fi rst Ivy victory. DEBUT Christopher Williams-Lopez made his varsity debut Saturday and caught seven passes for 30 yards. The sophomore WR from Duluth, Ga., missed the fi rst three games of 2015 with an injury. LEADING THE D Sophomore FS Hayden Carlson had a team-high six solos and nine overall tack- les, while junior LB Victor Egu had a Yale-best 1.5 sacks. Egu also had nine total stops. BIG BANG BULLDOG Yale’s biggest hit of the day last Saturday was Copache Tyler’s tackle for loss in the third quarter. Dartmouth RB Brian Grove took a handoff near mid fi eld and headed up the middle before he was run over by the junior DT with such force that it knocked the runner backwards for a four-yard loss. STRONG DOG LEG Yale junior kicker/punter Bryan Holmes leads the team with 22 points while handling all aspects of kicking. He is 5-for-7 on fi eld goals, including a career-long of 44 at Lehigh. He has a 40.0 punting average with six landing inside the 20. Holmes has kicked off 20 times with seven going as touchbacks. Holmes, Ivy League Special Teams Player of the Week after the Cornell game, is a 6-foot, 197-pound kicker who began his collegiate career as a kickoff specialist his freshman season before exclusively handling the punting duties in 2014. His 2015 responsibilities make him the fi rst Yale player to handle all three areas since Tom Mante in 2008. COMEBACKS The Bulldogs have come from behind in two of the three victories. Yale was down by 14 in game one against Colgate and 19 in the sec- ond contest before marching back to victory. The 33-point combined defi cit was erased by the Elis outscoring the fi rst two opponents 42-7 in the second half. The Bulldogs erased three big defi cits last year to register victories over Lehigh, Army and Brown. BLOCKED KICKS The Bulldogs lead the FCS with four blocked kicks this fall. Junior FS Foyesade Oluokun blocked two Colgate fi eld goals on Sept. 19. Junior DE Marty Moesta knocked down a Cornell PAT, while freshman DE J. Hunter Roman got to a Big Red fi eld goal attempt in week two. CAPTAIN CHAMPION Cole Champion, Yale’s senior captain, was part of two high school national championships at St. Thomas Aquinas in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. The Bulldog strong safety and two-time All-Ivy pick has 190 career tackles and four interceptions. Champion has started the last 30 straight games. BIG DONATION Junior DT Jack Rushin recently donated marrow to a needy recipient. He is the 32nd donor that has come from the Mandi Schwartz Marrow Drive, which takes place each spring on the Yale campus and honors the memory of the former Bulldog women’s hockey player. Rushin, the nephew of Sports Illustrated writer Steve Rushin, only missed a day of practice. CONSISTENCY ON THE LINE The fi ve starters on the Yale offensive line have started all 10 games the last two seasons. That is not the case this fall, but there is experience up front in 2015. Center Luke Longinotti has 24 straight starts, while left tackle Khalid Cannon has 14. Guard Jon Bezney and tackle Beau Iverson got their fi rst starts at Colgate this fall, while left guard Anders Huizenga has a pair. 2015 YALE FOOTBALL GAME NOTES 2015 YALE FOOTBALL • 142ND SEASON • 14 IVY LEAGUE TITLES • 26 NATIONAL CHAMPIONS • 1ST TEAM TO 800 WINS • ROBERTS CLIMBING YALE LISTS Morgan Roberts, a 2014 second-team All-Ivy pick who attended Charlotte Country Day before enrolling at Clem- son University, played in nine games in 2013 as the No. 2 and then started since game one of 2014. Roberts has produced enough as a Bulldog to be on the following ca- reer lists: 4th in total offense (4,969); 4th in completions (364); 4th in passing yards (4,713); 5th in passing TDs (33) and 5th in passing attempts (630). This fall, Roberts ranks 3rd in the FCS in completions and 7th in passing yards THE QB’S NUMBERS 2013 totals: 37-71, 339 (4) 2014 2nd Team All-Ivy Game: att-comp, yards (TDs) Lehigh: 31-40, 376 (4) - Ivy POW Army: 23-40, 290 (1) Cornell: 26-30, 312 (5) - Ivy POW Dartmouth: 25-41, 302 (1) Colgate: 23-33, 379 (2) Penn: 26-29, 346 (4) - Ivy POW Columbia: 21-42, 267 Brown: 20-26, 248 (2) Princeton: 27-42, 405 (2) Harvard: 26-48, 305 (1) 2015 Colgate: 29-41, 293 (3) – Ivy POW Cornell: 25-47, 371 (3) Lehigh: 25-42, 251 (1) Dartmouth: 29-58, 229 ROBERTS’ CAREER HIGHS Completions: 31 vs.