“Football drops 31-10 decision to Yale under Friday night lights.”

31

winner

Yale
YAL

4-2, 1-2

10

Penn
PEN

2-4, 0-3

winner

31

10

Points by quarters

team	1	2	3	4	F
YAL Yale	14	7	7	3	31
PEN Penn	0	10	0	0	10

Match Review: Football | October 25, 2024

PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania football team lost a 31-10 decision to Yale in an Ivy League game Friday night at Franklin Field. The game was broadcast on ESPNU to a national television audience.

Penn fell to 2-4 overall and remains winless at 0-3 in Ivy League play. Yale won for the first time in Ivy play (1-2) and improved to 4-2 overall.

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How it happened

Yale wasted no time putting points on the board Friday night, receiving the first kickoff and immediately driving down the field for the win. The Bulldogs needed 11 plays to travel 75 yards and got their points when Grant Jordan looked left and found David Pantelis for a 3-yard touchdown pass.

Penn scored a three-pointer on the opening attack, but immediately broke as Pantelis tried to handle the ball Albert Jangs The line-drive barge slammed into him. The ball flew past him and was recovered by him Jacob Cisnerosand gave the Quakers the ball at the Yale 16-yard line. But on the first play from scrimmage, Abu Kamara forced Sayin to fumble and Kevin Jourdain recovered and gave the ball right back to Yale.

After regaining momentum, Yale ran recklessly through Penn’s defense. The Bulldogs ran five plays and got first downs on all of them, the last going for 19 yards when Jordan Chase found Nenad up the middle and he darted the final few yards through a pair of Quaker defenders into the end zone. The score was 14-0 in the middle of the first half.

Penn went to Liam O’Brien at quarterback on its next drive, and the junior gave the Quakers their first points early in the second quarter when they took the ball to the Yale 8-yard line before stalling. Sam Smith hit a 25-yard field goal to make it 14-3.

Yale had success a few times on its next drive by passing to the right sideline, but the Bulldogs went that direction one too many times and Josh Narcissus He easily fended off Jordan at the Yale 6. He almost returned the ball to midfield, but O’Brien was sacked on first down and Penn went wide for a three-pointer. However, Jang’s punt was a beauty and a good result Jayden Drayton allowed the Quakers to land the ball inside Yale’s 5.

Yale made a three-pointer and Penn moved the ball into Bulldogs territory. The Quakers got a fourth-and-1 and tried some tricks, but the Yale defense sensed it and Kamara intercepted O’Brien’s desperation throw into traffic right at the line of play.

Yale turned the turnover into another touchdown. It took the Bulldogs six plays to go 60 yards, a good portion of which came when Jordan threw a pass down the right sideline that was just out of reach of a Penn defender before it was caught by a leaping Pantelis. Three plays later, the Yale quarterback rolled out to the left and fired a pass that was intercepted by a flying Joey Felton – the catch was confirmed after a review – for a 20-yard score, giving Yale a 21-3 lead took the lead.

Penn had 2:44 left in the half to make something happen. Taking just two minutes, the Quakers gained 71 yards on just five plays, which began with O’Brien finding Stokes for 12 yards and Alex Haight for 19. The junior quarterback called his own number on the final two plays, with the first covering 12 yards and the second covering the final five yards across the goal line. At halftime, Yale’s lead was 21-10.

Penn started the second half with the ball but sputtered at midfield and missed a punt. Yale’s first drive was far more successful, with the Bulldogs gaining 77 yards in nine plays. On a fourth-and-goal at the 1-yard line, Jordan rolled right to escape two Penn defenders and found a wide-open Luke Foster in the back of the end zone, making the score 28-10.

It looked like Penn might answer by advancing to the Yale 1-yard line on first-and-goal. However, three straight rushes were stuffed and the Bulldogs took the lead on downs at the end of the third quarter.

Yale covered almost all 99 yards on the ensuing drive, Penn eventually stopping the Bulldogs four yards from paydirt and forcing a good 21-yard field goal. However, the drive lasted nearly seven minutes, with less than nine minutes remaining as Yale led 31-10.

That was the key point of the night as the Bulldogs held Penn at bay the rest of the game.

Next

Penn is on the road for the next two games, starting next Saturday when the Quakers face Brown in another Ivy League game in Providence. Kick-off is scheduled for midday.

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