Brown Scores 38 Points and Loses by 25
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Brown Scores 38 Points and Loses by 25
Bear's defense has been one of the worst in the country. Brown is now 2-6 and 1-4 in the conference.
The Brown Defense in Ivy League games:
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- surrendered 56 points to Princeton
- Cornell scored 45 points against Brown
- Yale scores 63 points
In Ivy games, Brown is giving up an average of 53 points per game.
Brown head coach James Perry said, "We were playing extremely hard and extremely well for a huge part of that game. I'm proud of the guys for that."
Yale Game
Yale had 527 yards of total offense.
The bright spot for Brown was once again quarterback E.J. Perry who was 21-for-37 through the air for 261 yards and two touchdowns. He also rushed for 74 yards on six carries, including a season-long 56-yard run to set up a field goal. Perry also caught his first pass of the season, a career-long 64-yard catch-and-run for his first career receiving touchdown.
Highlights:
• Yale struck first on their opening drive, needing two plays to go 72 yards and scoring on a 61-yard pass from Nolan Grooms to Melvin Rouse II.
• Brown tied it up at the 6:44 mark after a 10-play drive, capped off by a spectacular catch by Rockett, who caught the ball behind him at the two, spun and reached across the goal line by the front left pylon while being tackled for a 24-yard touchdown catch. The drive was spurred by a 25-yard pass to Walker on 3rd-and-8, and later an 11-yard completion to Walker on 4th-and-2 from the Yale 40.
• Brown jumped in front on its next drive, going 77 yards on six plays, spurred by a big 48 and catch-and run by Smith to set up first and goal ant the five. Two plays later, Perry found Rockett once again in the left side of the end zone for a five-yard scoring strike to put the Bears up by seven.
• Yale responded on the ensuing drive, going 58 yards on five plays and tying the score 14-14 on a 27-yard pass from Grooms to David Pantelis in the back left side of the end zone with six seconds left in the opening quarter.
• Yale regained the lead 21-14 at the 10:59 mark of the second after Joseph Shell stripped the quarterback on a rush, but the loose ball was picked up by Yale's Pantelis at the 21-yard line and ran in from there for the go-ahead touchdown.
• The Bears quickly retied the score just three plays and 43 seconds later with some trickery. Michael McGovern hit Perry, who beat the defender down the left sideline for a huge 64-yard catch-and-run for a touchdown. The play was Perry's first reception of the season and the first Brown pass attempt by someone other than Perry this season. It was also Perry's second career reception and his first touchdown catch.
• The Bulldogs once again responded with an eight-play, 62-yard scoring drive to go back in front 28-21 on a four-yard touchdown rush up the middle at 5:37.
• Yale took a 14-point lead with 3:20 left until halftime on a 60-yard pick-six off a deflected pass by Sean Guyton.
• Brown embarked on another big scoring drive of nine plays, 61-yards in 2:36, capped by a 10-yard touchdown run by Smith with 37 seconds left to make it a 35-28 game heading into halftime. Prior to the score, the drive was extended by another big 10-yard catch by Walker on 4th-and-5, which got Brown into the red zone.
• Yale scored right out of the gate on a 65-yard pass over the middle on their third play from scrimmage to open the second half and go back up by 14.
• Once again, the Bears provided a quick answer to pull within seven once again. Following a fourth down conversion, Perry found Rockett for his third touchdown of the game on just his fourth catch, this one for 21 yards over the middle.
• The Bulldogs' defense scored their second touchdown of the day with 1:11 remaining in the third on a strip-sack deep in Brown territory resulted in a one-yard return for a touchdown to increase the lead to 49-35.
• Perry uncorked a 56-yard rush, his longest of the season, on the first play following the touchdown, setting Brown up 1st-and-10 at the Yale 19-yard line. Three plays later, Christopher Maron stepped up and drilled a 36-yard field goal to trim the deficit to 49-38 with 14:49 to go in the game.
• Yale came back with an eight-play, 75-yard drive to take a 56-38 lead on a two-yard rush. The Bulldogs then added some insurance with one final touchdown on a five-yard run by Alston with 3:14 remaining.