GAME 8: Penn (3-4, 1-3 Ivy) vs. Cornell (1-6, 0-4 Ivy)
November 6 | 1 PM | Franklin Field
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It is Week EIGHT and Homecoming for the #UPrising! This week, the Quakers welcome Cornell to Franklin Field for a Saturday afternoon matinee. The two teams are playing for the 127th time with Penn winning 75 of those contests. The Quakers have won eight of the last 10 games against the Big Red including each of the last six meetings. Penn is an impressive 57-34-4 versus Cornell at Franklin Field.
 
The Penn-Cornell Series (127th meeting)
Today's game marks the 127th meeting between the Quakers and the Big Red as the two teams compete for the Trustees' Cup. Penn and Cornell first met back in November of 1893. It is the sixth oldest rivalry in all of Division I college football. Penn has won six straight games in the series, and George A. Munger Head Coach of Football Ray Priore has never lost to the Big Red.
 
Looking Back on the 2019 Meeting
Penn used a trick play to score the eventual game-winning TD in a 21-20 victory against Cornell in 2019. Owen Goldsberry threw an 80-yard touchdown pass to put the Quakers up late in the fourth quarter. The Big Red answered with a 94-yard drive to pull within one at 21-20 with 50 seconds left. Cornell decided to go for two and DB Kendren Smith broke up a pass attempt to help seal the Quaker win.
 
A Look at Cornell
Cornell is 1-6 overall and 0-4 in the Ivy League after falling at home to Princeton last Friday night, 34-16. The Big Red rank last in the Ivy League in scoring offense with 21.9 points per game. Offensively, Cornell is passing for more than 267 yards per game. Fifth-year QB Richie Kenney has thrown for 1,216 yards and five touchdowns this season, while dual-threat QB Jameson Wang has four passing TDs and a team-leading 249 rushing yards. Defensively, Jake Stebbins leads the Ancient Eight with 65 tackles.
 
Weekly Honors
Senior LB Garrett Morris was named the Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week on Monday after his performance against Brown. Morris had six total tackles, one TFL and returned an interception for a touchdown. Four of his tackles were solo stops and he also added a quarterback hurry. He became the first Quaker to return an interception for a touchdown since Nick Miller in October of 2017 against Columbia. Morris was also honored as the College Sports Madness Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week.
 
Sack Lunch
The Penn defense had a season-high eight sacks last Saturday versus Brown. The eight sacks are the most by an Ivy League team this season and mark the most sacks in a game for the Quakers since the team recorded 10 in the 2018 season opener against Bucknell. Jake Heimlicher had a career-high 3.0 sacks; he is currently tied for fifth in the Ivy League with six sacks on the year.
 
Spark Plug
Senior RB Isaiah Malcome has been on a tear of late for the Quakers. He has scored a rushing TD in five straight games for the Red and Blue. Last Saturday versus Brown, he ran for 121 yards and a score on just nine carries. Malcome has racked up 617 yards on the ground and he's averaging 6.4 yards per carry.
 
Major Milestone
Senior WR Ryan Cragun became the 21st player in program history to record 1,000 career receiving yards earlier this season at Lafayette. He reached the milestone in just 11 games played. This season, Cragun has caught 31 passes for 463 yards and two touchdowns. He is currently 11th in program history with 1,348 receiving yards, and with 26 more yards he'll move into the top 10. Cragun also has 89 career receptions and is looking to become just the 12th Quaker to have 100 career catches.
 
Thunder & Lightning
Malcome and Trey Flowers both scored rushing TDs last week versus Brown. It marked the second straight game and third time  this fall both players found paydirt. They've combined for 907 rushing yards and 11 total TDs in 2021. In Penn's 20-0 win over Lehigh, both Malcome (201 yards) and Flowers (115 yards) eclipsed the 100-yard mark on the ground. They were the first Quaker teammates to do so since Abe Willows and Tre Solomon did it against Princeton in 2017.
 
The New Guy
Freshman QB Aidan Sayin made his first career start against Brown. Through his first two games, Sayin has completed 23-of-44 passes for 211 yards and four TDs. He made his collegiate debut for the Quakers against Yale, becoming the first freshman signal caller to see time for Penn since Alek Torgersen in 2013.
 
A Penn Win Saturday Would…
… be Penn's 76th against Cornell
... be Penn's seventh in a row versus the Big Red
... mean that Penn retains the Trustees' Cup
... be Penn's third straight at Franklin Field