NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The University of Pennsylvania football team defeated Yale on Saturday afternoon at the Yale Bowl, 27-17.
 
Penn won at Yale for the first time since 2016 and just the second time since 2010, improving to 5-1 overall and 2-1 in Ivy League play. The defending champion Bulldogs fell to 3-3 overall and 1-2 in Ivy play.
 
Quaker Notemeal
 *The Quakers improved to 4-0 on the road and have won six consecutive away games dating back nearly a year to Nov. 5, 2022 at Cornell. It's Penn's longest road win streak since the team won 13 in a row from 2002-04.
 
*Following its second consecutive win in the all-time series over Yale, Penn has won back-to-back games over the Bulldogs for the first time since 2015-16. The Quakers won their 17th and 18th Ivy League titles in both of those seasons.
 
*The highlight performance of the day belonged to sophomore wide receiver Jared Richardson, who set a new single-game program record for catches with 17, racking up a career-high 191 yards with a touchdown. Richardson breaks the previous record of 16 held by Spencer Kulcsar since Nov. 8, 2014 at Princeton.
 
*The 17 receptions are also the most by an Ivy League player since 2012.
 
*His 191 yards are the eighth-most in a single game in program history and the most by a receiver since Ryan Cragun's 208-yard outburst vs. Yale on Oct. 26, 2019.
 
*Aidan Sayin passed for a career-high 364 yards, his third 300-yard passing performance of the campaign. It's the most passing yards in a single game since Nick Robinson totaled 395 in a victory over Yale on October 26, 2019.
 
*Sayin also eclipsed the 5,000 passing yard mark for his career, just the fifth quarterback in program history to achieve the milestone. With 5,047 career yards, Sayin is currently 58 shy of fourth place (Billy Ragone '13, 5,104) and 501 from third (Mike Mitchell '03, 5,547).
 
*Fresh off from being named to the Jerry Rice Award Watch List earlier in the week, freshman running back Malachi Hosley had a career-high 20 rushes for 86 yards and a touchdown to lead the team.
 
*Seven receivers made at least one catch for the Quakers, including the 17 for Richardson. Joshua Casilli caught six passes for 60 yards, while Bisi Owens and Bryce Myers each had three. Myers caught the game-clinching touchdown in the final minutes to put the game on ice.
 
*Jack Fairman had a team-high 10 total tackles (with six solos) while the Penn defense recorded a total of four sacks and six TFLs. John Lista led the way with two sacks for a loss of six yards, while Kadari Machen and Jack Iuliano also recorded sacks. Lista, Machen and Iuliano all totaled two TFLs.
 
*Graham Gotlieb booted two field goals for the second straight game. He's now 9-for-11, converting his last five attempts.
 
How It Happened
Penn wasted no time getting on the board on Saturday, scoring on its first drive of the day after taking the opening kickoff. The drive covered nearly six minutes and took 14 plays, ending when Malachi Hosley took the misdirection handoff from Sayin and scooted through a hole, winning a footrace to the left corner of the end zone. Yale answered right away, scoring on its first drive of the day. The drive took just nine plays and ended with Nolan Grooms rolling to his right and hitting an open Joshua Pitsenberger for a three-yard pass play.
 
Penn went back in front in the second quarter, turning a Logan Nash interception into three points when Graham Gotlieb kicked a 33-yard field goal. Nash's INT came at Penn's 31, but the Quakers drove all the way to Yale's 12-yard line on the drive. However, the drive stalled there as Sayin was sacked on second down and his pass to Jonathan Mulatu was incomplete, which set up Gotlieb's kick. Once again, Yale responded immediately with a scoring drive to take its first lead of the day. The Bulldogs' nine-play drive ended with Grooms hitting Jackson Hawes for a nine-yard score with 8:32 still left in the half.
 
Penn went back in front on its next drive. Sayin completed five passes on the drive, covering 74 yards, the big plays a 20-yard pass to Richardson to open the drive and a 38-yard completion down the right sideline to Bisi Owens that put the Quakers on the doorstep. Three plays later, Sayin hit Richardson on a quick slant in the end zone for a 17-14 Penn lead. Penn had one final chance to score in the first half, getting to Yale's 29-yard line with 10 seconds left, but Albert Jang was wide left on his 46-yard field goal attempt which left the score at 17-14 at the break.
 
Penn put together a tremendous drive to get the first points of the second half late in the third quarter. The Quakers started on their own 4-yard line and had third-and-10 on their own 15, but Sayin found Josh Casilli in the slot for a first down. From there, Penn continually was ahead of the chains, ultimately eating nearly seven minutes off the clock in a period when it was driving into the wind. The drive ultimately stalled at Yale's 11-yard line, but Gotlieb was true on his 28-yard field goal and Penn doubled its lead to six, 20-14.
 
Yale got those points back on its next drive, which started in the third and ended four minutes into the fourth. Benefiting from a pair of pass-interference calls against the Quakers' defense, the Bulldogs drove all the way to Penn's 5-yard line and had first and goal. However, Grooms was rushed into an incomplete pass, Shiloh Means broke up a pass in the back left corner of the end zone, and Groom overthrew on a rollout on third down. That left Yale with a decision, and the Bulldogs decided to kick the field goal, Jack Bosman splitting the uprights from 23 yards out.
 
However, Penn used another sustained drive—this time going with the wind—and opened up the first two-score margin in the contest. The Quakers used 16 plays and 6:31 of game time to cover 78 yards, and made the score 27-17 when Sayin threaded a pass between a pair of defenders and into the hands of a leaping Bryce Myers (in front of a third defender) in the end zone. The defense sealed it from there, John Lista sacking Grooms on third-and-1 and Jack Iuliano sacking the Yale QB on fourth down to give the Quakers the ball deep in Yale territory with less than three minutes to play. Penn got the first down it needed on the legs of Hosley, allowing Sayin to take a knee twice and run out the clock. Up Next
Penn is at home for the next two weeks, starting next Friday when the Quakers host Brown. That game will kick off at 7 p.m. and be broadcast to a national TV audience on ESPNU.
 
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