Penn Football Post-Game Notes at Lehigh 9-23-17

University of Pennsylvania Athletics

Penn Football at Lehigh
September 23, 2017
Postgame Notes

This marks Penn’s 1,375th football game, continuing their own NCAA record. They have played 50 more games than the second-place Rutgers (1,325) and became the first program to hit 1,300 games played with a Halloween overtime win in 2009 at Brown.
Today’s game featured the most combined games played of any game in NCAA football this season (2,693). The Quakers have played 1,375 and Lehigh’s competed in 1,318.
Penn is now 45-15 all-time against Lehigh.
With the win, the Quakers improve to 2-0 to open a season for the first time since 2004.
The 112 points scored broke Penn’s record for most combined points in a game. The previous high was 109 in a 58-51 loss to Brown on Oct. 24, 1998.
Penn’s 65 points are the most scored by the Quakers since scoring 66 against Lafayette on Oct. 5, 1946.
As a team, Penn rushed for 366 yards – the most by a Penn team since rushing for 396 against Princeton on Nov. 6, 2010.
Karekin Brooks ran for 268 yards – the second-most ever by a Quaker in a single game and most since Terrance Stokes ran for 272 against Princeton on Nov. 6, 1993.
Brooks’ 268 yards rushing are 11th-most by an Ivy League running back in a single game and most since Princeton’s Jordan Culbreth ran for 276 against Dartmouth on Nov. 22, 2008. Overall, it was the first 200-yard game by an Ivy League rusher since Oct. 3, 2015 when Yale’s DeShawn Salter ran for 233 – also at Lehigh.
Brooks has run for 410 yards over Penn’s first two games of the season – the most-ever by a Penn running back in consecutive games.
Brooks had a hand in four touchdowns in the game, also throwing a 4yd touchdown pass to defensive lineman David Ryslik to put Penn ahead, 56-35 to open the fourth quarter. He is the first non-quarterback to throw a touchdown pass since Tre Solomon against Columbia on Oct. 15, 2016.
Justin Watson moved up the Ivy record books, taking over eighth all-time in receptions (218).
Watson has caught at least two passes in every game of his career, lengthening his own Penn record of 32 straight games with at least a catch – which is third all-time in the Ivy League.
Watson added a 54-yard rushing touchdown on a backwards pass with 6:00 to go in the third quarter. That is his second career rushing touchdown, joining a 79-yard rush at Harvard on Nov. 14, 2015.
Penn moved to 15-0 when leading after three quarters under coach Priore by and 13-0 when leading at halftime.
Will Fischer-Colbrie’s one-yard rushing touchdown with 10:43 to go in the first quarter was his first career rushing TD.
Fischer-Colbrie’s 43-yard touchdown pass to Christian Pearson with 14:21 remaining in the second quarter is the longest completion and passing touchdown for Fischer-Colbrie.
Penn scored 35 points in the first half one week after scoring 35 in the second half of the season opener. 35 points scored tied for the most in a first half under head coach Ray Priore.
Jack Soslow tied Penn’s single-game PAT record, making all nine PAT attempts. He joins Rex Wray (vs. Delaware, Sept. 24, 1921) as the only other Quaker to make nine PATs in a single game.
Nick Miller has fumble recoveries in back-to-back games to open the 2017 season. He is the third Quaker since 2003 with fumble recoveries in back-to-back games and the first since Austin Taps had recoveries on 10/17 and 20/23 in 2015.