2018 Yale Bulldogs football team

2018 Yale Bulldogs football
2018 Yale Bulldogs football
Conference	Ivy League
Record	5–5 (3–4 Ivy)
Head coach	Tony Reno (7th season);
Offensive coordinator	Kevin Cahill (1st season)
Defensive coordinator	Sean McGowan (2nd season)
Home stadium	Yale Bowl
	Seasons ← 2017 2019 →

2018 Ivy League football standings
v t e
Team	W		L	W		L
No. 11 Princeton $	7	–	0	10	–	0
No. 18 Dartmouth	6	–	1	9	–	1
Harvard	4	–	3	6	–	4
Yale	3	–	4	5	–	5
Penn	3	–	4	6	–	4
Columbia	3	–	4	6	–	4
Cornell	2	–	5	3	–	7
Brown	0	–	7	1	–	9

$ – Conference champion Rankings from STATS Poll

The 2018 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The season marked the Bulldogs's 146th overall season. The team played its home games at Yale Bowl in New Haven, Connecticut and were led by seventh-year head coach Tony Reno. They were members of the Ivy League. They finished the season 5–5 overall and 3–4 in Ivy League play to place in three-way tie for fourth. Yale averaged 7,657 fans per game.

Preseason[edit]

Award watch lists[edit]

Award	Player	Position	Year
Walter Payton Award^[1]	Zane Dudek	RB	SO

Schedule[edit]

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	TV	Result	Attendance
September 15	1:00 p.m.	at Holy Cross*	Fitton Field Worcester, MA		L 28–31 ^OT	7,397
September 22	3:00 p.m.	at Cornell	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY		W 30–24	12,801
September 29	1:00 p.m.	No. 16 Maine*	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	ESPN+	W 35–14	7,889
October 5	6:00 p.m.	Dartmouth	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	ESPNU	L 18–41	10,176
October 13	1:00 p.m.	Mercer*	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	ESPN+	W 35–28	2,861
October 19	7:00 p.m.	at Penn	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	ESPNU	W 23–10	10,126
October 27	1:00 p.m.	at Columbia	Robert K. Kraft Field at Lawrence A. Wien Stadium New York, NY	ESPN+	L 10–17	2,555
November 3	1:00 p.m.	Brown	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	ESPN+	W 46–16	4,478
November 10	12:30 p.m.	No. 13 Princeton	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT (rivalry)	ESPN+	L 43–59	12,882
November 17	Noon	vs. Harvard	Fenway Park Boston, MA (rivalry)	ESPN2	L 27–45	34,675
*Non-conference game Rankings from STATS Poll released prior to the game All times are in Eastern time

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Game summaries[edit]

At Holy Cross[edit]

	1	2	3	4	OT	Total
Bulldogs	21	7	0	0	0	28
Crusaders	14	0	0	14	3	31

At Cornell[edit]

	1	2	3	4	Total
Bulldogs	14	3	6	7	30
Big Red	14	0	0	10	24

Maine[edit]

	1	2	3	4	Total
No. 16 Black Bears	0	0	7	7	14
Bulldogs	7	7	14	7	35

Dartmouth[edit]

	1	2	3	4	Total
Big Green	13	14	7	7	41
Bulldogs	7	3	0	8	18

Mercer[edit]

	1	2	3	4	Total
Bears	0	14	7	7	28
Bulldogs	14	14	0	7	35

At Penn[edit]

	1	2	3	4	Total
Bulldogs	15	6	2	0	23
Quakers	3	0	7	0	10

At Columbia[edit]

	1	2	3	4	Total
Bulldogs	0	10	0	0	10
Lions	3	0	7	7	17

Brown[edit]

	1	2	3	4	Total
Bears	0	3	6	7	16
Bulldogs	14	6	13	13	46

Princeton[edit]

	1	2	3	4	Total
No. 13 Tigers	21	21	10	7	59
Bulldogs	0	14	14	15	43

Vs. Harvard[edit]

	1	2	3	4	Total
Bulldogs	7	7	10	3	27
Crimson	7	14	7	17	45

Roster[edit]

2018 Yale Bulldogs football team roster

Players

Coaches

Offense

Pos.	#	Name	Class
RB	`1`	Trenton Charles	Fr
WR	`4`	Darrion Carrington	So
RB	`5`	Alan Lamar	Jr
QB	`6`	Kurt Rawlings	Jr
WR	`7`	Melvin Rouse II	So
QB	`8`	Patrick Conte	So
RB	`9`	Michael Purvey Jr.	So
WR	`11`	Caden Herring	Jr
WR	`12`	Jamal Locke	Sr
WR	`13`	Keith CJ McCord II	Sr
WR	`14`	Reed Klubnik	Jr
QB	`15`	Nick Henkel	Fr
QB	`16`	Griffin O'Connor	Fr
WR	`17`	Seun Omonije	Fr
QB	`19`	Jimmy Check	So
WR	`20`	Jack Biestek	Fr
RB	`21`	Kamsi Nwangwu	Sr
RB	`22`	Elliott McElwain	Fr
WR	`23`	Noah Aaron	Fr
RB	`24`	Spencer Alston	Fr
RB	`29`	Daniel Debner	Sr
RB	`33`	Zane Dudek	So
RB	`35`	Kyle Ellerson	Sr
TE	`44`	Sasha Hoban	So
OL	`55`	Jacob Hinish	So
OL	`57`	Cubby Schuller	Fr
OL	`65`	Josh De St. Jean	Fr
OL	`66`	Nick Gargiulo	Fr
OL	`67`	Jacob Van de Grift	Sr
OL	`68`	Grant Neagli	So
OL	`70`	Rees LeMay	Sr
OL	`71`	Tyler Jost	So
OL	`72`	Dieter Eiselen	Jr
OL	`73`	Lucas Tribble	Jr
OL	`74`	Sterling Strother	Jr
OL	`75`	Cameron Warfield	So
OL	`76`	Jack Lee	Sr
OL	`77`	Jett Sexton	Jr
OL	`78`	Steven Cepalia	Jr
OL	`79`	Conor Smith	Fr
TE	`80`	J. J. Howland	So
WR	`81`	Kyle Marcinick	Sr
WR	`82`	Jaylan Sandifer	Fr
WR	`83`	Garrett White	Jr
TE	`84`	Garry Raymond	Fr
TE	`85`	Quinn Dawson	Jr
TE	`86`	John Lager	Sr
WR	`88`	JP Shohfi	Jr
TE	`89`	D. Major Roman	So

Defense

Pos.	#	Name	Class
DB	`1`	Malcolm Dixon	Jr
DB	`2`	Marquise Peggs	Sr
DB	`3`	Brian Abraham	Fr
DB	`4`	Jaylan Granberry	Fr
DB	`5`	Miles Oldacre	Fr
DB	`6`	Jaelin Alburg	Jr
LB	`8`	Brendan MacPhee	Jr
DE	`9`	Osorachukwu Ifesinachukwu	Fr
LB	`10`	Tré Moore	Sr
LB	`13`	Jack Westafer	Jr
LB	`15`	Jordan Carey	So
DE	`16`	Reid Nickerson	Fr
DB	`17`	Kennedy Kosmalski	Fr
LB	`18`	Ryan Burke	Jr
DB	`20`	Tosan Agbeyegbe	Jr
DB	`21`	Deonte Henson	So
DB	`23`	Isaiah Dunham	Fr
DL	`24`	Joshua Keeler	Jr
LB	`25`	Micah Awodiran	So
DB	`26`	Rodney Thomas II	So
LB	`27`	Jarett Balter	Sr
DE	`28`	Christian Sampleton	So
LB	`30`	Noah Pope	Fr
DB	`31`	Kyle Ellis	Fr
DB	`32`	Henry Segel	Jr
DE	`34`	Brett Gerber	Fr
LB	`35`	Alexander Abelite	Jr
DE	`36`	J. Hunter Roman	Sr
DB	`37`	Dathan Hickey	Fr
LB	`40`	Blake Hill	So
LB	`41`	A. J. Ryan	So
LB	`42`	Quintin Herbert	Sr
LB	`43`	John Dean	So
DB	`44`	Scott Patton	Sr
LB	`47`	Shane Frommer	Fr
DT	`50`	Spencer Matthaei	Jr
DL	`52`	Michael Chime	So
LB	`53`	Christopher Maxwell	Sr
DL	`54`	Julian Fraser	Jr
DL	`56`	Daniel James	Sr
DE	`87`	Devin Moore	Jr
DL	`90`	Adam Raine	Fr
DL	`91`	Nicholas Crowle	Sr
DE	`92`	Charles Callender	Jr
DE	`94`	Sean Kissel	Jr
DL	`96`	Sebastian Bruno	Fr
LB	`97`	Henry Large	Fr
DL	`99`	Tate Goodyear	Fr

Special teams

Pos.	#	Name	Class
K, P	`12`	Ajay Culhane	Fr
LS	`42`	Nick Tibbetts	Fr
K, P	`49`	Sam Tuckerman	Jr
LS	`51`	Ryan Oak	Sr
LS	`59`	Hunter Simino	Sr
K, P	`81`	Alex Galland	Sr
PK	`97`	Blake Horn	Sr

Head coach

Tony Reno

Coordinators/assistant coaches

Legend

(C) Team captain
(S) Suspended
(I) Ineligible

Injured
Redshirt

Roster

References[edit]

^ "FCS football: 2018 Walter Payton Award watch list". August 1, 2018. Retrieved August 1, 2018.
^ "2018 Yale Football Schedule - Yale". Archived from the original on October 15, 2018. Retrieved May 12, 2018.

[1] "FCS football: 2018 Walter Payton Award watch list". August 1, 2018. Retrieved August 1, 2018.

[2] "2018 Yale Football Schedule - Yale". Archived from the original on October 15, 2018. Retrieved May 12, 2018.

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