Football Heads to Dartmouth Saturday to Round Out Season

PROVIDENCE. R.I. – The Brown football team will round out the 2024 season on Saturday afternoon with a trip to Dartmouth to take on the Big Green. Kickoff is set for noon on ESPN+, NESN, and the Learfield Varsity Network (BrownBears.com/Audio).

GAME INFORMATION
Brown at Dartmouth
Saturday, November 23, 2024 – 12 p.m.
Buddy Teevens Stadium at Memorial Field – Hanover, N.H.
TV: NESN
Livestream: ESPN+ | Live Stats | Audio: BrownBears.com/Audio
Game Notes: Brown Notes | Dartmouth Notes
Matchup History
Brown Bears Football Report: Episode 10

OPENING KICKOFF

Dartmouth can earn a share of the Ivy League title for the fourth time in the last five seasons with a victory, paired with a Harvard loss.
The Big Green are receiving votes in this week's AFCA FCS Top 25 poll after being ranked 24th last week.

MAHONEY'S MONSTER GAMES

Brown's top receiving target Mark Mahoney has posted season-highs in catches and receiving yards each of the last three weeks:
7 catches for 85 yards and TD against Penn.
10 catches for 115 yards and a TD at Yale.
12 catches (career-high) for 120 yards vs. Columbia.
He has moved into seventh in the Ivy League with 67.4 receiving yards per game over eight games. His five touchdown catches are also tied of seventh.

COMPLETING THE UPTICK

Jake Willcox has seen his completion percentage top 70 percent in three of the last four weeks - the only such games all season - including his season-high of 72.5 percent last week against Columbia.
He completed 58.6 percent of his passes through the first five games (113-193), but over the last four games has completed 70.2 percent (120-171).

RED ZONE STORY

Brown enters the final week with the top red zone defense in the Ivy League by allowing scores on 74.4 percent of opponents' trips.
Offensively, Brown is fifth in the Ivy League in red zone scoring (86.1 percent).
On 36 trips to the red zone, Brown has scored 20 touchdowns, with 17 of them coming on the ground, the highest number of red zone rushing TDs.

PLAYING CATCH UP

Brown has gotten off to slow starts this season, getting outscored 89-35 in the first quarter. Opponents have scored first in seven of the nine games.
Brown has held the lead for only 21 seconds in Ivy League games this season, all of which came against Harvard (took only lead of the Cornell game as time expired).

THE KID'S GOT IT!

Rookie tailback Matt Childs was one of 30 freshmen named to the Watch List for the Jerry Rice Award.
Presented by Stats Perform, the award is presented annually to the top freshman player in FCS Football.
His 42.7 receiving yards per game rank 14th in the Ivy League, while his 40.1 rushing yards per contest rank 12th, with both marks leading all Ivy rookies.

RARE COMPANY

Matt Childs is attempting to become just the fourth true freshman in program history to lead the team in rushing (361 total rushing yards).
The previous three are Marquis Jessie (728 in 1993), Darius Daies (276 in 2017), and Allen Smith (175 in 2018).

HEAD OF THE PACK

Senior linebacker Caleb Moorhead ranks fourth in the Ivy League and 39th nationally with 1.06 tackles for loss per game. He led the league for multiple weeks earlier this season and was ranked as high as 14th nationally entering the game against Cornell on Oct. 26.

PASSING ATTACK

The Bears lead the Ivy League and rank ninth in FCS in passing offense (282.6).

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