NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP)—Sophomore quarterback Brook Hart connected with Jordan Forney for a pair of touchdown passes and Yale kept its slim Ivy League title hopes alive with a 14-0 win over Princeton on Saturday.
It was the Bulldogs’ first shutout against Princeton since a 26-0 win in 1937.
Yale’s defense held Princeton to 96 yards rushing and 57 yards passing, forced four turnovers and allowed the Tigers past midfield only four times— twice for just one play.
The Bulldogs (6-3, 4-2) got all the points they needed in the first half when tailback Mike McLeod, last year’s Ivy League MVP, rushed for 70 of his game-high 138 yards.
Yale took advantage of the slick field conditions when Larry Abare recovered a Princeton fumble at the Tigers’ 24 yard line on the second play of the game. Four plays later, Hart hit Forney on a 5-yard touchdown pass for a 7-0 lead.
Bobby Abare’s interception and 11-yard return to the Princeton 17 yard line set up the Bulldogs’ second touchdown, Hart’s 12-yard pass to Forney for a 14-0 halftime lead.
The interception was the 10th of Abare’s career, the most ever by a Yale linebacker.
Princeton’s deepest penetration of the game ended at the Yale 34 yard line, where the Tigers (3-6, 2-4) were held on downs with 1:25 to play in the first half.