Yale Gains 537 Yards and Shuts Out Dartmouth After the First Quarter
Thirteen catches, 147 yards, two touchdowns. Jaxton Santiago had that kind of afternoon, and Yale beat Dartmouth 28-7 with it.
Yale did most of its work early. Hugo Djeumeni Kemeni ran in from nine yards with 9:08 left in the first quarter, and Santiago caught a 2-yard touchdown from Dante Reno at 5:54 to make it 14-0. Dartmouth got on the board with 48 seconds left in the quarter, a 30-yard pass from Grayson Saunier to Ky'Dric Fisher, and that was the last time it scored. Neither team scored in the second quarter, and the margin went from seven to ten to 13 over the next two, after Noah Piper kicked a 43-yard field goal at 11:06 of the third and a 25-yarder at 9:16 of the fourth. Reno found Santiago again from nine yards with 3:03 left, and the two-point try, Reno to Reid Jones, was good, making it 28-7. Yale led the whole way.
The yardage is as lopsided as the score suggests. Yale had 537 total yards to Dartmouth's 225: 325 through the air, 212 on the ground, with no turnovers. Dartmouth ran 29 times for 69 yards and threw one interception. Reno completed 28 of 37 for 325 yards without a turnover, while Kemeni carried 28 times for 174 yards. Yale could throw it or run it, and Dartmouth had an answer for neither.
Yale improves to 3-1. Dartmouth falls to 1-3. In fantasy terms, Yale supplied the top three scorers on the field, and Santiago led all of them by a wide margin.