Football

Rawlings, Traynor, Stradford & Dawsey Earn Football Weekly Honors

PRINCETON, N.J. -- Three Ivies—Dartmouth, Princeton and Yale—are among the five remaining unbeatens in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS). The League owns an 11-5 (.688) non-conference record in 2019. 

OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Kurt Rawlings, Yale (Sr., QB – Bel Air, Md.)

  • Accounted for four touchdowns in Yale’s 48-24 win over Fordham
  • Threw for 301 yards and two touchdowns on 16-for-22 passing
  • Added two rushing touchdowns in the redzone
  • Ranks fifth all-time in Bulldog program history with 37 passing touchdowns 
  • Father, Keith, played football at Towson and Salisbury 
 
DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK 
Jack Traynor, Dartmouth (Sr., LB – Lake Forest, Ill.)
  • Tallied a season-high 10 tackles in Dartmouth’s 28-15 victory at Penn
  • Established the Big Green defensive presence with a 17-yard fumble return touchdown in the first quarter, his first career touchdown 
  • Registered a tackle for loss on third down to force a Penn punt 
  • Became the first Dartmouth player to accumulate 200 tackles in a career this season, currently owns 217 tackles 
  • Is the 13th player to serve as captain more than once in Big Green history  
 
SPECIAL TEAMS PLAYER OF THE WEEK
DeMarkes Stradford, Harvard (So., RB – Waxhaw, N.C.)
  • Scored three touchdowns in Harvard’s 62-17 victory over Howard
  • Blocked a punt and fell on the loose ball in the end zone for a special teams touchdown
  • Rushed for 108 yards and a pair of touchdowns on offense
  • Mother, Alice, ran track for Appalachian State 

ROOKIE OF THE WEEK 
Khalil Dawsey, Harvard (Fr., DB – Detroit, Mich.)
  • Blocked two punts in Harvard’s 62-17 win over Howard 
  • Both blocked punts led to Crimson touchdowns
  • Accumulated two tackles
  • Cousin, Rodney Culver, played football at Notre Dame 


HONOR ROLL
Cooper DeVeau, Brown (Fr., DB – Foxboro, Mass.)
Michael Hoecht, Brown (Sr., DL – Oakwood, Ohio)
EJ Perry, Brown (Jr., QB – Andover, Mass.) 
Alex Felkins, Columbia (Fr., K/P – Tulsa, Okla.) 
Ben Mathiasmeier, Columbia (Jr., DB – Katy, Texas) 
Ronald Smith, Columbia (Sr., WR – St. Louis, Mo.) 
Harold Coles, Cornell (Sr., RB – Erie, Pa.) 
Nickolas Null, Cornell (Sr., K/P – Bradenton, Fla.)
Jake Stebbins, Cornell (Fr., LB – Cranberry Township, Pa.) 
Jared Gerbino, Dartmouth (Sr., QB – Rush, N.Y.)
Devin Darrington, Harvard (Jr., RB – Forest Hill, Md.) 
Truman Jones, Harvard (So., DL – Atlanta, Ga.) 
Karekin Brooks, Penn (Sr., RB – Marietta, Ga.)
Zach Evans, Penn (Sr., LB – Harrison, N.Y.) 
Jeremiah Tyler, Princeton (Jr., LB – Detroit, Mich.) 
Kyle Ellis, Yale (So., DB – Cumming, Ga.) 
Mason Tipton, Yale (Fr., WR – Akron, Ohio) 
Sam Tuckerman, Yale (Sr., K/P – Bexley, Ohio)

2019 FOOTBALL WEEKLY AWARDS
OFFENSIVE PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
Sept. 23 – EJ Perry, Brown (Jr., QB – Andover, Mass.)

Sept. 30 – Kevin Davidson, Princeton (Sr., QB – Danville, Calif.)

DEFENSIVE PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
Sept. 23 – David Jones, Cornell (Sr., DB – Sugar Land, Texas)
Sept. 30 – Rodney Thomas II, Yale (Jr., DB – Pittsburgh, Pa.)

SPECIAL TEAMS PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
Sept. 23 – Mike Roussos, Columbia (So., WR – New Port Richey, Fla.)
Sept. 30 – Connor Davis, Dartmouth (So., K – Ocala, Fla.) 

ROOKIES OF THE WEEK
Sept. 23 – Alex Felkins, Columbia (Fr., K/P – Tulsa, Okla.)
Sept. 30 – James Stagg, Princeton (Fr., DL – Phoenix, Ariz.)