NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The Yale Football team has made it three weeks in a row with at least two Ivy League weekly awards. Sophomore quarterback Nolan Grooms earns his second Ivy Offensive Player of the Week award while first-year wide receiver and kick returner David Pantelis took home both the Special Teams and Rookie of the Week awards.
 
Yale put up 63 points on Saturday in the win at Brown, the most under head coach Tony Reno and the most scored by the Bulldogs since 1930. It was the 125 all-time meeting between Yale and Brown.
 
The win moves=d Yale into a first-place tie in the Ivy League standings with two games remaining on the 2021 schedule.
 
Grooms improved to 3-0 as a starter and had a career-high 330 yards passing and three touchdowns. He completed passes to eight different receivers and added 31 yards rushing. Grooms finished the day 18-of-26 while the dual-threat quarterback carried the ball 10 times.
 
Yale has now earned three-straight Ivy Offensive Player of the Week awards with Grooms two weeks ago and junior running back Spencer Alston winning the award last week.
 
Pantelis scored two touchdowns in the Bulldogs' 63-38 triumph at Brown. His first score came on a 27-yard reception which tied up the game in the first quarter. His second touchdown came on a fumble recovery which he ran in from 21 yards to give Yale the lead it never reliquished.
 
Pantelis finished with a game-high and career-high 205 all-purpose yards as he returned four kickoffs for 152 yards. He had returns of 45, 41, 34 and 32 yards.
 
The award marks the second-straight week that Yale has earned the Special Teams honor as senior Melvin Rouse II earned the accolade seven days ago.
 
The Bulldogs have a first-place showdown at Princeton this Saturday, November 13, at 1 p.m.