Hall, playing despite a broken thumb, completed 10 of his first 11 passes, including touchdown passes of 39 yards to Nick Larsen and three TD passes to receiver David Thompson. Calvin Souder balanced the offense for the Crusaders, finishing with 13 carries for 114 yards.

Yale 36, Fordham 27

Largely on the strength of the rushing efforts of Jay Schulze, Yale (3-1, 1-1) defeated Fordham (2-3)—although the Bulldogs had a surprisingly tough time against the perennial Bronx cellar-dwellers.

Schulze rushed for 147 yards and three touchdowns, both career highs, and took much of the pressure off of backup quarterback T.J. Hyland.

Hyland started in place of Peter Lee, who was sidelined with the flu, and threw for one touchdown and ran another one in.

However, he also threw three interceptions. Fordham’s Dan McGrath intercepted Hyland’s first pass on Yale’s first play from scrimmage, which directly led to the Bulldogs first touchdown, a one-yard run by quarterback Mark Carney.

Hyland bounced back on Yale’s next drive, hitting Keith Reams on a 25-yard TD pass to pull the Bulldogs even.

On the next series, Fordham drove deep into Bulldog territory and looked poised to retake the lead until Eli defensive lineman Jason Lange intercepted Carney and set up the go-ahead score.

Yale would never look back or trail after that, with Schulze pounding the Fordham defense and consuming clock until a pivotal fourth down play with 5:51 remaining in the fourth quarter.

Fordham had the ball on the Yale 14, facing a 4th and 1 but they were stopped in their tracks and went on to lose the game.