Ivy Defensive Player of the Week Princeton linebacker Chris Roser-Jones, who led Division I-AA linebackers in interceptions last season with six, scored from 41 yards on one of his two picks in the fourth quarter.

Offensively for the Tigers, Splithoff finished with 204 yards through the air and 51 on the ground. Running back Cameron Atkinson had 115 yards on 18 carries, and Opara led all receivers with 126 yards on 3 receptions.

For Columbia, Johnathan Reese picked up 66 yards rushing and the lone Lion touchdown. Wide receiver Doug Peck caught six passes for 116 yards.

Next weekend, Princeton hosts Colgate, and Columbia plays at Lafayette in non-league contests.

Rhode Island 42, Brown 38

Bears quarterback Kyle Rowley and wide receiver Chas Gessner set new Ivy League standards for passing and receiving yardage, respectively, but Brown (0-2, 0-1 Ivy) fell to No. 9 Rhode Island of the Atlantic 10 on a touchdown with seven seconds remaining in a game that featured 960 yards of total offense.

Rowley piled up 474 yards through the air while going 36-for-54 to break Princeton’s Doug Butler’s record of 469 yards in a non-conference game set against Lafayette in 1983. The all-time Ivy record for passing yards in any game is 501, set by Princeton’s Bob Holly in 1981.

Gessner, who had 12 catches for 226 yards against Harvard last week, hauled in 19 balls, including two touchdowns, and shattered the Ivy record for receiving yards in a non-conference game with 292. The record of 229 yards had been held by Penn’s Paul Scull since 1928. For his outstanding performance, Gessner garnered Ivy Offensive Player of the Week and Sports Network National Offensive Player of the Week awards. He now leads the nation with 15 catches and 243 yards per game.

The Bears took a 38-35 lead with 1:03 remaining in the game on a 24-yard touchdown hookup between Rowley and Gessner.

But the Rams (4-0) stormed back and went ahead 42-38 with seven seconds to go when running back David Jamison, who finished with 197 yards on the ground, scored one of his three touchdowns from 17 yards out

Next weekend Brown hosts non-conference foe Fordham, and Rhode Island travels to Hampton.

Yale 23, Holy Cross 22

Bulldog kicker Justin Davis booted a 28-yard field goal with four seconds remaining to propel Yale (2-0, 1-0 Ivy) to a come-from-behind win over Patriot League entry Holy Cross.

With Holy Cross ahead 22-14 and just over three minutes left, Yale quarterback Peter Lee hit wideout Billy Brown, last week’s Ivy Offensive Player of the Week, with a seven-yard scoring strike. A failed two-point attempt left the Bulldogs trailing by two.

After the Crusaders were forced to punt, Lee took advantage of a pass interference penalty to drive the Yale offense from its own 11 to the Holy Cross 11 to set up Davis’ winning kick.