THE BASICS
Rhode Island (3-3) at Yale (3-1)
Kickoff: Saturday, Oct. 17 - 12 p.m. 
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RHODE ISLAND AT YALE - SERIES NOTES

• Rhode Island and Yale will meet for the first time on Saturday, Oct. 17.
• Rhode Island head coach Jim Fleming noted in his weekly CAA Football video call that he has coached one game at the Yale Bowl in his 40-year coaching career. 
• Then the defensive coordinator at Brown, Fleming's Bears downed Yale 12-3 in New Haven on Sept. 18, 1993. 
• Fleming's only season coaching in the Ivy League was 1993. After that season, Fleming went on to coach at East Carolina for the next three seasons.
• Yale offensive line coach and offensive run game coordinator Stefon Wheeler spent four seasons with Rhode Island prior to joining the Bulldogs staff.
• Wheeler spent 2018-2022 with Rhode Island as offensive line coach.

RAMS AGAINST THE IVY LEAGUE

• Despite being regionally located to most Ivy League schools, Yale is one of six Ivy League schools that Rhode Island has never faced in a football game.
• The Rams have never played Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Princeton, or Penn. 
• Despite a lack of familiarly with Ivy League foes, Rhode Island's most common opponent in program history is in-state rival Brown.
• The Rams and Bears have met 110 times.
• Ironically, Rhode Island's last game on Oct. 3 was against Brown in the annual Governor's Cup. 
• Rhode Island won the game 13-10 at Centreville Bank Stadium in Pawtucket, R.I. 
• Rhode Island's last game against an Ivy League opponent other than Brown was at Harvard on Sept. 28, 2018. 
• The Rams defeated the Crimson 23-16 at Harvard Stadium. 
• The Crimson are the only Ivy League school outside of Brown to play Rhode Island in a football game. 
• Harvard sports 3-2 series record over Rhode Island.