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Football's Joe Green Earns Second Straight Ivy League Rookie of the Week Honor
11/1/2021 11:57:00 AM | Football
Green throws for a career-high 223 yards on 22 of 44 passing attempts Saturday in a 37-30 loss at Yale.
PRINCETON, N.J.—For the second consecutive week, Columbia sophomore quarterback Joe Green was named the Ivy League Football Rookie of the Week, the conference office announced Monday morning.
Green becomes just the sixth player in school history to earn back-to-back weekly awards from the Ivy League. In addition, he is the first Columbia player to earn back-to-back Ivy League weekly honors this year and the first player since Mike Roussos to earn consecutive weekly honors (Nov. 19, 2018 and Sept. 23, 2019).
In Columbia's tightly-contested 37-30 loss at Yale on Saturday, Green threw for a career-high 223 yards and completed 22 of 44 passes.
A Sammamish, Wash. native, Skyline High School graduate, and San Diego State transfer, Green has thrown for 1,118 yards and four touchdowns while completing 58.9 percent (109 of 185) of his passes in seven starts. He has thrown just one interception in 185 pass attempts as Columbia leads the nation in fewest passes had intercepted (1). In Ivy League statistics, Green ranks No. 4 in completions per game (15.57), No. 4 in passing efficiency (115.7), No. 4 in yards per pass attempt (6.04), No. 5 in passing yards (1,118), No. 5 in passing yards per game (159.7), and No. 5 in passing yards per completion (10.26).
Columbia (5-2, 2-2 Ivy League) returns to Robert K. Kraft Field at Lawrence A. Wien Stadium for the first time in three weeks when it hosts Harvard (5-2, 2-2 Ivy League) on Saturday. Kickoff is at 1 p.m. ET for a game that will be televised live on ESPN+. With three games remaining, Columbia is tied with Harvard for fourth place in the Ivy League standings with identical 2-2 records.
Green becomes just the sixth player in school history to earn back-to-back weekly awards from the Ivy League. In addition, he is the first Columbia player to earn back-to-back Ivy League weekly honors this year and the first player since Mike Roussos to earn consecutive weekly honors (Nov. 19, 2018 and Sept. 23, 2019).
In Columbia's tightly-contested 37-30 loss at Yale on Saturday, Green threw for a career-high 223 yards and completed 22 of 44 passes.
A Sammamish, Wash. native, Skyline High School graduate, and San Diego State transfer, Green has thrown for 1,118 yards and four touchdowns while completing 58.9 percent (109 of 185) of his passes in seven starts. He has thrown just one interception in 185 pass attempts as Columbia leads the nation in fewest passes had intercepted (1). In Ivy League statistics, Green ranks No. 4 in completions per game (15.57), No. 4 in passing efficiency (115.7), No. 4 in yards per pass attempt (6.04), No. 5 in passing yards (1,118), No. 5 in passing yards per game (159.7), and No. 5 in passing yards per completion (10.26).
Columbia (5-2, 2-2 Ivy League) returns to Robert K. Kraft Field at Lawrence A. Wien Stadium for the first time in three weeks when it hosts Harvard (5-2, 2-2 Ivy League) on Saturday. Kickoff is at 1 p.m. ET for a game that will be televised live on ESPN+. With three games remaining, Columbia is tied with Harvard for fourth place in the Ivy League standings with identical 2-2 records.
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