Grooms throws for four TDs, Yale tops Brown for 7th straight time, 36-17

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- , Nolan Grooms threw four touchdown passes, three of them to Mason Tipton , and Yale defeated Brown 36-17 on Saturday afternoon. The win was Yale's seventh-straight over Brown and 10th in the last 11 meetings. Yale (5-3, 3-2 Ivy League) forced a Brown fumble on the Bears' first possession and Joshua Pitsenberger needed just a pair of 4-yard runs to cash in for a quick 6-0 lead. Brown answered with a pair of drives to take the lead, moving 53 yards in 10 plays to set up Christopher Maron 's 22-yard field goal and taking a 10-6 lead on Wes Rockett 's 3-yard run. Grooms put Yale on top for good with a 41-yard touchdown pass to Tipton early in the second quarter. Grooms finished 15 of 27 passing for 220 yards but his four touchdowns were offset by three interceptions, including a 35-yard pick-six by Brown's Isaiah Reed .