Charges Against Yale Players Dropped

The news that Yale football players had been arrested was splashed prominently in newspapers and across the web (including here), so it's only right that news of the charges against them being dropped should start today's post. Here's the New Haven Register story. From the story: "Under the dismissals, each admitted to probable cause for the arrest. However, under Connecticut statute nothing appears on their criminal record, and they are permitted to swear under oath that they have not been arrested in the past."

Here's an edited version of the story I wrote on the Dartmouth-Holy Cross game for the Worcester, Mass., paper. As is sometimes the case, they shared the story with the Boston Globe.

Counting Princeton's win over Brown on Friday night, I was 4-2 on this week's picks. Best pick: Cornell to upset Colgate. I missed on Yale-Lehigh (I guess the Bulldogs are for real) and James Madison's upset of New Hampshire. The roundup:

Penn 16, Columbia 0
Cornell 38, Colgate 14
Harvard 24, Lafayette 7
Yale 26, Lehigh 25 (ot)
James Madison 42, UNH 23

From the Ivy League web site in anticipation of this week's matchup of undefeated Princeton and Harvard teams: "Harvard and Princeton have not met with records of at least 5-0 since Nov. 11, 1922 ... Both teams were 6-0 heading into that meeting at Harvard Stadium."