Whew! Dartmouth Win Came Just In Time

The Sports Network weekend roundup has three notes of interest for Dartmouth and Ivy fans:

• Indiana State stopped a 24-game losing streak Saturday, leaving North Carolina A&T with the nation's longest skid of 12 games. (Dartmouth, which avoided a 10th-consecutive loss with the win at Columbia, would have been second in line if it hadn't beaten the Lions.)
  
• NCA&T is now the only winless team in I-AA, another mark of ignominy Dartmouth dodged.
• Princeton's win over Harvard leaves the Tigers as one of just three undefeated Division I-AA teams (San Diego and Charleston Southern are the others)

A Columbia Spectator story from Dartmouth's win over the Lions Saturday begins this way: "It was the most winnable league game of the season."

The Spectator game story can be found here.

The Harvard Crimson writes about the return of quarterback Liam O'Hagan, who very well may open up under center Saturday at Memorial Field. After inserting the dynamic QB -- who missed five games because of a violation of team rules -- into the Princeton game Saturday, Harvard coach Tim Murphy said: “I just thought that (O’Hagan’s) combination of enthusiasm, mobility, and improvisational skills could give us a spark and a dimension to our offense that we don’t have right now.”

(The Daily Dartmouth site hasn't yet been update; check back to see what the school paper has to say and for the weekly Ivy League awards.)