Of Calls And Non-Calls Saturday In Hanover

The Brown Daily Herald has a couple of interesting quotes about pass interference calls -- or non-calls -- in Dartmouth's win over the Bears Saturday.

Brown coach Phil Estes on the flag that was picked up at the end of overtime: "On that last play (wide receiver Lonnie Hill) said it was tipped, so it was a good call. Once the ball is tipped, there's no interference."

Estes, sounding as if he's seen film of the play, on the fourth-down interference call the kept Dartmouth's game-tying drive going: "There was contact, but (Jose Yearwood) can play the football, and it wasn't like he went through the guy. He was successful at knocking the ball away, and I'm not sure this guy's going to be able to catch the football (anyway)."

Dartmouth linebacker Justin Cottrell and placekicker Andrew Kempler made the Ivy League honor roll for their play against Brown.

The Daily D story has been posted here.

A quote by Yale coach Jack Siedlecki in the Yale Daily's recap of Princeton-Yale: "I don't think I've ever seen a game with such contrasting halves. We played the best half of offense we've played all year in the first half. We just didn't have the answers and didn't make plays in the second, and that's not a good combination."

From the start of a column in the New Haven Register:

NEW HAVEN — Before a Yale football player goes on television proclaiming his team's superiority over an arch-rival as solid as Princeton, he might want to make sure there's a few pelts in the trophy case.

Someone should have reminded senior defensive end Brendan Sponheimer of that fact before proclaiming on WTNH-8 camera in mid-week that "We know that we're better than (Princeton). We scrimmaged them and we're not afraid to say we're better than them."

To quote Sammy Davis, Jr., "ouch babe."

Penn coach Al Bagnoli, quoted in the Daily Pennsylvanian after his team ended a run of three overtime losses in a row by beating Harvard in regulation: "Thank God we didn't have to go to overtime. That's my first statement."

Harvard will be rooting hard for a Dartmouth win over Princeton Saturday because the Crimson needs that -- and a win over Yale -- to grab a one-third share of the title. The school paper doesn't seem to think a Big Green win in New Jersey is likely, writing: "Barring a miracle next Saturday, the Tigers will ensure a share of the title by defeating Dartmouth. The Bulldogs can win their own share by winning The Game."

Found something interesting in the Harvard Crimson regarding Clifton Dawson's surpassing Ed Marinaro's career rushing mark. While most people know that Marinaro set the record in three nine-game season and Dawson broke it in his 38th game, the story points out the number of carries each had. Marinaro set the record with 918 career carries. Dawson broke it on his 920th. Pretty amazing. It's yet another indication of how much of a workhorse Marinaro was.