Sunday Roundup

The headline for the bylined Boston Globe story about Saturday's loss at Harvard: "Big Green were ripe for picking." ... There's another full story in the Boston Herald. ... The Dartmouth sports information account is here. ...

Harvard tailback Cheng Ho has one of the most unusual and most inspiring stories in college football. The Augusta Chronicle writes about the Crimson runner who came to the U.S., when he was 12 and unable to speak "a lick" of English. He ran for 114 yards on 15 carries yesterday.

The Ivy League (and Dartmouth opponent) roundup with a few thoughts:

Brown 31, Pennsylvania 17
Green Alert prediction: Brown 24, Penn 21
The surprise wasn't so much that Brown was able to score points but that Penn didn't score more. Penn's epic game against Yale, like Ali-Frazier, might have taken something out of both sides. (See next game)

Yale 28, Columbia 7
Green Alert prediction: Yale 35, Columbia 10
You know you've got it going when you win by three touchdowns and people wonder what's wrong. Ditto for Mike McLeod who ran for only 133 yards.

Holy Cross 45, Bucknell 21
Green Alert prediction: Holy Cross 45, Bucknell 14
Argh! So close to the first perfect score of the year. The Crusaders have one of the best offenses this side of UNH.

Colgate 36, Lafayette 27
Green Alert prediction: Lafayette 21, Colgate 14
The thoughts here were that the Leopards have one of the top defenses around and Colgate struggles a little offensively. Wrong and wrong.

New Hampshire 49, Rhode Island 36
Green Alert prediction: UNH 38, Rhode Island 21
Ricky Santos passed for 419 yards and five touchdowns and ran for another. Ho hum.

And once again, from Friday night ...
Princeton 34, Cornell 31
Green Alert prediction: Cornell 28, Princeton 21
About as close as expected and would have gone to overtime with a field goal at the gun.

On the week: 4-2
On the season: 32-14

Ivy League leaders, courtesy of the Ivy office:

RUSHING
145 — Jordan Culbreath, Princeton (11 carries)
133 — Mike McLeod, Yale (35)
114 — Cheng Ho, Harvard (15)
88 — Randy Barbour, Cornell (26)
81 — Chris Strickland, Brown (25)

PASSING
339 — Bryan Walker, Penn (36-for-60)
291 — Nathan Ford, Cornell (36-for-48)
238 — Michael Dougherty, Brown (24-for-39)
193 — Chris Pizzotti, Harvard (16-for-24)
153 — Craig Hormann, Columbia (17-for-30)

RECEIVING
141 — Braden Lepisto, Penn (10 catches)
115 — Bryan Walters, Cornell (10)
89 — Paul Raymond, Brown (9)
70 — Zac Canty, Cornell (8)
70 — Matt Luft, Harvard (4)

Casey Cramer '04 of the Tennessee Titans gets a little attention from SilverandBlack.com heading into his game against the Raiders. From the preview: "FB Casey Cramer could be a factor against Oakland if he plays ahead of Quinton Ganther. FB Ahmard Hall (arm) is out. Ganther was up last week as insurance behind both Hall, who was coming off a concussion, and rookie running back Chris Henry. But since Henry did reasonably well filling in for Chris Brown, the Titans could go with Cramer against the Raiders."

Anthony Gargiulo '05 had two tackles yesterday for the Calgary Stampeders in a 33-32 home loss to Montreal.