Sunday, November 09, 2008

Sunday Ramblings

It's a beautiful day in Hanover with the temperature in the high 40s and sunshine and clouds dappling the field for the jayvee game with Bridgton Academy. Check in tonight for a capsule story and statistics from the final JV game of the fall. Compiled statistics will be posted later this week. ...

For the Ithaca Journal take on Cornell's win over the Big Green yesterday, click here. From that understandably Cornell-centric story:
A blocked kick got the Cornell football team's season off to a winning start, and now a pair of blocked kicks has helped pull it out of a slump seven weeks later.
The Washington Post has a heart-breaking story about former Cornell and NFL lineman Tom McHale, who died at age 45 after battling addiction.

For a look at Brown's shocking loss to Yale yesterday, check out the Providence Journal story. From the story:
Brown faced the nation’s top defense yesterday and couldn’t get its offense going. The three points scored by the Bears were their fewest since managing only three against Princeton in 2006.

“We played like the day — gloomy and dreary,” said Brown coach Phil Estes. “Our defense played exceptionally well, but our offense just couldn’t get things going. We have to do a better job on offense; we made way too many mistakes.”
Dartmouth, of course, faces Brown this week.

The New Haven Register's take on how Yale beat Dartmouth's next opponent is here. From that story:
“It was kind of the game we wanted it to be with the field position. We kept them 80-90 yards away the entire time,” Yale coach Jack Siedlecki said. “They had to go a long way to score. Our defense made play after play. I thought it was a tremendous effort on the defensive front.

“What we talked to our team about this week was you are probably not going to get to the quarterback because they are a pitch-and-catch team, but we actually got to them a couple of times, we tipped some balls during the week and didn’t put them in a comfort zone.”
The Register's Portal 31 blog has some thoughts about that game here.

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