November 11, 1978 – Led by receiver Dave Shula, son of legendary coach Don Shula, and quarterback Buddy Teevens, current coach at Dartmouth, the Big Green beat Brown 31-21 in Providence to break its first place tie with the Bruins at the top of the Ivy League. Brown quarterback Mark Whipple, currently the offensive coordinator at Miami (Fla.), opened up the scoring with a four-yard touchdown run in the first.A recording of the weekly Ivy League football teleconference has been posted here. If you aren't interested in listening to the whole hour, what follows are edited excerpts from Brown coach Phil Estes, whose team will play Dartmouth Saturday, and Jim Knowles, whose Cornell team played Dartmouth last week. Also a couple of quick thoughts from Big Green coach Buddy Teevens.
Brown Coach Phil Estes:
I'm just very happy with the way the team responded after the loss to Penn the week before. We really came out and I thought we moved the ball pretty well. The first half we didn't capitalize on a couple of drives but we had a good response just before the half in the two-minute drive to put up a score.Cornell coach Jim Knowles:
I'm very pleased with the overall effort of the whole team. And very happy for (corner back and Ivy League defensive player of the week) AJ Cruz because for a freshman he's been picked on quite a bit and he's come through game after game making big plays for us. Not just tackles but a big interception late in the fourth quarter to kind of seal the game for us. He's a very athletic player. He had pick earlier in the game that was taken away by penalty. He's just made big play after big play.
This week we play Dartmouth, a much-improved Dartmouth football team. It seems each week there's something new that they add to the repertoire. They've had some injuries and yet they've been finding some young players to step up and make big plays for them. It's amazing to watch (Greg) Patton just run and make some plays on quarterback counters and sweeps and things like that. He's a terrific football player.
Defensively they seem to improve each week as well. We always have our hands full when we play Dartmouth and we fully expect that this is going to be a tough one, preparing for everything, for every phase, from special teams to offense and defense. They have some things that they do that you really have to really grind and make sure that your team is on the right page.
(On quarterback Kyle Newhall-Caballero) The big thing for a first-year starter, he's had experience. He's thrown to (Buddy Farnham and (Bobby) Sewall in practices and things like that. And obviously he has a couple springs under his belt where he got a lot of reps with them. I think the big thing is the skill of the wideouts. He doesn't have to throw the perfect ball for them to make the play on it. The biggest thing for Kyle is trying to adjust to the speed of the different receivers, from a Farnum to a Sewall to a (Trevan) Samp to a (Matthew) Sudfeld. They all are unique in what they do and how they run their routes and those are the things you have to get used to. Good receivers can respond to a quarterback and make plays on a ball that may be underthrown or overthrown or things like that. I think they've made him better.
I think what helps a quarterback out is having a run game so that you can kind of get the secondary to bite up a little bit to have to make some plays on a running back. ... The thing about Kyle is, he's seen it all. He's seen people that have come with the house at him and he's made plays. And he's seen people sit back in zone and he's able to make the right throws and the right reads. I just think Kyle is a very mature quarterback that doesn't get rattled back in the pocket and looks for his primary read and works down from there. He's done a good job with that.
(On losing starting tailback Zach Tronti to a knee injury) It's interesting because he ran off the field but that might have been adrenaline. ... Spiro Theodosi was the guy that came in and picked up where Zach left off. Spiro has been playing some fullback for us. He's a tailback by nature but he is a physical football player and he's been running some tailback. But Zach Tronti will be out for the rest of the season.
Dartmouth was a very evenly matched game. Hard-fought. We squandered a few great opportunities we had. Our red-zone offense was not up to standards. I think we were 2-for-6 in the red zone. And our field goal kicker really struggled. And we turned the ball over twice in the red zone, missed a couple field goals. Still everything looked OK until the fourth quarter.Dartmouth coach Buddy Teevens:
They had a freshman quarterback who just did a great job and they blocked us well – their offensive line versus our defensive front people. And they were able to make a lot of hay out of the wildcat formation.
But defensively we hung in there. We still had a shutout going well into the fourth quarter. We gave up 10 points late, missed a field goal to win the game, or they blocked it. Dartmouth did a great job. I should say they blocked it. And lost the game in double-overtime.
We certainly had our chances and played the whole game. Our kids kept giving great effort but they can look and see why they didn't get the job done.
(On Brown) They are physically as impressive as anyone we've seen. They are explosive offensively, a senior-laden team with tremendous experience and a lot of great athletes. So a tremendous challenge down there in Providence.
(On Patton) We really projected him more as a defensive player. Maybe reflects on my intelligence as a coach.
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And finally, that certain Hanover High senior was presented with the Coaches Award plaque last night at the cross country banquet. She started the season with high expectations only to have them cruelly dashed through no fault of her own. Her team will be running in the New England Championships this weekend in Connecticut and while she's not ready to compete yet, she's feeling better and is looking forward to a banner indoor season.
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