Game Day In Central New York

Greetings from the Finger Lakes. Actually, I'm about 70 minutes southeast of Ithaca, as I was reminded by the nice lady who owns the mom-and-pop motel I've stayed for several trips out here. Love this little place. ...

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Just a few links this morning before I head up the two-lane to campus for breakfast.

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The forecast has improved with mixed precipitation to stop shortly before kickoff, and gametime temperatures in the low 40's. There's nothing happening out there right now, which is a good sign ... at least if you are sitting in the stands ;-)

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Remember, you should be able to watching streaming video of today's Dartmouth-Cornell game for free via this Cornell video link. Those of us who are Mac people need to have Silverlight installed or perhaps updated (as in my case) to watch. When you click on the Cornell site you will be prompted to go over to the dark side for a link to Silverlight. I swallowed hard and followed the instructions ;-) It worked.

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The Ithaca Journal has a few notes up on today's game. Regarding last week's win over Princeton, the Journal reports:

The 410 yards of total offense was a season-high, and it was also the first time this season that Cornell (2-5, 1-3) gained more yards than its opponent.

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The most notable difference for the offense was the emergence of a run game, headed by freshman Grant Gellatly. He fell just 3 yards short of his first 100-yard rushing game in just his second start since returning from a fractured foot.

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If Dartmouth coach Buddy Teevens needed a scouting report on Gellatly he could query freshman quarterback Andy Gay, whose Jackson team lost to Gellatly's Issaquah squad last fall in the second round of the Washington 4A playoffs. Gay and Gellatly were the only two players from Washington to make the trip across the country to play Ivy League football as freshmen this fall.

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Not to bring up bad memories, but it wasn't all that long ago that Dartmouth and Indiana State were neck-and-neck for the nation's longest losing streak. The Big Green isn't the only to to put that in the rear view mirror. Indiana State is 5-3 this fall and can clinch its first winning season since 1996 today. Dartmouth needs two wins to clinch its first winning season since 1997. Read about the Sycamore turnaround here.

Here's what coach Trent Miles said in the story:

"After you're 1-and-50-something, and you've lost 30-something straight games (33), getting kids to make sure they believe they can win was very difficult for everybody."