In case you are wondering, the Ryan McManus touchdown catch and run that made the SportsCenter Top 10 plays starts at 2:21 of this package, which runs around three minutes total.
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A correction on the Dartmouth stats from Saturday has added another completion for quarterback Alex Park. The pass, originally credited to Dalyn Williams, means Park was 24-for-39 for 310 yards.
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Catching up on Saturday's action, there's a game story in The Dartmouth and another in The Crimson.From Harvard Magazine:
IT’S NO LONGER NEWS that Harvard has a powerhouse offense. The Crimson run defense also tops the NCAA’s Football Championship Subdivision. But pass defense? Not so much. ...
Under the lights at Dartmouth’s Memorial Field on Saturday evening, it began to look like déja vu all over again.
In a Crimson column suggesting Harvard might just be back in the Ivy League driver's seat, the writer offers this thought about a so-so Harvard outing (italics are mine):
(P)laying in another team’s house on Homecoming under the lights in front of fans with a unique gift for heckling can make the climb to the top that much more arduous.
Though the final score may have suggested otherwise, Saturday’s contest was a close battle decided by a few bounces of the ball and short stretches of success. In big moments, the more experienced Crimson seemed to come out on top more times than not, like in the red zone, where Harvard came away with points on all five of its trips while Dartmouth was shut out on both of its red-zone chances.
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For a look at what's next for the Big Green, check out the Cornell-Princeton game story in the Daily Sun.
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A revealing note from The Sports Network with Dartmouth, Brown and Cornell mentions:Six wide receivers in Week 9 had at least 12 receptions for 120 yards or more. They were Brown's Tellef Lundevall (17 receptions, 170 yards), Liberty's Pat Kelly (16 receptions, 122 yards), Elon's Aaron Mellette (14 receptions, 194 yards), Davidson's Larry Funsten (13 receptions, 131 yards), Cornell's Grant Gellatly (12 receptions, 215 yards) and Dartmouth's Michael Reilly (12 receptions, 165 yards). The only player whose team won in Week 9 was Gellatly.
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This week's Sagarin Ratings with last week's ratings in parentheses:
104 (95) - Harvard
142 (129) - Princeton
186 (172) - Brown
180 (182) - Cornell
205 (195) - Dartmouth
214 (203) - Penn
227 (224) - Columbia
233 (219) - Yale
217 (220) - Sacred Heart
219 (213) - Butler
222 (212) - Holy Cross
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For a time yesterday if you clicked on this blog a note came up saying it had been removed. Not the case and I have no idea why that happened. If/when it is going the way of the Passenger Pigeon, I'll give you fair warning.
If it ever does disappear for some unknown reason, just go to open "splash" page of BGA Premium and I'll have something posted there about what we go next ;-)
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And finally, those of you in the Northeast, be safe these next few days. Here we are filling a tub with water and making sure we have flashlights and candles at hand.
