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Brown shut out Yale Saturday for the first time since 1949. Read about Dartmouth's next opponent in the Brown Daily Herald.
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It was a throw-away line in a Sports Network story about the playoff bubble but think about it:Dartmouth (5-3) clinched at least a .500 season for the third straight year under Buddy Teevens, rolling past Cornell, 44-28, on the road.
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From the Boston Herald after Harvard's 69-0 thrashing of Columbia:Harvard coach Tim Murphy, who tied Dartmouth coach Bob Blackman for fourth all-time in Ivy wins with 127.A couple of clarifications on that. Blackman, of course, also coached at Cornell. He was 104-37-3 at Dartmouth, 23-33-1 at Cornell and 127-70-4 between the two schools. Murphy is 127-60 at Harvard.
The top-10 winningest coaches in Ivy League history (overall games):
- 1. 179 - Carm Cozza, Yale 1965-96
- 2. 140 - Edward Robinson, Brown 1898-01, 1904-07, 1910-25
- 2. 140 - Al Bagnoli, Penn 1992-
- 4. 127 - Bob Blackman, Dartmouth 1955-70, Cornell, 1977-82
- 4. 127 - Tim Murphy, Harvard 1994-
- 6. 124 - George Woodruff, Penn 1892-1901
- 7. 120 - Tuss McLaughry, Brown 1926-40, Dartmouth 1941-42, 1945-54
- 8. 117 - Joe Restic, Harvard 1971-93
- 9. 110 - Lou Little, Columbia 1930-56
- 10. 96 - Percy Haughton, Cornell 1899-00, Harvard 1908-16, Columbia 1923-24
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This week's Sagarin Ratings with last week's ratings in parentheses:107 (104) - Harvard
164 (149) - Princeton
185 (186) - Brown
193 (180) - Cornell
199 (205) - Dartmouth
207 (214) - Penn
234 (227) - Columbia
235 (233) - Yale
218 (219) - Butler
221 (222) - Holy Cross
223 (217) - Sacred Heart
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