Here's the play last week that resulted in a critical unsportsmanlike conduct penalty against Dartmouth. Trailing by 14 points early in the fourth quarter, the Big Green had driven from its own 25 across midfield and was looking to make it a one-possession game when an underhanded lob of the ball by a Dartmouth player hit the official, who had just looked away. The Big Green was assessed a 15-yard penalty that turned a third-and-two into a third-and-17. The toss of the ball comes at the end of the eight-second clip and can be seen in the lower right side of the picture. You may have to watch it a few times to catch it.
Under the headline, Football faces must-win vs. Cornell, The Dartmouth quotes linebacker Bronson Green on one way of limiting the Big Red's passing attack:
“Time of possession will be a big deal keeping their offense off the field. If we can establish the running game, we’ll be in much better shape.”As it does each week, The D solicits predictions from other Ivy League newspapers on the Dartmouth game. This week the Yale, Columbia, Princeton and Harvard papers responded and each one picked Cornell while The D picked Dartmouth.
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From the Cornell Sun:Something has to give when the Ivy League’s top-ranked passing offense squares off against the best pass defense tomorrow at 12:30 p.m. on Schoellkopf Field.Cornell coach Kent Austin has this to say about facing Dartmouth QB Alex Park:
“If we’re giving a talented quarterback, especially an accurate quarterback, too much time in the pocket, then it becomes an issue. We’ve got to be able to force the issue a little bit more, collapse the pocket a little bit quicker, and be able to do that without having to bring five or six guys. That’s really where we’ve been lacking this year.”
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Austin talking about Dartmouth in the (Binghamton) Press & Sun Bulletin:“They do a good job playing on the road, and they’re a good football team. They’re very well coached, very sound fundamentally, and it’s going to be a good challenge for us.”
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The Harvard Crimson offers up some funny cheap shots at Hanover before a Dartmouth-Cornell capsule that picks it this way: Cornell 35, Dartmouth 20.
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In a story in the New Haven Register legendary Yale coach Carm Cozza has some pretty strong words of praise for Bulldog tailback Tyler Varga:He reminds me a lot of (Yale great) Rich Diana. I look for him to maybe break some Yale records.
