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Butler honored the memory of an old friend with a couple of unique stickers placed on the front of football helmets in Saturday's game. Check out a brief story and pictures here.
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Princeton had a 19-point halftime lead over No. 22 Lehigh Saturday only to see the Mountain Hawks rally for a 29-28 lead. That shouldn't have been a surprise given that Lehigh erased a 20-point deficit with 10 minutes to play in an overtime win against Central Connecticut two weeks ago. The Sports Network points out that Lehigh . . .". . . owns the blueprint for how to win tight games. In eighth-year coach Andy Coen's first four seasons, the Mountain Hawks were a combined 4-14 in games decided by seven points or less. Since the start of the 2010 season, they have gone 15-1, including Saturday night's 29-28 rally past Princeton."(Counting Saturday's 30-23 win at Butler, Dartmouth is 10-14 in games decided by a touchdown or less since Buddy Teevens returned to Hanover in 2005.)
Deeper in the Sports Network story there's this:
"As all eight Ivy League teams opened their season Saturday, some looked to be in midseason form, and the only losses were to Top 25 opponents - Princeton to Lehigh and Columbia to Fordham."
That's followed by highlights from each school including this:
. . . quarterback Dalyn Williams throwing for 228 yards and running for another 119 in Dartmouth's 30-23 win at Butler
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I remember when I was in journalism school a visiting foreign correspondent talking about how, "The rich countries get richer and the poor get earthquakes." That quote came to mind when I read in the Columbia Spectator that Brett Nottingham, Columbia's transfer quarterback from Stanford, had his season ended in his first game when he suffered a wrist injury against Fordham. Seyi Adebayo, a talented defensive lineman who missed most of last season, also will miss the remainder of the year for Columbia after suffering a knee injury.
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This week's Sagarin ratings:
149 Harvard (149)
169 Penn (155)
178 Brown (180)
186 Dartmouth (185)
191 Princeton (189)
194 Cornell (210)
210 Yale (216)
235 Columbia (229)
193 Cross (188)
204 Butler (199)
220 Bucknell (218)
