Highlights from the Cornell game, courtesy of Dartmouth sports publicity:
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The Dartmouth has a story that reprises the game while The Cornell Sun has a story that includes this quote from Cornell running back Luke Hagy:
“Dartmouth has a very good defense, but it wasn’t as much of what they did but more of what we didn’t do. We didn’t execute and had penalties that killed us. We were the ones that stopped ourselves.”
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Dartmouth tailback Kevin Price, a 31-year-old former Army Ranger who got a couple of carries Saturday, gets a mention from The Sports Network. The Veterans Day headline: NATIONAL PLAYER OF THE WEEK?
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The New York Daily News has a column that asks this question in its subhead:
Is it finally time for New York’s Ivy League entry to pull the plug on the high-profile sport, or should administrators listen to the coach, Pete Mangurian, who insists the program will eventually get its act together?
Columbia opponents are averaging 41.2 points per game. The winless Lions average 7.1, meaning they are being outscored by 34.1 points per game. That plays into this quote from the Daily News:
Things have gotten so historically bad at Wien Stadium that every score by an opponent seems to break another record in futility. Even in 1986, at the prior height of incompetence, the Lions’ average margin of defeat was a mere 28.5 points.
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Here are this week's Sagarin Ratings and something must have kicked in because all the teams (except for Columbia) improved dramatically:
107 Princeton (143)
116 Harvard (151)
147 Brown (162)
151 Yale (169)
155 Dartmouth (175)
171 Penn (180)
211 Cornell (221)
245 Columbia (245)
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179 Holy Cross (194)
181 Bucknell (211)
204 Butler (215)
(252 teams rated)
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Losing to Butler would have been a blow to Dartmouth. Losing to Butler, 72-12, meant the end to the Valparaiso coach, whose former team still has a game left. Find a story here.
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Here's a compilation of plays from Princeton's three-quarterback system. Think those guys are having fun? This is backyard football at its best: