Wrapping It Up

A few more "reads" from Saturday's 14-9 Dartmouth loss to Princeton:

• A column looking back at the game PrincetonTigersFootball.com.

• The game story on the same site (LINK) that included this interesting thought:

One of the best offenses in Ivy League history went up against one of its all-time defenses Saturday on Powers Field and both exceeded the hype probably–not in yards or thrills, but plain, unrelenting, resolve. Probably the best way to explain that–and certainly to the point of how Princeton broke Dartmouth’s heart in delivering its first loss, was that the Tigers won the game, essentially, on a drive that in the end failed.

• Craig Haley of STATS has a short piece on the game HERE.

• The Dartmouth has a story that begins this way:

While the Dartmouth College football team fell 9-14 in a defensive struggle against the Princeton University Tigers

Green Alert Take: When I read something like a "9-14" score I don't usually read much more ;-)

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Here are this week's Sagarin Ratings with last week's rating in (parentheses):

86 Princeton (88)
112 Dartmouth (120)
160 Yale (164)
163 Harvard (176)
188 Penn (195)
194 Columbia (194)
204 Cornell (209)
231 Brown (234)

187 Holy Cross (196)
207 Sacred Heart (207)
229 Georgetown (232)

Green Alert Take: Am I the only one who finds it interesting that Dartmouth climbed eight spots after a loss to Princeton and the Tigers climbed only two after a win over the Big Green?

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Here are the halftime scores from Princeton's four home game so far this season:
Princeton 30, Monmouth 9
Princeton 31, Lehigh 7
Princeton 28, Brown 0
Princeton 45, Cornell 0
Dartmouth 9, Princeton 7

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It is instructive to watch the very well done Football Friday with Bob Surace: Week 8 vs. Dartmouth, and hear his thoughts about the Big Green prior to the game. The guess here is he was even more impressed afterward: