Wrapping up last week's game at Princeton, the weekly Town Topics looks at the contest from the home team's perspective in a story headlined PU Football Produces Spirited Effort Against Dartmouth But Loses 26-17 in Moving to 2-6, Falling into Ivy Cellar. From the story (LINK):
"Our guys are fighting,” said (Princeton coach Bob) Surace. “We have 15 guys in the two-deep that are out and we are just struggling with that. One of them you lose Thursday at 4:45. I couldn’t be more proud of them. We are just a little short and the ball is not bouncing great for us.”
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An aggressive Dartmouth pass rush didn't help either. This is from Dartmouth's social media:
Making our presence felt🔥#TheWoods #GoBigGreen pic.twitter.com/AHHDk9UrKj
— Dartmouth Football (@DartmouthFTBL) November 12, 2024
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Getting that kind of pressure on the quarterback would come in handy this week when Dartmouth faces a Cornell team that racked up 98 points over its last two games. (Of course, it gave up 102. ;-)
Here are highlights from both teams in the Big Red's 67-49 loss to Penn last week.
(Be sure to watch the Cornell punt fake 25 seconds in. It went for 74 yards and a touchdown.)
Harvard Athletics announced today that the 140th playing of The Game on Saturday, November 23, has sold out.Harvard fans looking to attend The Game can still purchase tickets through SeatGeek, the preferred secondary market platform of Harvard Athletics.
Curious about what that meant for ticket prices for The Game, I found this from "preferred secondary market platform of Harvard Athletics:"
Green Alert Take: While I'd really like to catch a Harvard-Yale game sometime, that's a little rich for my taste! (In case it's hard to read, that says if you want four tickets, they'll be $306 apiece.)
And that, of course, sent me deeper into the rabbit hold where I found this:
In case that's hard to read, if you want four tickets for Dartmouth-Brown, you could score them for $7 apiece. (As was the case with the Harvard-Yale tickets, I didn't click through, so your mileage may vary.)
For the record, my search from Cornell-Columbia tickets starting at $24 and Penn-Princeton tickets starting at $25.
As for those Penn State-Maryland tickets, we haven't bought them but did find them as cheap as $15 way, way up in the nosebleed section. They also have parking passes for $39 but I'd park a couple of miles away and walk before I'd do that.
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EXTRA POINT
Tis the season for Hallmark Christmas movies. Say what you will about the candy shoppe, the corporate boyfriend from New York, the soft-spoken handyman with good hair, the red pickup truck, the annual Yule pageant and the gazebo, it beats watching more talking heads rehash the election.
