BGA Overtime story on Dartmouth's Ivy League championship win HERE. (And be sure to visit the site again tomorrow for a wrap-up.)
Meanwhile, on the final Saturday of the season . . .
Yale 34, Harvard 29
The Bulldogs took a 31-15 lead early in the fourth quarter but still needed to recover an onside kick to clinch the win after a Crimson touchdown with 18 seconds remaining.
A crowd of 27,105 at Harvard Stadium saw Yale's Grant Jordan throw for 287 yards and two touchdowns and Josh Pitsenberger run for 125 yards and one score as the Bulldogs (7-3, 4-3 Ivy League) forced Harvard (8-2, 5-2) to share the title with Dartmouth and Columbia.
Jaden Craig passed for 292 yards and three touchdowns for Harvard, which managed just 57 yards on the ground in losing to Yale for the fourth consecutive time and seventh time in the last nine meetings.
Columbia 17, Cornell 9
Joey Giorgi ran 29 times for 166 yards and a touchdown while freshman quarterback Caleb Sanchez passed for 221 yards and ran for one score as Columbia won a share of its first Ivy League title since 1961 in front of 4,224 in New York City.
Cornell quarterback Jameson Wang had 97 yards rushing and 154 yards through the air but was intercepted twice by an opportunistic Columbia defense that held the Big Red to a season-low point total. The' second interception at the Lions' 15 with 8:14 remaining in the game preserved an eight-point lead that Columbia stretched to 11 with a time-consuming 78-yard drive that led to a 25-yard field goal with 1:15 remaining.
The Ivy League championship is just the second for Columbia (7-3, 5-2). Cornell (4-6, 3-4) now has the longest Ivy title drought. The Big Red last won the title in 1990.
Princeton 20, Penn 17
Trailing by a touchdown at the half, the Tigers (3-7, 2-5) scored 10 points in the third quarter and held the Quakers (4-6, 2-5) scoreless in the second half to end a four-game skid and finish a long season on a high note.
John Volker had a 75-yard touchdown run on the game's first place from scrimmage and finished with 130 yards and a touchdown, Jeffrey Sexton booted two field goals and Caden Wright closed out the scoring for Princeton with a six-yard scoop-and-score to provided the winning points.
Malachi Hosley ran for 122 yards and Liam O'Brien had two touchdown passes for Penn, which lost for the second week in a row and the third time this season by three points.
Elsewhere
In games featuring Dartmouth opponents, Merrimack (5-6) won at Fordham (2-10) by 19-3 count, and homestanding Central Connecticut (7-5) stopped Duquesne, 21-14, to win the Northeast Conference title and the league's automatic bid to the FCS playoffs.
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EXTRA POINT
This won't mean much to most of you but yesterday was a day of celebration for those of us who commute down to Hanover via Interstate 91. After having to detour on local roads for month after month, one southbound lane of the highway has finally reopened. There will be "rolling road blocks" while work continues on stabilizing the rock wall that had made the highway unsafe, but it's now possible to zip through before the crews show up in the morning and after they close down in the afternoon.
