From the Twitter feed of old friend Craig Haley, now the FCS guru of STATS Perform and former Princeton beat writer. If not for this field goal that clinched a 10-10 tie the Ivy League would have had its first – and only – four-way tie for the championship.
Nov. 18, 1995: 25 years ago, Princeton and Dartmouth played the last FCS game to end in a tie.
— FCS Football (@FCS_STATS) November 18, 2020
Princeton's Alex Sierk kicked an 18-yard field goal with 1 second left to forge a 10-10 tie and clinch the Tigers' first Ivy title in 31 years. @DartFootball @PrincetonFTBL @NCAA_FCS pic.twitter.com/y5q1o8HhpE
If Dartmouth had been able to hold onto the lead against Princeton, Cornell, Penn and the Big Green would have all finished 5-2 as quad-champions. Instead, the final standings looked like this:
1. Princeton 5-1-1
2. Cornell 5-2
2. Penn 5-2
4. Dartmouth 4-2-1
5. Columbia 3-4
6. Brown 2-5
6. Yale 2-5
8. Harvard 1-6
Green Alert Take: I was at the newspaper at the time and I'd written about the chance that there could be a four-way tie at the top weeks before. Given the standings and who each team had left to play, I thought there was a reasonable chance it would happen. Everything broke exactly the way it needed to – until the final seconds of the season.
