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The local Valley News has a story about the Dartmouth-Harvard game under the headline, Well, there's always next year: Dartmouth's faint Ivy football title hopes fade HERE.
The Harvard Crimson school newspaper has a story HERE.
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And now for your weekend wrap . . .
Brown 34, Penn 31
The Bears (3-4, 1-3) pulled off what may have been the surprise of the season to date, jumping out to a 24-7 halftime lead over the previously undefeated Quakers, coughing up the lead, and then driving 69 yards for the winning touchdown on a nine-yard reception by running back Allen Smith with 1:19 left. The Bears knocked off Penn (6-1, 3-1) despite starting quarterback Jake Wilcox departing after going 14-for-15 for 115 yards and a touchdown. Stepping in was senior Aidan Gilman, who competed 22-of-38 passes for 245 yards and two touchdowns. Penn’s Jonathan Mulatu ran for 154 yards and two touchdowns while quarterback Aidan Sayin was going 29-for-51 for 227 yards and one touchdown. The Quakers’ Julien Stokes' had a 97-yard kickoff return for a touchdown. Attendance in Providence was 3,938.
Princeton 35, Cornell 9
If the Brown-Penn game was the most surprising, the Princeton-Cornell game was the most bizarre. The Big Red had 26 first downs to13 for the Tigers, 433 yards of offense to Princeton’s 288 and possessed the ball for almost a quarter more than the home team and still lost by 26 points. A big part of the difference were the four interceptions thrown by Cornell quarterback Jameson Wang. The Tigers got a 100-yard interception return of a two-point conversion try, an 89-yard pick six and two touchdown receptions by Andrei Iosivas, who caught 10 passes for 155 yards. The Tigers improved to 7-0 overall and 4-0 in the Ivy League for the fourth year in a row. Cornell fell to 4-3 and 1-3 in front of 7,652 on a sunny day in New Jersey.
And from Friday night:
Yale 41, Columbia16
Yale quarterback Nolan Grooms completed fewer than half of his passes (16-of-33) but aided by touchdown throws of 64 and 83 yards made them count for a career-high 346 yards and four TDs as the Bulldogs (5-2, 3-1) turned a one-score game into a rout with a 17-0 fourth quarter. Grooms also led the Bulldogs with 49 yards rushing, frustrating the Lions who allowed the rest of the Yale team to 46 yards on 22 carries. The special teams woes that plagued Columbia against Dartmouth reappeared with the Lions suffering back-to-back punt blocks. Attendance in New York City was 3,551.
Elsewhere:
St. Francis 44, Sacred Heart 14
Saint Francis (6-2, 5-0 NEC) scored on its first five drives to vault out to a 34-0 lead in the second quarter and went on to pile up 568 yards of total offense. Visiting quarterback Cole Doyle went 22-for-28 for 264 yards and five touchdowns and QuaSean Holmes ran for 168 yards on just 13 carries to drop the Pioneers to 4-4 overall and 2-2 in the NEC. Malik Grant ran for 104 yards and one touchdown for Sacred Heart, but quarterback Marquez McCray was held to 104 yards through the air. Attendance at Sacred Heart was 4,253.
Dayton 31, Valparaiso 24
Dayton used a nine-play, 68-yard drive and a 23-yard touchdown run with 18 seconds remaining to break a 24-all tie and drop Valparaiso to 4-4 overall and 3-2 in the Pioneer Football League. The Flyers, who outrushed the Beacons, 307 yards to 36, are now 6-2, 4-1. Valparaiso quarterback Mikey Appel was 22-of-29 for 323 yards with two touchdowns and one interception, a first-quarter pick-six. Attendance at Dayton was 2,566.
And in case you are wondering how old friend Holy Cross fared in its battle with Fordham, the other Patriot League power, the Crusaders won a doozy. Trailing on three occasions in regulation, Holy Cross tied the game at 45-45 with 1:24 remaining, fell behind when the Rams got a touchdown and kicked the PAT in the top half of overtime, and then scored a touchdown and trick-play two-point conversion in the bottom half of the OT to improve to 8-0 before 17,592 in Worcester. Fordham fell to 6-2.
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EXTRA POINT
The view out our "sunrise room" window this morning of Mt. Moosilauke with the trees now bare and a blanket of fog clinging to the Connecticut River:
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