Dartmouth-Yale preview is up on BGA Overtime HERE. The weather folks are calling for 73 degrees and full sun over the historic Yale Bowl during the game.
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Dartmouth's game notes for Yale went up during the day yesterday and can be found HERE.
If Yale has posted notes for the game, I can't find them. There's a preview with at least some notes HERE.
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The Yale Football Blog, billed as Yale Football News Written By Former Bulldogs, has an interesting preview of the Dartmouth contest HERE.
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Harvard 38, Cornell 20
In Friday night's nationally televised Ivy League game of the week, Jaden Craig completed 20-of-27 passes for 316 yards and four touchdowns with Cooper Barkate catching seven for 130 yards and two scores to lead the Harvard (3-1, 1-1 Ivy League). Jameson Wang had 153 yards and two touchdowns passing and 67 yards and one touchdown on the ground for the Big Red (1-3, 1-1 Ivy).
Harvard piled up 492 yards of total offense and scored 31 first-half points while beating Cornell for the fifth time in a row. Attendance at Schoellkopf Field was listed at 5,642.
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For some interesting perspective on how and why last week's Dartmouth-Penn game played out the way it did, check out the Football Coaches Corner show with Quakers' coach Ray Priore HERE. Or just read this lightly edited transcript of remarks he made pertinent to the Big Green:
Priore on Dartmouth's defensive strategy: The game got really, really mixed up and credit to them from that perspective. We knew they were a good team going in. The last 10 or so years, it's come down to a last drive or two. Overtime last year, last two years overtime. So we knew it was going to be a battle.What they did was that they changed some things up, showed different looks early in the game, which sort of got our offense out of rhythm a little bit. And they did take away a little bit what some teams are doing now, which is a lot of the dink and dunk pass game.Priore on Dartmouth's 10½-minute drive that sewed up the game: You're battling obviously the clock and time, trying to manage your timeouts as you go down to the wire because you want to get the ball with some time left on the clock in that situation.It’s very, very rare that you are able to drive that many plays and not make mistakes. And they were mistake-free. Somewhere, somehow, someone gets a holding penalty, someone jumps offsides, a turnover or some mishap of play, but they stayed pretty consistent with that.They kept on keeping the downs very tight. They were getting three yards on first down, four yards on second down. And the third down situations were not very long. They were third down and two, and threes and fours, which are very, very makeable. That's what going into the game, we knew we needed to do a better job of, from top to bottom. We didn't come out on top in that area.
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EXTRA POINT
Pink streamers guiding the way appeared on my hiking trail this week and Griff the Wonder Dog and I found ourselves being passed by ridiculously fit runners checking out the trail – including one who ran at Princeton. What's up? The streamers are to help runners navigating the trail overnight.
My usually quiet hiking trail has been taken over for the day to host a race described this way:
"Devil's Den Ultra takes place in during the peak of foliage season in Bradford Vermont on Wright's Mountain. The course is a rugged 6-mile loop with 1,600 feet of climbing per loop. It starts at the Devil's Den trail head and weaves up, over, and back on the tallest peak in Bradford. Runners will have the option of signing up to run multiple laps for 30-hours, 12-hours, or just one 6-mile loop.
So yes, there will be some people doing my loop (plus extra) for 30 hours. (LINK)
