Cornell 14 - Princeton 7 football (final)

PRI  00 00 07 00 - 07
COR  00 07 07 00 - 14 
04:10 2nd Siwula 1 yard run (after 45-yard interception) (Zell kick)
07:29 3rd Canty 40 pass from Ford (7 plays / 89 yards!)
03:22 3rd Toresco 2 run (Louden kick)

Scoreless first quarter.

Second quarter, Cornell penetrates to Princeton 20, stalls, attempts a 37-yard FG that, oops, bangs off the crossbar. Red zone possessions look like they'll be perhaps few for the Big Red today. Cornell intercepts a Princeton pass, returns it 39 yards to the Princeton 1, Siwula crashes in. Sheesh - Cornell up 7-0 on the unbeaten Ivy League leader and it could have been 10-0. LGR.

Cornell and Princeton trade TDs in the third. 14-7 going into the 4th.

Cornell drives well into Princeton territory, gets intercepted, Princeton moves into Cornell territory with 10:00 to play, fails on a fourth down pass. Nice time to have Siwula on attack for Cornell to grind out yardage. Siwula (mostly) runs Cornell to the Princeton 31, misses a 4th-and-1, Princeton takes over and fumbles the ball away at midfield, Cornell recovers, stalls at midfield, needs to punt with 3:00 left. Princeton first down its own 40 with 1:45 left. No princeton timeeouts left. Princeton gets first down at the Cornell 40 then 30 with half a minute to go. Matt Grant intercepts on the Cornell 8 with :22 left. Cornell likely should win now.

Cornell wins, 14-7. Schoellkopf seems to be a good place to play for taking down nationally ranked teams.

Watching the webcast: Between the normally jerky webcasts that Cornell is famous for, and Cornell's start, stop, stand up, lean over offense that's also kind of jerky, it's like watching a Charlie Chaplin movie.

14-0 woo!

booo tigers

Maybe it looks better in person. From afar, the Princeton light tops over black pants and black socks look like tights.

elsewhere in the league:
Harvard blanked Dartmouth 28-zip
Yale (now 4-0) beat Columbia 21-3
and in the 4th Penn is leading Brown 27-20

LGR!!!

Brown-Penn now tied at 27-27

Good job, Red. What a strange season it's been for this team.

Just thought I'd mention that, technically, we're not yet out of the hunt for an Ivy title. If the games in the next weeks were to go, say:

11/4
RED over Dartmouth
BROWN over Yale
Columbia over HARVARD
Penn over PRINCETON

11/11
Red over COLUMBIA
Princeton over YALE
PENN over Harvard
Brown ? DARTMOUTH (Brown must lose one of last two.)

11/18
RED over Penn
HARVARD over Yale
Dartmouth over PRINCETON
BROWN ? Columbia (Brown must lose one of last two.)

We would have:

Yale 4-3
Harvard 4-3
Princeton 4-3
Penn 4-3
Cornell 4-3
Brown 4-3 or 3-4
Dartmouth 3-4 or 2-5
Columbia 2-5 or 1-6

And Hell would freeze over. My personal preference would be for the six-way.

I don't where Harvard is getting their football players but the constant whining over at USCHO about the difficulties of getting players past admissions is getting tiresome. You would think they are the Skating Einsteins if you listen to Bothman.