Football 2012 All-Ivy: Tretter, Tasker, not Matthews

Offensive lineman JC Tretter and WR Luke Tasker are first-time All-Ivy for Cornell, both unanimous. 2011 player of the year QB Jeff Matthews is demoted to second team this year. Colton Chapple, Harvard QB, is offensive player of the year. Only one Cornell player cited on defense: linebacker Brett Buehler, honorable mention.

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FIRST TEAM ALL-IVY

* Unanimous Selection
Offense
Nathan Bernstein, Brown (Sr., OL - Charlotte, N.C.)
Cole Hooper, Brown (Sr., OL - Oklahoma City)
*JC Tretter, Cornell (Sr., OL - Akron, N.Y.)
Rob Bathe, Dartmouth (Sr., OL - Plymouth, Minn.)
John Collins, Harvard (Sr., OL - Hull, Mass.)
Jack Holuba, Harvard (Sr., OL - Ho-Ho-Kus, N.J.)
Joe Bonadies, Penn (Sr., OL - Leonia, N.J.)
Colton Chapple, Harvard (Sr., QB - Alpharetta, Ga.)
Marcorus Garrett, Columbia (Jr., RB - Marietta, Ga.)
*Kyle Juszczyk, Harvard (Sr., H-Back - Medina, Ohio)
Treavor Scales, Harvard (Sr., RB - Stone Mountain, Ga.)
Tyler Varga, Yale (So., RB - Kitchener, Ontario, Canada)
*Luke Tasker, Cornell (Sr., WR - East Aurora, N.Y.)
Michael Reilly, Dartmouth (Sr., WR - Denver)
*Cameron Brate, Harvard (Jr., TE - Naperville, Ill.)

Defense
Josh Martin, Columbia (Sr., DL - Aurora, Colo.)
Zach Hodges, Harvard (So., DL - Atlanta)
Brandon Copeland, Penn (Sr., DL - Sykesville, Md.)
*Mike Catapano, Princeton (Sr., DL - Bayville, N.Y.)
*Caraun Reid, Princeton (Sr., DL - Bronx, N.Y.)
Stephen Zambetti, Brown (Sr., LB - Germantown, Tenn.)
Michael Runger, Dartmouth (Jr., LB - Lisle, Ill.)
*Joshua Boyd, Harvard (Sr., LB - Hyde Park, Mass.)
Daniel Davis, Penn (So., LB - Norman, Okla.)
*A.J. Cruz, Brown (Sr., DB - Lake Forest, Calif.)
Garrett Waggoner, Dartmouth (Sr., DB - Sarasota, Fla.)
Sebastian Jaskowski, Penn (Jr., DB - Moorestown, N.J.)
Anthony Gaffney, Princeton (Fr., DB - Columbus, N.J.)

Special Teams
David Mothander, Harvard (Jr., PK - San Juan Capistrano, Calif.)
Jacob Dombrowski, Harvard (Sr., P - Gaylord, Mich.)
Scott Lopano, Penn (Sr., P - Southlake, Texas)
Anthony Gaffney, Princeton (Fr., RS - Columbus, N.J.)

SECOND TEAM ALL-IVY
Offense
Anthony Fabiano, Harvard (So., OL - Wakefield, Mass.)
Christopher Bush, Penn (Jr., OL - Westwood, N.J.)
Michael Pinciotti, Penn (Sr., OL - West Chester, Pa.)
Spenser Huston, Princeton (So., OL - Summit, N.J.)
Roy Collins, Yale (Sr., OT - Carbondale, Ill.)
Jeff Mathews, Cornell (Jr., QB - Camarillo, Calif.)
Dominick Pierre, Dartmouth (Jr., RB - Fort Lauderdale, Fla.)
Lyle Marsh, Penn (Sr., RB - Bethel Park, Pa.)
Tellef Lundevall, Brown (Sr., WR - Highland Park, Ill.)
Grant Gellatly, Cornell (Jr., WR - Issaaquah, Wash.)
Conner Scott, Penn (Jr., WR - Kenilworth, Ill.)
Roman Wilson, Princeton (Jr., WR - Broken Arrow, Okla.)
Mark Hayes, Princeton (Sr., TE - Tulsa, Okla.)

Defense
Ross Walthall, Brown (Sr., DL - Carmel, Ind.)
Michael Yules, Brown (Sr., DL - South Dartmouth, Mass.)
Teddy Reed, Dartmouth (Sr., DL - Boxford, Mass.)
John Lyon, Harvard (Sr., DL - Durham, N.C.)
Nnamdi Obukwelu, Harvard (Jr., DL - Brockton, Mass.)
Zach Olinger, Columbia (Jr., LB - Hoover, Ala.)
Bronson Green, Dartmouth (Jr., LB - Los Angeles)
Alexander Norman, Harvard (Sr., LB - Lewisville, Texas)
Andrew Starks, Princeton (Sr., LB - Plainfield, Ill.)
Emory Polley, Brown (Jr., DB - University Heights, Ohio)
Norman Hayes, Harvard (So., DB - Tucker, Ga.)
Chris Splinter, Harvard (Jr., DB - Middleton, Mass.)
Dave Twamley, Penn (Sr., DB - Princeton Junction, N.J.)
Dan Wilk, Penn (Jr., DB - Bethlehem, Pa.)

Special Teams
Alexander Norocea, Brown (Jr., PK - Hermosa Beach, Calif.)
Joe Cloud, Princeton (Sr., P - Edwards, Ill.)
AJ Cruz, Brown (Sr., RS - Lake Forest, Calif.)
Tyler Varga, Yale (So., RS - Kitchener, Ontario, Canada)

HONORABLE MENTION ALL-IVY
Daniel Austin, Brown (Jr., OL - Franklin, Tenn.)
Patrick Lahey, Dartmouth (Sr., OL - North Andover, Mass.)
Wes Gavin, Yale (Jr., OL - San Diego)
John Oppenheimer, Yale (Jr., C - Menlo Park, Calif.)
Billy Ragone, Penn (Sr., QB - Chesire, Conn.)
Mordecai Cargill, Yale (Sr., RB - Cleveland)
Ryan McManus, Dartmouth (So., WR - Mendota Heights, Minn.)
Grant Sickle, Harvard (Sr., DL - Jupiter, Fla.)
Adewole Oyalowo, Brown (Jr., LB - Bowie, Md.)
Mike Waller, Columbia (Sr., LB - Wayne, N.J.)
Brett Buehler, Cornell (Jr., LB - Dublin, Ohio)
Bobby Schneider, Harvard (Sr., LB - Grapevine, Texas)
Tim Kingsbury, Princeton (Sr., LB - Palos Park, Ill.)
D.J. Monroe, Harvard (Jr., DB - Columbia, S.C.)
Phillip Bhaya, Princeton (Jr., DB - Haddonfield, N.J.)
Collin Bibb, Yale (Sr., DB - San Antonio, Texas)
Connor Loftus, Penn (So., PK - Villa Park, Calif.)


ROOKIE OF THE YEAR
Dalyn Williams, Dartmouth (Fr., QB - Corinth, Texas)

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NEW YORK -- Two seniors capped off their collegiate careers in front of a captive crowd as Harvard quarterback Colton Chapple and Princeton defensive lineman Mike Catapano were crowned the 2012 recipients of The Asa S. Bushnell Cup, which honors the Ivy League Football Players of Year.

Chapple was unveiled as the League's Offensive Player of the Year and Catapano was announced as the League's Defensive Player of the Year for the 2012 season at a special reception and press conference in the famed Waldorf=Astoria Hotel as part of the festivities surrounding the 55th National Football Foundation (NFF) Annual Awards Dinner.

Chapple is the seventh Harvard player to be honored as a Bushnell Cup recipient, following Jim Stoeckel (1973), Carl Morris (2001, 2002), Ryan Fitzpatrick (2004), Chris Pizzotti (2008), Gino Gordon (2010) and Josue Ortiz (2011). This marks the seventh time in 12 years that a Crimson player has earned Bushnell Cup recognition and makes him the 15th quarterback in Ivy League history to receive the award.

Catapano is the seventh Princeton player to be bestowed with the Bushnell Cup, following Walt Snickenberger (1974), Jason Garrett (1988), Judd Garrett (1989), Keith Elias (1993), Dave Patterson (1995) and Jeff Terrell (2006). He is first Tiger from the defensive side to receive the Bushnell Cup since Patterson in 1995 and is just the second-ever Defensive Player of the Year as the award was established prior to the 2011 season.

The two were selected as Bushnell Cup finalists, along with Brown senior defensive back/return specialist AJ Cruz and Cornell junior quarterback Jeff Mathews, by a vote of the Ivy League's eight head coaches. Mathews joined 2010 Co-Bushnell Cup recipient and 2011 finalist Nick Schwieger of Dartmouth as just the second player to be twice named a Bushnell Cup finalist. Mathews was the 2011 Bushnell Cup recipient as Offensive Player of the Year. Cruz ended his stellar career as the 41st player in Ivy League football history to be selected first-team All-Ivy three times and the 10th Brown player to be honored three times on the first team.

It pains me to say it but it's tough to argue with Chapple over Matthews. Matthews threw for more yards (in no small part because he threw over 70 more passes) but Chapple completed a higher percentage of his throws, threw more TDs and threw half as many interceptions. He was also 6th in the conference with 450 rushing yards. (For comparison's sake, because NCAA stats count QB sacks as rushing yardage, Matthews rushed for -132 yards.)

Harvard had bionic linemen protecting Colton Chapple. (Does Harvard have a minimum quota for recruiting WASP players with reversible names?) They all wore external knee braces for the Cornell game. I wonder which would be more harmful to Harvard football players: a lightning-strike as Chapple goes under center or Government 1310: Introduction to Congress.

Good point with your stats about Chapple completion percentage. It felt as if this year Matthews had one or two more crappy games where nothing went well. He and Cornell also ended 2011 destroying Penn; in 2012 he only came 5 seconds short of maybe tying Penn.

Mathews played with a neck injury after the Harvard game, and he clearly wasn't as sharp as last year, especially in the Columbia game. It's going to be tough to lose Cornell's best OL in Tretter, so the job of protecting Mathews will be that much more difficult next season.

I was surprised to see Luke Hagy missing from the list but perhaps his most outstanding games were outside the Ivies.

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new coach time again.

so much for all the talk of austin wanting someplace to settle down with his family. hehhh. whatever

Although this season was a disappointment, I think he had things headed in the right direction. The Globe and Mail

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so much for all the talk of austin wanting someplace to settle down with his family. hehhh. whatever

I believe the Austins were interested in moving their family from the rather judgmental confines of Mississippi to somewhere more lax...and if any place can be more liberal than Ithaca, perhaps it's Canada.

George64
Although this season was a disappointment, I think he had things headed in the right direction. The Globe and Mail

George, I can't agree with you on that. His offense seems like a good fit for the CFL, but he didn't seem to recruit the lineman we needed. It was somewhat fun to watch the explosive passing, but I never had that good, we're going to win this, feeling.

His stats:

     Total Conf
2010  2-8  1-6
2011  5-5  3-4
2012  4-6  2-5

Not the kind of stats that warm your heart. We always seem to have a coach that makes it seem like we could win, but we don't. Where is Maxie Baughan? Just kidding.

Jim Hyla

George64
Although this season was a disappointment, I think he had things headed in the right direction. The Globe and Mail

George, I can't agree with you on that. His offense seems like a good fit for the CFL, but he didn't seem to recruit the lineman we needed. It was somewhat fun to watch the explosive passing, but I never had that good, we're going to win this, feeling.

His stats:

     Total Conf
2010  2-8  1-6
2011  5-5  3-4
2012  4-6  2-5

Not the kind of stats that warm your heart. We always seem to have a coach that makes it seem like we could win, but we don't. Where is Maxie Baughan? Just kidding.

And finishing in last place in team defense in the Ivy League didn't help. You aren't going to win many games consistently when your defensive backs are leaders in tackles each game. I agree we are lacking SIZE on both lines. Size on defense to stop the run and pressure the passer, and size on offense to establish a decent running game.