Cornell 17 Yale 14 (Homecoming)

[Trotsky]

14-7 at halftime. 10 punts combined in the first half.  Yale got their TD on a 71-yd punt return.

[TimV]

Aside from the 67 yard punt return, Cornell completely manhandled Yale.  Defense looks great, running game very effective.  Yale losing poise as shown by lots of pushing and shoving and a few personal fouls.  Hope the punt return doesn't shift the momentum, up to that point Yale body language looked like a beaten team.

[Al DeFlorio]

Offense has been completely shut down in the second half.

[Jordan 04]

Keith Hernandez giving the Cornell-Yale 17-7 score update during the Mets broadcast (as a way to needle broadcast partner and Yale alumnus Ron Darling).

(And apparently Keith's wife is a Cornellian)

[Trotsky]

Our offense is basically Yale fumbles.  Score gets a shout-out on the Mets' broadcast thanks to Darling's Yale roots and Hernandez' (?) wife's Cornell roots.

[TimV]

Was that the dreaded prevent defense?  The deense has been dominating all game.  Please don't change anything now!

[TimV]

Needed that sack bad.

[Trotsky]

Yale scores with 58 seconds to go, 17-14.

[Al DeFlorio]

Tim, I think THAT was the "dreaded prevent defense."

[Trotsky]

Cornell recovers kick.  2-0, baby.

[TimV]

Score of this game doesn't nearly reflect howw much Yale was handled today.  Good.  Others won't take us as anything more than having pulled off a fluke upset.  If they punch in a TD at the series ending in the missed FG, that would have looked more like the real story of this game.::banana::

[TimV]

Geez.  Final Score graphic shows us as 1-0 overall, 0-0 in the Ivy.  HELLO???::wtf::

[Al DeFlorio]

Brown knocked off Harvard 24-22 in the only other Ivy-Ivy game, so the two pre-season favorites are 0-1 in the league.  Harvard missed a two-point conversion in the final minute.

[Josh '99]

[quote Jordan 04]Keith Hernandez giving the Cornell-Yale 17-7 score update during the Mets broadcast (as a way to needle broadcast partner and Yale alumnus Ron Darling).

(And apparently Keith's wife is a Cornellian)[/quote]Keith also called us the "Cornell Bears".  ::doh::

[billhoward]

Awesome defensive play by Cornell. The offense got untracked enough to score 17 points (should have been 20 but for a missed chip shot field goal). The defense had something like six sacks, three (?) fumble recoveries, a blocked FG (rememember, we won by 3), and an interception.

The said, on that one Yale punt return for TD and the last minute Yale TD (80 yards, 90 seconds), we put up about as much resistance as Lindsay Lohan with three margaritas in her.

I thought Mike McLeod, Yale RB, was going to clobber us single-handedly, but the defense figured him out by the second quarter and he got about 50 yards for the whole game. Meanwhile we got a pretty good runnign game from Randy Barbour (#30), who's a junior (I forgot and was hoping he was just a sophomore). I thought Cornell's quarterbacking was okay: Nathan Ford hit a couple good passes early in the game but later he had several overthrows, one or two wounded ducks that fell incomplete, and a pick thrown right at a Yale defender.

I was in Watkins Glen for the week so I figured, what the heck, I should go, even if I got soaked and Cornell got clobbbered. The drizzle let up early in the game, came back a bit, then in the fourth quarter the sun came out and off came the ponchos. It's these kinds of moments that trick out-of-the-region HS seniors into thinking Cornell must have nice weather. Hah!

The FieldTurf field looks incredibly green. The red end zones look great for football but I think it's going to screw up lacrosse which, I believe, sticks five yards into each end zone. I personally think it's a mistake for a field that's not football-only.

This was homecoming and for the second year, Cornell took all the money it's saving by being able to send e-mail notices not paper mail, and put on a free barbecue in the Crescent parking lot.

Awesome early start to the season. We could easily be 0-2 and instead we're 2-0. LGR!