[OT] Yale @ Cornell 9/25

[Greg Berge]

Scoring so far, very late in the second quarter, Cornell 9 Yale 0:

Cor MacMeekin 32 FG
Cor MacMeekin 23 FG
Cor MacMeekin 25 FG

MacMeekin had just 3 FGs last season and was 0x2 vs Bucknell.  Yale beat Dayton last week.

[Greg Berge]

Cornell 9 Yale 7, 2nd

Yal Cowan-Plumb 24 pass, Sullivan kick.

[ithacat]

nm

[KeithK]

Good for MacMeekin.  But ick for the team.  Three times in the red zone and only three field goals.  Ah, Cornell football!

[Greg Berge]

12 mins to go in regulation, Cornell 16 Yale 7

Cor Hardaway 1 run, MacMeekin kick.

[Greg Berge]

Inside the final 4 minutes, two big third down plays for Cornell -- a run by Joshu Johnston and a competion by DJ Busch to Brian Romney, keep up driving and take us to the Yale 15.  The Bulldogs are now burning their timeouts with about 2 minutes to go.

In the other Ivy game, Harvard is leading Brown 35-31 late in a game where Brown was once up big.

[Greg Berge]

Trevor MacMeekin is perfect today with 4 FGs and an PAT.

Cornell 19 Yale 7, 1:30 to go

Cor MacMeekin 32 FG
Cor MacMeekin 23 FG
Cor MacMeekin 25 FG
Yal Cowan-Plumb 24 pass, Sullivan kick
Cor Hardaway 1 run, MacMeekin kick
Cor MacMeekin 29 FG

[Greg Berge]

1:06 to go, Cornell stops Yale on downs and gives Jim Knowles his first Cornell and Ivy victory.  The Red will finish today in a first place tie with either Harvard or Brown.

[Greg Berge]

Final: Cornell 19 Yale 7

The Red stop 10 game overall and 8 game Ivy losing streaks in beating a solid team.

Nice job.  We can compete this year.

[Jordan 04]

Nice to see us -- after two weeks -- already have a more successful season than 2003.

[Al DeFlorio]

Incredible D today.  181 yards total offense for Yale.  Cowan and Carr simply killed us last year.  Very impressive Ivy start.

[Scott Kominkiewicz]

How was the size of the crowd?  I know that Cornell was pushing for a sellout.

[Al DeFlorio]

[Q]Scott Kominkiewicz Wrote:

 How was the size of the crowd?  I know that Cornell was pushing for a sellout.[/q]
11,000+

[Jordan 04]

They should have saved the 2nd "sellout" attempt for a time when it might have actually come close to succeeding, as it did 4 years ago.  It was both the first home game and homecoming weekend, was it not?  The timing made sense then.

[Al DeFlorio]

[Q]Jordan 04 Wrote:

They should have saved the 2nd "sellout" attempt for a time when it might have actually come close to succeeding, as it did 4 years ago.  It was both the first home game and homecoming weekend, was it not?  The timing made sense then.[/q]
Ten game losing streak didn't help much, either.  Too bad.  Reads like it was a helluva performance.

Next two Ivy games very convenient to Cape Cod, at Harvard (10/9) and Brown (10/23).  Looks like both can put points on the board.

Edit:  Best stat of the game--Yale 1 for 14 on third downs (and 1 for 4 on fourth down)