Football

Nailbiters Highlight Ivy Football Week 6

PRINCETON, N.J. – Two of the four games in Week 6 of the Ivy League football season were decided by one score.
 
No. 17 Princeton topped No. 16 Harvard, 18-16, in a five-overtime game. Brown beat Cornell, 49-45, in an offensive shootout which saw five lead changes in the fourth quarter. Yale bested Penn, 42-28, to improve to 3-3 on the season and 2-1 in Ivy League play. The weekend slate started off with Columbia topping No. 25 Dartmouth, 19-0, on Friday evening.
 
FRIDAY, OCT. 22
Columbia 19, No. 25 Dartmouth 0
6 p.m. // Hanover, N.H. // Memorial Field
  • Columbia (5-1, 2-1 Ivy) blanked No. 25 Dartmouth (5-1, 2-1 Ivy), 19-0, Friday evening to mark the Lions first shutout of the Big Green since 1944. The result was also Columbia’s first win over a ranked opponent since 2003.
  • Lions kicker Alex Felkins was 2-for-2 on field goal attempts with makes from 34 and 41 yards. Columbia quarterback Gabriel Hollingsworth found the endzone from one yard out. The Lions other touchdown came on a 25-yard connection between quarterback Joe Green and receiver Mike Roussos.
  • Two-time Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week Jalen Mackie led Dartmouth with 13 tackles.
 

SATURDAY, OCT. 23
Yale 42, Penn 28
12 p.m. // New Haven, Conn. // Yale Bowl
  • Yale (3-3, 2-1 Ivy) topped Penn (2-4, 1-2 Ivy), 42-28, Saturday afternoon.
  • Bulldogs quarterback Nolan Grooms got it done through the air and on the ground. The Lake Wylie, S.C., native was 18-for-27 passing, good for 283 yards and two touchdowns and added 113 rushing yards and two rushing scores. His top target was Mason Tipton, who hauled in five catches for a career-high 132 yards and a touchdown.
  • Penn linebacker Brian O’Neill was second on the team in tackles with seven and snagged his fifth career interception.

 
Brown 49, Cornell 45
1 p.m. // Ithaca, N.Y. // Schoellkopf Field
  • In a contest which saw five lead changes in the final 7:34 of play alone, Brown (2-4, 1-2 Ivy) struck last to earn a 49-45 win over Cornell (1-5, 0-3 Ivy).
  • Brown quarterback EJ Perry was 23-for-37 for 280 yards and four touchdowns through the air. He also added a touchdown on the ground.
  • Cornell quarterback Jameson Wang rushed for 95 yards and a touchdown on just eight attempts and was 7-for-14 passing with two touchdowns and 121 yards.
 

No. 17 Princeton 18, No. 16 Harvard 16 (5OT)
1 p.m. // Princeton, N.J. // Princeton Stadium
  • In a matchup that featured two of the remaining five unbeaten teams in the FCS entering the contest, No. 17 Princeton (6-0, 3-0 Ivy) won 18-16 over No. 16 Harvard (6-0, 3-0 Ivy) in a five-overtime game. Both teams entered the contest in the top-12 in the nation in both scoring offense and scoring defense. The only other team in the top-12 of both categories was No. 6 South Dakota State.
  • The first touchdown of the day came on a blocked punt by Princeton’s special teams unit, which was recovered by Cash Goodhart in the endzone. Harvard’s Aaron Shampklin answered with a two-yard rush to knot things up at 13-13.
  • Princeton’s Cole Smith found receiver Jacob Birmelin in the back of the end zone for the game winning score.