Under the glaring sun of a lingering Ithaca summer, football head coach Jim Knowles ’87 was asked what the positives were following a long scrimmage and practice with Ithaca College. One of the first things he singled out was an aspect of a team that rarely gets discussed.
“Special-teams wise we were way ahead of the game,” he said at the time.
Roughly two months later, the Red’s special teams are still coming up big for the team. Unfortunately for the squad, however, Princeton’s (3-4, 2-2 Ivy) special teams were equally productive in Cornell’s (4-3, 1-3) 34-31 loss to the Tigers last Friday.