The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/category/sports/)
Cornell football earned a season-opening win at Marist on Saturday. In its first game of the season, the Red clearly showed signs of rust as it let a weak Red Fox side hang around for much of the afternoon. Here are nine observations from the victory.
Cornell’s 2019 season starts at Marist on Saturday.
Morgan Barron, Yanni Kaldis and Matt Galajda are preseason All-ECAC selections.
Cornell got the scoring started early, but lost to Syracuse in overtime.
With the 2019 football season set to kick off Sept. 21, The Sun’s football writers took a look at what to expect as the Red takes the field for its 132nd season. Cornell finished 3-7 last year in a season that included a pair of single-digit Ivy League losses and wins over Brown and Harvard.
On Saturday, Cornell first swept Utah State University with a 3-0 defeat. They won 25-13, 25-21, and 25-11 in each of the three sets. Sophomore outside Madison Baptiste and senior middle blocker Jada Stackhouse had 12 and eight kills, respectively.
Senior Jack Casler and junior Charlie Dubiel led Cornell by tying for seventh place individually. Both Casler and Dubiel finished the weekend at two-over par. Their paths to this score, however, were very different.
“We want this to be a place where people don’t want to play us,” said sophomore defender Jonah Kagen of Cornell’s home turf.
The Red, touting an untarnished 2-0 record in their early season, was not prepared for the offensive intensity that No. 14 St. Joseph’s brought to Dodson Field. Just seven minutes into play, the Hawks eclipsed a goal to send the Red to an early deficit.
“I think he is as dangerous a tailback as anybody in the Ivy League.”
“There’s some really talented young guys who we just need to see them play. I think they all have the talent, it’s just a matter of going to do it.
