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Live Blog: Football Faces Harvard in Road Ivy Clash
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Follow live as the Red looks to beat the Crimson for the third straight season.
The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/cornell-football/)
Follow live as the Red looks to beat the Crimson for the third straight season.
“Harvard’s Harvard. They do the same thing every year. They have a very base defense — they have four down, three linebackers. They’re very solid, and they don’t change a lot of what they do because they’re pretty good at what they do.”
I received a phone call from my head football coach and mentor on a day like any other in my junior year at DeLaSalle High School in Minneapolis. He told me that a coach from Cornell University would be coming to meet me that afternoon. All of my hard work academically and athletically was finally paying off. My dream was always to play Division I football at an Ivy League school, and this day was my very first step to accomplishing that goal. At that time in my high school career, I had my sights set on Harvard, Princeton and Columbia.
The Red suffered a tragic fate on Saturday. Despite playing well throughout the first three quarters, Cornell fell apart in the fourth, effectively sealing its own fate. Here are eight observations from the Yale Bowl:
Princeton and Dartmouth football trounced their opponents over the weekend to become the only two Ivies left to remain undefeated.
The Columbia Lions are 5-0 atop the Ivy League. Meanwhile, Cornell is 1-4.
HAMILTON, N.Y. — Sophomore quarterback Dalton Banks could not afford to make a mistake. In a game where the gunslinger wasn’t at his sharpest, ending the first half completing just 11 of 24 passes, he could ill afford an error with the Cornell football team down 38-33 to the No. 25 Colgate Raiders and just 90 seconds left on the clock. This is Banks’ first year starting for the Red, but he exudes the confidence of an upperclassman. He’s poised and confident, but still makes mistakes, as is expected of a first-time starter.