Ivy Football Roundup: Ancient Eight kicks into gear

If students around the Ivy League are anything like those at Penn, they likely don’t know how their football team did this past weekend. After all, how could they when they leave after the third quarter?

So the student newspaper serves a special role Monday morning, reporting what happened on Ivy gridirons across the northeast.

In that spirit, this edition of Ivy football roundup takes a look at the league through the eyes of its eight papers:

“Especially clutch”

I was always taught that things are either clutch or not — wet naps at a barbecue restaurant: clutch; LeBron James: not clutch — so I’m not exactly sure what “especially clutch” means. Nonetheless, this is how the Harvard Crimson described backup quarterback Colton Chapple, who started in place of the injured Collier Winters as the Crimson took on Lafayette.

Chapple put the Crimson up 17-3 at the half before exiting with a back injury, when sophomore Michael Pruneau entered. He filled in admirably, completing 4-of-6 passes for 44 yards in the second half, as Harvard won, 31-3.

“Princeton’s rushing game is certainly not strong”

Yet somehow it was able to bowl through Columbia for 227 yards in a 24-21 Tigers win, reported the Columbia Spectator.

That can only mean one thing: the Columbia rush defense is certainly not strong. Penn playcallers take note.

The win was Princeton’s first in 10 tries dating back to last year, a mark that wasn’t lost on the Daily Princetonian — between the headline and first two paragraphs, The Prince noted the bittersweet factoid four times.

“Somebody asked me how my wrist feels today, and I told them, ‘It’s a little sore, but it’s not broken.’”

Or as John Mellencamp says, it “hurts so good” for Brown quarterback Kyle Newhall-Caballero, who threw two touchdowns and ran for two more in a 35-21 victory over rival Rhode Island. The win avenged a loss to the in-state rival last year.

Newhall-Caballero broke his wrist in the 2010 Governor’s Cup game, ending his season, and prompting the above statement as reported by the Brown Daily Herald.

“We’ve been waiting for Harvard for a long time.”

Cornell quarterback Jeff Matthews had Harvard on his mind about 25 minutes into the Big Red’s matchup with Wagner. That was about the time it became clear Cornell would be on the good end of a 31-7 thrashing.

The Cornell Daily Sun reported on the game that was a complete turnaround from last year, when Wagner won, 41-7.

Matthews may have to keep waiting for Harvard. Though the two square off this weekend, the Big Red haven’t won the matchup since 2005.

“[Insert witty quote]”

After scrounging around the Yale Daily News website, it appears they didn’t even write a recap of the Elis’ 37-7 loss to Lehigh.

Is it hockey season already?

“It wasn’t pretty.”

These three words began _The Dartmouth_’s accurate description of Penn’s 22-20 win over the Big Green. By now you know the rest of the story: a rainy night, too many turnovers, a game-winning drive and a chartered flight home for Penn.

That plane ride? Super clutch.

Update: The Yale Daily News finally did post a recap of the Yale-Lehigh game. But the final score really says it all.

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