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...officially up, Brown. I hope you enjoyed your brief run as Ivy League football??s version of the Tampa Bay Rays, the gritty underdog threatening to take down the two well-endowed powerhouses at the top of its division. The Bears’ 78 points allowed in their last two games do not exactly scream out “sleeper pick...
...minutes of his young collegiate carrier had come last weekend after sophomore wideout Chris Lorditch sprained his ankle. “We did what we said we had to do,” Harvard coach Tim Murphy said. “Number one, do a great job protecting the football??Two, some young guys are gonna have to step up with our wideouts down…I’m very proud of how our young receivers stepped up in a big game.” With only slightly more experience behind him, sophomore Levi Richards?...
...know what you’re getting with “The Express:” an uplifting sports film through and through. “The Express” tells the true story of Ernie Davis (played by Rob Brown), the first black football player to win college football??s most prestigious award, the Heisman Trophy. Davis hailed from Elmira, a small mining town in Pennsylvania—hence his real nickname, “The Elmira Express”—and followed in the footsteps of NFL hall-of-famer Jim Brown at Syracuse...
...trickle-down effect of talent has meant that upsets are more likely within Division I-A, as well as in matchups between Division I-A and I-AA squads (the most famous example being Appalachian State’s stunning upset of Michigan last season). These changes in college football??s talent distribution seem to have helped academically strong schools at that level...
...this week’s Associated Press poll. Tiger Stadium, where Hatch made his first two starts, seats 92,400 fans, and that number is almost always present for a home game. Last season, the Tigers won the BCS national championship, taking the title in college football??s highest division by downing Ohio State 38-24.By way of contrast, Harvard Stadium has a capacity of 30,323, a number that is only reached for the biennial Cambridge edition of The Game. The Crimson cannot compete in the playoffs due to Ivy League rules, and Ivy contests...