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...rough come from?Last season fans could’ve found Jenkins working out with the defense—the secondary, to be exact. But gearing up for a tough Penn run game led by then-senior Joe Sandberg last November, coaches decided to use Jenkins as a scout tailback to prepare the defense for the ground attack. Impressed by his performance, the coaching staff returned the sophomore to running back for a trial run.The 5’11, 190 pound tailback joined the first team offense in the annual spring game held last April, posting 19 carries...
...passes for 320 yards and two touchdowns to go with no interceptions.The starter began the game on a tear, completing nine of his first 10 passes for 163 yards, including a 53-yard touchdown strike to junior wide receiver Matt Luft and a 17-yard score to sophomore tailback Gino Gordon. Luft had four catches for 99 yards in the first quarter alone and finished with 10 catches for 148 yards.But it would be the end of the first drive that would cost Harvard. After the first touchdown, junior place kicker Patrick Long’s PAT hit the bottom...
...quarter: A couple updates: Gino Gordon gets the start at tailback, and there's a steady but relatively light rain here in Providence, not the torrential downpours everyone feared...
...rushed for 83 yards and scored a touchdown.When the Quakers lose to Lafayette tomorrow, I suspect that once again DiMaggio, a potential star in this league, will not be the culprit. Penn’s defense is good, but so is the Leopards’. And with Lafayette senior tailback Maurice White exploding onto the scene with 318 rushing yards in his first two games as a starter, the numbers just don’t add up for the Quakers.Prediction: Lafayette 20, Penn 14PRINCETON (0-1) VS. LEHIGH (1-1)Princeton is certainly glad to be back in New Jersey...
...down. The drive finished with a touchdown pass from Randolph to Jon Brock and a successful extra point kick from Matt Partain, giving Holy Cross the 7-3 lead. Harvard’s second possession started off with a 15-yard run by Ben Jenkins, the junior safety-turned-tailback, but ended much like its first. After getting a first down at the Crusader 19 with a 12-yard pass to Iannuzzi, an incomplete pass and two short rushes forced Harvard to settle for another field goal. “Third down is something we really excelled at a year...