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Penn Tops Brown in OT to Stay in a Tie for Ivy Lead
The Quakers notched their first win over the Bears since 2004.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - For the 1,300th game in the Penn football program’s history, coach Al Bagnoli gave a nod to the team’s past.
The Quakers’ 14-7 overtime win at Brown yesterday featured an offense that recalled Bagnoli’s pass-heavy attack from earlier this decade, and a defense that made the final score look like something from many decades earlier.
That combination produced a result of some consequence for the present. It was the Quakers’ first win over the Bears since 2004 and their first overtime win since that same season. It also kept Penn tied with Harvard atop the Ivy League standings.
Patriot Games: Scholarships Pose Threat to the Ivy Way
Imagine, for a second, that instead of traveling to Holy Cross tomorrow to watch Harvard take on the Crusaders, you were one of over 30,000 fans packing into a maximum-capacity Harvard Stadium as the Crimson kicked off its season against a major-conference team, say, Boston College. It’s a pleasant thought, but the reality is far more complex.
Fordham’s decision in June to begin awarding football scholarships starting with this year’s recruiting class piqued the interest of a lot of people in the Ivy League football community. The move shows a changing mentality in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS, formerly Division 1-AA), which includes the Ancient Eight.
“It’s something we’re definitely keeping an eye on because if they go scholarships—we’re talking about the league now—it will change dramatically,” Harvard coach Tim Murphy says. “The last time any Patriot League school had scholarships in that league was Holy Cross in the ’80s and ’90s. They dominated Eastern football at this level in a way that wasn’t seen before and hasn’t been seen since.”
Harvard Voted 2009 Ivy League Preseason Favorite
For the third time in four years, Harvard was selected the favorite in the annual Ivy League Football Preseason Media Poll to win the 2009 Ivy title, announced today on the Ivy League Football Media Day Teleconference.
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Dartmouth College, where former U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson was an All Ivy football player in the 1960s, has scrapped a $15 million stadium renovation project as its sports endowment plunged as much as 18 percent.
Harvard University, the wealthiest U.S. school, shuttered its Malkin Athletic Center to save money and cut its sports travel budget. Brown University in Rhode Island is calling on private donors to fund sports projects. Construction and hiring freezes are in place at Cornell University.
The deepest recession in five decades may leave the Ivy League behind on the field. The economy is choking donations, battering endowments and threatening to eliminate some sports programs. The eight schools, which have educated 14 U.S. presidents and half of the 110 justices in Supreme Court history, have estimated endowment losses of as much as 35 percent this year.
New Ivy League Commissioner Not Rushing into Football Playoff Debate
After about the third time I rephrased the same question, Robin Harris couldn’t mistake the direction of the conversation Friday.
Harris, the new executive director/commissioner of the Ivy League, who replaced Jeffrey Orleans on July 1, gently rebuked my attempts to discern whether she arrives with a predilection toward allowing the Ivy League to compete in the postseason in football. It’s one of two hot button league issues, along with a postseason league tournament in men’s and women’s basketball. Or so I thought.
“Actually, that topic (football postseason) never came up in the interview process,” said Harris, a native New Yorker who used to spend summers at Camp Hadar in Clinton and whose parents have lived in Madison for over 20 years.
Can the Ivy League Get Its Game Back?
Lackluster teams prompt calls for change; a new chief’s listening tour.
The schools of the Ivy League are among the nation’s finest and richest, with billions in endowments under their command. From law to business to medicine, they’re No. 1 in practically every department but one: sports.
Why are the Ancient Eight increasingly irrelevant in the most competitive arena of all? The short answer, the long-accepted one, is that they choose to be: that they won’t sacrifice their academic ideals by giving athletic scholarships to athletes. But other factors—like a long-standing ban on postseason football games and the schools’ academic standards for athletes—appear to be dragging the league down.
FGCU AD SEARCH: Parry Becomes First to Interview with Search Committee
ESTERO — Former Butler University athletic director John Parry, who led the Indianapolis program to Horizon League heights and national prominence, was the first to interview with Florida Gulf Coast University’s 10-person athletic director search committee.
Dressed in a dark suit, white shirt and red-striped tie, the 65-year-old Parry, the deputy commissioner for branch operations with the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles since 2006, spoke to the committee for 90 minutes on Tuesday afternoon.
Fordham Football Announces New Assistant Coaches
Bronx, N.Y. - Fordham University head football coach Tom Masella announced the addition of three assistant coaches to his staff with the hiring of Malik Hall, Ed Morrissey and John Wholley. Hall will direct the defensive line and serve as the special teams coordinator while Morrissey will be in charge of the offensive line and will be the recruiting coordinator and Wholley will coach the running backs and slot receivers. Additionally, Masella announced that assistant coach Patrick Moore has been elevated to defensive coordinator while assistant Bryan Volk has been promoted to offensive coordinator.
- 839 words - Patriot League, Massachusetts Minutemen, Hofstra Pride, Brown Bears, Central Connecticut State Blue Devils, Fordham Rams At Last, a Big Game to Rile Delaware
Proximity, history could charge UD-DSU meetings.
The University of Delaware and Delaware State University have some catching up to do.
Football rivalries don’t form overnight. But UD and DSU already have many of the ingredients to make this one special.
On Tuesday, the schools announced their first regular-season meeting will take place Sept. 19, followed by three annual games beginning in 2012.
Special Qualities are Morey's Draw
TAMPA - Even with one Super Bowl ring and a Pro Bowl berth on his résumé, Arizona Cardinals wide receiver/special teams ace Sean Morey still had a chip on his shoulder when he took the field for the opening kickoff of Super Bowl XLIII last night at Raymond James Stadium.
“I don’t think you ever really lose it. There’s always a chip on your shoulder,” said the Marshfield native and former Marshfield High star, who began his NFL career with the Patriots in 1999, but didn’t stick in the league until 2003, with stops in NFL Europe, furniture delivery, dock building, and a fishing boat in between.
Super Son Day: Morey Story has Roots on South Shore
Proud dad of Cardinals’ Sean Morey has his own Brockton football roots.
More than 4 1/2 decades after he ran his last play out of the old Wing-T at Brockton High, Dennis Morey’s former coach can still see him breaking free.
“I can still see him running around,” former Brockton High School head football coach Mario DiMarzo said last weekend. “Dennis had great speed and was very mobile, very agile. He moved around pretty good. It was tough to get him down.”
Time has proven it’s tough to keep the youngest of Dennis and Pat Morey’s four children down.
“The harder you work, the luckier you get,” Dennis Morey said in summarizing the football career path his son has followed from his days growing up in Marshfield. “Sean has a passion for the game.”
Former FCS in the 2009 Super Bowl
UNI’s Kurt Warner, TSU’s Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie, and Hofstra’s Willie Colon expected to start.
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The New Yorker has reservations about the inclusion of a third-string football player - and one season sprint football player - at the Ivy league dinner earlier this month.
By last Thursday night, with the changing of the guard in Washington complete, some star power had returned to New York, and there, in the grand ballroom at the Waldorf-Astoria, sat an assortment of media and political figures in tuxedos, such as might have been found at one of the lesser inaugural balls: Stone Phillips, Iowa governor Chet Culver, “Hill Street Blues” star Ed Marinaro, Donald Rumsfeld. Ambassador Thomas Stephenson had just flown in from Lisbon. Ted Kennedy couldn’t make it, but he sent a letter to be read on his behalf by the TV newsman Jack Ford. Five hundred dollars a plate, recession be damned. The Reverend Jason Pankau, a personal life coach from Stamford, offered an invocation from Proverbs 27:17: “ ‘As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.’ We all share the common bond of having been sharpened . . . on Ivy League football fields.”
Ex-Brown Star Morey Has Gone from Longshot to Pro-Bowler
The alarm rang at 5 a.m. and, as Sean Morey dragged himself out of bed to head off to work moving furniture, he thought: “Wow — this is it. It’s over.”
It was the fall of 2001, the NFL season was just beginning, and Morey wasn’t playing, having been cut by the Eagles a few days earlier, at the end of training camp.
He’d been a standout wide receiver at Brown, the best in school history. He’d been drafted in the seventh round by the Patriots in 1999, but spent most of his two years with New England on the practice squad. In the spring of ’01 he’d gone to Spain, to play for the Barcelona Dragons in NFL Europe. Now, the Eagles had let him go.
Maryland's Crab Bowl Features Future FCS Football Players
Wearing a uniform similar to the one he will don next season for the University of Maryland, running back Caleb Porzel stood near midfield after today’s inaugural Maryland Crab Bowl all-star game and began to reel off the names of several of his future teammates standing nearby.
“We’re all playing as a family,” said Porzel, a senior, who had just played with and against eight future Terrapins. “It’s a great way to end up a high school career.”
Front-runner for Yale job is UMass’ Brown
There has been no lack of qualified applicants for the vacant Yale football coaching job.
Holy Cross head coach Tom Gilmore, a former Bushnell Cup winner as the most valuable player in the Ivy League during his playing days at Penn, was in for an interview on Monday. On Tuesday, it was UMass head coach Don Brown, a former defensive coordinator at Yale, who was in New Haven for an interview.
Florida offensive line coach Steve Addazio, who coached Cheshire to three consecutive state titles and a 34-game winning streak in the 1990s, former Sacred Heart University coach Jim Fleming, and Stanford offensive coordinator Dave Shaw also met with Yale officials.
Brown Football Keeps Ivy hopes Alive
Coming off a 13-3 loss to Yale, the football team (6-3, 5-1 Ivy) responded with an emphatic 45-16 win over Dartmouth on Saturday. Quarterback and co-captain Michael Dougherty ‘09 completed 16 of 22 passes for 238 yards and threw two touchdowns while rushing for another.
Brown Wins Battle of Ivy Unbeatens at Penn Homecoming
The phrase “adding insult to injury” was never more appropriate.
After seeing its quarterback go down with what could be a season-ending knee injury, Penn saw its Ivy title hopes follow suit: The Quakers fell, 34-27, at Franklin Field to Brown, which now has sole possession of first place in the conference.
Brown’s Estes Puts Emphasis on Big Picture, Not Penn
Phil Estes doesn’t want to hear about his Brown football team being 3-0 in the Ivy League for the first time.
“It’s the most insignificant piece of garbage I’ve ever heard of. We’re 3-0. Who cares? That’s not the record we’re looking for. I don’t really care,” he said.
Estes sounded a little cranky yesterday, perhaps because it’s getting cold at practice or because alums chew on 3-0 tidbits like dogs gnawing ham bones.
Quakers' Faceoff with Brown for Homecoming in Game of the Season
Are you ready for some football?
Saturday’s nationally televised matchup between the two remaining unbeaten teams in Ivy League play, Brown and Penn, has all of the storylines you could ever want for a Homecoming game at Franklin Field.
VERSUS television network calls it the Ivy League game of the week. That might just be the understatement of the week, too.
It’s the Ivy League game of the season, at least to date.
The Bears (4-2, 3-0 Ivy) come to Philadelphia this weekend with the second-best offense in the Ancient Eight and a three-game winning streak against the Quakers (4-2, 3-0 Ivy).
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