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Columbia Women Dominate Penn in NYC
Columbia scored seven total trys controlling the entire contest against a traveling University of Pennsylvania. The halftime score was 15- nil Columbia.
Pregame
Penn travels to NYC to take on Columbia in this Tier 2 Ivy matchup. Penn are looking for win #1 in the Ivies. The match will take place Saturday evening starting at 7:30 on Randall's Island Field 75.
Dartmouth Women Over Princeton 84-15
PRINCETON, N.J. – The Dartmouth women’s rugby team capped its 2016 regular season with an 84-15 win at Princeton Saturday afternoon. The Big Green improved to 5-1 overall this fall with a 4-0 mark against Ivy opponents with the win.
A game that was never in doubt, Dartmouth carried a 55-0 lead into halftime and built the lead to 74 before the Tigers finally managed to notch their first points of the day in the 53rd minute.
Princeton 40 - Columbia 21
Princeton defeats Columbia by a score of 40-21.
PregameColumbia travels down Route 1 to Princeton University to take on the Tigers. Princeton (1-0) won big last week on the road at Yale, while Columbia (0-1) lost a 3 try to 3 match when Cornell's Seth Feder became an unexpected star by converting 2 of 3 trys to Columbia's none.
Harvard Women over Princeton 58-5
PRINCETON, N.J. – The Harvard women's rugby team took down Princeton, 58-5, on the road Saturday. The Crimson moved to 4-1 overall, including 2-1 in Ivy League action. Jess Lu scored the only try for Princeton.
The Crimson was rolling in every aspect of the game, dominating offensively while containing the Princeton attack throughout the day. Harvard held its opponents to single digits for the third time this season, and is allowing an average of just under 10 points per contest.
Brown 28 - Harvard 8
Brown finished a brutal bout with a much deserved win over Harvard on a cloudy Providence fall day, ending with a strong 28-8 score. Both teams were 1-1 before the match, each with a win over UPenn and a loss to Dartmouth. The matched lived up to its expectation as a highly contested and potentially crucial game for Brown.
Dartmouth 86 - Yale 0
New Haven, CT- Dartmouth over Yale 86-0. Dartmouth traveled to New Haven for its first away Ivy League game of the season. With a couple of injuries, the Big Green had to move a few players around, however the offense ran smoothly as Dartmouth had its highest scoring game of the season so far.
When asked about the game captain Hayden Aldredge stated “it was a great win, taking the field with my bros, whoa what a feeling.”
Cornell Men squeaked a win in NYC over a solid Columbia squad
Cornell held on to defeat Columbia by a score of 19-15 in NYC. Cornell's first two scores of the match came from two Cornell rookies.
Cornell played patterned rugby leading up to a score 8 minutes into the game. Freshman wing Justin Kozma scored in the corner after several phases with an unsuccessful conversion. Mike Rothstein’s try was also a multi-phase score that was converted.
Dartmouth men handle Brown at home, take Ivy lead
Hanover, NH- Brown lost to Dartmouth 64-15 on a cloudy cool day in Hanover. Dartmouth scored 10 trys and defeated Brown by a score of 64-15. Coming off of a win at Harvard the Big Green looked to go 2-0 and take first place in the Ivy League. Brown had defeated Penn the week prior and was optimistic.
Dartmouth is a deep strong team and the Bears needed a mistake free effort for a chance to win. So when Brown failed to catch the opening kickoff, possession went to Dartmouth for a try, putting the Bears in a deficit from which they did not recover.
Yale women dominate Penn 43-17
Yale women posted a dominant win over the University of Pennsylvania 43-17. Yale (2-1), Penn (0-3) both head into a well deserved Ivy break.
Pregame
Penn (0-2) travels to New Haven to take on Yale (1-1) in this matchup to kickoff the fall season.
Yale's Walter Camp and 1870s Rugby
Much is written about the birth of American Football in the Ivy League in the 1870s, but it was not until 1880 that Walter Camp lobbied the Ivies and succeeded to change the game from 15-a-side to 11-a-side. If we read between the lines of this American Football article, it's rugby that was predominantly played in the second half of the 1870s and it was played at Yale, Harvard, Princeton and Columbia.
Posted: 10/01/2016