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Penn Wins Ivy South
Coming off their first loss of the season to the Princeton Tigers, the University of Pennsylvania Quakers were looking to cap their fall 15’s season with a victory at home at Penn Park. Nevertheless, it was Cornell’s Big Red that came out firing from kickoff pinning Penn within their own five-meter line.
Columbia Takes Must-Win Game Against Cornell
After trailing 17-7 at the half, Cornell came charging back to take 22-20 on a try by Cornell's Andrew Sapozink with less than 20 minutes left. Columbia scored two late trys though, when it counted and overtook Cornell at the final whistle 32-22.
Scoring Summary
Columbia try Ian Hillman 5-0
Columbia conversion Plana 7-0
Columbia penalty kick Plana 10-0
Cornell try Alex Ryde 10-5
Cornell conversion Sorenson 10-7
Columbia try Danny 15-7
Columbia conversion Plana 17-7
Halftime Columbia 17-Cornell 7
Princeton Wins 21-15 in Close Contest
On a beautiful autumn day the Princeton University Tigers and the University of Pennsylvania Quakers squared off in a rematch on West Windsor Field in Princeton.
Big Green WINS Ivy Rugby North Division!
Three weeks ago in Hanover, Brown was able to come from behind and tie Dartmouth in a 23-23 stalemate. Dartmouth Rugby refused to allow this to happen again, and payback was served Saturday on a sloppy field in Providence. Captain Michael Burbank ’13 called it “the most complete game of rugby that we’ve played all season.” Dartmouth won with a final score of 28-5, securing the Ivy League Rugby North Division regular season title in the process.
Penn Beats Columbia in the Lions Den
Columbia falls to Penn at Randall's Island, NY with the final score 50-21. Coming off a close and hard fought match in Philadelphia, both the University of Pennsylvania Quakers and the Columbia University Lions looked for a decisive victory in their rematch at Randall’s Island.
Tigers Prove Too Strong For Cornell
The Princeton men traveled to Ithaca, New York in cold weather to play Cornell for the second time in two weeks. Cornell, with last week’s game behind them, sought to reverse the outcome of last Saturday.
Columbia Men Defeat Cornell 20-12
Cornell Men hosted Columbia University in its Ivy League home opener last Saturday. After a morning of consistent rain two hours prior, the weather cleared up in time for the noon kick-off. The Columbia side captured the win with the help of their stout defense 20-12.
The Quakers and the Tigers Grit Out a Tie
It was a windy fall day at Penn Park when Princeton met Penn...
Capitalizing on a flurry of early penalties, defensive mis-cues, and spilt ball Princeton Rugby shot out to an early lead in the match between the Tigers and the Quakers in their first fall match. Buoyed by strong running from their backline as well as well timed off-loads, Princeton opened the scoring. They quickly followed with another backline driven try. With two successful conversions the Tigers staked themselves to an early 14-0 lead.
Brown Men Defeat Harvard 55-5
Brown exploded with 35 unanswered second half points to overwhelm Harvard 55-5 for its fourth successive fall 2012 victory. With the Brown-Harvard football game being played across the street at 4:30 P.M., a festive Brown tailgate crowd joined the Brown Rugby faithful and cheered on the Bears on a picture perfect fall day.
Brown Bears Blank Bulldogs
The First XV Brown played a solid match defeating a young Yale First XV on a sunny late summer Saturday afternoon. In the second side match, Yale defeated Brown 15-5. Though Brown's 2nd XV was defeated, the Brown coaching staff is impressed by the intensity of numbers of their freshman class.
First XV Scoring Summary
First Half
13th min try– Brown (Scott Fielding) 5
20th min try- Brown (Scott Fielding) 5
35th min try- Brown (Rob Bentlyewski) 5
First Half: Brown 15 - Yale 0