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ITHACA, N.Y.—In Harvard football’s second Ivy League matchup of the season, the Cornell defense was run over worse than Harvard Yard after a visit from a busload of international tourists. The Crimson rushing attack, spearheaded by junior Gino Gordon and freshman Treavor Scales, combined for 251 yards and four touchdowns, as Harvard (3-1, 2-0 Ivy) defeated Cornell (2-2, 1-1), 28-10, on Saturday afternoon at Schoellkopf Field...
...with 9:34 left in the game, the Crimson began the drive with two runs from Gordon for nine yards. But an illegal formation penalty called on Harvard put the Crimson back where it stared the drive in a third-and-10 situation. Opting to stay with the ground attack, Gordon busted a 15-yard rush up the middle, which moved the chains and kept the clock ticking...
...Crimson hit for a season-high .357 and committed only eight errors on the night. Fryhofer was nearly flawless, hitting for .818 with nine kills and no errors. Five players racked up six kills or more, including 11 from Ingersoll. Facilitating the attack was senior Lily Durwood, who dished out 36 assists...
Something must have clicked during the several minutes in between the first set and the second, as the Crimson took to the court again and shut down the Big Red attack. Over the course of the next three frames, Harvard held Cornell to attack clips of .188, .147 and .000, respectively, to claim each set en route to its first Ivy League victory...
...even as abolitionists used the Exodus to attack slavery, Southerners used it to defend the institution. The War Between the States became the War Between the Moseses. Slaveholders cited a bevy of biblical passages - Abraham acquires slaves; Moses invites slaves to the first Passover; Jesus does nothing to free slaves - to claim the Bible endorsed slavery. The book that joined Americans together was torn asunder by slavery. (See the top 10 Jesus films...