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Trailing by only one-point with just under 11 seconds on the clock, the Princeton special teams unit took the field. Kicker Taylor Northrop, who won the Ivy League special team player of the week earlier in the year and had sixteen straight extra points through Saturday, slipped while running to plant his foot and the Tigers' extra-point attempt failed...
...impossible not to [think about last year]," Murphy said. "But, I don't want to hear any of this stuff about jinx or destiny baloney. Technically, [Splendorio] shouldn't be able to block the kick from that distance. It wasn't much more than an extra-point...
...League king of fourth-quarter comebacks, the Big Red (1-1, 1-0 Ivy) pulled off another improbable victory last Saturday when junior quarterback Ricky Rahne connected on a 15-yard touchdown pass to Joe Splendorio to tie the game up with 2:16 left. Peter Iverson's extra-point kick put Cornell up for good...
...difference in the game turned out to be point-after conversions. Princeton kicker Taylor Northrop, who had already hit a game-tying 52-yard field goal at Harvard, was unable to kick either of his two extra-point attempts. That meant Princeton had to make a two-point conversion to tie the game after scoring its final touchdown. But Princeton's pass to the end zone was incomplete, securing the Yale victory and placing the Bulldogs one win away from their first Ivy title in ten years...
...Crimson, however, is still far from perfect. Penalties continue to plague Harvard this year, and even though kicker Mike Giampaolo connected on all nine of his extra-point...