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...Rodney Burns suffered game-ending injuries early in the first half. This time, the aerial assault remains intact, but the ground game is hurting.Specifically, sophomore Clifton Dawson is questionable to start tomorrow’s contest, slowed by a strained muscle in his side. If the league-leading rusher (134.3 yards per game) is on the sideline, the Crimson will have to look to the air for its offense...
...running back Sam Mathews’ 169-yard, two-touchdown performance that was good enough to earn him Ivy League Offensive Player of the Week. I can’t believe it took six games for Penn to remember that it had a returning first-team All-Ivy rusher in the backfield, but I’m not going to argue with the decisions made by a team that has won 18 straight league games...
...DiGiacomo, who had a solid start to the season but has struggled as of late, was replaced by Anthony Vita, who did just enough to get the Bears past Cornell. Add to that the recent struggles of Nick Hartigan—the Ivy League’s leading rusher last season—and it’s pretty clear why the offense just hasn’t been the same since putting up 31 points in the first half against Harvard in Week...
...players immediately in front of Dawson—Ed Pricolo of Sacred Heart and Sean Mayers of St. Peter’s—both play for mid-major programs and essentially aren’t in the running for the award, leaving the nation’s leading rusher, Charles Anthony of Tennessee State, as Dawson’s lone competition. Remember that name, because we’ll be coming back to him later...
Cornell hasn’t allowed a 100-yard rusher this season, and the players they’ve shut down—including Harvard’s Clifton Dawson and Colgate’s Jamaal Branch—are quite impressive. And now the Big Red will attempt to add Brown running back Nick Hartigan to that list...