Word: skid
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...Even if the Big Green (4-7-0, 4-5-0) lacks a national ranking, and even if it stumbled to an abysmal 0-4-0 start, the Crimson-Dartmouth rivalry always promises to be a good one. The Big Green’s season-opening skid began with a 6-2 loss at Harvard’s Bright Hockey Center and continued with a 3-0 shutout at Princeton, a 7-5 barnburner at Quinnipiac and a 3-2 home-opening defeat at the hands of Colgate. Successive wins over Cornell, Brown and Yale brought Dartmouth within a game...
...bottom of the basket,” Lackner said. “And we didn’t come out with enough defensive intensity. We show flashes of promising team defense, but we are still looking for consistency.” The Crimson looks to end its losing skid Tuesday against Boston University, just the second home game of the year for Harvard. —Staff writer Aidan E. Tait can be reached at atait@fas.harvard.edu...
...first time in school history that Cornell (6-4, 4-3) has had two 1,000-yard rushers in the same season. Penn (5-5, 3-4), which had only 149 yards of total offense, lost its fourth straight—its longest losing streak since a five-game skid in 1991. It’s also Penn’s first four-loss Ivy League season since 1996. Cornell trailed 7-3 in the third quarter but, aided by a 24-yard pass play from Kuhn to Anthony Jackson, moved to the Penn 30. Kuhn then carried...
...yards, 2 TDs—Dawson, 28 carries for 100 yardsLafayette—Davis, 16-of-24 for 263 yards, 1 INT, 2 TDsSignificance overall: It may have been a non-league win, but the Crimson got back on track after its two-game skid, proving that it had alternate receiving options and that O’Hagan was learning from his previous mistakes. Record after: 3-2 (1-1 Ivy)OCT. 22, HARVARD vs. PRINCETON, 27-24 (L)Turning point: When Jay McCareins returned a Harvard kickoff 93 yards down the right sideline to give the Tigers...
...tailgate and Game are always fun, even if Yale is hosting them. It only happens once a year, and it is certainly worth taking time out from studying to support a fun college rivalry. And for those freshmen worried that they might find themselves wandering aimlessly the skid row that is New Haven, University Hall has arranged for all students, not just upperclassmen, to crash in Yale’s residential colleges...