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...loss and poor play overshadowed a momentous occasion.On a 55-yard run deep into Penn territory early in the first quarter, senior tailback Clifton Dawson broke the Ivy League career rushing record.The mark was previously held by Cornell graduate Ed Marinaro, who set it back in 1971 at 4,715 yards with just two fewer carries than Dawson.The back was contained on his first run of the day for only one yard, but on his second carry the back found a hole and stretched a rush into 55 yards by breaking numerous tackles in true Dawson fashion.The long...
...That was especially true in the early going, when Penn managed 68 yards on the ground and earned two touchdowns thanks to the feet of Quaker tailback Joe Sandberg. The next three quarters, however, saw Penn gain just 30 more rushing yards, giving the team 98 for the game. It was the eighth time this year that Harvard has held an opponent under the arbitrarily sacred 100-yard mark...
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...Cornell’s Ed Marinaro in 1971, and with just 53 more yards, Dawson will add it to his ever-growing list of achievements. If there’s a rushing record in the Crimson books, Dawson holds it.With all the excitement swirling around the senior tailback, it’s easy to forget that Harvard has a game to play and a league championship to fight for. The Crimson finds itself in a three-way race for the title, and must beat the Quakers to have any chance of reeling it in.“All hyperbole aside...
Yale is a one-trick pony: it leads the conference in rushing offense, with senior tackle and Draddy Award (the “Academic Heisman”) candidate Ed McCarthy and sophomore tailback Mike McLeod (1,096 yards), but ranks fifth in rushing defense, sixth in passing defense, and dead last in passing offense...