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Heading into last weekend's Ivy League football match-ups, four schools were tied for first place in the league. By late Saturday afternoon, however, only two of those teams--Brown (7-1 overall, 4-1 Ivy) and Yale (7-1, 4-1)--remained atop the conference, while the weekend's tough-luck losers, Harvard (5-3, 3-2) and Cornell (5-3, 3-2), watched their Ivy League title hopes become considerably remote...
...order for Harvard to now win the league outright, it will not only have to defeat defending league champion Pennsylvania this week and then Yale on the road, but both Yale and Brown will also have to lose twice, and Cornell once. This scenario appears particularly unlikely considering that Brown's two remaining opponents are Dartmouth and Columbia, two squads that boast a combined record...
Like Harvard, Cornell also fell one game back of first place Saturday after dropping a 37-20 decision to Yale. In a game that featured two prolific passing offenses, Yale, led by senior quarterback Joe Walland, eventually outlasted the Big Red, and earned itself a share of the Ivy league's top spot...
...Yale 37, Cornell...
Following two Cornell scoring drives of 98 and 65 yards, Yale trailed the Big Red, 14-7, in the second quarter. But the Elis went on to score 30 unanswered points, and successfully kept the ball out of Cornell's hands for much of the second half...