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Sports Weekend Update 10-11-09: 28-10 Loss to Harvard Drops Football to .500

Sun Staff  —  Oct 11, 2009

On a day when neither team could get much going through the air, Harvard's ground game picked up the slack, rushing for 251 yards and all four touchdowns and giving up only 62 to a struggling Cornell running attack that has averaged just 57 yards over its last three games. The win boosted Harvard (3-1, 2-0 Ivy), the preseason favorite to win the Ivy League, to the top of the conference standings, while dropping Cornell (2-2, 1-1) into a fourth-place tie with Yale.

Sports Weekend Update 10-3-09: Colgate Runs Through Red Defense

Sun Staff  —  Oct 3, 2009

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Colgate 45, Football 23

The setting changed but the outcome certainly didn't; for the second year in a row, Colgate's offense physically overwhelmed Cornell's defense. The Raiders logged 561 total yards, 344 on the ground. The three-headed rushing attack of junior quarterback Greg Sullivan (84 rushing yards and one touchdown) and sophomore running backs Jordan McCord (98 rushing yards and two touchdowns) and Nate Eachus (129 rushing yards and three touchdowns) netted an average of 5.7 yards per carry and accounted for 20 of Colgate's 32 first downs — Cornell had just 15 total first downs.

Sports Update 3-29-2009: Men's Hockey To Take on Bemidji State Tonight With Frozen Four Spot On the Line

Keenan Weatherford  —  Mar 28, 2009

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Men's hockey: 3, Northeastern: 2

Senior Evan Barlow continued his late-season hot streak and scored the game-winner to lift Cornell to a 3-2 comeback win over Northeastern. The Red advances to play in the finals of the NCAA Midwest Regional at 8 p.m. ET on Sunday against the winner of Notre Dame-Bemidji St.

Sports Weekend Update: M. Hockey Takes Tough 5-4 Loss at Dartmouth

Sun Staff  —  Feb 14, 2009

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Dartmouth: 5, Men's Hockey: 4

To their knees: Junior goalie Ben Scrivens tries to corral the puck after a shot by Dartmouth.To their knees: Junior goalie Ben Scrivens tries to corral the puck after a shot by Dartmouth.

The men's hockey team got off to a hot start on Friday night with two goals in the first 8:00 of action at Dartmouth, only to see its lead eaten away by a series of bad bounces and mental errors. When the dust had settled, Dartmouth won the game in overtime, 5-4, on a controversial goal by Joe Gaudet.

Sports Weekend Update 9-26-09: Defense Lifts Football Over Yale

Keenan Weatherford  —  Sep 26, 2009

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Football 14, Yale 12

For the second year in a row, the Red defense preserved a win over the favored Bulldogs. For the second year in a row, Cornell moved to 2-0, while Yale fell to 1-1.

Neither team could get its offense into a rhythm this afternoon in New Haven, Conn., but big plays by senior receiver Bryan Walters and junior safety Anthony Ambrosi handed the Red a lead, and the Cornell defense stepped up in a big way to shut down a potential game-tying two-point conversion at the end of regulation.

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