Yale Daily News

Updated: Monday, November 23, 2009 1:03 a.m.

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Football | Sacked in Ithaca

BIG RED SHOCK ELIS, 17-14

Staff Reporter
Published Monday, September 29, 2008

It wasn’t supposed to be like this.

The football team opened its Ivy League slate at Cornell (2-0, 1-0 Ivy) on a wet Saturday and left Ithaca with a very sour taste in its mouth.

A year after obliterating the Big Red at home, 51-12, the highly favored Bulldogs (1-1, 0-1 Ivy) struggled defensively and suffered their first loss of the season, 17-14 .

Just a week after cruising to 47 points against Georgetown (1-3), the Yale offense floundered against an aggressive Cornell defense that applied constant pressure throughout the game, with changing blitzes and schemes....

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