FOOTBALL | Bulldogs dominated at the Bowl
At least last week’s game was close.
Saturday, the Lafayette Leopards dominated on both sides of the ball as they defeated the Yale football team, 31-14, at a rainy Yale Bowl.
Things looked promising for the Elis at first, as wide receiver Peter Balsam ’11 recovered a Lafayette fumble during the opening kickoff.
Unlike when Yale failed to capitalize on good field position last Saturday against Cornell, the Bulldogs took advantage. Tailback Jordan Ferrell ’10 brought the team within three yards of the goal line before quarterback Patrick Witt ’12 threw a three-yard touchdown...
The inclement weather last Saturday kept me from taking the family to the Lafayette game, not that I mind getting rained on, but the rest of the crew does mind it. So -- I tuned in to the radio broadcast and followed the massacre that way. The pain was real but then I wasn't getting drenched.
Going back to 1912, Lafayette was winless against Yale, so I guess that turn-about is fair play and yes, they finally got their first "W" against the Bulldogs. Earned it.
Dartmouth vs. Penn was on TV and I watched some of that with the sound turned down.
It is cold comfort to know that there is, in Dartmouth, a team even more inept than Yale is at the present time. Looks like it is going to be Columbia which is the shocker this year, in the junior-college level Ivy League. How sad it is that these Ancient Eight teams, who pioneered the college game with such dedication and enthusiasm, one hundred years ago, are now just ASTERISKS in the ranks of this noble sport.