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It's a safe bet that virtually no one saw Columbia winning a share of the Ivy League championship in 2024.
After the Lions slipped back to 1-6 overall and 2-8 last fall, the conference pundits reverted to form and picked them last this year. That was no surprise, but there could be one in store.
Like Brown and Columbia – not to mention Dartmouth and Yale – Cornell returns its starting quarterback, and he's a big one. Literally.
Stuck for his first two years behind Jameson Wang before breaking out in Week 3 last year, Garrett Bass-Sulpizio is a 6-foot-5, 231-pound senior who completed 64.4 percent of his attempts on the season. His best showing was a 37-for-45 (82.2 percent) outing against Dartmouth when he threw for 328 yards. Not just a passer, he ran for 91 yards against Colgate and was the first Big Red player to run for a score in seven consecutive games since the legendary Ed Marinaro in 1971.
Long-suffering Brown fans have been waiting patiently for the turnaround since bringing prodigal son quarterback James Perry back as coach in 2019. After just three Ivy League wins in his first the seasons back, that patience, at least judging by anonymous voices on the internet, was starting to wear thin.
Perry bought himself some time with a 28-21 upset of No. 10 Rhode Island in Week 3 last year, and while a four-game losing streak took some of the luster off a 3-1 start, back-to-back wins at the end – including a 35-28 victory over Dartmouth in the finale – have Perry and Co. thinking maybe the program has finally turned the corner.
HANOVER – The problem for football coaches in an intrasquad game is, if the offense is looking like world beaters, you start worrying about your defense.
And if the defense is dominating, you can’t help but worry about your offense.
All of which is why the series bridging the third and fourth quarters of Saturday’s highly entertaining Green-White Game played out almost perfectly in Dartmouth coach Sammy McCorkle’s view.