Cornell Big Red NCAA Football News

They've been to the NCAA championship weekend three years running and made the finals in 2007 -- but Duke lacrosse has never been able to get over that hump and finally claim the elusive championship that they've been striving for.

Jason Rasmussen and Erik Rask celebrated after clinching a share of the Ivy title last week and can clinch it outright with a win tomorrow.

Sophomore Foley Schmidt converted a 40-yard field goal in the second overtime before Cornell missed a 36-yarder to the left, giving host Dartmouth a 20-17 victory in double overtime on Saturday afternoon at Memorial Field.

PHILADELPHIA -- A season that began with promise after two wins ended with a thud and the Cornell football team's eighth straight loss on Saturday.

Keiffer Garton threw two touchdown passes and ran for a score to lead Penn to a 34-0 rout of Cornell on Saturday.

ITHACA -- Other than having the stingiest defense in the country, 25th-ranked Penn's recipe for winning no less than a share of the Ivy League title goes like this -- eight different players have completed a pass, 13 players have run the ball and 15 different receivers have caught a pass.

Published Thursday 19 November 2009 06:56pm EST. Austin Knowlin and his fellow seniors take the field for the last time in their collegiate careers this Saturday and hope to walk away as winners from this final season matchup against the Brown Bears.

The Columbia football team raced out of the gate, scoring two touchdowns in the first minute on Saturday against Cornell, but needed a spark off the bench in the second half in order to secure its third victory of the season with a 30-20 win over the Big Red in Ithaca.

Senior wide receiver Pat Simonds, a Sidney High School graduate, made nine receptions for 167 yards and two touchdowns as Colgate defeated visiting Bucknell 29-14 in the regular-season football finale on Saturday.

Week 10, November 16, 2009 OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK Penn senior quarterback KYLE OLSON had a stellar day in a driving rainstorm in the Quakers' 17-7 win over Harvard to win a share of their first Ivy title in six seasons.

Buddy Farnham caught a 17-yard pass from Kyle Newhall-Caballero in overtime to lead Brown to a 14-7 victory over Dartmouth on Saturday.

Columbia quarterback M.A. Olawale ran for two touchdowns in the second half, sparking the Lions to a 30-20 win over Cornell on Saturday.

ITHACA -- As if trying to stop a six-game losing streak isn't motivation enough, the Cornell football team's senior class will play its final game at Schoellkopf Field on Saturday.

Chad Kackert rushed for 166 yards and two touchdowns as Rhode Island defeated New Hampshire 55-42 on Saturday.

Greg Patton rushed for 245 yards and two touchdowns and broke Dartmouth's single-game rushing record in a 20-17 double overtime win over Cornell on Saturday.

ITHACA -- Cornell coach Jim Knowles has seen enough of his team getting dominated on both sides of the line of scrimmage this season.

The cards were stacked against the Princeton University football team last Saturday as it hosted Cornell.

Princeton running back Jordan Culbreath is tackling something more difficult than any challenge Ivy League opponents threw at him.

Trey Peacock pulled in an over-the-shoulder catch and ran it 78 yards for a touchdown with 6:22 left to play and Princeton defeated Cornell 17-13 on Saturday.

For the Tigers, the Ivy League title is out of the question. Now they need to win for their pride.