Week 3, September 28, 2009

OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Harvard junior quarterback COLLIER WINTERS (Claremore, Okla.) accounted for all three Crimson touchdowns in a 24-21 win over Brown in a matchup between the defending Ivy League champions. Winters completed 18 of 27 passes for 223 yards and two touchdowns of 15 and 30 yards while also running for a game-high 51 yards including a three-yard touchdown run. He averaged 5.1 yards per carry on 13 attempts.


DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Cornell junior safety ANTHONY AMBROSI (Newton, Mass.) recorded four tackles all in the second half, including two for a loss, three pass breakups and a 20-yard interception return for a touchdown that provided the winning points in the Big Red's 14-12 win at Yale. Making his first career start, Ambrosi's pick six with 6:18 left in the third quarter was Cornell's first defensive score since the injured player he replaced, Frank Morand, found paydirt from 72 yards away in a 2007 win over Colgate. A converted running back, he forced a second-half punt by knocking down a pass, scored on the interception on the next possession and forced another punt with a fourth-quarter pass breakup. He led a defense that allowed less than 300 yards of offense to the Bulldogs and hounded Yale quarterback Patrick Witt into a 21-of-54 passing day that included 11 Cornell pass breakups in the secondary and three interceptions.


SPECIAL TEAMS PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Yale senior punter/placekicker TOM MANTE (Westford, Mass.) tied the Ivy League record with a 54-yard field goal in the Bulldogs’ 14-12 Loss to Cornell, becoming the first kicker in Ivy history to hit on field goals of 50 yards or more in back-to-back games. His long boot came on the final play of the first half and brought Yale to within a point (7-6) of the Big Red. Mante now shares the League mark with five others, but no kicker had reached from that distance since Penn’s Tim Mazzetti in 1976. He also connected on a 23-yarder in the first quarter, accounting for half of the Bulldogs’ points for the game. In his punting chores, Mante had a school-record 12 punts, including six inside the 20-yard line.


ROOKIE OF THE WEEK
Penn freshman running back LYLE MARSH (Bethel Park, Pa.) led the game in rushing with twice as many yards as any other player and he did not touch the ball until the third quarter in the Quakers’ 20-17 overtime loss at Lafayette. Marsh rushed five times in a row to start the second half, single-handedly getting Penn from its own 36-yard line to the Lafayette six, which led to a Quaker touchdown. On the next drive, he rushed two more times for seven yards, setting up Penn's long touchdown pass to tie the game at 17-17. He compiled 66 yards in the third quarter and 85 yards on 15 carries for the game, averaging 5.7 yards per rush.


THE HONOR ROLL
Shawn Abuhoff, CB, Dartmouth - 8 tkls. (7 solo), 1 INT, 101 KOR yds., 11 PR yds.

Drew Alston, P, Cornell - 15 punts for 34.7 yds./punt

Wilson Cates, DB, Princeton - 6 tkls. (3 solo), 1 sack, 1.5 TFL, 1 INT, 1 PBU

Steven Cody, LB, Princeton - 11 tkls. (7 solo), 77-yd. INT for TD, 1 PBU

James Develin, DE, Brown - 8 tkls. (6 solo), 1 sack, 1.5 TFL

Zach Heller, LB, Penn - 13 tkls. (3 solo), 1 sack, 2.0 TFL

Marc Holloway, LB, Columbia - 18 tkls. (6 solo), 2.0 TFL

Nate Lovett, P, Brown - 39.8 yds./punt

Kyle Olson, QB, Penn - 14-for-28, 151 yds., 2 TDs

Ray Rangel, RB, Columbia - 10 car. for 130 yds., 1 TD

Nick Schwieger, TB, Dartmouth - 26 car. for 119 yds., 1 rec. for 5 yds.

Bobby Sewall, WR, Brown - 8 rec. for 92 yds., 5 rush for 17 yds., 2 TDs

Bryan Walters, WR/RS, Cornell - 176 all-purpose yds., 81-yd. rec. TD


2009-10 AWARDWINNERS
OFFENSIVE PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
September 21 — M.A. Olawale, QB, Columbia
September 28 — Collier Winters, QB, Harvard
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DEFENSIVE PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
September 21 — Chris Costello, LB, Cornell
September 28 — Anthony Ambrosi, S, Cornell
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SPECIAL TEAMS PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
September 21 — Tom Mante, P/PK, Yale
September 28 — Tom Mante, P/PK, Yale
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ROOKIES OF THE WEEK
September 21 — Michael Williamson, P, Columbia
September 28 — Lyle Marsh, RB, Penn
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