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Football Weekly Release - Week 10
Complete Ivy League Football Weekly Release in pdf format
PRINCETON, N.J. -- The 2011 Ivy League football season is down to its final Saturday with its traditional quartet of end-of-the-year matchups, highlighted by one of the most storied rivalries in college football, "The Game," Harvard at Yale.
This year's battle takes place on Nov. 19 from the Yale Bowl with the 2011 Ivy title already decided as Harvard captured its 14th League championship, sixth under head coach Tim Murphy, thanks to its win over Penn and Dartmouth's victory over Brown on Nov. 12.
For the fourth-straight year, "The Game" will be live on VERSUS at Noon with Randy Moss, a new member of NBC's award-winning horse racing team and contributor to the NFL Network, serving as the play-by-play announcer, joined in the booth by Ross Tucker as the lead analyst and on the sidelines by Carolyn Manno, sports reporter for Comcast SportsNet New England, as the in-game reporter. Over thse four seasons, 17 Ivy League football games featuring all eight schools have aired on the network, which will be re-branded the NBC Sports Network on Jan. 2, 2012.
The 10th and final episode of "Inside Ivy League Football" for the 2011 season is Wednesday, Nov. 16 at 7 p.m. and will feature interviews with current players and coaches and a couple of Ivy football greats. The interview lineup will be finalized on Tuesday, Nov. 15.
"Inside Ivy League Football" is a weekly online radio show hosted by Dan Loney and Brian Seltzer that takes an in-depth look at all the on-field gridiron action and all the news and notes surrounding Ivy football. The show airs Wednesdays at 7 p.m. on BlogTalkRadio.com (blogtalkradio.com/insideivyleaguefootball) and is available on-demand via BlogTalkRadio and IvyLeagueSports.com. Follow "Inside" via its social media platforms -- Facebook (Inside Ivy League Football) and Twitter (@insideivyfb).
OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Cornell sophomore quarterback Jeff Mathews
(Camarillo, Calif.) set school game records for passing yardage,
passing touchdowns, completions, completion percentage, passing
efficiency and total offense in leading the Big Red to a modern-day
scoring record in a 62-41 victory over Columbia. He threw for 521
yards, becoming the first Cornellian and the third Ivy League
player to surpass 500 yards. He fell just five yards short of the
Ivy single-game mark. Mathews completed his first 13 passing
attempts of the day, threw scoring passes of 6, 24, 47, 46 and 28
yards and didn't have a pass broken up or intercepted. It was
Mathews' fifth game of at least 300 passing yards this season, a
new Cornell record. His five touchdown passes ranks second in Ivy
history in a game, while his 40 completions ranks 10th
all-time.
DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Harvard senior defensive tackle Josue Ortiz (Avon
Park, Calif.) controlled the line of scrimmage throughout the day
in the Crimson's win against Penn. Ortiz recorded two first quarter
sacks; before halftime he recorded three tackles for a loss, forced
and recovered a fumble. He finished with 3.5 tackles for a loss and
a game-high 10 tackles (6 solo) while sitting much of the fourth
quarter. Ortiz moved into second place on Harvard's all-time sacks
list with 19.
SPECIAL TEAMS PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Cornell senior placekicker/punter Brad Greenway
(Encinitas, Calif.) was outstanding in his final appearance at
Schoellkopf Field, matching a Big Red record for kicking points in
a game with 14. He set a new school standard with his 8-of-8 day on
PATs and made field goals of 45 and 32 yards. The League's leading
scorer also averaged 36.0 yards on his three punts while pinning
two of those kicks inside the Columbia 15-yard line. Greenway had a
pair of kickoffs go for touchbacks and averaged 62.8 yards on his
10 kickoffs.
ROOKIE OF THE WEEK
Princeton freshman running back Chuck Dibilio
(Nazarath, Pa.) rushed for a career-high 178 yards and became the
first Princeton player to rush for three touchdowns in nearly a
decade during the Tigers' 33-24 loss to Yale. Dibilio scored on
touchdowns of 19, 4 and 6 yards. With his 178-yard performance, he
became the first true freshman in Ivy League history to rush for
more than 1,000 yards.
HONOR ROLL
Shawn Abuhoff, Dartmouth, Senior, Corner
Back/Return Specialist (Hialeah, Fla.)
8 tkls. (7 solo), 1 FF, 2 BrUps
AJ Cruz, Brown, Junior, Corner Back/Return
Specialist (Lake Forest, Calif.)
83-yd. KOR for TD
Zack Imhoff, Cornell, Senior, Defensive End
(Cincinnati, Ohio)
8 tkls. (4 solo), 3.0 TFL, 2 sacks
Clayton McGrath, Brown, Senior, Defensive End
(Longmeadow, Mass.)
13 tkls. (7 solo), 3.5 TFL, 1 sack
Billy Ragone, Penn, Junior, Quarterback (Chesire,
Conn.)
16-32-1, 190 yds., 2 TDs, 1 rush TD
Erik Rask, Penn, Senior, Linebacker (Newport
Beach, Calif.)
10 tkls. (5 solo), 1.0 TFL, 1 FR
Caraun Reid, Princeton, Senior, Defensive Lineman
(Bronx, N.Y.)
11 tkls. (3 solo), 3.5 TFL, 2 sacks
Nick Schwieger, Dartmouth, Senior, Tailback
(Norton, Mass.)
37 car. for 137 yds., 1 TD
Alexander Tounkara-Kone, Brown, Senior, Wide
Receiver (Staten Island, N.Y.)
71 rec. yds., 1 TD, 45 rush yds.
Kurt Williams, Columbia, Senior, Wide Receiver
(Cortlandt Manor, N.Y.)
12 rec. for 191 yds., 3 TDs
Patrick Witt, Yale, Senior, Quarterback (Wylie,
Texas)
26-33-0, 373 yds., 3 TDs
UPCOMING SCHEDULE
Saturday, November 19
*Harvard at Yale, Noon [VERSUS]
*Brown at Columbia, 12:30 pm
*Cornell at Penn, 1 pm
*Princeton at Dartmouth, 1:30 pm
*Ivy League Contests
KEY: VERSUS – VERSUS Network (DirecTV 603,
DISH 151, Verizon FiOS 90 (SD), 590 (HD))
