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-nnhvl- nii iWS' Wi rt'TiFHwii; (pry-" W.v TW WiWWI" SV Eastern college football Meiicfc um a rastt Big Green streak is alive at 22 By Jim Greenidge GLOBE STAFF STANDINGS Conf. Dartmouth 3-0 Harvard 2-0 Brown 1-1 Princeton 1-1 Penn 1-1 Cornell 1-2 Columbia 0-2 Yale 0-2 All 5-0 4-1 4-1 4-1 2-3 1-4 1-4 1-4 Harvard scored the first 21 points and the last 21 points in decking Holy Cross, 52-24, By John Vellante GLOBE STAFF HARVARD, 52-24 atfemfarMft Crow 13-3)0 17 7 24 1 14-11 14 14 15-52 NEW HAVEN Ear lier in the week, Dartmouth coach John Ly SEE jV '-y-lj, SAW YV nt '2'. fJ I jf tf. v- 1 i Jy 1 I before 7,094 at Harvard Stadium yesterday, as sophomore tailback Chris Menick gained 261 yards, the second-best effort in Crimson history. Menick, who rushed 34 times, averaged 7.7 yards a carry.

The Crimson record for yards rushing in a game is 323, by Matt Johnson against Brown in 1991. In addition to becoming the fifth Harvard player to rush for 200 or more yards in a game, Menick, with a long carry of 52 yards, had three touchdowns. They were Harvard's last three of the day, a 15-yarder late in the third quarter, and fourth-quarter efforts of 1 and 10 yards. The Crimson, now 4-1, also set a record for first downs with 33 and total net yards with 623 (the previous best was 572, vs. Colgate in 1995).

Harvard also ran a record number of plays, with 97. But this win was much more than Menick and the ground game, which produced 20 first downs. Quarterback Rich Linden, also a sophomore, completed 21 of 37 passes for 272 yards with a 17-yard touchdown to senior tight end Tom Giardi 3:17 into the second quarter making it 21-0. Linden also ran for scores of 1, 1, and 3 yards. "This was certainly the best execution of our offense since I've been here," said fourth-year Harvard coach Tim Murphy, whose team had five drives of 75 yards or more.

"And we used a no-huddle the whole game. We worked extremely hard. My philosophy is if we can run and throw we're going to be a very difficult offense to defend. We've always been able to run, but the receivers have matured and are very athletic." Menick, who read his blocks well, gave credit to his line. "I don't get through the line unless there's a hole," he said.

"I knew I had a lot of carries. I try to just take them one at a time. It gets tough, though, especially when I had four or five in a row. You get tired physically as well as mentally, but you just can't give up for a second." Harvard, which leads the series, 30-20-2, took that 21-0 lead, but Holy Cross got the next 14 points after switching to junior quarterback Dan Boland. They came on a 7-yard pass to wide receiver Brian Hopkins with 5:33 left in the second and a 32-yarder to tailback John Aloisi with 4:11 before halftime.

GLOBE STAFF PHOTO JOHN BOHNi Harvard's Jared Chupaila (11) and Joe Matson (43) help celebrate Tom Giardi's (84) TD catch. Then we attacked them more." "They had the first quarter and we had the Holy Cross (3-3) got it as close as 31-24 on a Boland 14-yard run with 6:17 remaining in the third. But then it sagged. "We knew that they weren't that good a team to be that close," said Harvard junior cornerback Glenn Jackson. "Defensively, we had to step it up a notch.

Until that point we were playing them soft and letting them do what they had to do. second quarter," said Holy Cross coach Dan Allen. "But in the third quarter we were awful. I'll take" credit for that. You can't put our team in that posi- tion.

Our defense played the whole second half. "We're getting better, but Harvard is a better team than we are." HA Rich Linden 1 run (Mike Giampaolo kick) HA Linden 1 run (Giampaolo kick) HA Tom Giardi 17 pass from Linden (Giampaolo kick) HC Brian Hopkins 7 pass from Dan Boland (Dana Fiatrone kick) HC John Aloisi 32 pass from Boland (Fiatrone kick) HA Linden 3 run (Giampaolo kick)( HC Fiatrone 45 tield goal HA Giampaolo 29 field goal HC Boland 14 run (Fiatrone kick) HA Chris Menick 15 run (kick failed) HA Menick 1 run (Menick pass from Linden) HA Menick 10 run (Giampaolo kick) Attendance 7,094. HC HAD First downs 18 33 Rushes-yards 25-128 60-351 Passing 244 272 Kickotf returns 7-127 3-54 Punt returns 2-8 5-(-l) Passes 24-44-0 21-37-1 Punts Fumbles-lost 4-2 3-1 Penalties-yards 6-38 1-5 Possession 23:15 36:45 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING -Holy Cross, Boland 8-47, Aloisi 3-40. Trae Milton 8-34, Antonio Thompson 3-6, Ryan Collar 1-5. Harvard, Menick 34-261, Chuck Nwokocha 5-35, Linden 14-33, Josh Belczyk 5-14, Gavin Hamels 2-8.

PASSING -Holy Cross, Boland 13-21- 0- 142, Stapp 5-12-0-33, Collar 6-11-0-69; Harvard, Linden 21-37-1-272. RECEIVING -Holy Cross, Hopkins 5-37, Jeff Laboranti 5-70, Jacob Dubreuil 3-24, Bobby Andrews 2-6, Jack Egle 2-13, Aloisi 2-46, Daniel Visalli 1-3, Jay Close 1-9, Clayton Lemmer 1-21, Milton 1- 7, Ted Duffy 1-8; Harvard, Terence Patterson 6-48, Giardi 4-46, Joe Mattson 3- 39. Jared Chupaila 3-56. Menick 2 30, Colby Sketton 2-41, Steve Durbin 1-12. BROWN, 23-15 I lYmridenct UM 12-51 7 0 0 15 Brow 14-11 7 9 7 0 23 6 Azibo Smith 2 run (Tom Routt kick) Shyron Stanford 2 run (Matt Walker kick) Safety Sean.

Morey 1 1 pass from James Perry (Routt kick) Michael Powell 20 run (Routt kick) Stanford 5 run (Karim Gibson pass from Rudy Bulgar) Attendance UM First downs 12 28 Rushes-yards 37-116 45 166 Passing 164 251 Kickotf returns 4-81 4-59 Punt returns 5-19 3-4 Passes 12-25-4 18-37-3 Punts Fumbles-lost 3-0 2-0 Penalties-yards 7-53 8-65 Possession 26:46 33:14 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING URI, Stanford 25-97, James Jenkins 7-15, Carnelius Crus 2-5; Smith 18-112, Powell 12-58, Mike Wall 9-32. PASSING URI. Bulgar 6 13 1-95. Jeff Weaver 5-11-34-51, Jason Christopher 1-1-0-18; Perry 18-36-3-251, Gordon Nangmenyi 0-1-0-0, Anthony Ames 0-0-0-0. RECEIVING URI, Gibson 3-79, Pete Kuc 3-26, Manny DeSousa 2-20; Morey 8-154, Nangmenyi 4-50, Stephen Campbell 3-22.

DARTMOUTH, 21-7 at New Haven Dartmouth (54) 14 7 0 0-21 Yah (1-4) 0 0 0 7-7 Peter Sellers 1 run (Dave Re-gula kick) Ken Bollens 63 pass from Sellers (Regula kick) D- Dylan Karczewski 2 run (Regula kick) V- Jake Borden 10 pass from Joe Walland (Matthews Shaddock kick) Dar Yale First downs 12 15 Rushes-yards 40-26 36-140 Passing 198 98 Comp-Att-Int 22-14-0 33-12-0 Return Yards 118 26 Punts-Avg Fumbles-Lost 0-0 2-1 Penalties-Yards 6-75 5-35 Possession 29:31 30:29 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING-D, Karczewski 23-56, Eric Davis 4-12. Jeremiah White 3-1. Derek Bentley 8-44, Jake Fuller 17-43. PASSING Sellers 14-22-0-198. Walland 12-33-0-98.

RECEIVING -D, Ellis 4-29, Bollens 3108, Eric Morton 3-18, Karczewski 1-20. Fuller 7-25, Borden 2- 37, Johnstone 2-23, Bentley 1-13. PENN, 24-7 Penn 123) 7 3 7 7-24 Columbia 11-41 7 0 0 0-7 Hayes 6 pass from Thomason (Kravitz kick) Finn 18 interception return (Greathouse kick) P-FG Greathouse 24 P- Finn 15 run (Greathouse kick) Beckwith 5 interception return (Greathouse kick) A 3,909. Pea Col First downs 23 15 Rushes-yards 49-203 34-73 Passing 202 199 Comp-Att-Int 18-27-0 14-28-3 Return Yards 81 48 Punts-Avg 5-37 8-40 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING -Penn, Finn 24-138, McGee 16-63, Alexander 1-5. Columbia, Hayes 12-34, Thomason 1 1-20.

PASSING -Penn, Rader 17-26-0-161, MacLeod 1-1-0-41. Columbia, Thomason 14-28-3-199. RECEIVING Penn, Doug O'Neil 4- 40, Daffemer 3-27, Gross 2-54. Columbia, Bondi 4-52, Roxborough 4-25. Dawkins 2-80.

ons had expressed concern that his team, despite being unbeaten, was playing sloppy football. Yesterday, the winning ugly theme continued when Dartmouth stretched its longest-in-the-nation unbeaten streak to 22 (21-0-1) with a not-too-convincing 21-7 decision over Yale. "What can I say, we won, and that's what matters most," said Lyons, who saw Dartmouth win for the 15th straight time to match a school record. "In some areas there was improvement, but we struggled, especially in the running game" 26 net yards "and that's a concern." Dartmouth scored all its points in the first half to take a 21-0 lead and after that fell flat. "I don't know," said Lyons, "maybe it was too easy those first 30 minutes.

After that we didnt have control of the game. Yale took it away from us." Quarterback Peter Sellers was the bulk of the Big Green's offense. He completed 14 of 22 passes for 198 yards and a touchdown and sneaked in from the 1 for another. Dylan Karczewski punched in Dartmouth's third touchdown from the 2. Jake Borden scored Yale's TD on a 10-yard pass from Joe Walland early in the fourth.

"They threw the ball over our head twice and returned a punt," said Yale coach Jack Siedlecki. "That was the difference. We had to make a big play and we didn't. A lot of it was pressure and a lot of it was inexperience." The first of the three big plays Siedlecki referred to came midway through the first quarter when Sellers hooked up with wide receiver Ken Bollens on a 30-yard pass to move the ball to the 1, from where Sellers bulled in. The second was the 63-yard scoring bomb from Sellers to Bollens in the closing minutes of the first quarter.

On the play before, Sellers and Bollens had teamed up for a 58-yard touchdown, but it was nullified by illegal motion. "I just kind of let it go the first time," said Sellers. "The second time it was planned. I've never been involved in back-to-back plays like that before." Tom Reusser set up Dartmouth's third touchdown late in the second quarter, when he returned a punt 55 yards to the Yale 2, from where Karczewski took it in. While Dartmouth's offense built its big first-half lead, its defense, spearheaded by linebackers Zack Walz and Jon Gibbs (17 tackles and two forced fumbles between them), was holding Yale at bay.

On five of Yale's seven first-half possessions, it went three and out. In the first half, the Bulldogs managed just 41 total yards and six first downs, three of them compliments of Dartmouth penalties. "We came out fired up in the first half," said Walz, "and pretty much did what we had to do. But my hat comes off to Yale. In that second half they came back and rammed it down our throats.

This was the most physical team we've played all season." Walz, with eight tackles, now has 288 for his career, eighth on the all-time Dartmouth list, 21 behind Len Fontes, who finished his career in 1986 with 309. Lyons was especially pleased with the fact that Dartmouth had "just" six penalties for 75 yards. "That's an improvement," he said. "That's cutting them in half. And the good thing is that they weren't delay, or offsides penalties.

Those have been killing us. We've been trying to go out there each week and improve. We've still got a long way to go." 7 sZ-' 1 I li Perry engineers a win for Brown ASSOCIATED PRESS Despite a separated throwing shoulder, James Perry threw for 251 yards and one touchdown as Brown Iw I oaoiio defeated the Uni- ivy League versity of Rh(Jde rOUndUP Island, 23-15, terday at Providence to win the Governor's Cup. The Bears used a balanced attack as tailback Azibo Smith scored once and ran for 112 yards on 18 carries. Perry overcame his right shoulder injury to hit wideout Sean Morey eight times for 154 yards and one touchdown.

Morey set a Brown record with 130 career receptions. Penn 24, Columbia 7 At New York, Jim Finn rushed for one touchdown and returned an interception for another to lead Penn. Finn rushed for 138 yards on 24 carries for the Quakers and returned an interception 18 yards for a score. Cornell 41, Lafayette 34 At Ithaca, N.Y., Brad Keisendahl scored his third touchdown of the game on a 6-yard run in the second overtime to lift Cornell over Lafayette, which tied the game in regulation with 19 seconds left. Princeton 31, Colgate 28 After throwing an interception that gave Colgate a late lead, Harry Nakienly tossed a 5-yard pass to Ken Nevarcz with 1:03 left to lift Princeton at Hamilton, N.Y.

ARMY, 37-35 SYRACUSE, 60-7 WOULDN'T IT BE NICE TO SEE WHO YOU'RE CHEERING FOR? 10-7) 6 21 14 -35 12-5) 7 0- 7 SrracaMlS-31 26 13 7-60 Returns in, and Spotwood and Syracuse are victorious ASSOCIATED PRESS Quinton Spotwood scored three times, including his NCAA record-tying fourth punt return for a touchdown, as host Syracuse routed Temple yes S-K. Mcintosh 11 pass from McNabb (Trout kick) S-Spotwood 16 pass from McNabb (Trout kick) Brown 2 run (Trout kick) S- Safety, M. Jackson tackled in end zone S-FG Trout 31 S-K Mcintosh 6 run (Trout kick) Spotwood 9 pass from McNabb (Trout kick) Downing 6 run (Trout kick) Jackson 2 run (Nicholl kick) S-Spotwood 71 punt return (kick tailed) i D. Brown 9 run (Trout kick) A -47 720 terday, 60-7. It was the fourth straight win for the Orangemen, who have re- Big East roundup ftHZ2j GET YOUR OFFICIAL PATRIOTS TEAM PHOTO ON OCTOBER 26TH.

IH7IW In the Boston Sunday Globe, you'll find an official, glossy team photo of this year's defending AFC Champs. All the players, all the coaches in sharp, Amy 12-41 24 10 0 3-37 Army Williams 10 run (Oisen kick) Army FG Olsen 27 Army -Rogers recovered blocked field goal in end zone (Olsen kick) Army Lalumondier 2 run (Olsen luck) Rutgers Crooks 8 run (kick failed) Army -Lalumondier 33 run (Olsen kick) Rutgers-McMahon 2 run (McMa-hon pass to Crooks) Army -FG Olsen 37 Rutgers Crooks 20 run (Mike-Mayer kick) Rutgers Funderburk 6 pass from McMahon (Mike-Mayer kick) Rutgers Freeney 10 fumble return (Mike-Mayer kick) Army FG Olsen 28 A Rat Amy First downs 24 21 Rushes-yards 32-109 65-372 Passing 386 25 Return yards 191 166 Comp-Att-Int 26-45-1 3-8-0 awtviouai STATISTICS RUSHING Crooks 18-78. McMahon 12-40 A. Goff 18-101. Lalumondier 11-86.

Williams 6-64. PASSING McMahon 26-42-1-386. A. Goff 3-8-0-25. RECEIVING Powell 7-153.

Harper 6-63, Hutton 3-26. A. Jett 3-25. 1 Syr 22 45-169 231 13-23-0 vivid color Smiling for the camera. And with the helmets the players are First downs 10 Rushes yards 34-7 Passing 241 Comp-Att-Int 15-25-2 wearing these days, you.

might not get another chance to see their faces. bounded from a three-game losing streak. With Syracuse ahead, 47-7, early in the fourth quarter, Spotwood returned a punt 71 yards. It tied the NCAA season record set in 1971 by Cliff Branch of Colorado and Golden Richards of BYU and in 1987 by James Henry of Southern Miss. Army 37, Rutgers 35 Rob Lalumondier scored two touchdowns and set up Eric Olsen's winning 28-yard field goal as Army, after blowing a 25-point lead, came back to beat its vvinless foe at West Point, N.Y.

Rutgers overcame first-half deficits of 24-0 and 31-6. 1 fMNVMMML STATISTICS RUSHING Temple, Jackson 10-2, Mack 9-16, Harvey 5-9, McBnde 2-7. Syracuse, K. Mcintosh 16-88. D.

Brown 8-26, Downing 3-7. PASSING -Temple, Bonner 12-21-2-207, Harvey 2-2-0-26, Andrews 1-2-0-8. Syracuse, McNabb 10-17 0-197. Downing 3-6-0-34. RECEIVING -Temple.

Carter 3-62, Walker 3 61. Mack 3-46. Syracuse, Spotwood 6-92. K. Mcintosh 2-35.

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