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D18 Sports Boston Sunday Globe NOVEMBER 4, 2001 College football! Crimson set the stage English test is too tough br an Ivy showdown iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinii HARVARD 45, COLUMBIA 33 tHtwYwt Harvaritf Co-smblatl-S) 7 II 33 Jeff McCall 1 run (Sam Warren kick). Carl Morris 36 pass from Nell Rose (Anders Blewett kick). Morris 1 pass from Rose (Blewett kick). Josh Staph 3 run (Blewett kick). Staph 1 run (Blewett kick).

Rodney Byrnes 16 pass from Garrett Schlres (Blewett kick). Blewett 36 field goal. Jarel Cockbum 45 pass from McCall (Sam Warren kick). John Reese 2 run (rush failed). Nick Palazzo 32 run (Blewett kick).

Steve Hunsberger 1 run (pass failed). Steve Cargile 47 pass from Huns-' berger (Warren kick). By John Powers GLOBE STAFF JiMfflHM MOT YORK Kmmmmt rreneac nn-iTllmMrJrfl ishes necessary this time. No receiver-to-receiver touchdown passes. No 91 -yard penalties to overcome.

This time, Harvard's unbeaten optball team front-loaded its hefty weekly ration of points, scoring 38 before halftime then hanging on for a 45-33 victory over spunky Columbia before 4,011 at Wien Stadium. "We're going to enjoy this one," (declared Crimson coach Tim Murphy, whose team (7-0, 5-0 Ivy League) will face unbeaten nemesis Pennsylvania for the Ivy title at the Stadium next Saturday. "Nothing comes easy." Last weekend, Harvard had to set a school-comeback record to grind down Dartmouth, 31-21, after falling behind, 21-0. Yesterday, after scoring on all six of its first-half possessions, the Crimson had to withstand a 19-point Lion barrage in the fourth quarter to remain unblemished for the first time since 1968. "I cant say enough about Columbia's effort in the second half," said Murphy, whose squad should be ranked among this week's Division 1-M top 25 for the first time since its 1997 league championship season.

"They not only made a game of it, they put a big scare into us. They never quit" Harvard had been wary of the Lions (2-5, 2-3), who had beaten them twice in a row here and were Coming off victories over Dartmouth and Yale. bi. But after spotting Columbia a touchdown on the game's opening drive, the Crimson rocked their hosts with five touchdowns and a field goal. The first two haymakers were iiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimimiiiitii CORNELL 28, DARTMOUTH 24 Cornell (2-5) 14 7 7 28 7 7 1 24 (1-6)- Michael Gratch 3 run (Tyler Lavln kick).

Evan Simmons 9 run (Peter Iverson kick). Jay Barnard 7 pass from Joseph A Kinder (Lavln kick). t- Nathan Archer 2 pass from Ricky Rahne (Iverson kick). l. D-Lavln 26 field goal.

Gratch 34 run (Lavln kick). .0 Simmons 3 run (Iverson kick). Simmons 11 run (Iverson kick). Attendance: 5,603. ir -T.

if TO Com 24 46-163 212 23-36-0 4-73 0-0 0-0 9-74 33:37 First downs. Rushes-yards Passing yards. Passes Kickoff returns Punt returns 19 44-235 135 12-24-3 4-75 6-49 04) 11-87 26:23 Punts. Fumbles-lost Penalties-yards Possession INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING Simmons 18-83, Rahne 18-59, J. Dunleavy 6-15: 0.

Gratch 24-141, Pat Risha 13-85, Casey Cramer 3-10. PASSING Rahne 23-36-212-0; Kinder 11-23-100-1, Cramer 1-1-35-0. RECEIVING Tim Hermann 6-45, Keith Ferguson 4-62, John Kellner 4-36, Dunleavy 4-28: Damien Roomets 4-25, Matt DeLellis 3-56, Barnard 3-25. Illlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll Han First downs 24 Col 24 32-89 336 18-36-3 6-96 1- 3S 1-0 2- 10 23:06 Rushes-yards 52-235 Passing yards 232 Passes 23-27-0 Klckoff returns 3-36 Punt returns 1-0 Punts Fumbles-lost 3-0 Penalties-yards 9-52 Possession 36:54 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING H. Palazzo 18-132, Staph 18-68, Schlres 11-16.

Rose 3-11; Reese 19-85, Hunsberger 5-27, Dan Reed 2-2. PASSING Rose 14-16-156-0, Schlres 9-11-76-0; McCall 10-25-188-3. Hunsberger 8-10-148-0, Travis Chemelka 0-1-O-0. RECEIVING Morris 5-86, Byrnes 4-50, Dan Farly 4-37, Sam Taylor 4-37; Cockburn 5-112, Doug Peck 5-81, Steve Cargile 2-64, Ayo Oiuwole 2-19. IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII landed by irrepressible end Carl "The Truth" Morris, who set school marks yesterday for career touchdown receptions (16) and receiving yards Morris scored his first by catching a short pass from Neil Rose, freezing three defenders, and high-stepping 36 yards into the end zone.

"I was going to cut back, but they stopped, so I just went up the sideline," said Morris, who threw one TD pass and caught another on consecutive plays to spark the revival against Dartmouth. "Sort of a stop-and-go." Next time up, Rose tossed a 1-yarder that ricocheted from safety Philip Murray's hands into Morris's. "Got a lucky bounce, I guess," Morris shrugged. After that, the deluge. Harvard 21 iw Ui IIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIII Ivy standings summaries Conf.

All W-L W-L PF PA Harvard 5-0 7-0 230 140 Perm 5-0 7-0 205 61 Brown 3-2 4-3 233 198 Columbia 2-3 2-5 140 212 Cornell 2-3 2-5 145 219 Yale 1-4 3-4 177 180 Dartmouth 1-4 1-6 172 225 Princeton 1-4 1-6 131 174 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS Brown 37.M.............. Yale 34 Cornell 28 Dartmouth 24 Harvard 45 Columbia 33 Penn 10 BROWN 37, YAH 34 (4-) it 14 i IT VMW TT-14 Yale Jay Schulze 1 run (Justin Davis kick), 5:46, Brown Chas Gessner 28 pass from Kyle Rowley (Sean Jensen kick), 2:57. Vale Ralph Plumo 44 pass from TJ. Hyland (Davis kick), 0:01. Yale Schulze 5 run (John Troost kick), 9:02.

Brown FO Jensen 26, 5:44. Brown Michael Maian 2 run (Jensen kick), 0:49. Yale Schulze 2 run (Troost kick). 4:04. Brown Gessner 58 pass from Travis Rowley (Jensen kick), 2:56.

Brown T. Rowley 37 pass from K. Rowley (Jensen kick), 1:18. Brown FG Jensen 24, 12:57. Brown -FG Jensen 26.

Yale Schulze 1 run (Troost kick). 0:21. A INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING Brown, Malan 18143, Gessner 1-16, Joe Rackley 3-16. Brand Buchanan 1-12, K. Rowley 6-12.

Yale, Hyland 19-141, Schulze 1849, Pat Bydume 11-41, Plumb 1-10. PASSING Brown, K. Rowley 32-18-2. Yale, Hyland 22-11-2. RECEIVING Brown, Gessner 8-118, Rowley 4-69, David Brookman 2-37, Buchanan 2-23, Mlcha Borgonzi 1-20.

Rackley 1-7. Yale, Keith Reams 4-39, Plumb 2-52, Jeff Oitman 2-30, Billy Brown Ml, Eric Wenzel 1-8, PJ. Collins, 1-6. PENN 2L PRINCETON 10 atPMaotlpMa (14) 1TI 8-11 PtaaO-8) 7 14-21 Prln FG Northrop 37,8:17. Penn Smith 3 pass from Hoffman (Galas kick), 2:11.

13 59Pri" 3 (Horttm Wck. Penn Ryan 1 run (Galas kick), 11:20. Penn Keslosky 2 run (Galas kick). 5:11. A INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING Princeton.

Veach 14-66, Spllthoff 20-55, Benson 6-25, Bowden 1-1, Bryant l-(mlnus6). Penn. Ryan 36-166, Keslosky 4-14, Hoffman 5-10, Phillips 1-2, Pers-kle 1-0. PASSING Princeton, Spllthoff 19-34-0217. Penn.

Hoffman 16-30-0 167. RECEIVING Princeton. Morrison 6-59, Lindell 5-57. Opara 4-72, Bowden 2-8, Schottel 1-13, Veach 1-8. Penn.

Smith 640, Milanese 5-58, Holahan 2-27, Phillips 1-12, Keslosky 1-8, Ryan 1-2. MISSED FIELD GOALS Princeton, Northrop 51. Illlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll Ivy League roundup Brown roars past Yale ASSOCIATED PRESS Kyle Rowley threw three touchdown passes, including the winning 37-yarder to his brother, Travis, as Brown rallied for a 37-34 victory over Yale yesterday in New Haven. Rowley completed 18 of 32 passes for 274 yards. His longest was a 58-yard strike to Chas Gessner, the national Division 1-AA leader in receptions (10 per game) and yards (153.0) coming into the game.

The Bears (4-3, 3-2 Ivy) rebounded from a 20-17 halftime deficit with gadget plays, solid defense, and 112 yards of rushing from tailback Mike Malan. The Eli (3-4, 1-4) held Malan to 27 yards in the first half. T.J. Hyland, Yale's backup quarterback, started in place of the injured Peter Lee. The more mobile Hyland rushed for a team-high 139 yards.

He completed 11 of 22 passes for 146 yards and a TD. Yale fullback Jay Schulze had a career-high four touchdowns, in-duding two in the first half, to give the Bulldogs the early edge. Brown's defense set the tone for the second half, keeping Hy-land's scrambling in check and stopping Yale on fourth and inches late in the third quarter. Penn 21, Princeton 10 Kris Ryan rushed for 166 yards on 36 carries and scored the go-ahead touchdown as the undefeated Quakers rallied in the second half to beat the Tigers in Philadelphia. Penn (7-0, 5-0) has now won 1 1 straight games, the longest winning streak in Division 1-AA.

Princeton (1-6, 1-4), leading, 10-7, mounted an 80-yard drive to the Penn 2 with 2:31 left in the third quarter. An incomplete pass on fourth down ended the threat Perm then marched 98 yards in 1 8 plays, 45 yards by Ryan, and his 1-yard plunge gave the Quakers a 14-10 advantage with 11:20 remaining. A 2-yard run by Adam Keslosky with 5:11 to play completed the scoring. linebacker Dante Balestracci picked off a tipped pass at the Lion 40 to set up a 3-yard run by Josh Staph, who'd missed the last game with an injured ankle. Then Robbie Wright's kickoff bounced off Chris Carey's head, Harvard got the ball on the Lion 29, and Staph busted in again from the 1.

So it went. Crimson quarterback Garrett Schires, a freshman who'd never taken a snap, came in for Rose (who aggravated the pinched neck nerve that sidelined him against Dartmouth) and chucked a 16-yard touchdown pass to classmate Rodney Byrnes. Anders Blewett added a 36-yard field goal and it was 38-7 at half-time. The Lions had two choices. They could take the No.

1 train back down to 1 16th Street or they could make a stand. "Our mindset was, one play at a time," said defensive end Brian Lysiak. Try to claw our way back into it" Jeff McCall immediately got one back, hitting Jarel Cockburn for a 45-yard touchdown. Then Johnathan Reese ran in from 2 yards early in the fourth quarter and it was 38-20 and semi-respectable. Though Harvard's Nick Palazzo (132 yards on 18 carries) delivered the KO with a 32-yard scamper half a dozen minutes from the end, the Lions kept clawing, scoring twice in the last 2:34 on a 1-yard naked bootleg by Steve Hunsberger and a 47-yard strike from Hunsberger to Steve Cargile on the game's last play.

The 78 combined points were the most in the schools' 124-year series, but what concerns Harvard now is letters (as in W), not numerals. It's been 88 years since there was a perfect season in Cambridge. Another may be just two Saturdays away. AP PHOTO low note Dartmouth moved the ball in the early going. It scored on its second possession, a 3-yard run by senior running back Michael Gratch (24 rushes, 141 yards, 2 TDs), who played his heart out Cornell quarterback Ricky Rahne (23 of 36, 212 yards, 1 TD) caused fits for the Dartmouth defense.

When he couldn't find a receiver, he tucked the ball under his arm and raced upfield. He finished with 59 yards on 18 carries. His scrambling ability set up Simmons for the first of his touchdowns, a 9-yard run, to even the score with 6:15 remaining in the first half. Dartmouth countered when Kinder (11 of 23, 100 yards, 1 TD, 3 LNTs) hit Jay Barnard with a 7-yard touchdown strike to put the Big Green up, 14-7, but Cornell drove 72 yards in 10 plays, scoring on a 2-yard pass from Rahne to fullback Nathan Archer to tie the score at 14 at the break. Dartmouth should have gotten more than a field goal on the open-ing drive of the second half.

Gratch ran seven times on the 10-play, 56-yard drive that resulted in Tyler Lavin's 26-yarder to give Dartmouth a 17-14 lead. The Big Green had first and goal at the 7 and couldnt punch it in. After Cornell went three and out, Dartmouth put together another drive, capped when Gratch burst through the line, turned on his afterburners, and raced 34 yards for a touchdown, giving the Big Green a 24-14 lead, their final moment ofoy. Rams can't stop Maine's top back By Marvin Pave GLOBE STAFF KINGSTON, R.I. -The University of Rhode Island KB IH couldn't pass English yesterday afternoon at Meade Stadium.

But Maine tailback Royston English didn't have much of a problem passing some frustrated would-be URI tacklers en route to a career day as the 24th-ranked Black Bears dominated from start to finish in a 26-14 dispatching of the suddenly-slumping Rams. English, the senior from Wal-tham whose brother, Rupert, was a Boston College defensive end, ran for a career-best 213 yards on 29 carries and two touchdowns. He scored on a personal-best 73-yard jaunt in the third quarter that gave Maine a 26-7 lead before a sellout Family Day crowd of 5,803. The No. 9 Rams, who came out of the gate with seven straight victories but were manhandled in a 28-0 loss at Richmond a week ago, had rallied for wins four times this season.

There was hope for a fifth such comeback in the third quarter when, trailing, 20-7, the Rams turned an interception by Victor Crenshaw and a Vince Nedimyer-to-Wendall Williams 38-yard pass into a first down at the Maine 15. But two plays later an errant Nedimyer pitchout was recovered by Maine's Damon Boinske. On the very next play, English broke a tackle and then broke the game open when he outraced the URI secondary into the end zone on his longest scoring run since slipping on a Maine football jersey. "Chad Hayes took out their said English, who also scored his team's third TD and accounted for 50 yards on three carries in that second-quarter drive. "After that, all I sawwas daylight I didnt think we had the game won then, but knowing how they had come back so many times this year, it was a good feeling to score at that point'' Maine offensive tackle and captain Zack Magliaro said it was no secret English was his team's go-to guy.

"We just wanted to keep him going," said Magliaro, the Beverly native out of St John's Prep. "He was just running over people." Maine's defense was also immense. It held URI to just 54 total yards in the first half while quarterback Jake Eaton went to town with scoring passes of 41 yards (to Hyannis's Stefan Gomes) and 29 yards (to Paris Minor). URTs lone first-half response was by its special teams on a blocked punt by Andrew Elsing that was converted into a 27-yard TD by Unitas Todd. But there were few other bright spots for the Rams, who fell to 7-2 overall and out of a first-place tie IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIM! B.E.

standings, summary Conf. All W-L W-L PF PA Miami 4-0 7-0 307 65 Syracuse 4-0 7-2 245 144 BC 3-1 6-2 244 147 Va. Tech 3-2 6-2 269 104 Pittsburgh 2-3 3-5 173 203 W.Virginia. 1-3 3-5 191 204 Temple 1-4 2-6 125 255 Rutgers 0-5 2-6 103 297 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS Miami 38 Temple 0 Pittsburgh Va.Tech7 W.Virginia 80 Rutgers 7 W. VIRGINIA 80, RUTGERS 7 at W.Va, T- (J-4) W.VMetaOI).

a ii T-a wvu coooumt 15 run (Rum hicta. 11:39. WVU Cotoumt 32 run (Rauh kick), M9. WVU -C. Smith 2 run (Rauh kkXfc5.

wvu Smith 27 pus from lewis (Rauh kick). 2r0S. WVU FG Rauh 19, 11:11. WVU CobMnw 3 run (Ruin kick). 751.

WVU Hackrtt 10 nimble return (Rauh WVU Henderson 4 pass from Lewis (HMD kick), 4:37. WVU Kackett 90 Interception return (James kick). 1:24. WVU Coboume run (Itauk kick), WVU -ReooSl run (Rauh kick), WJ. Rut kUones 3 run (Sands kick).

Ml. WVU Wthon 0 run (Rauh kick), 2:57. A-44MS. First downs Rushes-yards Passing cwhp-Mt-mt Punts-Avg. IS 27 4-1M 7-4S 1M 11 1M 1-27 2-4 IC-1X 2J7 Penatties-Vards Possess! 7-2 35JJ HlllllilllllllllllllMIIIIIIIIMHIIIIIIIIIIIIIMII 0 4 AP PHOTO Maine quarterback Jake Eaton eludes the diving tackle attempt of URTs T.K.

Phillips. iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiii MAINE 26, RHODE ISLAND 14 (6-2) 11 I (7-2) 7 7 14 UM Stefan Gomes 41 pass from Jake Eaton (kick failed). UM Paris Minor 29 pass Eaton (Chris DeVinneyklck). UM Royston English 10 run (DeVlnney kick). URI Unitas Todd 27 blocked punt return (Sham Laisle kick).

UM English 73 run (kick failed). URI David Jamison 8 run (Laisle kick). Attendance: 5303. First downs Penalties-yards Possession 29:59 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING UM. English 29-213.

Eaton 8-31. John Gelsomlno 3-9, Marcus Williams 1- (minus 2). URI, David Jamison 24-76. Moses Taking 5-21, Luther Green 1-12. W.

Williams Hminus 1). PASSING UM, Eaton 23-11-1-142. URI, Vince Nedimyer 27-10-1-156. RECEIVING UM, Gomes 6-85, Minor 4-42, Chad Hayes 1-15. URI, Curtis Home 4-77, Williams 3-52, Tajong 2-14, S.

Wellington 1-13. IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMMIII in the Atlantic 10 (5-2). Maine, which recorded 15 tackles for losses, never let URI halfback David Jamison get untracked. "Jamison is the heart and soul of their offense," said Maine coach Jack Cosgrove, whose team has won five conference games for the first time since 1996. The job our front and linebackers did were a key in taking him out of the game and forcing Rhode Island into more of a pitch game." Stephen Cooper, Maine's junior linebacker from Wareham, led the Black Bears (6-2, 5-2 A-10) with 10 tackles while Mosi's kid, freshman Lofa Tatupu from King Philip Regional, chipped in with nine tackles.

"Maine came into a packed house and beat us fair and square," said URI coach Tim Stowers. "But on the other hand, I didnt get across to our team how important this game was." In retrospect, Stowers said he should have gone back to basics in practice last week and focused on contact drills. "Maine's defense had a lot to do with what happened today," he said, "but right now, we're not a playoff team because our intensity level is way down." W.1rgiiiia racks up a big win ASSOCIATED PRESS MOR- I TOWN. W.Va. West Virginia scored a school-record 59 points in the first half en route to an 80-7 victory over Rutgers yesterday.

It was the most points scored by one team in a Division 1-A game this season and the most by the Mountaineers (3-5, 1-3 Big East) since an 89-0 win over Geneva in 1951. Avon Coboume rushed for 136 of bis 147 yards in the first half and scored four touchdowns for West Virginia, which piled up more points in the hah than in its four previous games combined. Brad Lewis showed no signs of the back spasms that knocked him out of last week's loss to Miami He had the longest run of his career 33 yards to set up the fust of his two TD passes a 27-yarder on fourth down to Cassell Smith. Lewis was 9 of 1 1 for 1 75 yards before being relieved by redshirt freshman Rasheed Marshall, who saw his first action since breaking a bone in his wrist in the opener. Mahw URI 15 17 Rushes-yards 42-250 52-89 Passing yards 142 156 Passes 23-11-1 30-10-1 Kickoff returns 3-47 5-99 Punt returns 6-28 4-72 Punts Fumbles-lost 1-1 2-2 6-70 5-37 30:01 ih I Dartmouth's Grant Wagner swoops in to block a punt from Cornell's Michael Baumgartel in the first quarter.

Big Green end on Cornell capitalizes, rallies for victory H3 1f)t ByPaulHarber GLOBE STAFF HANOVER, N.H.-Ifyou I think you're said dejected Big Green coach John Lyons. "We continue to make mistakes to hurt ourselves." In fairness, Dartmouth has been hit with a lot of injuries. It lost one quarterback before the season opened, another was injured early in the season, and then the Big Green went with freshman Evan Love the next two games. Yesterday's flavor of the week was Kinder, a junior lefthander who played linebacker and free safety his first two years at Dartmouth before moving to quarterback this fall. "We figured it could open up the game with his mobility," said Lyons.

In an attempt to add another wrinkle, Dartmouth even sent in tight end Casey Cramer for a few snaps. Cramer had never played quarterback at any level, which shows how bad things had gotten for the Big Green. Cramer had one moment of glory when he fired a nifty 35-yard pass that set up a score. On the other side of the ball, Dartmouth was hurting at inside linebacker. In the first half Matt Mercer, the second-ranked tackier on the team who had a team-best 10 yesterday, broke his ankle and is lost for the season.

Fellow inside linebacker Joe Vinci suffered a stinger early and missed the rest of the game, while backup Eric Lerch was felled by a knee injury. "It got so bad that we had to dress a freshman at halftime," admitted Lyons. having tough times, visit with the Dartmouth College football team, which lost a heart-wrenching 28-24 decision to Cornell yesterday at Memorial Field. ft I It has been a horrific season for the Big Green, who in the preseason looked Like a cinch to avoid their fourth consecutive 2-8 record. But Dartmouth finds itself in a last-place tie in the Ivy League with a 1-6 overall record and 1-4 league mark.

The Big Green need to win their final two games, against Brown and Princeton, to better 2-8. Like last week, when Harvard erased a 21-0 halftime deficit to beat Dartmouth, the Big Green were virtimized by a late rally. Dartmouth led, 24-14, but then Cornell capitalized, turning two Joe Kinder interceptions into touchdowns. Cornell's Evan Simmons (18 rushes, 83 yards, 3 TDs) scored on ntns of 3 and 11 yards to erase the 10-point deficit Cornell (2-5, 2-3) has back-to-back wins going into its final two games against Columbia and Penn, "We had our opportunities,".