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C14 Boston Sunday Globe OCTOBER 10, 2004 College football Panthers scratch for win fi i -y'J ')h GLOBE STAFF PHOTOESSDRAS SUAREZ After catching a pass over the middle during the first half, Cornell's Brian Romney is sent for a ride Victory makes balanced by defensive back James Harvey of Harvard. Crimson beam ASSOCIATED PRESS Raymond Kirkley scored two fourth-quarter touchdowns, Tyler Palko threw for another score, and Pittsburgh rallied from a 13-point deficit to beat Temple, 27-22, yesterday at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia. Pittsburgh (3-2, 1-1 Big East), which trailed, 16-3, before Josh Cummings's field goal late in the second quarter cut the Owls' lead to 10 at halftime, rebounded from a loss to Connecticut in its Big East opener last week. After a scoreless third quarter, Palko found Greg Lee alone be hind the Temple defense off a flea-flicker pitch from Kirkley for a 50-yard scoring play that pulled the Panthers within 16-13. The Pitt defense forced the Owls (1-5, 0-1) to punt after just three plays on the ensuing possession and Palkb guided the offense to the Temple 1.

Kirkley powered his way into the end zone from there to put the Panthers in front, 20-16. Temple, which accumulated 356 yards through three quarters, failed to move the ball again and Kirkley muscled his way into the end zone from the 5 to give Pittsburgh a 27-16 advantage. Palko finished 13 of 18 for 191 yards, and Lee had eight catches for 159 yards. Walter Washington threw a career-high three touchdown passes, but Temple dropped its final Big East opener and lost in conference play for the ninth straight time. Washington, who also posted career highs in completions (30) and passing yards (314), ran for 82 yards on 23 carries.

Washington threw a touchdown pass to Phil Goodman in the final minute, but the Owls failed on the 2-point conversion attempt. Rutgers 37, Vanderbilt 34 -Brian Leonard scored four touchdowns, including a 1-yard run with 1:11 to play, as the Scarlet Knights (3-2) erased a 27-3 second-half deficit to beat the Commodores (1-4) at Nashville. Ryan Hart completed 31 of 40 passes for 344 yards and two touchdowns for Rutgers. Tres Moses had 1 1 catches for 147 yards. Leonard gained 50 yards on 15 carries and had three rushing touchdowns.

He also caught nine passes for 64 yards and a touchdown. Rutgers's winning drive covered 68 yards on 11 plays, with Hart completing 5 of 6 passes for 50 yards. The score was the fifth touchdown in six second-half possessions for the Scarlet Knights. Rutgers outscored Vanderbilt, 21-0, in the fourth quarter. Commodores quarterback Jay Cutler rushed for 56 yards and a touchdown and completed 14 of 18 passes for 260 yards and a score.

1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 i.i i Big East standings, came when the 6-foot-3-inch, 220-pound Fitzpatrick realized, as he dropped back or rolled out to throw, that Cornell's defense had left some huge holes. On one such play, Fitzpatrick scampered for a late-fourth-quarter touchdown of 17 yards to put the game out of reach. "With a quarterback like that, they're just going to have a field day," said Cornell coach Chip Knowles. "It just changes the whole game when you have a quarterback who can do that He's just an extremely effective weapon. Their offense is just really hard to handle because they can do so many things." Harvard (4-0, 2-0 Ivy League) unveiled another weapon when Brian Edwards fielded a kickoff midway through the second quarter and brought the crowd to its feet with a 92-yard return, tying the game at 14.

"That was the biggest hole I ever saw on a kickoff," said Edwards. "I just went for it, and then there was just one more guy and I think he missed his angle on me." Though his offensive numbers were subpar, Dawson opened the scoring with his first touchdown reception at Harvard, a 6-yarder from Fitzpatrick midway through the first quarter. But Cornell (1-3, 1-1) had its own offensive weapon in 230-pound tailback Andre Hardaway (28 carries, 130 yards), who gave the Big Red a 14-6 lead in the second quarter with a 10-yard blast through a huge hole in the middle of the Harvard defense. The play capped Cornell's best drive, a seven-play, 78-yard march in which Hardaway ripped off 31 yards on a fake bootleg after quarterback D.J. Busch connected with tight end Chris Eckstein for a 20-yard completion off a bootleg.

Hardaway also scored Cornell's first touchdown with a 2-yard dive off tackle that capped a four-play, 51-yard drive less than two minutes after Harvard's first touchdown. After Harvard rallied for a 21-14 halftime lead, Cornell regained By Tony Chamberlain GLOBE STAFF A shutout victim IVillfllTrSl year with Harvard, which put up 27 points, Cornell yesterday was determined to stop the Crimson explosive tailback, sophomore Qifton Dawson, and his streak of nine games with 100 or more rushing yards. Dawson, who transferred last year from Division 1-A Northwestern, where he was redshirted in 2002, was coming off a 167-yard game last week against Lafayette. And stop him, the Big Red did. In a 34-24 Crimson win at Harvard Stadium before 13,334, Dawson was held to 61 yards in 21 carries, just 20 yards in the second half.

But in so doing the Big Red learned what Harvard coach Tim Murphy means by a balanced attack. As most of the Cornell defense was focused on Dawson, senior quarterback Ryan Fitzpa-trick passed for 317 yards and rushed for 102. Many of those rushing yards Ivy League roundup I I I 1 1 I 1 1 II II I I I I II 1 1 1 I I 1 1 I I I 1 1 I I I I Ivy League standings, summaries Alert Yale defense keeps Green winless IIIIMMHI1IMIIIMHIIIIM1IMIMIIMIIIIIHIIM HARVARD 34, CORNELL 24 at Harvard Stadium Cornel (1-3) Harvard .) II I IS I 7 24 34 Har-Clifton Dawson 6 pass from Ryan Fitzpatrick (rush failed). Cor-Andre Hardaway 2 run (Trev MacMeekin kick), 6:52. Cor-Hardaway 10 run (MacMeekin kick), 8:42.

Har-Brian Edwards 92 kickoff return (Fitzpatrick rush), 8:30. Har-Corey Mazza 51 pass from Fitzpatrick (Matt Schindel kick), 2:39. Cor-FG 22 MacMeekin, 10:45. Cor-Chad Nice 77 pass from J. Busch (MacMeekin kick), 6:41.

Har-Mazza 21 pass from Edwards (kick failed), 2:15. Har-Fltzpatrick 17 run (Schindel kick), 2:48. Cor 15 37-127 Har 22 42-160 335 21-37-1 0 7-68 28:29 First downs Rushes-yards Passing Comp-att-int ..285 16-39-0 Ketum yards 14 Punts-Avg. Fumbles-lost Penalties-yards 0-0 6-41 possession 3131 MDnHMIAL STATISTICS RUSHING-C, Hardaway 28-130, Marcus Blanks 2-2. Jeff Hahn 1-0: Fitzpatrick 17-102.

Dawson 21-61, Nick Canington 1-3. PASSING-C, Busch 38-16-0-285, Brian Romney 1-0-0-0; Fitzpatrick 35-19-1-317, Edwards 1-1-0-21, Robert Balkema l-l-0-(-3). RECEIVING-C, Brian Romney 6-68, Nice 4-122, Anthon Jackson 2-62, Hardaway 2-21, Chris Eckstein 2-12: H. Mazza 9-194, Ryan Tyler 5-52, Edwards 3-48. Dawson 2-26, Joe Murt 1-18, Bobby Everett l-(-3).

I I I I 1 1 I II I 1 1 1 1 1 1 I I I I I II I I I I I PENN, 32-25 at 3 8 6 7 14 32 25 (3-2). Buc-Trotter 66 pass from Cangelosi (Bower kick). 6:45 Buc-Cangelosi 8 run (Bower kick), 4:45. Penn-FG Argueilo 27, :07. Penn-McDermott 1 run (kick failed), Penn KAmbrogi 7 run (pass failed), 6:53.

Buc-K. Davis 2 run (K.0avis pass from D.Wilson), 3:29. Penn-Marabella 12 pass from McDermott (Goodbody kick), 5:15. Buc-FGKorn47. Penn-FG Nolan 42.

Penn-McDermott 1 run (Nolan kick). First downs Rushes-yards Passing Comp-att-int -Return yards Punts-Avg. 26 32 -105 384 81 3-3 8-63 15 57-137 182 10-14-1 17 8-375 3-1 8-71 32:41 Penalties-yards possession 27:19 INDTVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING Penn, Mathews 18-64, K-Ambrogl 9-47, McDermott 5-(-6). Bucknell, Cangelosi 7-50, Lovelace 7-29, ICDavis 6-28, D.Wilson 30-27. PASSING-Penn.

McDermott 32-55-1 384, Mathews 0-1-0 0. Bucknell. D.Wilson 9-12-1 116, Cangelosi 1-2-066. RECEIVING Penn, Castles 12-132. Mathews 6-53.

Marabella 3-33: Bucknell. Nutt 3-41, Trotter YALE, 24-14 Vale (2-1) 7-24 14 Dartmorth (4-3) Bob Murphy 26 pass from Charlie Rittgers (Erik Hinterbichler kick). chandler Henley (37 pass from Alvin Cowan (Andrew Sullivan kick). Sullivan 26 fwW goal. Rob Carr 1 run (Sullivan Idck).

Chris Little 4 run (Hirrteibichter lock). Ralph Plumb 2 pass from Cowan (Sutthran lock). Attendance: 6.109. Yale tart 16 16 40-118 246 15-31-3 3- 75 4- 50 2-2 4-34 3132 Rushes-yards -Passing yards. 37-133 206 18-2B-2 3-70 2-13 Passes.

Kickoff returns. Punt returns Punts Penalties-yards. 7-50 Possession. .28:08 worvnuAi. statistics RUSHING Rob Carr 32-164.

Cowan 44-29): Little 32-99, Ray Rochester 4-15 Pat Rtsha 1-4. PASSING Y. Cowan 14-28-2-206: D. Rittgers 15-31 -3-246. RECEIVING V.

Phitnb 10-87. Henley 4-102. Carr 3-15: D. Murphy 5-109. Rrsha 5-37, Andrew the lead, 24-21, in the third quarter on a 22-yard field goal from Trevor MacMeekin, followed by a 77-yard TD pass from Busch to Chad Nice.

And while Knowles praised the gritty play of his team, he also acknowledged that as the game wore on, there was just too much Crimson offense to deal with. His Big Red, he said, "are just about one player away from Harvard, and that player is Fitzpatrick." Harvard coach Tim Murphy was pleased with the way his team was able to adjust with the defensive focus on Dawson. "Cornell is extremely physical, very well coached, and we were very fortunate to win," he said. "The obvious key was that they were going to, at all costs, defend our running game and Clifton Dawson. We feel like our offense is balanced to the extent that no one is going to take away our offense by stopping one phase of it Fitzpatrick really stepped up today and took what they gave us, both running and throwing." I I I I II I I II I I II 1 1 1 i 1 1 I I I I I I 1 1 1 II 1 11 1 I I I I I COLGATE, 29-26 1(1-1) 9 7 28 Cokjate(3-2) 7 7 I 15 29 Pri-Brigham 34 pass from Verbit (Javarone kick), 13:46.

Pri FG Javarone 28, 9KT7. Col Branch 2 run (Schwarzberg kick), 2:02. Col-Graham 7 pass from Brwon (Schwarzberg kick). 00:03. Pri-Benson 84 run Oavarone kick blocked), 14:40.

Pri-FG Javarone 19, 4:45. Prl-Veach 1 run (Javarone kick), 9:17. Col-Branch 1 run (Schwarzberg kick), 5:22. Col Long 19 pass from Srown, 1:28. Col Flrstdowns 13 12 Rushes-yards 35-224 46-226 Passing 128 123 Comp-att-int 14-27-1 10-24-3 Return yards 56 42 Punts-Avg 8-37 8-42 Fumbles-lost 0-0 0-0 Penalties-yards 8-102 5-52 Possession 30:51 29:29 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING-P, Benson 10-133, Veach 17-67, Fields 2-12, Verbit 6-12: a Branch 30-179.

Brown 9-33, Guglielmotti 5-13, LaMonica 1-5, team l-(-4). PASSING-P, Verbit 14-27-1-128; Brown 10-24-3-123. RECEIVING-P. Fields 4-25. Mccarelns 3-40, Veach 2-15, Benson 2-12.

Brigham 1-34, Mancl 1-4. Oekker l-(-2): Graham 3-27. Chrystie 2-56, Dewayne 2-23. Brown 1-7. Rose 1-5, Branch 1-5.

LAFAYETTE, 35-14 at New Tack 7 14 14 I I (4-2). (0-0 Laf-stanford 16 pass from Maurer (Ziska kick). 13:14. Laf-Hutson 11 pass from Maurer (Ziska kick), 13:32. Laf-McCourt 3 run (Ziska kick).

4-07. Col-Bowser 24 pass from Otis (Rudd kick). 12:46. Laf-Maurer 63 run (Ziska kick). 11:15 Col-Radlein 7 pass from Otis (Rudd kick).

SIS. Laf-Lauver 28 pass from McCourt (Ziska kick), 235. A-1J18. Laf Cd 23 30-118 296 29-43-1 6 44 2-2 4-35 24:30 cwh. 22 Rushes-yards -56-295 129 53 2-23 0-0 2-25 Passing Comp-att-int -Return yards Punts-Avg.

Penafbes-yards Possession 35:30 MOmOUAL STATISTICS RUSHING McCourt 36-182. Maurer 11 83. Nelson 4-1 1. Green 3-10. Berton 2-9: C.

Baggers 13-71. Okiwote 10-32. Otis 6-15. Latimer 1-9. PASSING Maurer 12-14-0-101.

McCourt 1-1-0-28: Otis 29-43-1-296. RECEIVING-L McCourt 4-37. Stanford 4-25. Lauver 2-38, Hutson 2-20. Nelson 1-4: Fletcher 10-121.

Bowser Ml. Reuter 4-48. RaokHn 3-25, De-Gaspens 3-13. Ehrhart 1-8. Conf.

All W-L W-L PF PA Harvard 2-0 4-0 142 88 Penn 1-0 3-1 141 59 Princeton 1-0 3-1 112 90 Yale 1-1 3-1 86 78 Cornell 1-1 1-3 63 75 Brown 0-1 3-1 116 75 Columbia 0-1 0-4 67 121 Dartmouth 0-2 0-4 53 121 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS summary Conf. All W-L W-L PF PA BC 1-0 4-1 110 49 Syracuse 1-0 3-3 120 154 UConn 1-1 4-1 150 81 Pittsburgh 1-1 3-2 126 116 WestVa. 0-0 4-1 178 88 Rutgers 0-1 3-2 140 145 Temple 0-1 1-5 129 238 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS Florida St 17 Syracuse 13 Pittsburgh 27 Temple 22 Rutgers 37 Vanderbilt 34 for Fordham (4-2), which forced OT on Micah Clukey's 34-yard field goal with 35 seconds left. Penn 32, Bucknell 25 At Lewisburg, Pat McDermott scored on a 1-yard plunge in the second overtime to boost the Quakers. McDermott, who completed 32 of 55 passes for 384 yards and one touchdown and rushed for two others, made his winning score after a 42-yard field goal by Evan Nolan had tied it Ryan Korn's 47-yard field goal had given Bucknell a 25-22 lead.

Gabe Marabella scored on a 12-yard pass from McDermott with 5:15 remaining to tie the score, 22-22, and send the game into OT. Lafayette 35, Columbia 14 Brad Maurer threw two touchdown passes and ran for another score, and Joe McCourt ran for 182 yards, scored once, and passed for a TD, as the Leopards rolled in New York. Maurer threw 16 yards to Brandon Stanford in the first quarter and 11 yards to Travis Hutson in the second to help give Lafayette (4-2) a 21-0 halftime lead. Colgate 29, Princeton 26 Ja- maal Branch ran for 179 yards and two touchdowns as the Raiders (3-2) completed a come-from-behind win at Hamilton, N.Y. ASSOCIATED PRESS Alvin Cowan threw two touchdown passes and Robert Carr scored a touchdown and rushed for 164 yards to lead Yale to a 24-14 victory over winless Dartmouth yesterday in Hanover, N.H.

The Big Green (0-4, 0-2) rolled up 364 total yards to the Eli's 339, but Yale also got three interceptions and two fumble recoveries to stymie five drives. Dartmouth scored first on a 26-yard pass from Charlie Rittgers to Bob Murphy midway through the first quarter but Yale bounced back four minutes later to even the score. Cowan, who hit on 18 of 28 passes for 206 yards, connected with Chandler Henley on a 37-yard scoring play with 4:22 left in the first quarter. Early in the third quarter, Yale drove 45 yards in six plays with Carr scoring on a 1-yard carry. In the final quarter, Cowan passed 2 yards to Ralph Plumb on fourth down with 8:03 remaining, completing a 14-play, 87-yard march.

Brown 27, Fordham 20 Nick Hartigan scored on a 1-yard run as the Bears slipped past the Rams in overtime in New York. Hartigan also scored on runs of 2 and 15 yards, and finished with 134 yards on 42 carries for Brown. Derric Daniels completed 15 of 28 passes for 148 yards and a TD Brown 27. Colgate 29 Harvard 34.. Fordham 20 (0T) Princeton 26 24 Lafayette 35.

14 Penn 32. 25 (2 OT) Yale 24. Dartmouth 14 BROWN, 27-20 at New York 7 Brown Fordham (4-2) .3 7 7 Bra Nick Hartigan 2 run (Steve Morgan kick), 11:31. Ford FG Micah Clukey 44, 7:20. Ford Steve Porco 30 pass from Derric Daniels (Clukey kick), 2:03.

Bro-FG Morgan 21, 12:45. Ford-Raymond Loney 97 kickoff return (Clukey kick), Bro Hartigan 15 run (Morgan kick), 4:09. Bro-FG Morgan 45, 6:00. Ford FG Clukey 34, :31. Bro Hartigan 1 run (Morgan kick).

Bra Ford First downs 18 12 29-108 167 16-29-2 95 6-233 0-0 8-224 27:25 Rushes-yards Passing Comp-att-int Return yards Punts-Avg. Fumbles-lost Penalties-yards Possession 51-165 219 16 2-68 1-0 3-15 32:35 INCNVtDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING Brown, Hartigan 42-134. Joe DiGiacomo 7-23, Akin Oyalowo 2-8. Fordham, Jamaal Hunte 17-83, Daniels 6-16, James Prydatko 5-8, Coven 1-1. PASSING-Brown, DiGiacomo 13-26-3-219.

Fordham. Daniels 15-28-2-148. Hunte 1-1-0-19. RECEIVING-Brown, Jarrett Sdireck 4-45, Carson Brerman 3-98, David Turner 2-18, Eh- Black ledge 2-16. Hartigan 1-30, Thomas Balestracci 1-12.

Fordham, Steve Porco 4-77. Rashawn Haynes 4-44. Hunte 4-14, Ty Hogan 2-16. Prydatko 1-11. Erik Contoy 1-5.

PITTSBURGH, 27-22 atPMbtMpMa (3-2) I 21 27 (1-5) 22 nrstaaarter Tern Brown 8 pass from Washington (Lux Md0. 9:12. Pit- FG Cummings 45, 6:35. Tern Safety, Palko tackled in end zone, 1453. Tem Chuku 35 pass from Washington (Lux kick), 6:53.

Pit FG Cummlngs 33, 3:29. Feartk Quarter 50 pass from Palko Cummlngs kick). 14:01. Pit Kirkley 1 run (Cummings kick). 8:38.

Pit Kirkley 5 run (Cummings kick), 2:49. Tem Goodman 7 pass from Washington (run failed). :15. A-19417. Tem Flrstdowns 16 27 Rushes-yards 37-126 38-144 Passing 234 314 Comp-att-int 14-19-0 30-4 SO 18 Punts-Avg, HI Fumbles-lost 0-0 0-0 Penalties-yards 4-55 8-65 Possession 28:33 31:27 INOrVKMJIU.

STATISTICS PUSHING Pittsburgh, Kirkley 21-86, Palko 12-28, Mason 2-7. Firman 1-6. Team H-l). Temple, Washington 23-82. UFerguson 9-55.

Brown 6-7, PASSING-Pmsburgh. Palko 13-18-0 191, Furman 1-1-0 43. Temple. Washington 30-440 314, Team 0-1-0 a. RECrviNG-Pittsburgh.

G.lee 8-159. GiH 2-34. Kirkley 2-24. OerSardo 2-17. Temple.

Ibeh 7-73. frown 5-38. Chuku 4-83. Allbrooks 3-42. Goodman 3 22, ILFerguson 3-20.

IHarris 3-15. Dunbar 2-2L 3).