PRINCETON, N.J. — Ja’Derris Carr and Blake Stenstrom ran for touchdowns in the first quarter and Princeton finally reached 8-0 by turning back Dartmouth, 17-14, in Ivy League football action at Princeton Stadium on Saturday.
The Tigers (8-0, 5-0 Ivy League) lost to the Big Green (2-6, 1-4), co-champions the last two seasons, the last two times they had the opportunity to improve to 8-0. Princeton was 7-0 three times in 43 years before reaching — and now surpassing that — for the fifth straight season.
It took the recovery on an onside kick to seal the win after Dartmouth’s Jackson Proctor — taking over for Dylan Cadwallader following a late-game sakc — found Paxton Scott for a short touchdown with 17 seconds to play.
Jace Henry got the first touchdown for Dartmouth with a six-yard run late in the first quarter.
The difference in the game was a 23-yard field goal by Jeffrey Sexton that capped a 13-play, 73-yard drive 22 seconds before halftime.
Blake Stenstrom was 31-of-40 passing for 264 yards for Princeton, with Dylan Classi catching eight for 107 yards.
Proctor went 7-for-10 for 46 yards in his late cameo. Cadwalla was 14-fo4-20 for 144 yards but was sacked twice. Dartmouth was just 3-of-10 on third down.
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Nolan Grooms threw three touchdown passes and Yale scored twice after turnovers in a 35-point second quarter on its way to a rout of Brown.
Brown (3-5, 1-4 Ivy League) had turnovers on its final three first-half possessions. Two were turned into touchdowns, one on Reid Nickerson’s strip of Aidan Gilman that Hamilton Moore returned 19 yards for a score and the other on Joseph Vaughn’s 75-yard pick-6 with 22 seconds left in the half for a 52-3 lead.
Grooms was 12-of-16 passing for 205 yards and the Bulldogs ran for 337 yards. Tre Peterson rushed for 108 yards and two touchdowns, including a 53-yarder in the third quarter for a 66-3 lead.
Brown’s Aidan Gilman, who was the league’s offensive player of the week after a win over Penn last week, was 24-of-36 passing for 150 yards and two interceptions. Will Jarvis threw a touchdown pass to Wes Rockett in the final quarter.
The last time the Bulldogs (6-2, 4-1) scored 60-plus points was in 2003 against Towson (62) and the 69 points were the most since 1930. The Yale record is 89 points against Vermont in 1929. The 69 points are the most given up in Brown history.
Yale’s win was its fifth in a row over the Bears.
ITHACA, N.Y. — Trey Flowers ran for two touchdowns, Aidan Sayin threw for two and Pennsylvania held off Cornell.
Flowers capped a pair of short drives with touchdowns in the second quarter en route to a 124-yard day on 26 carries. The Quakers (7-1, 4-1 Ivy League) led 21-7 at the break.
Flowers had a 4-yard run to cap a four-play, 20-yard drive following a shanked punt and a six-yarder to cap a two-play, 13-yard drive after an interception.
Sayin, who connected with Sterling Stokes for a 47-yard score to open the scoring, found Joshua Casilli for 38 yards to make it 28-7 early in the third.
Jameson Wang ran for one touchdown and passed for two, the second coming with four seconds left in the game for the Big Red (4-4, 1-4).
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Columbia won at Harvard for the first time since 1995, blocking back-to-back field goal attempts, tipping another and scoring a go-ahead two-point conversion to beat the Crimson.
Harvard turned the ball over on downs at the Lions’ 32 and, after holding Columbia (4-4, 1-5 Ivy League) to a three-and-out, drove 55 yards to the Columbia 25 with 1:17 left. Jonah Lipel ‘s 42-yard field goal attempt was tipped and hit an upright.
Earlier, Scott Valentas blocked a 24-yard field goal attempt to end the third quarter, and Seth Parker blocked a 49-yard attempt early in the fourth.
Caden Bell led the Lions on an eight play, 40-yard drive he capped with a 25-yard touchdown pass to Luke Painton. Alex Felkins kicked the extra point, but Harvard (5-3, 3-2) was off-side, Columbia decided to go for the 2-point conversion and Bell found Ryan Young on a screen pass at the goal line for the 21-20 lead.
Bell completed 16 of 30 passes for 190 yards for Columbia but was picked off three times. Bryson Canty had five catches for 92 yards.