Big Green Keeps on Rolling; Cornell Drops Tenth Straight

Three Ivy League football teams managed to keep notable streaks alive this weekend, even though all of them did not emerge with victories to show for their efforts.

Dartmouth's Big Green won its sixth consecutive game, including three this year, with a 45-7 mauling of Holy Cross, and Columbia won its second in a row for the first time in recent memory by beating Penn 14-10. Cornell, meanwhile, kept an impressive losing skein intact by falling to Rutgers for its tenth defeat in a row.

Other Ivy League winners included Brown and Yale, while Princeton's Tigers joined the Big Red and the Quakers in the losers' bracket.

Junior fullback Curt Obert was again the big gun in Dartmouth's attack, ripping through the Crusader defense for 128 yards in 23 carries. Big Green quarterback Kevin Case also had a big game, passing for 87 yards and adding 72 rushing while scoring the go-ahead touchdown in the second quarter on a one-yard burst.

Brown became the first Ivy team to win two conference games this year, stifling Princeton by a 13-7 count. The Bruins continue to show impressive defense though struggling through some doldrums offensively.

Brown grabbed a 13-0 halftime lead on a three-yard touchdown run by Bill Hill in the first quarter and a two-yard Seth Morris effort in the second, but the offense stalled out after that. The Tigers picked up a fourth quarter touchdown on a Gary Larson run from one yard out.

Columbia's Jay Hickey beat Pennsylvania almost singlehandedly in Philadelphia, rushing for touchdowns of 37 and 14 yards in the second half as the Lions overcame an early 10-0 Quaker lead. Columbia now stands at 2-1 overall and 1-1 in the Ivies this season. Pennsylvania has yet to win a game.

Yale's junior halfback John Pagliaro paced the Elis to their second straight win after an opening loss to Brown, racing for 193 yards and two touchdowns in a 21-6 victory over Lehigh.

Pagliaro popped for six yards in the third quarter to give Yale a 7-0 lead, then scampered 75 yards later in the period to make it 14-0., After a Lehigh tally, Greg Hall grabbed a 15-yard scoring strike from Eli quarterback Bob Rizzo to close things out.

Cornell, Harvard's next opponent at Soldiers Field on Saturday, gave it a go in New Jersey before settling for another loss. The Big Red took a 7-6 lead in the third quarter before signalcaller Bert Kosup got the Scarlet Knights moving toward their 11th straight win with two touchdowns in the final quarter.