Columbia Revives Crimson Title Hopes

Dartmouth's tie with Columbia Saturday brought Harvard back into the Ivy League football race. (For more on the Ivy race, see box above). Cornell won the battle of the winless, while Penn lost and Princeton won in non-league contests.

Columbia 17, Dartmouth 17

Craig Saltzgaber booted a 32-yard field goal on the final play of the game to save the Big Green from its first league defeat of the season at East Rutherford, N.J.

Dartmouth is now tied with Penn for the Ivy lead with just two weeks remaining in the season.

The Lions' Larry Walsh kicked a 42-yarder that gave Columbia a 17-14 advantage with 6:09 to play. But Dartmouth drove the ball 62 yards in the final 2:30 to set up Saltzgaber's tying score.

Columbia quarterback John Witkowski completed 123 of 38 passes for 337 yards and two touchdowns. Split end Don Lewis caught nine Witkowski tosses, giving him an Ivy League career record 104 receptions.

Cornell 41, Yale 7

Halfback Derrick Harmon scored four touchdowns and gained 210 yards on 25 carries at Ithaca, N.Y. to make Yale the only remaining winless team in the Ivies.

The Elis have now lost a school record nine straight, a string that started with last year's season-ending loss in The Game. No previous Yale team ever lost eight games in a season.

Harmon scored on breakaway runs of 44, 46, 11 and 37 yards. The win was Maxie Baughan's first collegiate victory since taking over the reins of the Big Red this season.

Penn State 38, Brown 21

Brown scored the last two touchdowns of the game to make Penn State's first game against an Ivy team in 25 years look a lot closer than it really was.

The Nittany Lions took a 17-0 first quarter lead on touchdown runs of six yards by quarterback Doug Strang and 61 yards by Jon Williams and a 47-yard field goal by Nick Gancitano.

Brown narrowed it to 17-7 before Penn State blew the game open by scoring the first 21 points of the second half at State College, Pa.

Colgate 34, Penn 20

Colgate tailback Rich Erenberg enjoyed his third straight 200-yard rushing game as the Red Raiders walloped Penn at Philadelphia.

Erenberg, the leading rusher in Division IAA, ran for 211 yards and three touchdowns.

Princeton 41, Lafayette 33

Sophomore quarterback Doug Butler threw for 469 yards and three touchdowns as the Tigers rallied to win at Princeton, N.J.

Defensive back Eric Robinson nabbed three of the four fourth-quarter interceptions that brought the Tigers back from a 33-21 deficit.

Derek Graham caught 15 passes for 216 yards and two touchdowns. Kevin Guthrie snatched 12 receptions for 185 yards and a touchdown.

Butler's 19 touchdown passes this year is a new Princeton record.