Source: bwog.com --- Monday, October 23, 2017
Defensive Lineman Alexander Holme is trying out for the Baseball team. It’s a common fallacy of sports journalism to rest an entire game on a single play. In a 60 minute (or 3 hour) game of football, a point scored on the opening play matters just as much to the final score as a point as the clock expires. If a last-second touchdown is a team’s last chance, then they had dozens of other chances beforehand. In that sense, it’s not right to focus only on the final play of the Columbia Football team’s (6-0, 3-0 Ivy) victory over Dartmouth (5-1, 2-1 Ivy). The final play wouldn’t have mattered had Columbia not racked up four 3-and-outs during the last half, or had quarterback Anders Hill not lobbed the ball into triple coverage when the Lions had a chance to close out the game with ten minutes left in the fourth quarter. Similarly, Dartmouth could have made the last play irrelevant by converting their third down attempts (0 for 9 on the day), or by making a chip shot field goal at the end of the first half. And, per head coach Al Bagnoli , Dartmouth would have been stopped earlier were it not for an illegal block below the waist call made during that fateful final drive. With all of those disclaimers in mind, the end of the Dartmouth game was an absolute mess. The game’s fourth quarter played out like a nightmare where the Lions were running through molasses, which made Dartmouth’s victory appear nearly inevitable. After the aforemen ...
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