2008 Woodie Awards
Football Falls on Tough Times
Injuries and Turnovers Lead to Loss at Dartmouth
Jeff Fein
Issue date: 9/22/05 Section: Sports
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The Raider football team has a bye in its schedule this week as the team gets ready for its Homecoming game against Cornell next weekend. The team could certainly use the week off.
For the first time in seven years, the Raiders fell to Dartmouth, 26-21, in Hanover, NH on Saturday, to drop their record to 1-2 on the young season.
Against the Big Green, turnovers killed Colgate. The Raiders' two fumbles and two interceptions translated into three Big Green touchdowns. Colgate also had three turnovers on downs, including the end to a last-gasp drive in the game's final two minutes. The Raiders also gave up a safety. In short, the game wasn't pretty.
"The turnovers we've committed have been so costly because they put points on the board for the other team," Raider head coach Dick Biddle said. "It's one thing to turn the ball over; it's another to turn it over and have them run the ball back for a touchdown. Those kinds of things really go against you."
The Raiders were slowed by several crucial injuries against Dartmouth, as the entire starting backfield of sophomore quarterback Lee Sloan, first-year tailback Steve Hansen and senior fullback Ben Evans was sidelined by the 11:27 mark of the fourth quarter. Hansen is out for the year with a knee injury that requires surgery, while Evans and Sloan are day-to-day, according to Biddle.
Banged up as they were, the Raiders still put up a good fight against a Dartmouth team playing its first game of 2005. Behind a new head coach, the Big Green was out for revenge after last year's two-point loss at Andy Kerr Stadium. This year, the game again came down to the final minutes.
Colgate got on the board first on Saturday when Evans capped a 20-play drive that chewed up more than eight minutes of the clock with a two-yard touchdown, his first of the year. Evans' score, which came on the first play of the second quarter, was set up by a pass interference penalty called on Dartmouth inside its own 10-yard line.
For the first time in seven years, the Raiders fell to Dartmouth, 26-21, in Hanover, NH on Saturday, to drop their record to 1-2 on the young season.
Against the Big Green, turnovers killed Colgate. The Raiders' two fumbles and two interceptions translated into three Big Green touchdowns. Colgate also had three turnovers on downs, including the end to a last-gasp drive in the game's final two minutes. The Raiders also gave up a safety. In short, the game wasn't pretty.
"The turnovers we've committed have been so costly because they put points on the board for the other team," Raider head coach Dick Biddle said. "It's one thing to turn the ball over; it's another to turn it over and have them run the ball back for a touchdown. Those kinds of things really go against you."
The Raiders were slowed by several crucial injuries against Dartmouth, as the entire starting backfield of sophomore quarterback Lee Sloan, first-year tailback Steve Hansen and senior fullback Ben Evans was sidelined by the 11:27 mark of the fourth quarter. Hansen is out for the year with a knee injury that requires surgery, while Evans and Sloan are day-to-day, according to Biddle.
Banged up as they were, the Raiders still put up a good fight against a Dartmouth team playing its first game of 2005. Behind a new head coach, the Big Green was out for revenge after last year's two-point loss at Andy Kerr Stadium. This year, the game again came down to the final minutes.
Colgate got on the board first on Saturday when Evans capped a 20-play drive that chewed up more than eight minutes of the clock with a two-yard touchdown, his first of the year. Evans' score, which came on the first play of the second quarter, was set up by a pass interference penalty called on Dartmouth inside its own 10-yard line.