Harvard Erases a 10-0 Deficit and Stays Unbeaten
Cornell led 10-0 after one quarter. Harvard then scored 41 points in a row, and Cornell's late rally came up 12 points short at 41-29.
The Big Red started it well. Alan Zhao kicked a 43-yard field goal, and Garrett Bass-Sulpizio ran in from 2 yards for a 10-0 lead. After that, Harvard took over. Kise Flannery scored from a yard out early in the second quarter, Charlie Smith threw 36 yards to Tafari Moe and 16 yards to Henry Shoemaker, and it was 21-10 at the half. In the third quarter Xaviah Bascon ran 4 yards, Kieran Corr hit a 51-yard field goal, and Smith found tight end Teigan Pelletier from 28 yards for a 38-10 lead. Corr added a 27-yarder early in the fourth, and Harvard led 41-10.
Cornell made the score respectable. Ean Pope broke a 61-yard run, Bass-Sulpizio threw 3 yards to Samuel Musungu, and a 21-yard throw to Ja'von Broussard with 1:55 left made it 41-29. Those were 19 points in about eight minutes, and they came too late.
Smith was 23 of 27 for 275 yards and three touchdowns. Cornell outrushed Harvard 242 yards to 111 and finished with more total yards (400 to 386), but threw two interceptions to Harvard's one.
Harvard is 3-0. Cornell falls to 2-2, and the 10-0 start now looks like the best part of the afternoon. For fantasy, the top two scorers were quarterbacks separated by 0.3 points: Bass-Sulpizio with 28.9 on the losing side and Smith with 28.6.