NY All Star Game Tonight
Just one incoming Ivy player will be a part of tonight’s
annual Empire Challenge HS football all-star game which features players from New York
City and Long Island high schools.
That one player is incoming Princeton DB James Gales, (he played RB in high school), and he is listed as an
RB on the game roster. Columbia offered Gales a spot in this year's class, but he went with the Tigers.
UPDATE: An updated roster from Newsday names 2 more players from Long Island who are going to Cornell.
The first player is some who is actually listed as a recruited freshman for Cornell football, Lawrence High School's Islam Mohamed, a 6-4, 270 pound offensive lineman.
The second player the Newsday roster says is coming to Cornell is Scott D'Antonio, a 6-1, 175 pound linebacker from Garden City HS. He is not on Cornell's recruited list, but he could be walking on, playing another sport, or not planning to play a varsity sport in Ithaca. Most likely lacrosse, where D'Antonio was also a star player for Garden City.
UPDATE #2: Besides Gales and Mohamed, a few other players in tonight's game could be lining up against Columbia in the coming years. Fordham freshmen-to-be George Dawson and Kyvaune Brammer and Monmouth's incoming frosh Lekeith Celestain. Dawson is a 6-2, 190 pound WR out of Cardinal Hayes HS, Brammer is a 6-3 linebacker from Brooklyn Tech, and Celestain is 6-1 CB from Holy Cross HS.
The game is being broadcast live on MSG Varsity. Coverage begins at 7pm.
The first player is some who is actually listed as a recruited freshman for Cornell football, Lawrence High School's Islam Mohamed, a 6-4, 270 pound offensive lineman.
The second player the Newsday roster says is coming to Cornell is Scott D'Antonio, a 6-1, 175 pound linebacker from Garden City HS. He is not on Cornell's recruited list, but he could be walking on, playing another sport, or not planning to play a varsity sport in Ithaca. Most likely lacrosse, where D'Antonio was also a star player for Garden City.
UPDATE #2: Besides Gales and Mohamed, a few other players in tonight's game could be lining up against Columbia in the coming years. Fordham freshmen-to-be George Dawson and Kyvaune Brammer and Monmouth's incoming frosh Lekeith Celestain. Dawson is a 6-2, 190 pound WR out of Cardinal Hayes HS, Brammer is a 6-3 linebacker from Brooklyn Tech, and Celestain is 6-1 CB from Holy Cross HS.
The game is being broadcast live on MSG Varsity. Coverage begins at 7pm.
I am very biased about this, because this game is played
about 10 minutes from my house, but I’d love to see more Ivy bound players in
this game every year. It seems like most of the Long Island and NYC-based
players give this game a pass.
Katz's St. Anthony's team has long been the best Catholic HS program in New York. It's not in the class of a Don Bosco or Bergen Catholic on New Jersey, but it's pretty good.
Katz's heroics to help St. A's reach 24 straight wins back in 2011 are probably the highlight of his HS career.
Scheduling Times
Columbia hasn't posted its home game times for the coming season yet, but some of the Lions road game kickoff times are set:
Week 1 at Fordham kickoff is 1pm
Week 3 at Princeton is still TBA, (the rest of Princeton's home schedule is set with start times at 1pm with the one exception being the home opener that kicks off at 6pm. My guess is that this game will either go at 3pm or 6pm and NOT the standard 1pm time).
Week 6 at Dartmouth kickoff is 1:30pm
Week 7 at Yale kickoff is 12 noon, (this will probably be a game televised on YES)
Week 9 at Cornell kickoff is set for 12:30pm
Scheduling Times
Columbia hasn't posted its home game times for the coming season yet, but some of the Lions road game kickoff times are set:
Week 1 at Fordham kickoff is 1pm
Week 3 at Princeton is still TBA, (the rest of Princeton's home schedule is set with start times at 1pm with the one exception being the home opener that kicks off at 6pm. My guess is that this game will either go at 3pm or 6pm and NOT the standard 1pm time).
Week 6 at Dartmouth kickoff is 1:30pm
Week 7 at Yale kickoff is 12 noon, (this will probably be a game televised on YES)
Week 9 at Cornell kickoff is set for 12:30pm
Moment #95: A Big Rarity Leads to another Golden Opportunity Missed
After the Lions took a 7-3 lead early in the 3rd quarter,
Columbia got a great chance to add to the lead in the oddest of ways.
On 4th and 14 from the Red Fox 18, Marist lined
up to punt the ball away. But the snap was very low and punter Jason Myers went
to the turf to field it. The problem was he let his knee touch the ground while
he possessed the ball and the play was blown dead right at the four yard line!
It’s a kind of play I’ve never seen before in college football, but it gave the
Lions the ball inside the Marist five.
However, Columbia’s inability to take advantage of good
field position continued and the postscript to this usual good fortune was a
chip shot field goal by Luke Eddy for a 10-3 lead.
3 comments:
An identical play happened in a high school game I was playing. I may have even gotten credit for the "sack" of the punter because I was closest to him when he went down to his knee. :)
I seem to recall an equally strange kicking play in Columbia history. I can't remember the opponent or year but I do remember that it was a home game. Columbia was kicking off. It looked (at least to me and a lot of other people) as though the ball must have blown off the tee just before the kicker reached the ball. Then the referee signaled first down for the receiving team with the ball placed only inches in front of the tee. It wasn't an onside kick that went bad. I never saw an explanation of what happened. I guess that the kicker must have tripped over the ball or barely grazed it. I don't think that they keep track of the shortest kickoffs but unless a kicker has actually booted the ball backwards (perhaps in a strong wind), this kick should be in the record books.
I hope the Lions get a game airing on the NBC Sports Network this season after not having one on their airwaves last season.
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