The Internet chat boards are buzzing about a possible Columbia-Lafayette
scrimmage on August 31st. I haven’t heard any official word about
this and also don’t know where the game would be played.
This would be the first preseason scrimmage for the Lions
since 2010. I took Columbia’s decision not to schedule scrimmages that last two
seasons as a negative development, so this could be considered somewhat as good
news for us.
Incidentally, 8/31 is a full three weeks before our regular
season starts at Fordham but just one week before the Leopards begin their
regular season at home vs. Sacred Heart.
7 comments:
How many season ending injuries did we suffer from chop blocks when we played Lafayette?
Who did Columbia used to scrimmage prior to 2010 in preseason?
Columbia got into a 4 or 5-year long tradition of scrimmaging Brown up until 2011. Before that, the Lions took on Harvard in preseason a few times.
The only player I know who got hurt in a regular season game vs. Lafayette in a permanent way was Alex Gross in 2009. But he came back in 2010 in a big way.
Alex was chopped blocked in the Lafayette game, for sure, and he had to change his game when he came back. He wasn't as fast. After that game, I wondered if the Lafayette line coach was coaching his blockers properly. And our great freshman DT recruit was also chop blocked and was never the same, although I can neither remember his name nor the opponent, although I thought it was also Lafayette.
Owen Fraser.
Was he chop blocked by Lafayette?
Fraser was chop blocked at Fordham in 2009.
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