Tuesday, April 12, 2022

Ferraro's Feats: Part 5



This is the fifth installment of the 10 greatest defensive performances for the Lions during Paul Ferraro's tenure as defensive coordinator. Ferraro announced his retirement earlier this month.


#3: Columbia 17 Yale 7 (2015)


Head Coach Al Bagnoli's first Ivy League win as the coach of the Lions came at the Yale Bowl, just a short walk from where he grew up.  

The week before, the Lions almost shocked the Ivy world with a fantastic defensive effort at eventual league champion Dartmouth in a close loss. 

This time, Columbia wouldn't allow an offensive score as the only Eli dent on the scoreboard came via an early punt return for a TD. 

The stat sheet is still unbelievable. The Lions allowed just five Yale 1st downs, held the Bulldogs to -14 yards rushing, and sacked Yale QB's six times. 

On offense, Columbia got a gutty performance from QB (and current Lion QB coach) Skyler Mornhinweg and a shocking fake FG run for a TD by current Atlanta Falcons punter Cameron Nizialek. 

The Lions haven't won at the Bowl since. 


2 comments:

oldlion said...

Jake, have you heard about a three star QB commit who is not on the prior lists but is a late addition?

Jake said...

We do have a late addition QB, but not a 3-star that I know of.