Ivy Game Roundup

HANOVER, N.H. -- James Perry threw for 450 yards and three touchdowns, including one with just over a minute remaining, as Brown squeaked out a 35-28 win over Dartmouth on Saturday. Perry completed 41-of-54 passes for Brown, which scored on every possession but two. Stephen Campbell was his leading target, catching 15 passes for 175 yards and a touchdown. For Dartmouth (1-8, 1-5), Reggie Belhomme carried the ball 25 times for 131 yards and scored on runs of four, three and three yards. It was his first 100-yard-plus rushing game this season. Brown opened the scoring with a Sean Jensen 35-yard field goal, but Dartmouth responded with 14 straight points. After the teams traded touchdowns midway through the second quarter, Perry hit Campbell in the end zone from 15 yards out, then threw to him again for the two-point conversion. In the third quarter, Jensen hit a 20-yard field goal to tie the game at 21. Mike Malan ran in from eight yards out to give Brown the lead in the fourth, but Dartmouth tied it with Belhomme's third touchdown. That gave Brown the ball with less than four minutes to play. Perry capped the winning drive with the pass to Rackley with 1:10 left in the game. ITHACA, N.Y. -- In his first college field goal try, Peter Iverson kicked a 39-yard field goal with 39 seconds left to give Cornell a 31-29 win over Columbia Saturday afternoon. Cornell (6-3, 4-2) was led by Ricky Rahne, who completed 28-of-40 passes for 320 yards. Rahne drove the Big Red 61 yards in the final drive to give Iverson a chance to complete the come-from-behind victory with his first collegiate field goal. Iverson, a sophomore who kicked four extra points Saturday, started the game because regular kicker John McCombs went home to his family because his father died Friday. "It wasn't me kicking, it was John," Iverson said. "He was with me today. I just wish he was here to share this win with us." "Pete was great," Cornell coach Pete Mangurian said of his unexpected kicking star. "As a coach, you try and make him relax. Before the attempt I called him over and I kind of smiled and said, 'Pete, here we go.' He said, 'I got it,' and he made it." Rahne took Cornell from a 20-14 halftime deficit to the lead after throwing touchdown passes of 33 and 18 yards to Joe Splendorio (eight catches, 126 yards) in the third quarter. With Cornell up 28-20, Columbia (3-6, 1-5) stormed back with 10 unanswered points. Neal Kravitz kicked a 19-yarder, his third field goal of the game. After Cornell was forced to punt, Columbia faced fourth-and-one at its own 47-yard line. Norman Hayes (26 carries, 166 yards) sprinted around right end for the 53-yard TD. The two-point conversion failed but Columbia still held a 29-28 lead with 5:32 left in the game. Rahne then commanded the winning drive. Rahne set a new school season passing record with 2,466 yards with one game left to play. The old mark was 2,255 yards set by Steve Joyce in 1995. "We've had a problem stopping the pass all year," Columbia coach Ray Tellier said. "We are just not real good back there against the pass." "It's an honor to have that record," Rahne said, "but I'd rather have gone undefeated and won the Ivy League title." PRINCETON, N.J. -- Joe Walland gained 263 yards in total offense and threw two touchdown passes to help Yale escape with a 23-21 victory over Princeton on Saturday. The Elis (8-1, 5-1) have won eight straight and can clinch at least a tie for their first Ivy League title since 1989 if they beat Harvard in next Saturday's season finale. Walland completed 17-of-36 for 162 yards and rushed for 101 yards to become Yale's all-time career passing yardage leader. Yale scored on its first two possessions for a 10-0 lead. Princeton's (3-6, 1-5) defense got them back in the game on Yale's next possession, when Brian Beem returned an interception 35 yards for a touchdown. Northrop missed the extra point but kicked a 20-yard field goal with 21 seconds left in the half to pull Princeton within a point. Yale increased the one-point halftime lead on its first possession of the third quarter when Rashad Bartholomew caught a nine-yard touchdown pass to make it 17-9. The Elis completed the quarter with an 80-yard scoring drive that ended in Bartholomew's two-yard run. Trailing 23-9 with 11 minutes remaining, Princeton got a 37-yard touchdown pass from Tommy Crenshaw to Phil Wendler, but Taylor Northrop missed his second extra point of the day. With 4:14 remaining, Princeton drove 74 yards. Wendler caught a touchdown pass over the middle with 2:06 left.