The Quakers struggled mightily in the red zone all game, and the failure to convert a crucial fourth down sealed the loss. Penn had 406 yards of total offense, yet it only managed to put 13 points on the board.

By the middle of the Dartmouth football team's 2005 campaign, the most unlikely of quarterbacks emerged. Josh Cohen, a true freshman, completed 25 passes for 290 yards and two touchdowns in his first career start against Holy Cross and earned the starting job for the rest of the season.

After the last day of spring football practice, most coaches and players take it easy. Dartmouth coach Buddy Teevens took a plane from Hanover, N.H., to San Diego and started a three-week scenic tour across America back to Hanover on his bicycle. After seeing the toll cancer had taken on his family and friends, the 50-year-old coach set out with a goal of promoting cancer awareness.

After two weeks without a game, the Penn field hockey team (2-4, 1-1 Ivy) will be back in action tomorrow, as Penn hosts Dartmouth in both team's third Ancient Eight game of the year. Despite the layoff, Penn coach Val Cloud expects her team to bounce back.

If Columbia running back Jordan Davis was getting an ego boost from his 123.5-yard rushing average, it might not last past tomorrow afternoon. Columbia (1-1, 0-0 Ivy) at Princeton (1-1, 0-0) This one might show how much nonconference games actually matter.

Drawing comparisons to Dartmouth isn't exactly what Penn had in mind for this season, but the chips have fallen that way for a team that could be about one loss away from crisis mode.

This season, the women's soccer team has looked good in nonconference play and is tied with Harvard for the Ivy League's best overall record. Throw all that out the window. Penn will be at 0-0 again when League play starts against Cornell (4-4-0) at 7 p.

Historically, Princeton has had the edge over Penn in volleyball. This year, the Quakers hope to turn that around in their favor. This Saturday, Penn opens its Ivy League season at Princeton, looking to start atop the division with a win. Penn and the Tigers have both been on hot streaks as of late.

The Penn men's tennis team came into the school year as the defending two-time co-Ivy League champions. But the Ancient Eight title isn't the only one they'll try to defend. The Quakers head into the ECAC Championships this weekend in Flushing Meadows, N.

With a slew of solid performances, it's hard to believe that the men's soccer team has only one win to show for them. But a 7 p.m. match at Saint Joseph's tomorrow could be just what coach Rudy Fuller and the rest of the Red and Blue (1-4-2) need. Although St.

The Penn volleyball team may have recorded its last upset of the season. From here on out it could be the favorite. The Quakers (6-5) defeated a strong Villanova team (9-6) in three games last night. "We are an upset team this year," coach Kerry Carr said.

When Steve Pederson, athletic director at the University of Nebraska and chairman of the Division I Football Issues Committee, briefed the media six weeks ago on the various proposals that the committee considered, there was one topic at the forefront of his mind.

When Penn State scored the winning goal in its 3-2 overtime win over Penn last night, it was Kevin Sweetland - not starting goalkeeper Drew Healy - who watched the fatal header fly by. Four minutes earlier, Healy had been sent off in a strange incident that gave new meaning to the phrase "sacrificing yourself for the team.

The Athletic Department has announced that the Line - when students sleep over at the Palestra to get their hands on the choice seats for the upcoming season - will take place on Oct. 5, the same night as SPEC's Ben Kweller concert.

Early in the first half, Penn midfielder Alex Grendi displayed remarkable footwork, dribbled past two defenders, put a shot on goal that got past Penn State goalie Conrad Taylor -- and watched it fly over the net. It was a sign of things to come for the Quakers, who played another solid game but gave up a goal with 37 seconds left to fall to Penn State 3-2 in double overtime.

Joe Sandberg is back in the lineup -and will start Saturday at Dartmouth -- but that doesn't mean he'll be carrying the ball at the clip he was before his injury. Coach Al Bagnoli said yesterday that he will be reluctant to give the running back more than 25 carries on Saturday.

"Dutch Total Football?" Men's soccer coach Rudy Fuller laughed when his team was compared to the 1970s Netherlands teams with their flowing soccer styles, where players were versatile enough to play any position on the field. But it's no joke - for the Quakers, no positions are set in stone.