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Brown and the rest of the Ivy League will finally kick off their 2009 football season Saturday, two weeks after most of the rest of the college football world started. Bryant, for example, has played two games already and has a bye this week. The University of Rhode Island has played a game and enjoyed a bye. Even Division III Salve Regina and UMass Dartmouth have played twice.

"We're very excited to get started. It seems like forever since college football started two weeks ago," Brown coach Phil Estes said Tuesday. His Bears will open Saturday night at Stony Brook, the first night opener in Brown football history.

"We're going in blind," Estes said of Brown firstt visit to the Seawolves' stadium.He has only Stony Brook statistics and a depth chart to prepare his team for an opponent that has lost to Hofstra and Colgate.

In other Ivy openers, Harvard travels to Holy Cross, Yale visits Georgetown, Columbia heads to the Bronx to play Fordham, Cornell is at home to Bucknell, Dartmouth plays host to Colgate, The Citadel is at Princeton, and Penn turns on the lights at Franklin Field for No. 2 Villanova.

The first Ivy League game will be Sept. 25, when the 2008 co-champions, Brown and Harvard, meet under the lights at Harvard Stadium.

As late as the Ivy League starts the season, it is not the last to kick off, at least not in New England. The New England Small College Athletic Conference opens Sept. 26. NESCAC schools (Williams, Wesleyan, Amherst, Trinity, Colby, Bates, Bowdoin, Middlebury, Tufts and Hamilton) play an eight-game schedule, all league contests. Like the Ivy League, NESCAC does not allow its football champion to participate in the NCAA Division III Tournament.

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1 Comments

todd bird said:

hi mike,
any chance of having bryant football as a heading like you have for uri an brown? it makes it alot easier for all of us that follow bryant football around the country. we also have a great following to all the away games that should be noted. i think you will find in the next few years bryant will be pushing brown an uri as the top recruitnig school in the state of r.i.
you could also mention that their kicker has broken all bryant kicking records in two years an now is the 4th leading scorer in school HISTORY so far with 2 years to go. might catch lorenzo who knows. he is chris bird who also was a standout at bourne mass h.s. where he also was one of the top scorers in school history and s.e. mass.you do great work an i apreciate all the coverage on local college an h.s sports.
thanks for your time
todd bird

Link | September 17, 2009 5:54 PM
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