Cornell, Giants, Titans remain undefeated
Ho, hum.
Cornell is 3-0, winning by a combined total of five points, after Saturday's last-second victory over Lehigh.
Here's the video evidence.
(Thanks for the link to Newsday's own Chris Mascaro.)
WatchDog kudos to first reader to identify the guy in the picture.
It's not Marinaro. It's the best Cornell running back in the post-Marinaro era.
(By the way, the Giants offense didn't seem to slow down much when Cornell's own Kevin Boothe stepped in at right tackle for the injured Kareem McKenzie.)
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john mcniff was actually the best running back for cornell post marinaro
pat myself on the back. Joe Holland
Andy: Congrats!
VVSDFF: Holland finished second in the nation in rushing to Billy Sims, the Heisman Tropny winner! Then he went to Harvard Law School. Holland, I mean. Not Sims.
Hi Guys:
Joe Holland was very good. I would say that Derrick Harmon was better. They were bad in his years there, so his numbers suffered. But he was still good enough to make (and play on) the Montana 49ers of the mid 80's.
Steve: Good call on Harmon. He certainly was our best pro RB since Marinaro. He didn't look good receiving the opening kickoff of SBXIX, though.
Well, Derrick & I graduated the same year (1984) and - even with the SB fumble - he was STILL more successful that year than I was.
Neil, all you have to do is right click on the photo then left click "properties" and it tells you about the photo. So you need to save the name of the photo to something else before posting it.
Mask: I thought I changed the name of the photo. I don't see Holland's name on it.
Nice job there Neil, very timely when you consider that our own Kevin Boothe got some time for the football Giants yesterday. Unfortunately Cornell was mentioned only after Boothe got called for holding!
http://weblogs.newsday.com/sports/watchdog/blog/bhm-07-holland.jpg
That's what I get with properties, same type of thing with that picture last week, but I still couldn't get the answer.
Neil, any idea when Russo is going to be on the Sirius internet feed? I thought it was this week.
No. Late Oct. at earliest.
Two Cornell running back stories: I met Derrick Harmon at Dunbar's (Eddy St. watering hole) in 1988 when he returned to Ithaca. I remember him being a really quiet guy just standing at the bar sipping a Coke. We struck up a conversation and it didn't take me long to notice the gaudy Super Bowl ring he was wearing. At one point I actually had the temerity (must have been too many Rolling Rock splits) to ask him if I could try on his ring and he politely said, "No." As I recall, he was from Bayside, Queens and was an engineer. Seemed like a really nice guy and a very quiet, unassuming type. Second story: in 1971, Ed Marinaro stopped briefly at my high school in Glens Falls, NY (50 miles north of Albany). He and the rest of the Cornell football team were on their way to a game at Dartmouth and stopped for about thirty minutes to stretch their legs and run a few plays on our high school field on a late Friday afternoon. My dad was a teacher at GFHS and someone tipped him off to Cornell's plans to stop at our school, so we went over and watched the team do an abbreviated workout. Don't remember much from that day except that it was rainy and most of the players were wearing hooded sweatshirts with the hood up, so it was difficult to tell which one was Marinaro at first. They did some stretching, tossed the ball around, ran several plays, and then they were back on the bus and on their way to Dartmouth. And, ten years later, I was on my way to Cornell.