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Ivy League - Who's Chasing Dartmouth?

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Ivy League - Who's Chasing Dartmouth?

The 2015 Men's Ivy League season starts on September 19 with the upstart Yale Bulldogs hosting Penn and Cornell hosting Columbia.

For Cornell it's another year in a competition the players and coaches love, but which test the Big Red mightily. While the other Ivy League schools are within easily manageable driving distance of at least a couple of schools, Cornell is no closer than four hours to any of their conference opponents. Long drives or not, Cornell has done well in the Ivy League, and finished 5-2 in the regular season in 2014. 

Dartmouth dominated, and is expected to dominate once more this year. Even as some high-profile players graduate - USA 7s team captain Madison Hughes graduated this year - Dartmouth is deep and ran the table without too much trouble in 2014. However, since Dartmouth plays in the Varsity Cup in the spring, there's still a fight for a place in the DIAA playoffs. Last year, Yale came out of nowhere to win the playoffs and make the DIAA knockout rounds. Despite playing to a 2-5 record in the regular season, Yale has to be considered one of the contenders.

The Ivy League teams are also expected to join the ACRC Bowl Series in November, with the DIAA play-in tournament (minus Dartmouth) slated for the spring.

 

Ivy League Men's Schedule for Fall 2015 

9/19/2015 Columbia at Cornell Ivy League
9/19/2015 Penn at Yale Ivy League
9/26/2015 Brown at Harvard Ivy League
9/26/2015 Cornell at Penn Ivy League
10/3/2015 Columbia at Brown Ivy League
10/3/2015 Dartmouth at Cornell Ivy League
10/3/2015 Penn at Harvard Ivy League
10/10/2015 Princeton at Brown Ivy League
10/10/2015 Yale at Dartmouth Ivy League
10/17/2015 Dartmouth at Brown Ivy League
10/17/2015 Princeton at Harvard Ivy League
10/17/2015 Yale at Columbia Ivy League
10/24/2015 Brown at Cornell Ivy League
10/24/2015 Dartmouth at Princeton Ivy League
10/24/2015 Harvard at Columbia Ivy League
10/25/2015 Dartmouth at Penn Ivy League
10/31/2015 Harvard at Cornell Ivy League
10/31/2015 Princeton at Penn Ivy League
11/7/2015 Brown at Penn Ivy League
11/7/2015 Columbia at Dartmouth Ivy League
11/7/2015 Cornell at Yale Ivy League
11/14/2015 Penn at Columbia Ivy League
11/14/2015 Cornell at Princeton Ivy League
11/14/2015 Harvard at Dartmouth Ivy League
11/14/2015 Yale at Brown Ivy League
11/21/2015 Harvard at Yale Ivy League
11/21/2015 Princeton at Columbia Ivy League
11/21/2015 ACRC Bowl Series