GRR: College Men
Harvard will join the DIAA Round of 16 after the Crimson won two games in an Ivy League play-in this past weekend.
Harvard defeated Princeton 25-21 on Saturday and then held off Cornell 21-14 on Sunday to win the tournament (the Ivy League champion, Dartmouth, does not play in the DIAA playoffs, so the next four teams compete to find the seed to nationals).
Here's the latest on College 7s Tournaments around the country.
Purdue defeated Iowa 31-28 an exciting Cup Final in the 2nd tournament of the Big Ten 7s Series. Wisconsin, which won the initial tournament over Ohio State, took 3rd with a 47-0 win over Michigan State. Illinois took 5th.
Playing with the wind or against it, Central Washington seems to have the run of the breeze Saturday in their opening round Varsity Cup clash with UCLA.
Sacramento State and UC Davis will meet each other Sunday afternoon after the teams won Pacific Western semifinal games Saturday.
UC Davis handled Nevada fairly comfortably 35-3.
Going into this weekend’s Varsity Cup 1st round game against Air Force, the University of Utah team had to be wondering if they had bitten off more than they could chew.
In the last four weeks they’ve played St. Mary’s, UCLA, Army, Cal, and BYU, all competitive or achingly close losses, and then this week the Utes were under pressure from another opponent, the flu.