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Ivy League Round-Up

This weekend's Harvard football game seemed to have something for everyone.

A quarterback making his first-ever collegiate start goes 12-of-22, passes for 190 yards and leads his team to victory.

A veteran linebacker makes 14 tackles, blocks two passes, recovers a fumble and intercepts a pass while breaking the career tackle record and securing a spot among the all-time greats.

And an electrifying tailback seeing his first regular action in nearly two seasons breaks for a pair of touchdowns and amasses 84 yards on just 10 carries.

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But as well as Brad Wilford, Isaiah Kacyvenski and Troy Jones played, the Harvard-Columbia contest was not even the most exciting game in the league this weekend. The following is a quick look at all the games on the Ivy League's opening Saturday.

Brown 25, Yale 24

Brown (1-0, 1-0 Ivy) overcame a 14 point deficit in the final seven minutes, securing the victory over Yale (0-1, 0-1 Ivy) on a bizarre two-point conversion with 14 seconds left on the clock.

Brown quarterback James Perry, Ivy League offensive player of the week, led the Bears on two Joe Montana-esque drives to secure the come-from-behind victory.

Late in the third quarter, Yale quarterback Joe Walland (12-for-22, 182 yards, 1 TD) threw for a touchdown that seemed to put the game out of reach for the Bears.

Yale's lead seemed insurmountable until Perry took the ball at his own 20-yard line with 7:23 left. He completed 6-of-9 passes on the ensuing drive, capping it off with a 17-yard TD pass to Steve Campbell.

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