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Ivy League Football Round-up

Bucknell 12, Columbia 10

Columbia suffered from a role reversal Saturday when Bucknell came up with a shocking 12-10 victory last weekend. After coming back from a halftime deficit last week against Fordham, the Lions (1-1, 0-0 Ivy) had a 10-6 lead heading into the final minute, but Bucknell's Lucas Phillps hit Jim Horan for an 8-yard TD with just 24 seconds left in the fourth quarter.

Justin Lustig finished off the Lions when he intercepted Jeff McCall's pass with five seconds left. Bucknell (2-1) tailback Jabu Powell continued his romping of Ivy League defenses by rushing for 124 yards and a TD, after a 282-yard performance against Cornell a week earlier.

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Lehigh 20, Princeton 18

Lehigh continued its dominance over the Ivy League Saturday by squeezing out an unexpectedly close 20-18 victory over Princeton.

While Lehigh's ninth consecutive victory over Ivy foes seemed secure in the middle of the fourth quarter, Princeton (0-2, 0-0 Ivy) came within a two-point conversion of sending the game into overtime with 1:18 left after running back Kyle Brandt's four-yard TD run. However, the Lehigh (3-0) defense stiffened, and it stopped an end-around option play that would have tied the game and ran out the clock to keep the Tigers winless.

Princeton begins its Ivy League campaign against Columbia next Saturday.

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