The Ancient Eight is starting to look more and more like the Big Two and the Little Six.

Both Harvard and No. 19 Pennsylvania remain undefeated (6-0, 4-0 Ivy) and in a first-place tie atop the Ivy League standings this week.

The Crimson staged the biggest comeback in school history to turn away a stingy Dartmouth (1-5, 1-3 Ivy) team, 31-21, while Penn’s defense reigned supreme in their road victory over Brown.

The weekend’s action leave two teams—Brown and Columbia—tied for third place at 2-2 in the league, and the remaining four teams sitting in fifth place at 1-3 in Ivy play.

Pennsylvania 27, Brown 14

As Brown learned the hard way last Saturday, it’s hard to win a football game when your rushing total is preceded by a negative sign.

And while Brown quarterback Kyle Rowley’s 313-yard passing performance kept things close, the Bears’ inabiliy to run the football against the top rushing defense in Division I-AA spelled their doom against Penn.

But strangely enough, it was the Bears’ ground game that began the day’s scoring. Senior running back Michael Malan reached paydirt with 10:17 to play in the first quarter. Sean Jensen’s point after gave the Bears (3-3, 2-2) a 7-0 lead.

However, the Quakers and quarterback Gavin Hoffman owned the second quarter.

Hoffman, the reigning Ivy League Player of the Year, threw for two touchdowns in that period, one each to Jonathan Robinson and Kris Ryan to send the Quakers into the locker room with a 14-7 halftime advantage.

The Bears knotted things up with 5:15 to play in the third quarter as Rowley found the always dangerous Chas Gessner on a 1-yard touchdown strike.

From that point on, Penn’s rushing game took control. Or perhaps more appropriately, Ryan took the ball and ran with it.

Ryan, who finished with 189 yards rushing on the day and shared Ivy Leauge Offensive Player of the Week honors with Harvard’s Carl Morris, scored on runs of 2 and 3 yards in the final quarter.

Columbia 28, Yale 14

Yale accomplished one mission last Saturday. Unfortuantely for the Bulldogs, though, it wasn’t quite enough.