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Post by cruskater31 on Sept 16, 2023 9:30:34 GMT -5
Looks like we will be in our classic purple helmets with white jerseys and white pants. With Yale in white pants, I wish we had gone with purple! I like to see who is diving on those Yale fumbles!
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Post by CHC8485 on Sept 16, 2023 9:35:06 GMT -5
The Clear Bag Policy is an inconvenience for women who use traditional hand bags. Next there will be a TSA type pass through. This is so sad we have to live like this. Wife did not like this at all. Cancelled Yale. Army West Point? There is an exception for small handbags, a clutch purse. My daughter took advantage of the same exception at BC last week. It had a wrist strap and a removeable shoulder strap. She removed the strap, stuffed it in her pocket, entered the stadium and put the shoulder strap back on. Saw dozens of women with the exact same style purse. Suspect many of them did not even remove strap on entry Army has the same policy. A minor inconvenience. www.armygameday.com/bagpolicy
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Post by cmo on Sept 16, 2023 9:51:23 GMT -5
HC +3
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Post by sluka4heisman on Sept 16, 2023 10:05:52 GMT -5
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Post by rgs318 on Sept 16, 2023 10:12:21 GMT -5
Are we staying here or starting a new game thread?
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Post by midwestsader05 on Sept 16, 2023 10:13:49 GMT -5
MGM has HC -2.5 but higher payout on the money line. HC +135 Yale -160. Yale is the favorite to win straight up.
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Post by midwestsader05 on Sept 16, 2023 10:18:22 GMT -5
MGM has HC -2.5 but higher payout on the money line. HC +135 Yale -160. Yale is the favorite to win straight up. Line just moved to HC -1.5. First dollars going Yale’s way.
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Post by midwestsader05 on Sept 16, 2023 10:31:09 GMT -5
MGM has HC -2.5 but higher payout on the money line. HC +135 Yale -160. Yale is the favorite to win straight up. Line just moved to HC -1.5. First dollars going Yale’s way. Crossports getting in on The action? Haha! HC now -130 Yale +110. Massive move to HC on the Money line last 5 minutes.
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Post by sluka4heisman on Sept 16, 2023 10:55:00 GMT -5
I really don't get the hype around Yale. Basically the same team as last year. Their RBs will run all over us, but Grooms will struggle against our secondary. Sluka is going to have a revenge game--was visibly distraught after coughing up the ball vs BC. The team is fired up after last week and coach will have them ready. Second half will be our better half
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Post by rgs318 on Sept 16, 2023 11:03:19 GMT -5
Yale has a well-earned, strong football reputation and their ranking here is being based on that, plus HC comes off of a "loss." I am surprised that HC's past season and last year's game and not being given more weight.
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Post by HC92 on Sept 16, 2023 15:29:46 GMT -5
My wife has a small purse with a shoulder strap. They made her buy a $5 Yale bag to drop her purse in and walk through. Someone is gong to have to explain to me the safety justification for that one. Is she less likely to have explosives in her purse if she drops it in their $5 bag? Too stupid for words.
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Post by Sons of Vaval on Sept 16, 2023 15:44:26 GMT -5
Don’t ask questions and just use the damn clear plastic bag.
Where have I heard that before?
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Post by Ignutz on Sept 16, 2023 17:42:25 GMT -5
My question going into this game: What’s our largest ever margin of victory over Yale? I think we’ll top that on Saturday. Watch this space for more incredibly insightful predictions.
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Post by Crucis#1 on Sept 16, 2023 19:12:54 GMT -5
Have to admit I was pleasantly surprised by the Yale Security crew this afternoon. Everyone of them was friendly, cordial and seemed genuinely happy to see us. A completely 180 degree reception from years past.
I had our medical supplies and water in two clear freezer bags, and did not have a problem. Again from years past, Yale would have a rope dividing the General Admissions seats from the Reserved Seating and would strictly enforce their policy and chastise you if you attempted to change seats. This year it was not an issue.
With a victory this afternoon, a very positive and pleasant afternoon. No place I would rather be ….on a sunny fall Saturday, than a Holy Cross Football Game!
Beat Colgate or should I say…Paste Colgate!
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Post by thecrossisback on Sept 16, 2023 19:56:07 GMT -5
Yale supplies the Bowl! HC THE PUNCH! Yale 3 point favorites 😂 💰
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Post by longsuffering on Sept 16, 2023 21:06:50 GMT -5
I really don't get the hype around Yale. Basically the same team as last year. Their RBs will run all over us, but Grooms will struggle against our secondary. Sluka is going to have a revenge game--was visibly distraught after coughing up the ball vs BC. The team is fired up after last week and coach will have them ready. Second half will be our better half Give us some stock tips. Your projection was spot on.
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Post by longsuffering on Sept 16, 2023 21:10:13 GMT -5
My question going into this game: What’s our largest ever margin of victory over Yale? I think we’ll top that on Saturday. Watch this space for more incredibly insightful predictions. Will we reach 50 points against Colgate?
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Post by cruskater31 on Sept 16, 2023 21:14:10 GMT -5
Watch this space for more incredibly insightful predictions. Will we reach 50 points against Colgate? yes. Their D doesn't seem terrible and did ok against Penn's rushing attack. We are on another level. 56-12.
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Sept 16, 2023 21:15:20 GMT -5
Watch this space for more incredibly insightful predictions. Will we reach 50 points against Colgate? By halftime or for the whole game?
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Post by Ignutz on Sept 16, 2023 21:22:44 GMT -5
Watch this space for more incredibly insightful predictions. Will we reach 50 points against Colgate? Zoltar says, “Your wish is granted.”
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Post by HC92 on Sept 16, 2023 22:45:40 GMT -5
Have to admit I was pleasantly surprised by the Yale Security crew this afternoon. Everyone of them was friendly, cordial and seemed genuinely happy to see us. A completely 180 degree reception from years past. I had our medical supplies and water in two clear freezer bags, and did not have a problem. Again from years past, Yale would have a rope dividing the General Admissions seats from the Reserved Seating and would strictly enforce their policy and chastise you if you attempted to change seats. This year it was not an issue. With a victory this afternoon, a very positive and pleasant afternoon. No place I would rather be ….on a sunny fall Saturday, than a Holy Cross Football Game! Beat Colgate or should I say…Paste Colgate! I think my family encountered the people you’ve encountered in years past. Not pleasant. Definitely didn’t want to let them in the lower level with their GA tickets. I got there at halftime and didn’t have any issues.
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Post by hc1998 on Sept 17, 2023 7:11:31 GMT -5
I really don't get the hype around Yale. Basically the same team as last year. Their RBs will run all over us, but Grooms will struggle against our secondary. Sluka is going to have a revenge game--was visibly distraught after coughing up the ball vs BC. The team is fired up after last week and coach will have them ready. Second half will be our better half Thank you! I said something similar earlier this week. The only thing I can account for is that some posters are hoping to convince themselves that HC has a good schedule. Yale is a good team, we are elite. I thought we'd roll them, and we did...just like we should roll every FCS opponent on our schedule for the rest of the year. Will we? Maybe not, any given week the ball could bounce funny, etc., but on paper, we should not be challenged by any FCS opponent this year...period. Any talk to the contrary is a waste of time. People must have forgotten we won 38-14 last year...oh, but they have a ton of fifth years? That just means they have a ton of players that lost 38-14 last year playing again this year.
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Post by efg72 on Sept 17, 2023 7:12:20 GMT -5
FOOTBALL Holy Cross gets back on track as Matthew Sluka, Jalen Coker power offense in rout of Yale Telegram & Gazette Staff
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — As disappointing as it was, Holy Cross had no choice but to move on quickly from last week’s three-point loss at Boston College.
Less than 24 hours after the 31-28 setback, the Crusaders were back in their weight room, watching film and preparing for their next challenge at Yale.
“We didn’t play a bad game last week,” Holy Cross senior quarterback Matthew Sluka said. “It was just an unfortunate ending, so (this week) it was just making sure we came out and did our job and finished the game.”
Sluka rushed for two touchdowns and passed for four TDs, including three to classmate Jalen Coker, while leading an inspired offensive effort and the No. 5/6 Crusaders crushed the Bulldogs, 49-24, at the Yale Bowl.
The Holy Cross defense held Yale to seven points and 153 yards in the second half.
“Our offense,” HC coach Bob Chesney said, “what a show we put on. We started a little slow and I think defensively there are a lot of young guys out there, so it takes a little bit for us to figure it out, but I thought in the second half we did a really nice job. We were very confident that we were going to be able to move the ball and continue to move the ball throughout the day.”
Sluka, who had HC in position to beat BC and register its third straight win over a Football Bowl Subdivision opponent, completed 22 of 29 pass attempts for 270 yards, and carried 14 times for 98 yards while leading Holy Cross’ balanced attack.
With nine catches for 124 yards, Coker had his second 100-yard receiving game of the season.
“I knew there were certain plays I was going to find him on,” Sluka said, “and had certain looks. I was just making sure I gave him an accurate, catchable football, and let him do the work and that’s it. Just make sure he’s in the right spot.”
Coker matched a single-game career high with three touchdown receptions.
“(Sluka) is my guy,” Coker said. “My job is to go get it and wherever he puts it, it’s my job to go get it. We’ve been practicing this for four years now, so it’s just second nature at this point.”
Sluka threw an 8-yard TD pass to junior tight end Jacob Peterson, and junior running back Jordan Fuller scored his seventh rushing touchdown of the season.
The Crusaders punted only once, late in the fourth quarter. HC averaged 8.63 yards per play in the first half, and 7.01 yards for the game.
“We were competing at very high level on offensive side,” Chesney said.
In Holy Cross’ first 32 meetings with Yale, the Crusaders defeated the Bulldogs only four times.
Since a 31-28 overtime win against Yale in 2018, which was Chesney’s first victory as HC coach, and after Saturday’s trouncing, the Crusaders have won four of the last five games in the series. Yale, the defending Ivy League champion and the preseason favorite to repeat, was playing its 2023 opener.
BC snapped Holy Cross’ overall regular-season winning streak at 18 games, but HC extended its regular-season winning streak over FCS foes to 18 games.
Holy Cross scored three touchdowns on its four first-half possessions. Sophomore Luis Palenzuela missed his first career field-goal attempt, from 33 yards, on the other. Palenzuela remained perfect on PATs this season.
HC took its first lead midway through the second quarter when Sluka found Coker in one-on-one coverage in the right corner of the end zone and threw a perfect ball to Coker’s outside shoulder.
After a quick Yale three-and-out, Holy Cross scored again as Sluka, who converted a fourth-and-one early in the drive, scored from 17 yards out for a 21-10 lead.
Following a kickoff out of bounds, the Bulldogs went 65 yards in 45 seconds and scored on senior quarterback Nolan Grooms’ 9-yard pass to senior Mason Tipton.
HC led, 21-17, at halftime, and like in last week’s game, scored a crucial touchdown coming out in the second half.
During the 75-yard scoring drive, senior running back Jordan Forrest converted a big third down at midfield and Sluka a fourth down inside the Yale 5 before hooking up again with Coker on a 4-yard TD.
HC had the ball for 10 minutes of the third, and finished off a long drive 52 seconds into fourth with Fuller’s 11-yard TD run up the middle.
Fuller, who had a quiet first half, rushed for 54 yards on 12 carries. Senior Tyler Purdy carried eight times for 51 yards, and had an important third-down conversion during one of HC’s second-quarter scoring drives.
The Bulldogs, coached by Oxford native Tony Reno, scored on backup quarterback Marshall Howe’s 4-yard pass to Spencer Mermans with 27 seconds left.
Holy Cross senior linebacker Jacob Dobbs had a game-high 17 tackles.
“I thought our defensive line played phenomenal,” Dobbs said. “We have some young guys up front, but those guys play so hard, and the secondary, they run to the football and they cover guys. It’s really easy to play linebacker when you have everybody around you doing their job to an elite level.”
Grooms, the 2022 Ivy League Offensive Player of the Year, was 12-17 for 112 yards and a touchdown, and he rushed for 68 yards on 12 carries.
Yale had eight penalties for 68 yards, including an illegal substitution that gave HC a first-and-goal at the 3-yard line in the second quarter and a personal foul on HC’s opening drive of the second half.
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Post by hchoops on Sept 17, 2023 7:24:16 GMT -5
This article reads as if it were written by a computer. Certainly not Jen Toland.
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Post by lou on Sept 17, 2023 7:39:22 GMT -5
The Clear Bag Policy is an inconvenience for women who use traditional hand bags. Next there will be a TSA type pass through. This is so sad we have to live like this. Wife did not like this at all. Cancelled Yale. Army West Point? Well not so long ago AWP MPs were searching the trunks of cars, and checking driver's license of everyone in the car at the entrance. This could still be in effect
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