Game Day
By Gordon Morton '93 / November / December 2007
December 4th, 2007
Undefeated in the Ivy League, men’s soccer won their nineteenth Ivy title and
an automatic bid to the NCAA College Cup. The fourth-ranked Bears finished
15–1–1 overall.… Women’s cross-country placed third at the Ivy League Heptagonal
championship, its highest finish in seven years. Smita
Gupta ’08 finished sixth overall with a time of 17:46, and
Ariel Wright ’10 was seventh at 17:48—the third and fourth
fastest times in Brown history. Both earned first-team All-
Ivy honors…. Men’s cross-country placed sixth at the Heps,
with 136 points. Christian Escareno ’10 finished ninth, covering the course in
25:03…. Football finished third in the Ivies with a 30–22 win over Columbia in
mid-November. Steve Morgan ’08, a semifinalist for the Draddy Trophy, eclipsed
the Ivy record of 290 career kicking points.… Joe Paterno ’50 will be inducted into
the College Football Hall of Fame…. Men’s ice hockey captain Sean Hurley ’08 was
unanimously named to both the coaches’ and the media’s preseason All-ECAC
teams…. Men’s water polo advanced to the Northern Division Championship and
squared off against St. Francis, which won, 14–10. The second-place finish qualifies
the Bears for the Eastern Championship.