Brown Football Loses to Columbia - Drops to 1-5 in the Ivies
Sunday, November 14, 2021
The Brown football team lost again - this time to Columbia 23-17 loss on the road on Saturday afternoon.
Brown (2-7, 1-5 Ivy) jumped out to a two-touchdown lead early in the third quarter, but Columbia (6-3, 3-3 Ivy) roared back, scoring 23 of the game's final 26 points before holding off the Bears in the final minutes.
Senior quarterback EJ Perry scored both of Brown's touchdowns on the ground. The game also featured an hour-long weather delay in the second quarter due to the storm pattern that swept across the region causing high winds and outages.
GAME STORY
-The Bears' defense came away with two straight three-and-outs to start the game. Junior Gafa had a key sack on the opening play of the second drive to force the Lions backward.
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- The Bears' drive spanned 87-yards on 14 plays, highlighted by a trio of third-down conversions, including the scoring play.
- Brown's defense followed by forcing turnovers on back-to-back possessions, the first when Gamble stripped the ball out of the receiver's hands at the Brown 40-yard line, and recovered the fumble. On the following defensive series, Prevot came away with a leaping interception on the sideline to get the ball back at the Columbia 29 with 9:15 left until halftime. However, Brown's drive came up empty after three plays and a 44-yard field goal attempt that sailed wide right.
- With 4:30 remaining in the second quarter, the game entered a weather delay that lasted exactly 60 minutes.
- Brown remained on top 7-0 entering the abbreviated halftime, as each team had one empty possession following the delay.
- After forcing a three-and-out, Brown went right down the field on its opening possession of the second half. Perry finished off the drive with his second three-yard touchdown rush of the game to make it 14-0 with 9:38 to go in the third quarter. The drive was highlighted by consecutive first-down rushes by DeLucia and Smith and lasted 11 plays, spanning 58 yards.
- Columbia then stormed to life, answering right back on a four-yard touchdown pass on 4th-and-goal following a 57-yard kick return. That marked the start of three consecutive Lion possessions that resulted in a touchdown, the latter two of which came following consecutive Brown turnovers, which helped them tie the game, then take a 20-14 lead following a missed PAT with 14:49 remaining.
- Columbia added some insurance with a 42-yard field goal with 10:51 to go to push the lead to 23-14.
- Christopher Maron capped a 55-yard drive in just under three minutes with a 37-yard field goal to make it a one-possession game, 23-17, with 7:57 left.
- Columbia grinded out a 7:25 drive before punting the ball away to the Brown 12-yard line with 27 seconds left and forced a third-down turnover to seal the win.
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