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Discuss “Football suffers first loss”

The Carnegie Mellon football team’s hopes of another perfect season ended Saturday when they lost 27–26 to the Hobart College Statesmen at Boswell Field in Geneva, N.Y. The Tartans (2–1) trailed by a touchdown late in the fourth quarter and mounted a late scoring drive, but it proved to not be enough in the end.

“It was a good effort by everyone,” senior fullback Travis Sivek said. “I felt that we had a really good chance to win the game, we executed well, and we scored when we needed to — we just came up a little bit short.”

Hobart (1–1), a perennial NCAA Division III playoff team, used the passing game to put points up against the Tartans and come away with the victory. In this first-ever meeting between the two teams,...

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