TigerBlog thought of an interesting question related to what he wrote about the catch Andy Pages made to save the World Series for the Los Angeles Dodgers Sunday night.
Would Pages have made that same catch had it been a game in May or June or so? The catch he made was about 98 percent effort. Can you dial up that same kind of effort for just another regular season game?
Also, TB has a friend named Andy Page. There's no way she would have made that catch.
Moving along to some football stuff, did you happen to notice who the FCS Special Teams Player of the Week was? The answer is the entire William & Mary special teams unit.
The Tribe defeated Albany 37-7 Saturday afternoon. How did they get to 37?
There were four touchdowns, for 24 points. There were four extra points, which made for 28. There was one field goal, taking it to 31. William & Mary's placekicker, by the way, is Keegan Shackford, whose last name should be familiar to Princeton women's soccer fans.
So that was 31 points. Where did the other six come from? A touchdown with a missed extra point? Nope. Two field goals? Nope.
Those six came from three safeties. That's right. Three safeties, all of which came on blocked punts. Oh, and one of those four touchdowns? It came on a fake field goal.
That's quite a day for the special teams.
If you're wondering, the FCS record for safeties in a game is four. W&M became the fourth team ever to reach at least three in a game.
Then there was Andrei Iosivas, the Princeton alum who is now a wide receiver for the Cincinnati Bengals. Iosivas should have had the game-winning touchdown reception against the Bears Sunday afternoon in what was just a crazy, crazy game.
Our guy @AndreiIosivas snagged five catches for 66 yards along with his 11th career touchdown for the @Bengals today. #JUICE 🍊🥤| #WhoDey pic.twitter.com/OgArh2Hg7V
— Princeton Football (@PrincetonFTBL) November 2, 2025
Iosivas' TD reception came with 58 seconds to play in the fourth quarter and put the Bengals up 42-41. Would that be enough? Uh, no.
Yes, the magic number would be 58. Unfortunately, it was because Chicago won the game 47-42 with a 58-yard TD pass with 17 seconds to go.
Next up is The Catch of the Day: red snapper, with a pineapple-mango salsa and fingerling potatoes. Just kidding. TB just made that up.
The real Catch of the Day, or at least the weekend, went to Princeton freshman Josh Robinson. Did you see it?
That was incredible. TB would have thought higher than the No. 10 Play of the Day, but hey, he'll take it.
What was the most amazing part? Was it the fact that Robinson's knee or elbow never hit the ground? Or was it how many Cornell defenders had him pinned? Or was it that he had the presence of mind to get it into the end zone?
There haven't been too many better individual efforts by a Princeton player to match that. Maybe Jesper Horsted's tip to himself on the big drive in the epic game against Dartmouth in 2018, a completely even game where every single play had the potential to change the outcome. Princeton won that one 14-9 in a matchup of unbeatens.
The TD Saturday at Cornell came in what became a 20-17 loss for Princeton, but that hardly detracts from what Robinson did. That play went a long way to earning Robinson his fourth Ivy Rookie of the Week Award.
Robinson's 26 receptions are three off the Princeton freshman record, set by Matt Costello in 2011. Costello also holds the freshman record for receiving yards with 341; Robinson will bring 318 into the game Saturday at Dartmouth.
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