Gross Earns Fourth Ivy League Rookie of the Week Honor
11/19/2007 12:00:00 AM | Football
NEW YORK ? Alex Gross has become just the third player in Ivy League history to earn the league's Rookie of the Week award four-or-more times.
The conference office has selected the first-year linebacker co-Rookie of the Week in recognition of a team season-high 15 tackle performance in the Lions' season-ending game vs. Brown Saturday. One of his tackles was for a loss.
Gross, who hails from Kettering, Ohio, ends the season as Columbia's leading tackler with 80, including 56 in the latter half of the season. He had 10 tackles or more in each of the team's final four games. Gross also had eight tackles for a loss and two sacks this fall.
Running back Eion Hu of Harvard earned the Ivy League Rookie of the Week award six times in 1994. In 1986, Dartmouth's Craig Morton was honored with the accolade four times.
