That sound you hear could be the initiative to allow Ivy League football teams to go on to the national playoffs grinding into another gear. Student government organizations from Harvard and Princeton have already supported the initiative. Next on tap is Penn according to this story in the Daily Pennsylvanian. (Wonder if Dartmouth will join the effort?) The question is, what will happen next? If/when the Ivy presidents publicly respond that nothing is changing, will those pushing for change quietly go away? If they do, the initiative is doomed. If that only causes them to redouble their efforts, the foundation under the ban could begin to crack. Time will tell. ...
The Columbia Spectator has a story about Norries Wilson (the first black head coach in Ivy football) and what it calls a lack of diversity among Ivy League coaches. Unfortunately, what is arguably one of the best school newspapers in the Ivy League has repeated a couple of serious factual errors with regard to Dartmouth and diversity. The Spectator writes:
In 2004, an internal investigation at Dartmouth found that while 30 percent of the student body was classified as minority, only ten percent of athletes were minorities and the school had only one black football or basketball coach in its history.
The reality is that Terry Dunn was actually the third black head basketball coach at Dartmouth after Marcus Jackson and Reggie Minton. Jackson, by the way, came to Hanover as head coach way back in 1974. As for football, black or minority assistants between 1981 and 2004 (date of the cited study) included Curtis Jones, Bill Harris, Craig Cason, Des Robinson, Gary Emmanuel, Jim Webster, Rob Talley and KiJuan Ware. ...
The Spectator is on more solid ground with this story on Wilson gearing up for the start of practice.
From the Los Angeles Avengers' game notes regarding former Dartmouth quarterback Brian Mann:
UNLIKELY TACKLERS: Among their other duties, Avenger kicker Remy Hamilton and backup QB Brian Mann have been busy making tackles on kickoff coverage this season. Hamilton, who leads the AFL in scoring by kickers with 95 points, also ranks at No. 8 in the league in special-teams tackles with 7.5. Mann, who started three of the first four games of the season at quarterback, has made 5.5 special-teams tackles in three games of action on the kickoff coverage unit (tied for No. 27 in the AFL).
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