Thursday, April 20, 2006

Final Recruit in Fold

Dartmouth's final recruited player for next year's freshman class is defensive back Muhammed Abdul-Shakoor, from Clarkston HS in Clarkston Ga.. Abdul-Shakoor is listed at 5-foot-8 1/2 and is said to weigh a little more than the 156 a recruiting service has down for him. In addition to football, he runs track in high school. To see a picture of the final official recruit in the Class of 2010, click on this "cached" page. ... Dartmouth running back Andrew Seidman gets a brief mention in this story. ... Today's Harvard Crimson has a detailed story about a 6-foot-5 wide receiver headed from Pennsylvania to Cambridge.

Cornell has taken over the lead among Ivy League schools in the latest Sports Academy Director's Cup standings. The Big Red is in 51st place in the rankings, which are designed to determine the nation's best all-around athletic program. Not surprisingly, Stanford holds the lead.

Seven of the eight Ivy schools make the top-100 list with only Brown missing. Princeton is 54, Dartmouth 60, Harvard 61, Yale 72, Penn 85 and Columbia 87. To see the full standings in PDF format, click here. A release on the latest standings (with no Ivy mention) can be found here.

Chris Lincoln, author of Playing the Game; Inside Athletic Recruiting in the Ivy League, is working on a Q&A exclusively for the Green Alert blog. Look for it in the next several days.

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