Matt Dougherty from The Sports Network has a column today about the top running backs in Division I-AA. Lucky Dartmouth gets to play against two of them. The only surprise about Harvard senior Clifton Dawson being No. 2 on his list is that he's not No. 1. The 210-pound dynamo who transferred from Northwestern after taking a redshirt year in the Big 10 is just 1,008 yards short of replacing Ed Marinaro on top of the Ivy rushing lift. (Granted, he's already played more games than Marinaro, but that can't diminish what he's accomplished) ... One place out of the top-10 on Dougherty's list is Colgate's 200-pound sophomore Jordan Scott. The Raiders hadn't taken the wraps off him when they played at Dartmouth last year. Still, he ended up running for 1,364 yards and 10 touchdowns. Consider, he didn't get his first start until the Cornell game after the Raiders played Dartmouth.
Harvard, my friends, never wants to keep up with the Jones. It wants to keep ahead of the Jones ... and the Teevens and the Hughes. And so if Buddy Teevens at Dartmouth and Roger Hughes at Princeton are going to have FieldTurf next year, rest assured Harvard isn't going to be left behind. As reported earlier, work has started on adding not only FieldTurf, but lights and a winter bubble on historic Harvard Stadium. Find a story here.
While the Ivy League can't get an 11th game or the OK to go to the playoffs, Division I-A schools got the OK to add a 12th game. This Richmond Times-Dispatch column takes a look at whether the I-AA schools should have been allowed to go to 12 games (they weren't).
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