Snapper Danehy Goes in Lax Draft

UPDATED 8:25

Ryan Danehy, the long-snapper on the Dartmouth football team last fall, has been chosen in the fifth round of the Major League Lacrosse draft. Danehy, one of three Dartmouth players taken by MLL teams, was picked 49th overall by the Boston Cannons. He had eight goals and 12 assists this spring for the Big Green and was fifth on the squad with 20 points. Danehy's football bio can be found here and his lacrosse bio is located here.

Also taken in the draft were midfielder Brad Heritage (4th round, 33rd overall by San Francisco) and attack Jamie Coffin (4th, 39th overall by Boston). The full draft list can be found here and a full story about Coffin being picked is found here.

Dartmouth (and all the Ivy schools) have had their share of well-known names on their football teams. The Big Green had a chance for another but Will Murchison, grandson of the Dallas Cowboys' original owner (Clint Murchison Jr.) opted to be a student at Wake Forest instead of giving football a shot at Dartmouth or Princeton according to this story. He ran for more than 2,000 yards as a senior and had 338 rushing yards and three touchdowns in his state championship game this fall.

Staying in Texas ... Sports Illustrated has a capsule on "Three Smart Astros" and one, not surprisingly, is Dartmouth graduate Brad Ausmus. Now, because of what I did in a former life, I followed Brad's career, like that of Atlanta Brave Mike Remlinger and former big leaguer Mark Johnson pretty closely. But this from the SI piece caught me by surprise: "Ausmus's father, Harry, is a retired professor of European history at Southern Connecticut State and the author of A Schopenhauerian Critique of Nietzsche's Thought, which Ausmus, 37, calls his 'favorite book.' "

This from former Dartmouth SID Jack DeGange: If confirmed, Henry Paulson '68 will not be the first Dartmouth alumnus to serve as Secretary of the Treasury.

Salmon P. Chase 1826, born in Cornish, NH 1/30/1808, was Treasury Secretary in Lincoln's cabinet, 1861-64, before becoming Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, from 1865 until his death in 1873. As a senator from Ohio (1849-55), governor of Ohio (1856-60), again a senator (1861), he was among Lincoln's "Team of Rivals" (per Doris Kearns Goodwin).

Paulson would be the second member of Class of 1968 to serve in a cabinet position after Bob Reich, labor secretary in Clinton administration.