UNH Might Not Be Cocky But Others Are

The Dartmouth football team certainly shouldn't need any bulletin board material to get up for Saturday's televised home opener against the No. 1 team in the nation in Division I-AA. But if coach Buddy Teevens wants to stoke the fire a little bit for the New Hamshire game he could photocopy the following from a column in the Mancester Union Leader:

• "There’s even a chance the ’Cats could have 42 points by halftime."
• "Miracles do happen, just don’t expect one Saturday at Memorial Field."
• "Cocky gets you beat. Confidence gets you 62 points on the board. The ’Cats will be a lot closer to the latter rather than the former Saturday."

Former Dartmouth assistant Rob Talley is the point man in a lengthy Boston Globe story about the difficulty black assistants have trying to land a head coaching position in the college ranks. Talley, now a special assistant to Mike Nolan, head coach of the San Francison 49ers, interviewed for the head coaching position at Holy Cross, Northeastern and Dartmouth. He says his dream remains to be a college head coach.

Ivy League play begins this weekend with Harvard and Brown squaring off in a big early season matchup and Yale visiting Cornell. While the first two are considered strong contenders for the Ivy title, the games are critical for all four teams as this quote from Yale coach Jack Siedlecki in a New Haven Register story emphasizes: "You just feel that in a seven-game schedule, being 0-1 is a tough row to hoe. One loss is the limit, I would say."

You won't often find links to Christian Science Monitor articles here but do check out this story about the HIT helmet monitoring system Dartmouth is one of the first schools in the nation to employ. It helps, of course, that the company that developed the system is in nearby Lebanon.

And finally, the Hanover 7th/8th football team improved to 2-0 yesterday with a 22-0 win over nearby Hartford. A certain 7th grader who played sparingly in the opener got a little more time in the second half of this game. Knowing what to expect, he handled the situation a little better this time although he lamented no plays came his way on defense. He got a couple of carries, gaining a yard or two on the first and making the mistake of trying to break the second run outside and getting dropped for a three-yard loss.