Dartmouth-Penn Two Days Later

Thanks to the Daily Pennsylvanian, there's lots to read about the Dartmouth-Penn game, so here we go. For the DP game story, click here. A DP sidebar notes that Penn used its depth at wide receiver effectively. A DP column suggests parity is a little more prevalent in the Ivies this year and admits, "For Dartmouth, the game was 'there.' "

The Daily Dartmouth hasn't regularly sent anyone to road games in some years, so there's not a whole lot that's new in this "D" story. ... The D has a "one-on-one" feature with Ryan Fuselier, who does a good job of finessing the last question, unlike the athletes who are cajoled into saying things they probably regret in the sometimes hilarious, sometimes embarrassing weekly Cornell Sun interviews of the same type. ...

The Dartmouth has a story about two-sport athletes and mentions Jason Blydell, Brian Evans, Kyle Cavanaugh and Pete Pidermann from the football team as dual-sport athletes. A hole in the story: Dartmouth coach Buddy Teevens might have had some interesting things to say about his own experiences playing both football and ice hockey at Dartmouth. That's not an overlap that has much of a chance of happening anymore, in no small part because hockey has moved up so far that practice is already beginning.

The D, by the way, does a nice job of editorializing on why the college should think long and hard before dropping early admissions. It writes:

As a small liberal arts college, we have a different pool of applicants and different set of needs than our larger peers. To blindly follow for the sake of appearances or trendsetting would be a disservice to the school.

A headline I never thought I'd read: Cornell Upsets Albany. Not that I didn't think the Big Red would win. I did and picked Cornell to take the game. It's just that it indicates what is happening in the landscape of eastern football. As recently as five years ago, these teams probably didn't belong on the same field together. But Albany and the Northeast Conference are improving by leaps and bounds. ...

Here's something else I'd never see: A Columbia Spectator writer praising the Lions while unintentionally knocking Dartmouth. Here's the line about the Lions that gave me pause (or paws?): "The Lions allowed the fewest points to a non-Dartmouth Ivy League opponent since 2004." Just think about what that is saying. ...

This Spectator story says Princeton won the battle of unbeatens with Columbia by avoiding the mistakes that the Lions thrived on in their first two games. ... Here's how the game looked from the Daily Princetonian perspective. ... Blame mistakes, penalties and a lack of turnovers for Brown's loss to Rhode Island according to the Herald. ... The Yale Daily takes a look at a nice win for the Bulldogs. ... Harvard's Clifton Dawson was "held" to 94 yards by Lehigh, which put a premium on making it hard for him according to Lehigh coach Andy Coen as quoted in the Crimson. “We hit that kid harder than he’s been hit all year and maybe will be hit for the rest of the season...very rarely was one person hitting him today.” ... Harvard, by the way, had a surprise starter at quarterback according to this story. For the full Crimson story on the game, click here.

The Sports Network writes about UNH quarterback Ricky Santos who passed for 281 yards and three touchdowns and ran for 110 yards and two touchdowns in a 52-49 win over Delaware. For all the talk about David Ball, and the UNH wide receiver is one of the best ever to play in I-AA, Santos is the heart of that team. He helps the Wildcats win with his arm and with his legs, but also with refuse-to-lose attitude.

Tonight on the regular site: The Optimist and the Pessimist.

Dumb newspaper story of the day that caught my eye in this morning's paper: Weeknight TV is bad for school grades. Well, duh.