Dete On Ivy Honor Roll

The Ivy League has its mini-preview of Dartmouth-Holy Cross and honors Yale's Mike McLeod as the conference offensive player of the week. Dartmouth linebacker Andrew Dete earned a spot on the Ivy honor roll.

The Sports Network poll shows Holy Cross earning seven votes in the I-AA national poll this week. Harvard comes in at No. 15 with Princeton at 24 and Penn No. 36.

The Brown Daily Herald has posted its game story from the loss to Holy Cross last week. You'll learn more about Brown's imploding than about the Crusaders in the story.

Quoted in the Cornell Sun, Big Red coach Jim Knowles on this year's Harvard team: “They’re as good as any team I’ve been around in the Ivy League.” ... The Harvard Crimson notes that Cornell held Dawson under 100 yards for the fourth year in a row and that the record-setting tailback averaged just 66 yards against Cornell over the four years. But he did have an impact Saturday: He returned the opening kickoff 93 yards for the tone-setting touchdown.

Some relatively harsh words in a Columbia Spectator column about the Lions' game against overmatched Iona:

"This game was as close to a guaranteed win as Columbia football has seen in years, and it gave the team a golden opportunity to get its offense on track and bolster its confidence. That opportunity passed this team by."

Former Dartmouth and Cincinnati Bengals linebacker Reggie Williams is interviewed as part of the Ivy League's 50th anniversary package.

Daniel Guerinckx of Hainaut, Belgium, is a big Tennessee Titans fan. (Go figure.) According to this story, Guerinckx was a guest on coach Jeff Fisher's radio show where, "Guerinckx’s special night included meeting Fisher and Casey Cramer, the Titans player guest that week. "

The Middlebury varsity team that the Dartmouth jayvees beat last month is 3-0 heading into Saturday's game with unbeaten and second-ranked Williams.

Former Dartmouth coach John Lyons has led Kimball Union Academy to a 3-0 record, outscoring the opposition, 92-14. Find Lyons' bio here. Among those assisting Lyons are former Dartmouth part-time coach Ted Stewart and former Dartmouth men's basketball coach Dave Faucher, also working in adminstration at KUA, who heads up the 2-0 jayvee football team.