More Fallout

The Fracas Fallout continues. ...

The Boston Herald used the weekly college football luncheon to address the issue. From the story:

Area coaches yesterday condemned Saturday night’s brawl between the University of Miami and Florida International at the Orange Bowl, as well as a less violent pushing and shoving match between Holy Cross and Dartmouth.

From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch web site:

The yapping, shoving, punching and actual kicking of opponents when they were down was appalling but not exactly unprecedented for Miami in its obscene fracas with Florida International on Saturday.

More troubling in many ways was that also described the scene the same day on the supposedly more refined and enlightened campus of Dartmouth, where the Big Green were so offended by Holy Cross' celebration after its 24-21 overtime win that players greeted the Crusaders afterward not with handshakes but fists.

From a Palm Beach Post editorial:

Even if you aren't a sports fan, you've probably heard about what happened Saturday. Two college football teams embarrassed themselves and their schools by brawling on the field. It got ugly, flaring up again and again just when police thought they had snuffed it out.

No, this wasn't the University of Miami and Florida International University in the Orange Bowl. It was Holy Cross College and Dartmouth College, mixing it up on Dartmouth's Memorial Field in Hanover, N.H., after the 24-21 victory by Holy Cross.

Finally, a little football. The Sports Network has its weekend picks up. There's a big writeup on Harvard-Princeton but just a pick for Dartmouth-Columbia. The Sports Network pick? Columbia. As for Harvard-Princeton, TSN picks Harvard, 27-24.

The Daily Dartmouth Columbia preview is up.