Dartmouth-Brown Today

I spent most of the day Friday as the unofficial tour guide for the film crew from FOR LOVE AND HONOR, the documentary in the works about Ivy League football. In addition to mood or scenic shots, they did a few interviews with random students, asking them about football and football players, about the mascot (Keggy was the mascot of choice) and about life in general at Dartmouth. There was a lunchtime standup with former sports information director and unofficial Dartmouth football historian Jack DeGange in Memorial Field and then an interview with Preston Copley up at the Bema. The best part of that, other than Preston being gently coerced into singing the alma mater, was the interchange between Preston and Erik Anjou regarding the name bema. Each of them floored the other. Preston was surprised that bema was Hebrew for stage or platform; Erik was surprised to find out that in Dartmouth culture it is Big Empty Meeting Area. ... The crew will be in the locker room filming before and after the game as well as on the sidelines during the contest.

Brown's game notes for today can be found here. (PDF file) ... Jake Novak's very thorough Roar Lion Roar blog gives the nod to Brown, 24-17, while suggesting, "Brown seems like a prime upset victim after three straight weeks of playing very well ..."

Missed this one the first time around. Yale linebacker Bobby Abare was the Sports Network's national I-AA defensive player of the week after picking off three Brown passes, returning one for a touchdown and making seven tackles last week.

A Toledo-area linebacker has Dartmouth on his radar screen. Or maybe he has Dartmouth on his screen. Either way, find the story here.

You probably know Clifton Dawson, Harvard's standout running back, is from Toronto. Read what the Toronto Star has to say about Dawson, who should eclipse Ed Marinaro's Ivy League career rushing record this afternoon.

If you are sitting at home today and want to flip back and forth, you might, that's might, be able to watch the Yale-Princeton game for free on an experimental video feed. Click here to learn more. There's a story about the matchup of 7-1 teams in the Hartford Courant.