Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Dartmouth In The Rankings

The Gridiron Power Index is sort of a BCS standing for I-AA football pulled together by I-AA.org. The latest GPI numbers are out and they have Dartmouth 93rd nationally of 122 ranked teams.

The Ivy League in the GPI:
15. Harvard
20. Princeton
22. Yale
45. Penn
53. Cornell
55. Brown
89. Columbia
93. Dartmouth

Dartmouth's Non-League Opponents:
9. UNH
43. Holy Cross
75. Colgate

Out of curiosity, I went back to see where Dartmouth has finished in the GPI in recent years. Here's what I found:
2005 -- 75
2004 -- T-78
2003 -- 52
2001 -- 78

Harvard's Clifton Dawson is 54 yards away from Ed Marinaro's all-time Ivy rushing record. The Boston Globe leads off its weekly notebook with a look at the Crimson standout.

The Yale Daily has a nice piece about what the Abare twins have meant to the league-leading Bulldogs. From the story: "At Acton-Boxboro high school in suburban Boston, the twins led the Colonials' football team to four league and state titles and a combined record of 50-1. The sole loss came in the first and only game in which the freshmen twins didn't start."

Steve Bassermann, apparently the life of the Yale football party, is the subject of stories both in the Hartford Courant and the New Haven Register. ... Will ESPN's GameDay be at Yale-Princeton Saturday? Not so fast my friend, according to Sean Barker in his Portal 31 blog. But ESPN will have a presence there.

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