One That Got Away?

There are published stories about a distance runner headed to Hanover and a women's basketball player coming this way, but news on football players is in short supply. One that got away is a tight end/defensive lineman from the Jersey Shore, who was offered by New Hampshire, talked to Penn and Columbia, and ended up at Delaware according to this story. ...

Jeff Garcia is making a splashing filling in for Donovan McNabb as the Philadelphia Eagles' quarterback. Garcia and Jay Fiedler were once co-MVP's of the Shrine Game, as this story relates. ...

Casey Cramer was in the right place at the right time this year. He gets but a quick mention in this story, which explains that the Tennessee Titans' tight end position has completely turned over this year because of injury. ...

From the Daily Dartmouth: "The Alumni Council announced last week its slate of three candidates who will vie in the spring for the Board of Trustees seat vacated by resigning Trustee Nancy Jeton '76." One of the candidates is Sherri Oberg '82, wife of volunteer football assistant Curt Oberg '78 (For a Boston Globe story about Curt, click here.) Another candidate is Sandy Alderson '69, CEO of the San Diego Padres.

Former Brown coach and quarterback Mark Whipple is looking like the frontrunner at Boston College according to numerous media outlets including the Boston Globe. From the Globe: "(S)ources with the Steelers, the Atlantic Coast Conference, and BC said yesterday that Whipple was DeFilippo's first choice and could be named as the replacement for Tom O'Brien by early next week unless there is a major breakdown."

For a look back at Princeton's championship season under former Dartmouth assistant Roger Hughes, click here. ...

The Daily Pennsylvanian has a story about the popularity of web cams on the Cornell campus and how families across the country can fire up their computers and feel a little closer to their student in Ithaca. Nothing remarkable about that in this age of the Internet. What caught my eye in the story was something else. Something about Penn. From the story:

Back in Philadelphia, the University has jumped on the surveillance video bandwagon, but for more serious purposes, officials say.

Penn currently uses a video surveillance system called Closed Circuit Television Cameras, but its purpose is to prevent crime, not to reconnect with Grandma Clarice in Des Moines.

Penn operates 82 CCTV cameras, in addition to 200 fixed cameras placed throughout the Penn Patrol zone, which covers 30th to 43rd streets and Market to Baltimore streets...

Eighty-two closed circuit cameras and 200 still cameras to prevent crime. Wow. Have I told you how much I like Hanover?