A Yalie's Look At That Championhip Season

For a Yale player's perspective on why the Bulldogs won a share of the Ivy League football title this fall, visit his blog by clicking here. ...

Recruiting news is still surprisingly slow coming in. Part of that is a function of Dartmouth targeting fewer early decision recruits this year. ... Elsewere ... Columbia has been in touch with a 5-9, 165 Mississippi back who piled up 9,316 all-purpose yards and 106 touchdowns in his career. According to the Clarion Ledger, he's had "scholarship offers from Jackson State and Columbia." Hmmm. Scholarships! Maybe that's the key ;-)

UMass didn't have an answer last night for Appalachian State's former walk-on running back or its 160-pound freshman quarterback as the Mountaineers repeated their national championship with a 28-17 win. Click here for the AP story. ... Living around here, it was a disappointment that New Hampshire didn't make it to the championship game, but having watched last night, the previously top-ranked Wildcats would have had an awfully hard time slowing down the App State offense. ... Speaking of the division formerly known as I-AA, the new title -- Division I Championship Subdivision -- really flows off the tongue, doesn't it? While the TV announcers were stumbling over that last night, they several times referred to the other "subdivision" as I-A. Oops. ... It would be a lot easier if they'd just call them the Bowl Division and the Championship Division.

Speaking of UNH, here's the Sports Network announcement of Ricky Santos winning the Payton Award, with a picture of him holding the tropy.

Harvard's Clifton Dawson was awarded the New England Football Writer's Gold Helmet Thursday at their annual dinner. From the Ivy League release: Dawson led Division I-AA in scoring this season (13.20 points per game), and he broke his own school records with 132 points, 20 rushing touchdowns, and 22 total touchdowns. He rushed for 1,213 yards on 237 carries this season, averaging 121.3 yards per game, good for 12th in Division I-AA. ...

Reality TV: This Corpus Christi newspaper story is about the Today Show turning the cameras on as a high school senior checks the Internet to see if he'd been accepted at Brown. He was. ... I was accepted at all three colleges to which I applied as an undergrad, but I can tell you for certain I wouldn't have wanted TV cameras watching when I opened those envelopes. Yikes. I didn't want anyone watching. ... Just in case.

Off to my son's basketball practice now (Dartmouth students are coaching the team but they are away for break and so I'm helping fill in) and then over to Leverone to watch my daughter run her first race for the Hanover High winter track team. She's running the 3,000.