Fritz Pollard, the Brown grad who in the 1920s became the first black to coach a professional football team, was the great-grandson of a Dartmouth alum who was one of the first black doctors in the United States. The story about Fritz Pollard that mentions his Dartmouth connection can be found here.
Dartmouth alum Dr. Dean Richardson, the vet who worked so hard to try to save Barbaro, is the subject of this story.
There's nothing new in this Daily Pennsylvanian story regarding December discussions about whether or not to start an Ivy League postseason basketball tournament. Those hoping the Ivies will either add an 11th football game or go to the football postseason might want to keep an eye on the basketball situation because in some ways it is an indication of whether or not the Ivy presidents might ever deign to allow football to join the real world.
The Daily Dartmouth takes a look at Hanover High School's 40 percent admission rate at Dartmouth and the fact that 36 Hanover grads have been admitted to Dartmouth since 2003. As the parent of a Hanover High freshman who has some interest in crossing the street in several years, I spent some time reading this one ;-).
Dunedin-ites - and I know you are out there - if you send me a photo or two it would be fun to post it/them here. Go to the regular web site and find my email in the left column (I pulled it off here because of spamming.)
Missed a little history yesterday. The afternoon post was the 600th since moving the blog to Blogger. It was also the 198th consecutive day when I've been able to find something -- even if it's bit of a stretch -- that I hope you found interesting. Gotta admit, there are days when I don't exactly feel like digging, but I'm a big Cal Ripken fan if you catch my drift. (The streak would been much longer if not for our cross country vacation last summer; apart from that the run of consecutive days with a post would date to July 2005.)
And now for some photos shot yesterday ...
The brick face on Floren Varsity House is partially explosed. (Click photos to supersize)
The FieldTurf allows conditioning drills to take place on the same real estate where they will hopefully pay dividends.
The sign on the side of the snow sculpture form says, "Free Shoveling Lessons."
And finally a shot of Cooper, who will turn 3 this spring and runs faster than anyone in the family.
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