A Quiet Signing Day

Not much more to report from National Signing Day on the Dartmouth front ... yet.

Ivy League and Patriot League schools don't report "signings." A check of the list from the University of New Hampshire -- which does -- shows five recruits from Pennsylvania, four from New Jersey and none from the Granite State. While the annual game between Dartmouth and UNH is billed as an instate rivalry, it has become that in name only. (Think about that when you vote in the poll to the right.)

New Hampshire, by the way, will be losing innovative offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Chip Kelly to Oregon according to numerous reports, including this one from Oregon Live. It's quite a step up from Durham, N.H., to the Pac 10 but as New Hampshire's Seacoast Online points out, Kelly has opened a lot of eyes with UNH's pyrotechnic offense. (Having a couple of players named Santos and Ball didn't hurt, of course.)

Back on the Dartmouth front, Muskogee, Oklahoma's Jonathan Moore, a 5-10, 180 defensive back/wide receiver, is pictured in this story that says he's still deciding between two schools. Those schools are believed to be Dartmouth and Southern Nazarene University. For a picture of Moore and his classmates who signed yesterday, click here. It is expected that 11 of 18 seniors from his school will play college football.

A first-team, St. Louis area all-metro player who starred for two years at running back before switching to defensive back this year had interest in Dartmouth and Penn before committing instead to the University of Chicago according to this story. Interestingly, the Maroons are coached by former Dartmouth assistant Dick Maloney.

Rumors of the demise of the Winter Carnival snow sculpture, it turns out, were greatly exaggerated. From today's Daily Dartmouth:

This year's snow sculpture depicts Alice in Wonderland's white rabbit rushing off a ski lift to avoid being late. Concern for the sculpture's completion abated Tuesday when the wooden sides were removed and the snow began to take shape.

From today's Princetonian: There were a total of 18,891 applicants for the New Jersey school, breaking the record for the third year in a row. Credit Princeton's No. 1 ranking in U.S. News & World Report as well as the abandonment of student loans. The story reports that there were 597 early admittances, leaving about 650 spots in the regular admission class.