A Different Way To Look At Recruits

UPDATED March 8 to include Buddy Benaderet and John O'Sullivan
UPDATED 1:30 p.m. to add linebacker Alex Johns ...

This is going to be tricky -- listing the 21 recruits whose names have appeared in the "mainstream" press by position rather than alphabetical order. They are listed at the position they seem to be most noted for last fall.

Clearly, a good number of the players that follow are being recruited for different positions. Linebackers with frames that can hold more weight often move down to defensive end or even the interior line. Sometimes they become fullbacks. Smaller LB's end up in the secondary. Running backs end up in the secondary as do wide receivers. Quarterbacks sometimes move to wide receiver or the secondary. Linemen switch from offense to defense and defense to offense.

So, please don't read too much into the way these athletes are broken down. It's simply a different way of looking at them. Come spring when head coach Buddy Teevens can comment publicly on the class we'll have a better idea of who will play where, although even that can change before they report in August.

OFFENSIVE LINE
Will Montgomery (The Woodlands College Park, The Woodlands, Texas, ) 6-6, 265
John O'Sullivan (Calhoun H.S., Merrick, N.Y.) 6-5, 235
Shane Peterlin (Brophy, Phoenix, Ariz.) 6-3, 275
Alex Wodka (Buffalo Grove, Ill.) 6-3, 285

WIDE RECEIVER/TIGHT END
Kevin Gallagher (Hun School, Belle Mead, N.J.)
Robbie Kratttiger, (Norman North, Norman, Okla. ) 5-11, 185
Tim Vanderet (Homestead H.S., Cupertino, Calif.), 6-5, 195

RUNNING BACK
TJ Cameron (Greenwich, Greenwich, Conn.) 5-11, 200
Steve Morris (Hinsdale Central, Ill.) , 6-0, 175
Pat Scorah (St. John's College High, Washington, D.C.) 5-8, 196
Joseph Zimring (Mary-Institute Country Day, St. Louis) 6-0, 215

QUARTERBACK
Will Deevy (Kent Denver, Colo.) 6-5, 210
Tim McManus (St. Thomas Academy) 6-1, 181

DEFENSIVE LINE
Lane Shipley (Steamboat Springs H.S., Steamboat Springs, Colo.), 6-2, 245
Charles Bay (Wheeler, Marietta, Ga.) 6-3, 237
Buddy Benaderet (Palo Alto, Calif., Palo Alto) 6-3, 230
Michael Cummings (Deerfield Academy, Mass.) 6-5, 240

LINEBACKER
Tyler Green (Middlesex School, Mass.) 6-4, 255
Spencer Hood (Carlsbad, Calif.), 6-3, 230
Chase Jensen (Bishop's School, La Jolla, Calif.)
Alex Johns (Gonzaga, Washington, D.C.) 6-3, 215
Chance Robbins, (Jenks, Jenks, Okla.) 6-0, 195
Carter Scott (Hammond, S.C.), , 6-1, 210

SPECIAL TEAMS
Matthew Kelly (Tampa Catholic, Fla.), 6-2, 180

I think there's a handful more names out there that I haven't been able to root out ... yet. Thanks to subscribers who have helped with links to the last few recruits who have surfaced.

As noted earlier this week, the mascot issue is once again heating up (don't forget to vote ;-). Today's Daily Dartmouth suggests a novel solution: Name the teams the Dartmouth Mascots. ... A somewhat tongue-in-cheek roundtable discussion also takes on the topic. ... This alumni letter writer isn't giving the Dartmoose any love. ... As long as we are talking about moose, check out the Manitoba Moose hockey team's mascot. ... A subscriber sent along his suggestion for a nickname: the Dartmouth Pioneers. Interestingly, the Utica College Pioneers use Trax the Moose as their mascot. ... And check out the Halifax Mooseheads hockey logo.

Back in the football world, former Dartmouth assistant Roger Hughes is being honored after leading the Princeton football team to a share of the Ivy League title last fall. He will receive something called the Johnny Vaught Head Coach award at the All-American Football Foundation's 83rd Banquet of Champions. ... Today's Cornell Sun has a paean to Brown linebacker Zak DeOssie based on his performance at the NFL Combine. Nothing much new in the piece. ... UNH receiver David Ball's number 3 has indeed been retired as noted in this Burlington (Vt.) Free Press story but still no confirmation that FieldTurf will be installed on the New Hampshire football field by next fall. ... Colgate has released it's 29-name recruiting class. Interestingly, almost half of the players coming to Hamilton, N.Y., hail from Florida (7) and Georgia (7). Dartmouth linebacker Andrew Dete will see some familiar faces in the opener because no fewer than three fellow Marist School grads will be playing for the Raiders next year.

And finally, what would the day be like if I didn't mention how cold it got up here on, ahem, Moose Mountain? On the morning news they reported 23 degrees below zero in Lebanon. It's usually significantly colder up here so imagine my disappointment when it was just 13.7 degrees below zero. Bummer.