Reggie Williams On Hall Ballot

The National Football Foundation (NFF) announced today the names of 75 players and 8 coaches who comprise the 2007 Football Bowl Subdivision Ballot for induction into the College Football Hall of Fame.

Among the names from the NFF release as quoted in this newspaper story: Dartmouth linebacker Reggie Williams. Harvard's Pat McInally and Yale's Dick Jauron are also on the list along with a Who's Who that includes Troy Aikman, Randy Cross, Randall Cunningham, Sam "Bam" Cunningham, Eric Dickerson, Doug Flutie, Kirk Gibson, Art Monk, Deion Sanders, Lawrence Taylor and Thurman Thomas to name just a few.

Dartmouth, Cornell and Princeton were in the running for a quarterback who will instead play for Army according to this story. Jimmy Reitter went to Brooke High, the alma mater of Dartmouth freshman lineman Evan Nogay.

Rob Talley's hometown paper on Staten Island covers the former Dartmouth assistant's hiring as head football coach at Division II Stonehill. If you read to the end there's a surprise: He's already hired an offensive line coach and it's Bill Polin, who worked the the tight ends and defensive line at Dartmouth from 2001-03 and was most recently at Hofstra. For a small PDF file with Bill's bio and a pic, click here.

The fastest man in the Ivy League, as judged by the 60-meter dash at the indoor Heps, is Brown junior wide receiver Paul Raymond as this Daily Herald story reports.

When all is said and done, Jay Fiedler may have to share the spotlight as the most accomplished competitor from his Oceanside High School homeroom. I am not making this up: A classmate who played minor league baseball in the Cleveland Indians' organization will pitch for one of the six teams in the inaugural Israel Baseball League this spring. His claim to fame, however, might be this: He is ranked 12th in the IFOCE, which to the uninitiated is the International Federation of Competitive Eating. He and Jay get a mention in Israel Insider, Israel's daily newsmagazine.