Spotted this potential O-lineman on the drive home after Monday's practice.Recruiting classes will be trickling out now that May has rolled around. Dartmouth's class hit this electronic space yesterday. Yale's class is listed here. ... The New Haven Register has a story about the Yale class that includes the name of a famous Bulldog of yesteryear. ...
Princeton coach Roger Hughes details the Tiger offense for 2007 in the second half of his annual spring chat. Hughes confirms what I expected: Bill Foran -- a transfer from Purdue in everyone's book except Princeton's -- will be the starting quarterback heading into fall camp. Hughes: "(H)e is a great athlete who has now become a quarterback." No doubt, the Tigers will miss Jeff Terrell, but Foran has the tools to step right in and be a premier Ivy League quarterback.
A Cornell Sun reporter enjoys meeting and interviewing former Big Red lineman Kevin Boothe, now a starter with the Oakland Raiders, at the spring game in Ithaca.
The Stamford Advocate writes about Harvard defensive tackle Mike Berg getting an invitation to the New York Giants camp.
The Ivy League web site crows, "(T)he NCAA has released the Division I Academic Progress Rate (APR) Conference information and Ivy League student-athletes once again lead the rest of the nation." Also ... "The Ivy League is the only conference to have commendations for all of its football and men’s basketball teams." That's all fine and dandy (and expected) but I do have a bit of a problem with the hokey "1st Place" blue ribbon that accompanies the story. It reminds me of those "My Child Is An Honor Student" bumper stickers. Or worse yet, one of those yellow caution "Show Dogs Aboard," signs. Gotta make sure I don't hit that car.
MSNBC.com has a Newsweek story about the Carlisle Indian School and its legendary football team spun out of Sally Jenkins' new book on the subject. ... I was sports editor at the Carlisle Evening Sentinel for a short time and had a chance to interview Jim Thorpe's son once. It was eerie because he looked like a clone of his famous father. ...
Finally, and I mean finally, the Hanover High School softball team won its first game since 2005 yesterday over on the New Hampshire Seacoast. It's the first win the Marauders have had in the two years Cassie Hodgson (daughter of Dartmouth football assistant coach Mike) has been on the team. Cassie is the first player in memory from what we call the Upper Valley to be awarded a Division I softball scholarship. She'll be playing at Maine next year. It was also the first victory in the career of a certain freshman centerfielder, who celebrated the win by hitting a grand slam. ;-)
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