Football Staff Additions

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Welcome to Hanover

In addition to student-assistant coach Joe Scola '07, the Dartmouth football staff has two new additions this year.

* Lance Clelland will coach tight ends. Clelland was a tackle and guard on Northwestern’s 2000 Big Ten championship team. He spent time in a couple of NFL camps, played Arena League ball and appeared in the movie The Longest Yard along with former Dartmouth quarterback Brian Mann.

* Jake Kirkendall takes over as Director of Football Operations. He's a spring graduate of Ohio University where he did an internship as assistant director of operations and video coordinator for the football team last year.

The Memphis Commercial Appeal takes an exhaustive look at Dartmouth alum Mike Slive, the SEC commissioner. An excerpt from the informative and well-written story:

No one thought a diminutive voice-of-reason, cigar-smokin', Winston Churchill-quotin', Ivy League graduate who finally merged his two lifelong passions -- law and athletics -- would be the guy to tame the bucking Brahma known as the SEC.

After the bright lights of Miami and New York City, Jay Fiedler was in Pikeville, Kentucky yesterday addressing the Rotary. The former Dartmouth and NFL quarterback gets a brief mention in this Appalachian News-Express
story about his basketball doings.

There is a reunion set for tonight in Toronto -- or there could be. If defensive end Anthony Gargiulo '06 is playing for the Calgary Stampeders (he missed last weeks' loss with a swollen knee) he should meet up with defensive tackle Derham Cato '05. Cato was let go in the last round of cuts by the Toronto Argonauts but signed to the practice squad on June 24. He's currently listed on the active roster, although the team's transactions list doesn't show him being moved up, so his status is unclear.