Monday, July 23, 2007

Who's Your Daddy('s) All-Ivy Team?

DraftDaddy.com, which does a pretty thorough job of analyzing draft prospects, writes that there is no clear choice for an Ivy League NFL draft hopeful in this year's senior class. None, at least, who is being talked about the way Cornell offensive lineman Kevin Boothe (Oakland Raiders) was two years ago, and the way Brown linebacker Zak DeOssie (New York Giants) was last year. Still, the folks at Draft Daddy have come up with their preseason All-Ivy League team. Find it here.

The only Dartmouth member of the Draft Daddy team is senior linebacker and quad-captain Justin Cottrell.

Offensive selections by school:
Yale - 3
Harvard, Columbia - 2
Brown, Cornell, Penn, Princeton - 1
Dartmouth - 0

Defensive selections by school:
Penn, Harvard - 3
Yale - 2
Dartmouth, Columbia, Cornell - 1
Brown, Princeton - 0

Total selections by school:
Harvard, Yale - 5
Penn - 4
Columbia - 3
Cornell - 2
Dartmouth, Princeton, Brown - 1

DraftDaddy calls Yale offensive lineman Jeff Monaco and Harvard cornerback Andrew Berry the top players in the league heading into this season. ... Columbia's Craig Hormann is the preseason All-Ivy quarterback despite the fact that he's battling back from knee surgery.

New Hampshire has a story up on its installation of FieldTurf. There's not much of interest to see, but kudos for UNH for putting up the Cowell Cam so visitors to the site can watch the installation of the artificial surface at Cowell Stadium. ... There was talk for a time of a similar camera to observe work at Dartmouth's Memorial Field and on Floren Varsity House, but nothing ever came of it.

If you didn't check out the Harvard strength & condition video linked to a couple of days back, by all means go visit it. I've received several emails from readers who have called it "inspiring," and "scary," and thought it a terrific recruiting tool for the Crimson clad.

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