Passing Fancy

Blogger has added its own support for video so I thought I'd give it a try. ...

In the clip below Dartmouth coach Buddy Teevens (gray sweatshirt) and his six quarterbacks throw consecutive passes to wide receiver Ian Ferrell during a Tuesday drill on Memorial Field. Ferrell's teammates congratulate him at the end of this 15-second clip, shot with a trusty four-year-old digital still camera in movie mode. From left to right the quarterbacks (and ex-quarterback) are Josh Cohen, Teevens, Alex Jenny, Tom Bennewitz, Max Heiges, Will Deevy and Tim McManus. The voice saying, "Good, good, good," as Ferrell makes catch after catch belongs to Teevens.


There's a story in the Baltimore Sun about Lane Clelland, brother of new Dartmouth assistant Lance Clelland. The younger brother, billed as Maryland's top prep lineman, is headed to Notre Dame next year. He's listed as 6-5, 270. There's a Baltimore Sun story that mentions the Dartmouth connection here.

Speaking of younger brothers, Chris Shannon, younger brother of former Dartmouth offensive lineman Mike Shannon '06 and a regular fixture at Dartmouth practices when he wasn't practicing himself, is set to begin his freshman year on the offensive line at Duke. Find his bio here. Chris is not listed on the first Duke two-deep of the season for the Blue Devils' opener against Connecticut.

Penn State quarterbacks coach Jay Paterno has an interesting way to get his players up to speed on the gameplan -- and to make sure they don't incur the old man's rath by showing up late for meetings. Check out this Pittsburgh Tribune-Review story.

And finally, it's the first day of school here in Hanover for a certain high school sophomore and her eighth-grade brother. No question, it's a little easier when they are in school, but I have to admit feeling a little sorry for them at breakfast this morning. That first day of school is a cold smack of reality.

The certain soph is playing varsity field hockey again and starting at link where her ability to run from now until next year without getting tired comes in handy. She wishes she lived in a town where she could play two sports in one season because the golf bug bit her hard this summer and she got pretty good pretty fast.

The eighth-grader is playing football again and the hope is that as one of the older kids on the 7th-8th grade team he'll have the success he had every year he's played until the last one, when the team was dominated by the eighth-graders. He, too, caught the golf bug this summer, playing virtually every day except when he was at camp. The only way to cheer him up this morning was to tell him today is one step closer to the course opening next spring. (He didn't bring up that it's also one step closer to the course closing this fall and I certainly didn't mention it.)

Now it's time to get back to that freelance magazine story about the local forester I'm writing. The deadline is tomorrow, so I've got to grind before today's practice.

Check in tonight for a look at Thursday's session.