The Wait Is Over

Work has begun on attaching the green awning to the front of the Floren Varsity House. (Click photo to enlarge)

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Off to catch a glimpse of the 6:30 a.m. conditioning tests shortly. On tap on the Green Alert Premium site later today: a preview of the 2007 Princeton team. Tonight: the first practice report of the preseason.

In the meantime, there's a short story about the start of Dartmouth practice on the school web site that includes the preseason schedule. (link) Here's the practice schedule:

Wednesday, Aug. 22
4-6:15 p.m. Practice No. 1
Thursday, Aug. 23
4-6:15 p.m. Practice No. 2 (Helmets)
Friday, Aug. 24
4-6:15 p.m. Practice No. 3
Saturday, Aug. 25
4-6:15 Practice No. 4
Sunday, Aug. 26
3:30-5:45 Practice No. 5
Monday, Aug. 27
4-6:15 p.m. Practice No. 6
Tuesday, Aug. 28
8:30-10:25 Practice No. 7
4-6:15 p.m. Practice No. 8
Wednesday, Aug. 29
4-6:15 p.m. Practice No. 9
Thursday, Aug. 30
8:30-10:25 a.m. Practice No. 10
4-6:15 p.m. Practice No. 11
Friday, Aug. 31
4-6:15 p.m. Practice No. 12
Saturday, Sept. 1
9-10:25 a.m. Walkthru/Practice No. 13
4-6:15 p.m. Practice No. 14 (Situational Scrimmage with officials)
Sunday, Sept. 2
Off Day
Monday, Sept. 3
8:30-10:25 a.m. Practice No. 15
4-6:15 p.m. Practice No. 16
Tuesday, Sept. 4
4-6:15 p.m. Practice No. 17
Wednesday, Sept. 5
8:30-10:25 a.m. Practice No. 18
4-6:15 p.m. Practice No. 19
Thursday, Sept. 6
4-6:15 p.m. Practice No. 20 (Intrasquad Scrimmage)
Friday, Sept. 7
4-6:15 p.m. Practice No. 22
Saturday, Sept. 8
10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Practice No. 23 (Mock Game with Officials)
Sunday, Sept. 9
Off Day
Monday, Sept. 10
Colgate practice begins

The first FCS Coaches Poll (link) is out and Yale and Princeton finished 24 and 25. The poll looks like this:

1. Appalachian State (27) 699
2. Montana 656
3. Massachusetts (1) 612
4. North Dakota State 609
5. New Hampshire 559
6. Youngstown State 550
7. James Madison 477
8. Illinois State 471
9. Northern Iowa 424
10. Furman 416
11 Southern Illinois 406
12. McNeese State 365
13. Portland State 313
14. Cal Poly 302
15. Wofford 265
16. Hampton 242
17. Eastern Illinois 203
18. UT-Martin 202
19. South Dakota State 198
20. Coastal Carolina 191
21. Delaware 172
22. Montana State 168
23. Sam Houston State 130
24. Yale 76
25. Princeton 50

FCS Coaches Poll voting panel: Stacy Adams (Valparaiso), Rob Ash (Montana State), David Bennett (Coastal Carolina), Bob Biggs (UC-Davis), Don Brown (Massachusetts), Kevin Callahan (Monmouth), Rich Ellerson (Cal Poly), Bob Ford (Albany), Henry Frazier (Prairie View A&M), Tom Gilmore (Holy Cross), J.C. Harper (Stephen F. Austin), Danny Hope (Eastern Kentucky), Denver Johnson (Illinois State), Anthony Jones (Alabama A&M), Kevin Kelly (Georgetown), Bobby Lamb (Furman), Pete Lembo (Elon), Mike Lucas (Southeastern Louisiana), Mickey Matthews (James Madison), Tripp Merritt (Davidson), Jay Mills (Charleston Southern), Tim Murphy (Harvard), Don Patterson (Western Illinois), Oliver Pough (South Carolina State), Tony Samuel (Southeast Missouri State), Jack Siedlecki (Yale), Jerome Souers (Northern Arizona), Joe Taylor (Hampton)

Missed this the first time around but the College Sporting News had a column (link) about "anonymous" players who could have a major impact on the FCS scene this year. Three Ivy players make the list and one other Ivy opponent. The Ivies are tailback Mike McLeod and linebacker Bobby Abare of Yale and linebacker Joe Anastasio, Penn. New Hampshire wide receiver Keith Levan is also on the list.

Green Alert Take: McLeod absolutely shouldn't be anonymous. And Abare is hardly anonymous in the Ivies.

Name the sport and Princeton's game notes are always the best or among the best. The 100 Fast Facts To Get You Ready For The 2007 Princeton Football Season (link) is a sampling of the kind of things you'll find in their notes. Here's just one of the Fast Facts:

Head coach Roger Hughes is the only coach in Ivy League history to improve three straight teams by at least two wins.

Is Harvard rich? Um, yes. And getting richer as this link a subscriber passed along from the New York Times shows. From the story:

The Harvard Management Company, which oversees the university’s endowment, reported today that the endowment had posted a 23 percent gain for the fiscal year ended June 30.

That brought the value of the nation’s largest university endowment, now overseen by Mohamed A. El-Erian, who formerly ran Pimco’s emerging market bond fund, to $34.9 billion.