Check Those Listings

Thanks to a subscriber for sending along a note that the TV broadcast of Saturday's Dartmouth-Yale game -- available in New England on NESN -- will be carried live on DirecTV channel 623. (You must have the right DirecTV package, which we don't.) With a little digging I found the game is scheduled to be rebroadcast Wednesday, Oct. 10, from 1-3 p.m., also on 623. So you can go to the game and then watch a condensed version of it next week. ...

It's a little trickier ferreting out the DISH Network schedule and I couldn't find the game listed (which is not to say it isn't). DISH apparently has NESN on channel 434 on some packages. If you have DISH but not the right package there's even an outside chance you'll be in luck because information from the satellite provider says NESN is one of the networks "used during blackout of a regional sports game." ...

The Ivy League preview of this weekend's game at the Yale Bowl can be found here.

Yale, by the way, is ranked No. 13 in the nation in the Gridiron Power Index, a synthesized ranking similar in some ways to the BCS. The GPI is intended to simulate the ranking used for determining participants and seeding in the FCS playoffs. The ranking of Dartmouth and its opponents (among 122 FCS teams):

13. Yale
15. New Hampshire
30. Holy Cross
41. Princeton
45. Cornell
46. Harvard
51. Colgate
74. Dartmouth
85. Brown
T-88. Penn
T-94. Columbia

The Bulldogs are 15th in the Sports Network poll with Yale 18th and Princeton 39th. (UNH is 15th.)

Yale's Mike McLeod is the College Sporting News offensive player of the week nationally after hanging 256 rushing yards and five touchdowns on Holy Cross. ... For a comprehensive recap of Yale's romp over the Crusaders, check out the Yale Daily story.

The Daily Pennsylvanian has a nice follow story from Saturday's game centered on Dartmouth quarterback Tom Bennewitz. ... The DP also has a story (link) whose lead might as well have been torn from The Pessmist's playbook:

To those who weren't in Hanover, N.H., on Saturday, it's hard to fathom how Penn managed to score only 13 points, much less lose to Dartmouth.

Speaking of The Pessimist ... this fact is hard to believe. Once-mighty Penn now has lost seven of its last eight games. I had to go back and check that stat and it's true. Two were in overtime and one in double overtime.

Dartmouth Matthew Bullock '04 (that's 1904) gets a footnote in this story as the first black coach of a predominantly white college's football team. (In Bullock's case it was the precursor of UMass.) The main story is about recognizing Don Hudson of Macalester College as the first black head coach at a predominantly white college in the modern era.

Getting back on the field with the Tennessee Titans has been quite a thrash for Dartmouth product Casey Cramer. This story says:

The battle to determine which tight ends are active Sunday could become more complicated as Casey Cramer, one of the Titans' top special-teams performers, should be able to return from knee and hamstring problems.

A freshman columnist for the Princetonian argues that speedskater Joey Cheek should be allowed to play sprint (the sport former known as lightweight) football despite being classified as a professional. The columnist is right, of course, but welcome to the world of tilting against the Ivy League windmill, kid. From the column:

While I agree that, for example, allowing Lebron James to play Ivy League basketball would make a mockery of our league, should we deny him the right to play Ivy League squash on the basis of his ability to dunk?