Dartmouth-Yale Roundup

There are a few stories and video interviews online in the aftermath of the Dartmouth-Yale game. ... The Daily Dartmouth story is here. ... The Yale Daily News story is here. ...
The Yale Daily has short video clips with quarterback Matt Polhemus, who says the absence of injured Dartmouth safety Ian Wilson certainly didn't help the Big Green cause, and with fullback Joe Fuccillo, who scored his first career touchdown. (Can't tell you what's on that interview because on my Mac all it is doing is "loading." ...

From the College Sporting News:

Yale of the Ivy League made a case to be included in the No. 1 discussion with a 50-10 throttling of Dartmouth, their largest win over the Big Green in 40 years. The Bulldogs would only allow 3 points to the offense all game, limiting Dartmouth to 140 yards and notching up five sacks for 41 yards, including two from defensive tackle Jared Hamilton.

Top-20, absolutely. Top-10, a case can be made. In the discussion for No. 1? Um ... Of course, it wouldn't matter. Even if the Bulldogs were No. 1, their season would end not in the playoffs but against Harvard, and that's too bad according to this Columbia Spectator column.

And finally ...

Dartmouth is taking a different approach to policing halftime at this year's Homecoming game according to a story in the Daily Dartmouth. The story reports:

Freshmen attending this year’s Homecoming bonfire will have the chance to heed upperclassmen taunts of “rush the field” without facing criminal charges – but only if they follow a plan carefully outlined by the athletic department.

Green Alert Take: The problem with this is the "only if they follow a plan carefully outlined by the athletic department," part. I may be wrong but I don't think the thrill of the "rush" was ever to be on the field, but rather to be chased around by the authorities and cheered on by upperclassmen and alums for breaking the rules. I guess I'm a little sneakier than the athletic department because my solution to the "problem," would have been different. I would have told campus security and the Hanover police simply to look the other way when freshmen were egged onto the field but I wouldn't have told the students. I suspect once the freshmen realized they weren't being chased they would have lost all interest and returned to their seats.

You never know. Maybe, like Don McLean's marching band, they would have "refused to yield."

Either way, there's a piece of me that wonders if the freshman class, forewarned about the gameplan for Homecoming, will hatch a new one.