At Dartmouth's Homecoming Game Saturday the undefeated 1962 Ivy League championship team will be recognized along with Reggie Williams '76, who will receive his framed College Hall of Fame certificate at halftime. Read the release here. ...
The Ivy League's official Dartmouth-Columbia preview can be found here. (The audio of the game will be carried nationally on Sirius satellite radio, channel 126.) ...
Bob Miller, the former Dartmouth football strength coach, is doing terrific work with the men's ice hockey team these days. Find the story here.
The new Fox Business Network has a video interview with former Dartmouth assistant football coach Joe Moglia, now CEO of Ameritrade. ... Week Six opponent Columbia not only got a gift out of alum and former lightweight footballer Robert Kraft, but the Patriots' owner also gave the school a nice PR splash during an interview with Columbia alum Alexis Glick in another FBN video. (And if neither of those videos interest you, there's also one with The Naked Cowboy although I can't tell you the gist of it 'cause I didn't watch it.)...
Speaking of athletic fund raising (Kraft's $5 million is going toward Columbia's $100 million initiative for athletics) check out this two-part series on tapping alumni dollars for athletics in the Philadelphia Inquirer. Part one begins at Penn State while part two centers around T. Boone Pickens, who has contributed more than $250 million to Oklahoma State athletics, and millions more to his alma mater in general.
Brown has joined the helmet sensor study that Dartmouth has participated in for several years. The Daily Herald writes about the study and the helmets here.
And finally, if you want to read a truly remarkable story about the greatest gift of all, click here. Thanks to a subscriber for sharing a link to this piece about how someone on the periphery of the University of North Carolina athletics found a way to make an unbelievable difference in the lives of others.
(An aside: I wish web designers would keep readability in mind along with design. That last story is fabulous, but it was really hard on the eyes and that's too bad.)
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