“The focus (in practice this week) has been stopping the run. Once we get them to be one dimensional, we will be able to open up the defensive game plan. We’ll be able to blitz more, get to the quarterback and hit him."The Daily Dartmouth doesn't really offer a preview today so much as a glimpse at the possibilities for the final three weeks of the season.
While the sense from the Dartmouth side was that last week's game at Harvard was a step forward, a writer from the Harvard Crimson wasn't impressed enough to pick the Big Green tomorrow. He thinks the visitors will be able to throw on the Dartmouth secondary. His prediction: Cornell 30, Dartmouth 21.
You may get a chuckle out of this from the Daily Pennsylvanian. I did (the boldfacing is mine):
The optimist for the Big Red points out a 418-yard output against Princeton last week. The pessimist points out the six turnovers that helped pave the way for a 34-31 Tigers win.For those of you who wonder about the talent level in the Ivies, and don't think Ivy League players can compete at a higher level, check out this Harvard Crimson story about a quarterback buried on the Harvard depth chart who tossed a nine-yard completion in his first college game for LSU. And no, we're not talking about La Sierra University. ... In case you are wondering, Dartmouth had a wide receiver a few years back who transferred to USC and made the team.
A defensive back from Alta, Utah, has expressed an interest in Dartmouth ... as well as a few other Ivies according to this story.
The Dartmouth-Yale football game was broadcast on NESN as part of an ECAC TV package. The future of that package is in doubt with news in the Boston Globe that the plug has been pulled on this week's UMass-URI game as well as the Nov. 17 UNH-Maine matchup. Lack of advertising is cited. Interestingly, the Amherst-Williams game will go on as scheduled. I wish I had NESN because that game is on the wish list of games I'd like to see some day along with Harvard-Yale, Lafayette-Lehigh and Army-Navy. Some day. ... Maybe.
Speaking of Harvard-Yale, Crimson fullback/tenor (now that's a real slash) Noah Van Niel was scheduled to be on the CBS Morning Show today. He was recently interviewed by Dan Patrick. From a release on the Ivy League site:
Among the interview questions, Van Niel was asked whether he would prefer to beat Yale on the football field or sing in New York's famed Metropolitan Opera House. He correctly answered that beating Yale would be his choice.A little editorializing there, but hard to blame 'em. ...
Been meaning to post this excerpt from cbs.sportsline.com for a few days:
Chip Kelly: Anybody know who this guy is? One hint: He was at New Hampshire for 14 years as an assistant coach. Still stumped? Kelly is the guy who caught the golden ticket when Oregon needed a new offensive coordinator. Mike Bellotti called in the offseason, Kelly accepted and the Ducks' offense has been a carnival ride ever since.UNH quarterback Ricky Santos is a great player. No hyperbole there. But he plays in Kelly's system and it's a great system. No hyperbole there either. I guess the country is finding that out now.
Kelly is the brains behind quarterback Dennis Dixon becoming a Heisman candidate and the Oregon offense becoming unstoppable.
"Half the time," Washington linebacker E.J. Savannah said last week, "I didn't know where the ball was."
And finally this. That certain 8th grader got braces about a month ago. A few days before Halloween he got an "expander," that he has to wear for five months. He'th been thrying to learn how to thpeak with it ever thince. (They promise him he'll get the hang of it before long.)
It's bad enough to go trick-or-treating knowing that braces put much of what ends up in your bag on the verboten list. The expander turns out to be well-named because it expanded the forbidden list to just about everything in the bag. Our kids aren't big candy eaters but this is the one time we let them go a little crazy. Not this year. To his credit he's managing to smile through it.
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