Monday's News

The Daily Dartmouth story on the Big Green's 56-35 loss at Brown can be found here. ... The Brown Daily Herald calls the game a "rout," but I wouldn't go that far. The truth is that Dartmouth was down two touchdowns and nearing midfield with the chance to make it a one-possession game with four minutes remaining. The final touchdown with 45 seconds left made the score ugly, but rout is probably not the right word.

For a look at Dartmouth's final opponent, check out the Daily Princetonian game story from the Tigers' 27-6 loss to undefeated Yale Saturday. The Princetonian also has a sidebar about the Tigers' difficulty putting the ball in the end zone. The story includes this:

"If we look at the stats, we had 361 yards to (Yale's) 272," head coach Roger Hughes said. "While that looks great in your newspaper, the things we keep score of are the points."

In case you are wondering, Princeton hasn't scored a touchdown on offense in two weeks.

Harvard and Yale held up their ends of the bargain last Saturday, making The Game this week just the third meeting of 6-0 Ivy League teams ever. Early estimates are that 60,000 could turn out at Yale Bowl Saturday and upwards of 100,000 could be on site tailgating. The previous 6-0 battles, courtesy of the Ivy League office:

• Nov. 22, 1986 — Penn 31, Cornell 21 (at Schoellkopf Field in Ithaca, N.Y.)
• Nov. 23, 1968 — Yale 29, Harvard 29 (at Harvard Stadium in Cambridge, Mass.)
• Nov. 20, 1965 — Dartmouth 28, Princeton 14 (at Palmer Stadium in Princeton, N.J.)

The folks at Yale (and likely Harvard) are fighting an uphill battle trying to get ESPN's GameDay to come to town according to the Yale Daily. High on the list of reasons why the fight is probably futile is that ESPN dipped out of the big time to set up shop at Amherst-Williams last week. What are the chances the network will leave the BCS aside to come to a lower-division New England game two weeks in a row?

A couple of notes about former coaches.

John Lyons, the Big Green head coach prior to Buddy Teevens and an assistant (then interim head coach) in NFL Europe, has led the nearby Kimball Union Academy football team to an undefeated regular season. The Wildcats are 8-0 , have outscoring their opposition, 289-52. They will close out the season with their first-ever berth in the NEPSAC Bowl Game this Saturday.

Tragic news from Maine where Thomas Kopp, a defensive backs coach for Jake Crouthamel from 1971-79, drowned over the weekend. Kopp, 69, was on a camping trip with his son and grandchildren when his boat was swamped in icy cold water. His son and grandchildren survived. The Portland Press Herald has a story about Kopp, who was senior associate dean of admissions for Colby College in Waterville.

Kopp was a three-year letterwinner as a quarterback and punter at Connecticut. He helped the team win two Yankee Conference titles and captained the squad as a senior. He was a catcher on the UConn baseball team that went to the 1959 College World Series.

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Check the blog tomorrow for news of a potential recruit whose name you will recognize, and visit Green Alert Premium tonight for the final regular season visit of The Optimist and The Pessimist. (I think I hear them arguing right now.)