A Familiar Name

Former Dartmouth assistant coach Pete Lembo finished sixth in the voting for the Eddie Robinson Award as the top coach in the FCS in balloting coordinated by The Sports Network. Lembo helped Elon go 7-4 in his second year heading up the Phoenix program. He won the Eddie Robinson while at Lehigh. ... Find the full balloting for this year's Robinson Award here. ... Yale's Jack Siedlecki finished 17th, three spots ahead of Harvard's Tim Murphy. New Hampshire's Sean McDonnell was 24th.

The Payton voting for the outstanding FCS offensive player in the nation can be found here. UNH's Ricky Santos was fifth, Yale's Mike McLeod was ninth and Colgate's Jordan Scott was 14th. ... In the balloting for the Buchanan Award for the top defensive player (here), Colgate's Mike Gallighugh was 11th and Harvard's Steve Williams was 18th as a write-in candidate.

It might be a little early to start handicapping next year's Ivy League race, but that didn't stop a Providence Journal columnist from mentioning Brown as a favorite in a story about Bobby Sewall, the all-purpose player who torched Dartmouth last month. The story notes that Sewall is "part of the nucleus of a team expected to contend for the 2008 Ivy League championship... ."

More news is coming out about Colgate tailback Jordan Scott's arrest. From a Syracuse.com story:

According to village Police Chief James Tilbe, Scott said he and wide receiver David Morgan tried opening the doors of several rooms in the Russell House before finding one that was open. Scott said he and Morgan then entered that room with the intention of swiping cash before two female occupants woke up and scared them off.

The Hartford Courant has a nice piece about how three quarters of the Yale football team has joined in a gift-giving initiative for underprivileged children in New Haven. From the story:

David Silberstein never carried a ball, caught a pass or made a tackle as a varsity player in his four years at Yale. But he won't graduate without making an impact.

Silberstein is chairman of the student athlete Community Outreach Committee and its gift-giving initiative, which will provide a substantial number of underprivileged New Haven children with a special holiday.

Something called the Small Town Papers News Service picked up a column in The Cabinet, of Milford, N.H., about Dartmouth-Harvard football in 1907. Find the story here.

And finally, I pulled together a packet of your remembrances of former Sports Information Director Kathy Slattery Phillips, who died Thanksgiving week. You can download a PDF file of those very special remembrances here.