Nick Schwieger, a 5-11, 195 tailback from Bishop Feehan High School in Attleboro, Mass., "signs" with Dartmouth. (Bishop Feehan photo used with permission)Connor Phillips, a 6-4, 235, defensive end from Winston Churchill H.S., in Potomac, Md., gets a brief "signing day" mention in a hometown newspaper story.
From the Pioneer Press in Minnesota:
Record-setting St. Thomas Academy kicker Foley Schmidt has committed to Dartmouth, where he'll team with former Cadets quarterback Tim McManus. Schmidt, who converted 116 of 121 extra-point kicks and scored a 31 on his ACT exam, was recruited as a walk-on by the Gophers.A PDF of the Buddy Teevens Football Camp flyer is available on the Dartmouth football web site here. The camp is set for June 22-25 in Hanover, with the full Big Green staff being helped out by "head and assistant coaches from the NESCAC and other Division III programs."
Thanks to Jake Novak over at Roar Lions Roar for steering us to video reports on Columbia quarterback Craig Hormann's preparations for upcoming NFL tryouts. This link features his trainer talking about Hormann's work, and this one includes some of Hormann's thoughts.
The Associated Press reports college football rules changes are being discussed that include elimination of the 5-yard incidental face-mask penalty, starting the game clock on a signal from the referee instead of the snap after a ballcarrier goes out of bounds, and outlawing horse-collar tackles.
The football facility "arms race" is in full swing. Dartmouth and Lafayette put up new varsity houses and now it's fellow FCS member William & Mary to finish up its stunning Jimmye Laycock Center. The impressive building at the corner of the football stadium features meeting rooms, coaches offices, locker rooms, training room, equipment area and museum. Check out these photos.
This could be fun: The New York Times is riding along with the league-leading Cornell men's basketball team on this weekend's games at Harvard tonight and at Dartmouth tomorrow. Find regular blogged reports on the trip here. One of my few regrets on leaving the local daily newspaper was never following through on the idea I had of hopping on the Dartmouth bus for the Princeton-Penn weekend and writing a diary-type story. Truth be told, if the NYT wanted to do a truly grueling trip, it would have followed some other team, perhaps Harvard or Dartmouth, on the Columbia-Cornell weekend. Ask any Ivy coach and they will tell you that the New York swing is by far the toughest of the weekend trips because of the distance between the travel partners. Having energy on the court Saturday night after playing Friday night and then being crammed on a bus into the wee hours of Saturday morning is not easy, particularly if you are 6-5, 6-8 or 7-foot tall.
Speaking of basketball, did you see Dan Patrick's column in this week's Sports Illustrated? Patrick writes about Bobby Knight's potential return at some point to coaching: "I think he'd have to be at a school where RPI doesn't matter but GPA does. Can't you imaging him prowling the sideline at a place like, say, Dartmouth? Or maybe Cornell-so he could keep all his red sweaters."
No Dan, I couldn't imagine that.
And finally, back to football and an opinion piece submitted to the Columbia Spectator by a former oarsman in the Columbia class of 1963. A lot of Dartmouth football fans/alumni will shudder with its use of a certain "anti" word. (Long story for those of you who are new to the program. Ask me about it sometime.) Anyway, a few excerpts cherry-picked from this piece:
... (W)e need to acknowledge that high-impact contact sports are antithetical to virtually everything that we are learning about muscular-skeletal, neurological, and cognitive issues associated with aging.Discuss among yourselves ;-)
Few Columbians are aware that when Columbia won the Rose Bowl in 1934 and snapped Army’s 33-game winning streak in the late ’40s, the college had 700 students. Lou Little’s teams were augmented if not primarily composed of undergraduates from Teachers College. There is absolutely no good reason not to adjust our schedules to play smaller schools with similar academic standards.
Resistance to change is undoubtedly rooted in football. Football epitomizes just how wrong-headed our policies are. It is strategic folly to believe that after several decades of dedicated effort that undergraduate population doesn’t have a lot to do with our lack of success in football. Moreover, the intrinsic nature of football is such that beyond a certain tipping point the game is no longer safe to play. At times it has been painfully obvious that Columbia teams have been undersized, lacked depth, and not only lost games, but were physically beaten up, abused over an entire season, and suffered injuries with lifetime consequences. It is well past time that we recognize that we have a football team for guilty pleasures and wrong reasons.
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