I was at the Dartmouth-Holy Cross men's lacrosse game yesterday afternoon on Memorial Field and couldn't help but find myself thinking, "What if?" when I saw co-captain Chad Gaudet win a faceoff, streak down the right sideline and hurdle a defender. A few minutes later the senior middie sent two defenders sprawling with a big hit. Gaudet, you'll remember, was the promising Dartmouth tailback whose football career was ended on the first carry of his sophomore season when he took a helmet to the knee. As disappointing as it has surely been to him that he can't play football anymore, it's terrific to see him having success on the lacrosse field after what has been described as a devastating injury.
Casey Cramer has re-upped with the Tennessee Titans. While his salary is a pittance compared to many NFL veterans, the fullback/tight end isn't doing too badly at $927,000. Find a brief note about him here.
Princeton's spring practice includes a search for a quarterback as this Daily Princetonian story suggests. ... Speaking of Princeton, the school paper has a story noting that chemistry professor Jeffrey Schwartz "was recently awarded an NFL Charities grant to fund his research into joint and ligament replacement."
Penn has begun its free all-access coverage of spring football.
The hits just keep on coming. In a story about Ivy League men's basketball teams making it to the Final Four, the Columbia Spectator writes about Bill Bradley's Princeton team, the Penn team of 1979 and a Dartmouth team from the WWII era. From the Spec:
That’s right, the Big Green—perhaps one of the longest running jokes in Ivy League basketball, if such a thing is even possible—made it all the way to the national championship game, the only Ivy team to ever do so.Ouch.
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