There's no mention of him intending to play football at Dartmouth, but the captain of New York's Spackenkill High School team and a three-sport athlete at the Poughkeepsie-area high school is apparently headed to Hanover according to this story. Patrick Martin is a 6-2, 185 receiver/linebacker whose list of honors includes being named the New York State Class B scholar-athlete of the year by the New York State High School Football Coaches Association. One thing is certain: If he is interested in walking on, Coach Buddy Teevens will welcome him. The Big Green roster is dotted with walk-ons including wide receivers Kyle Battle and Tanner Scott, who have opened eyes.
The Dartmouth Green-White game will be one week from Saturday May 3, and a lack of healthy offensive linemen this spring means it will probably take a little different form than last year's game. With seniors not participating and incoming freshmen not on campus, that's not unusual. Columbia's Blue-White game saw some defensive linemen have to play on both teams according to the Spectator. (Heck, even Penn State had linemen strapping on vests to switch teams on Saturday.) For the second year in a row, Columbia's likely starting quarterback did not play in the game because of injury.
Columbia's school paper also has a story about Roar-ee, the school's mascot. While Dartmouth can't pull the trigger – or refuses to pull the trigger – on a mascot to help drum up spirit on campus, in town and the Upper Valley, Columbia did so several years ago and the results have been encouraging. Find the story here.
The Harvard Crimson has a story about its former players now suiting up for the Parma Panthers in Italy.
If you want to see how a big-time football school promotes spring football to the tune of 73,000 fans turning out, watch this video link from Penn State.
And I can't help but include this: That certain 8th grader as part of his woodworking class decided to make a "Cornhole" game as one of this year's projects. The intent was to bring the bag-tossing game out to Penn State, where on Saturday afternoon it seemed the sound of bean bags (or corn-filled bags) echoed all around us. Researching the specifics of the "Cornhole" game for him, I stumbled across the following. Go ahead, click on it and have some fun when the boss isn't around:
Dartmouth's spring practice resumes today and I'll have a few thoughts from Coach Buddy Teevens and a look at this afternoon's session on the Green Alert Premium site by 10 tonight. (If you are wondering, that is a little later than reports are filed during camp and in the fall, but that's because practice is running later ;-)
And finally, congratulations to the Dartmouth baseball team, which split a doubleheader with Yale over the weekend to maintain its 2.5-game lead in the Red Rolfe Division with only next week's home-and-home doubleheaders against the Crimson left on the Ivy League slate.
CornHole
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