Driving home yesterday evening after a certain softball game the golden light and dark skies over the green in our village of Etna made such a beautiful scene that I stopped to take a picture. That's a rec ballfield in front of the village church.A little digging uncovered more information on 6-1, 240 New Orleans lineman Bruno Vetter, a late addition to the recruiting class. Stick with me now ...
Turns out Vetter's head coach at Newman School in New Orleans is a former Tulane offensive guard named Nelson Stewart (Tulane bio). One of Stewart's teammates at Tulane was an offensive tackle by the name of Cyril Brockmeier, who of course is the offensive line coach at Dartmouth. And just for good measure, the head coach of Stewart and Brockmeier at Tulane and soon Vetter at Dartmouth: Buddy Teevens. ...
Nelson Stewart was a high school teammate of Peyton Manning at Newman and he's quoted in this New York Times story about Peyton's days at Newman. ... Eli Manning also played at Newman. ...
Vetter helped Newman to the Louisiana quarterfinals this fall and to a No. 5 ranking in the state power ratings. Along the way he forced a fumble and returned it 75 yards for a TD, a notable accomplishment for anyone, but in particular for a 240-pound lineman. The play was the Times Picayune Play of the Week. ... Vetter was chosen All-New Orleans first team.
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Yale coach Jack Siedlecki gets mentioned only in the last paragraph of a first-person piece by Notre Dame coach Charlie Weis in the South Bend Tribune about four football coaches visiting the troops in the Middle East, but it's worth reading to get a sense about the trip.Former Harvard wide receiver takes a look at - and a few pictures of - cheerleaders in the latest installment of his ESPN The Magazine series, An American Footballer in Parma.
Former UNH quarterback Hank Hendricks will stand trial with others in the beating death of a professional surfer in the San Diego area. Fosters Daily Democrat has a story. More in the Union-Tribune.
And finally, that certain Hanover High sophomore softball player had a terrific final home game of the season with a triple, a line single, a ground single, a hit-by-pitch and three runs scored in a 5-4 loss yesterday. She also had a very good game behind the plate for Hanover, which had the tying runner on third when the game ended. A disappointing loss, but when you've dropped nine lopsided games in a row and take a 14-4 team to the final out, that's something.
The eighth-grader, meanwhile, came home grumpy after a rare hitless afternoon in his baseball team's win. When I asked how he did, he told me he hit the ball hard, but right at people. I tried to explain that there's nothing wrong with hitting the ball hard - and in some ways you should feel better if you are making solid contact than if you are dribbling balls in the hole - but that's not the kind of thing you want to hear when you are 14. Not from your dad, at least ;-)
Enjoy the long weekend and be safe...
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