"Athletes United, a student organization seeking to bring together Dartmouth varsity athletes with third-, fourth- and fifth-graders from towns around Hanover in the Upper Valley region along the Connecticut River that separates New Hampshire and Vermont."Among the student-coaches aiding the initiative started by women's soccer players Myra Sack and Becky Poskin this summer are football players Niles Murphy, Marlon Alebiosu and Zech Glaize, along with former teammate Evan Nogay. Find another story about Athletes United in the Daily Dartmouth.
Two more indications about how challenging the Dartmouth schedule could be this fall ...
* While it's important to take any/all preseason polls with a grain – make that a full shaker – of salt, being included in a poll is better than not being included. And no fewer than six Big Green opponents are on the SME (Sports Media Entertainment Network) preseason poll. They are:
19. UNH
32. Yale
33. Harvard
41. Colgate
42. Holy Cross
47. Princeton
(In case you are wondering, the only opponents missing from the poll are Penn, Cornell, Columbia and Brown, and given that the poll goes as deep as it does, the feeling here is that Brown was shortchanged by the SME voters.)
* Cornell isn't on the SME list, but playing in Ithaca is hardly a picnic. Dartmouth has lost its last five games at Cornell, dating back to 1996, and others haven't done much better in the Finger Lakes in recent years. From a story in the Cornell Sun:
In his four years at Cornell, head coach Jim Knowles ’87 has made Schoellkopf Field a stronghold impregnable to opponents — the Red has gone 16-5 at home under Knowles.The Harvard Crimson has another entertaining blog entry from lineman Carl Ehrlich. "Big Dog Carl" writes about what he saw while helping out at the Crimson's annual football camp for high schoolers. If you've got a high school player heading off to camp, this is a must read.
Speaking of Harvard, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune has a lengthy story about former Crimson star Matt Birk, a Pro Bowl regular as a center with the Minnesota Vikings. The story says:
Matt returned home for Christmas break during his freshman year at Harvard. Birk was homesick and walked in the door with his few belongings and no plans to return to Cambridge, Mass.Fortunately, his father convinced him otherwise.
Dartmouth followers are familiar with the story of former assistant coach Joe Moglia, who left football behind, became the CEO of AmeriTrade and wrote the book Coach Yourself to Success: Winning the Investment Game. For a revealing look at another coach who went on to tremendous success in the business world check out this Fortune Magazine story about Bill Campbell, captain of the 1961 Ivy League co-champion Columbia squad, former Columbia head coach and chairman of the Columbia board of trustees.
And finally, it's very quiet here on the shoulder of Moose Mountain these days. That certain Hanover High junior-to-be is in California working for a week at a YMCA camp as part of a four-week CIT program. As part of the program she got CPR certified and took an intensive Red Cross first aid course while working with young children at her old camp. After flying west she spent several days camping/exploring at the Channel Islands National Park and next week will be hiking to the bottom of Grand Canyon (something we did as a family two years ago). Her brother, meanwhile, is away for two weeks of overnight camp ... which means, lots of movies and dinners out for the two of us left behind ;-)
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