Another Poll

Another day, another poll. This one by the FCS coaches. Dartmouth opponents who show up on the poll:

16. UNH
24. Harvard
30. Yale

It's nice to see Elon at No. 15. The Phoenix is (are?) coached by Pete Lembo, a former Dartmouth assistant who had a terrific run at Lehigh before heading south, and an old friend.

Add Penn to the list of Ivy League teams that have kicked off practice. There's a brief story on the Penn website. Remember, while some Ivy League schools are starting earlier than others, the total number of practices each can have before the opening game is the same. They are just distributed differently.

Harvard is catching some heat from neighbors both about the planned Sept. 19 night game against Holy Cross and the Yale game set for Harvard Stadium in November. There's a story here regarding concerns about parking, noise and drinking.

Like Dartmouth alum Casey Cramer, former Brown wide receiver Sean Morey, 32, has hung around the NFL because of his dedication and ability on special teams. Find a story about Morey's fight to stick with the Arizona Cardinals here.

I'm not sure Dartmouth has anything official like this, but it's a good idea. The Colgate alumni association organizes tailgates for road games. Details here.

A former Dartmouth player-turned-headmaster at Norcross, a private school in Virginia, is also an assistant football coach at the school. From the story:

(Tim) Seeley, a backup quarterback on Dartmouth’s 1978 Ivy League championship team with a postgraduate divinity degree from Harvard, has a vested interest on both sides of the issue. He is in his seventh year as a football assistant, spending five seasons under longtime North Cross coach Jim Muscaro.

Former Dartmouth men's basketball coach Dave Faucher is the new head coach at Daniel Webster College, a Division III school in southern New Hampshire according to this story. Good for Fauch, who has worked with John Lyons at Kimball Union Academy the past several years but really itched to get back into the college game. Here's a link to the team site.

The U.S. News & World Report ranking of Best Colleges 2009 is a lot friendlier to Dartmouth than the Forbes' ranking was. USN&W has Dartmouth 11th nationally. Here's the top-10 plus remaining Ivies:

1. Harvard
2. Princeton
3. Yale
4. (tie) MIT, Stanford
6. (tie) Cal Tech, Penn
8. (tie) Columbia, Duke, Chicago
11. Dartmouth
14. Cornell
16. Brown

A regular reader of the blog sent along another link to the Forbes Magazine story about the earning power of Dartmouth alums. This excerpt offers a little more explanation:

Dartmouth produces well-rounded people who can move into senior-level positions easily," says Monica Wilson, associate director of career services at the school. Another important factor in the success of Dartmouth grads is an extremely tight and loyal alumni network. Dartmouth is located in tiny Hanover, N.H., and is the smallest of the Ivy League schools with 4,100 undergrad students enrolled. Yet the alumni network is extremely impressive and stretches from Daniel Webster to Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson during its 239 year history. Other prominent grads include General Electric (nyse: GE - news - people ) head Jeffrey Immelt, eBay (nasdaq: EBAY - news - people ) chief John Donahoe and former IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ) boss Louis Gerstner.