With Chad Pennington signing to play for the Miami Dolphins, the revisionist history of Jay Fiedler's days with the Fins continues. Consider this quote from a writer for the Most Valuable Network:
Pennington is 32 years old, and while other media outlets take the chance to point out Pennington is the latest QB to try and replace Dan Marino (however, he IS the 13th…lucky 13, Dan’s number…coincidence?), he really isn’t. He’s basically trying to replace Jay Fiedler, the most successful post-Marino QB who managed games and won through guile and being a strong field general.David Shribman '76, the Pulitzer Prize-winning executive editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (and occasional visitor to the press box when Dartmouth is playing) has a column in the Toronto Globe and Mail detailing his favorite football books. Tops on his list is Great College Football Coaches of the Twenties and Thirties, by Tim Cohane (whose son of the same name had a short stint as Dartmouth men's basketball coach). Among the coaches profiled in that book: Red Blaik of Dartmouth and Army fame.
In his column, Shrib writes: "...(F)ootball has long been an impoverished sport, at least where
books are concerned." He's right, of course. There's a theory (to which I subscribe, having written sports for a long time) that the smaller the ball, the better the writing. Which explains why there have been so many great books about golf and baseball and so few about basketball (although Eagle Blue defies that logic to an extent).While Shribman is too modest to do it, many Dartmouth football fans would add another book to his list: Dartmouth College Football: Green Fields of Autumn, which he co-wrote with former Dartmouth sports information director Jack DeGange.
First-game opponent Colgate has installed lights on its football field this year and already practiced under them. Find a short story here and a TV report on Colgate lights here.
This is kind of mind-boggling, but apparently there's FCS football and there's FCS FOOTBALL. Montana, which plays in the same don't-call-it I-AA division as Dartmouth, has sold more than 19,000 season tickets for this fall. As this Missoulian story notes, Grizzly Stadium seats 25,198. With 4,000 seats reserved for Montana students and other tix spoken for, there are just 1,050 tickets set aside for single-game sales. Wow!
Dartmouth now has issued a release spun out of the 2008 Education and Salary Report compiled by PayScale.com. The main headline:
Nationwide salary survey: Dartmouth graduates are #1 with the highest median salaries 10-20 years outThe "drop-hed":
Top employers for Dartmouth's Class of 2008 were McKinsey, Goldman Sachs, Teach for America and the Peace CorpsThe "take-out":
Dartmouth graduates have the highest median salary, $134,000, 10-20 years out of college
- PayScale.com
And finally, the rain has stopped ... for a day if the forecast is correct. Hopefully that will give our basement time to dry out. That's right. For the first time in 12-plus years, we got water in the basement in the summer. Every 3-4 years we'd get water in the winter when the spring thaw hit, but never have we had a drop in the summer before.
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